Team sports have always been central for rising rugby star Layla Sae. Her type 1 diabetes is something she manages on the side – her ‘normal’.
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Liam Fryer, seven, from Dunedin, received a Jerry the Bear learning pack as part of our programme for children 4–10 years old living with T1D.
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Leigh Sharland had a gut feeling about what was affecting her daughter Macie, but the GP wouldn’t listen. Two years on, Leigh recalls the frustration.
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Diabetes NZ’s Brave Bear pack for children has been flying off the shelves since it was launched in November. Cassy Hay, and her daughter Zanthia, 4, from Katikati, explain how it’s been helping them learn about diabetes.
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Twelve-year-old Sophia Shearman couldn’t believe it when she won our competition to design a sensor patch.
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2 April, Hamilton 17-year-olds Jack Murray-Griffiths and Vincent Gordon set off on a month-long journey, cycling the length of the country to fundraise for Diabetes NZ.
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The first thing I do when I get an invoice paid is purchase more sensors. I prioritise that cost before rent, before petrol, before groceries.
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I'm a full-time student and I can't afford a CGM. I can't even afford to cover my tuition fees on my own or buy a house. I have lived with this illness for more than twenty years and all I want is access to technology that will lessen the burden, even just a little bit.
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Diabetes was not going to stop our girl from rowing, so learning how to control diabetes but then adding into it the highly intensive exercise that you need to do as a rower was tough. Three out of four girls in her quad have Type 1.
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There are parents putting their kids to bed, not knowing if they will be alive the next day or getting up several times a night to test them to be sure and that is exhausting whilst trying to hold down a job.
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The CGM costs money, money I’m not gonna have all the time. I have plans to go to university… I won’t be able to keep paying for the sensors. I don’t want to have to choose between growing up and living independently or having a good quality of life.
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With two in our family, we spend a lot of money every month on what's not covered currently, but it’s absolutely something we would not be without.
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I have prevented so many hypos that I wouldn’t have been able to pick up without a CGM.
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The CGM has made life better for our son, and no doubt if CGM’s could be founded it would be beneficial for many other parents/people having to live with diabetes in New Zealand.
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This is now our life, and even though we are only 5 months into this, I couldn’t be more proud of my amazingly strong young boys.
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This year he would have had t1 diabetes for 10 years, he still has forever to go, forever shouldn't be so hard!
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Thanks to the generosity of our family and friends, we were able to raise enough to pay for 8 months worth of the Dexcom sensor which has been life changing!
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My gut feeling was correct. Correct but heart breaking for our Dallas aged 9.
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This CGM has saved me from countless deadly lows and some that I couldn’t feel/didn’t know were there
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13-year-old Lily Barton has one precious memory before her diagnosis at four – eating ice cream with her gran at the movies.
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