During pregnancy, blood sugars need to be monitored a lot more and insulin levels change frequently. I’ve decided to pay over $100 every 2 weeks for my growing baby’s health and to put it bluntly, a better chance at surviving.
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The CGM has changed my life. Not only does it mean I can live as a normal kid but it also saves my life every second of every day.
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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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Self*ish is a new activewear brand that aims to remove barriers to exercising for larger people. Faapito Jonson-Faapito, owner of Self*ish, talks about the difference he hopes the brand can make.
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Due to my genetic disease I have a lot of health challenges which have made controlling my diabetes extremely difficult. If CGMs were funded it would help me with control and allow myself time to work through my ongoing health problems.
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I can be out on the trails, sometimes in the middle of nowhere for 5+ hours – I have to have really good control over my BSL. Having a CGM or Flash Glucose Monitor would make this so much easier and a WHOLE LOT SAFER.
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If I was eating out I had to take my lancing device & strips to test before my meal, which involved finding a private place to do my test as well.
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Business and life coach Eugene Moreau has struggled through dark times and made it out. The wisdom and conviction he shares with his clients comes from personal experience.
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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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Living with type 1 diabetes, Ania* took to social media when she was diagnosed with Covid, sharing her story for the benefit of others living with diabetes.
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Life with T1 “Life-changing” is how people who live with type 1 diabetes often describe the switch to continuous or flash glucose monitoring. Each of them has a story. This is university student Cody Brinsdon-Hall’s.
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Being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes was the start of a new experience, like the start of a new round of golf
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Teenager Brianna Veale turned her frustration with uninformed comments about her type 1 diabetes into action, awareness and money.
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Diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at 37 years old, Iain MacDonald is competing in the Tarawera 102km Ultramarathon in February 2022 as a way of testing his body to its absolute limit, physically, mentally and ‘diabetically’.
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Dame Valerie Adams was busy training for the Olympics when her son, Kepaleli, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.
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Ben Mitchell spent a month cycling solo from Cape Reinga to Bluff to raise money for Diabetes NZ. He didn’t find out till he was almost finished that his wife Beverley – who lives with type 1 – had been keeping a secret that would have sent him rushing home.
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For six weeks, Celebrity Treasure Island contestant Athena Angelou raised awareness of diabetes, while entertaining viewers with her energy and warmth.
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Vince Harder and Abby Lee Harder’s new song – ‘Overwhelmed’ – is their most personal yet, and its video, produced in partnership with Diabetes NZ, is a heartfelt plea for continuous glucose monitors to be funded.
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Jessica Kirikava shares her story of grit and hope and remarkable recovery.
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