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Booze and the ‘betes
With the holidays arriving and the new year almost knocking on our doors, most of us will happily leave 2020 behind and forget all about it. But for some of us, 2020 has actually been the year of new opportunities. New babies coming into the world (either your own or from family members or friends), marriages and proposals (yes – those also still happened 😉), new...
An update about our comeback
In March, the world changed. Because of Covid-19, but also for us at ViCentra, the company behind Kaleido and for our dear Kaleido users. Ever since we’ve had to tell all our Kaleidoers to stop using their insulin pump, we’ve been working non-stop to get Kaleido back to them as soon as possible. We know it’s been hard, adjusting to a new form of insulin therapy,...
What is insulin pump therapy?
For people with diabetes, insulin can be injected via a pen or an insulin pump. An insulin pump is a device (in our case small, just 50 x 35 x 12.5mm, and 9g!) that delivers continuous fast-acting insulin over 24 hours a day, and lasts for up to three days at a time. Taking away the need for multiple daily injections, and freeing up time and headspace! The dose can...
Nurses make the difference
The day before I started my new life as an adolescent in high school, I got diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. So I didn’t just start my high school career with a backpack full of books, but also an extra piece of baggage called diabetes. For years I tried to get rid of that baggage, which meant it took me a long time to start accepting my diabetes. Eventually, with...
A fall-feast with Joy’s pumpkin chocolate chip blondies!
It’s been quite a year thus far, spending most of the time in some kind of limbo being unsure what’s next. Luckily, there are still some things in life you can be sure about! As leaves are falling, autumn’s calling! And autumn brings you the certainty of pumpkins being in season! Some of those certainties, those beacons, will be slightly more on ourselves this year....
Thank you diabetes, for my diabuddies.
There’s nothing quite like a global pandemic to highlight what matters, or rather who matters most in your life. Amongst the reflections, the spotlight of unending gratitude inevitably falls on friendships. Very recently I have been reminded of how I came across the diabetes community. It was a friendship completely unrelated to diabetes in any form. A friendship I...