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If you'd like to help educate our future doctors, we'd
love you to come along to Sydney University on
Monday 29th May (11.30 am to 1 pm) and be part of
a session for 2nd year medical students.
There will be a group of Reality Checkers there
to do it together. (We currently have 7 people
signed up - the more the merrier!) We will all discuss
with a group of 10-20 students our various
experience of the doctor-patient relationship and its
impact on the management of diabetes. The session
is run and facilitated by a doctor and lecturer from
the Sydney Uni Medical School. Sometimes if there's
time they get us to show the baby docs how to
inject (saline) and blood test too. |
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Reality Check is working with the Australian Diabetes
Educators Association as they develop national
guidelines for "Sick Day Management" - to help us
prevent scary ketoacidosis / DKA and hospital
admissions. We need your help please to...
feedback on the patient information which is a part
of this project.
It will take around 15-20 minutes. We need you to
download a PDF file, read the 6 page document, then
answer an online survey (20 questions -
literally!). |
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Have you ever read Reality Check's free booklet
about pregnancy with D? We sent it to every gal on
our mailing list a few years back.
We need your feedback on the booklet. Comments will feed into next re-print. And the results are to be presented - confidentially and anonymously - to an upcoming diabetes and pregnancy conference. 73 people have done the survey so far. Thanks if you can help too. |
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In an new episode of her exclusive column for us, Dr Michelle - a Melbourne GP who just happens to have diabetes - explains why a Flu shot is more important than Mother's Day! |
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A growing little network of Reality Checkers call
London home - we've been hearing from more and
more locals as well as all those Aussie expats.
As the clouds have now lifted, we are organising a little gathering of London RCers in Hyde Park (before Kate gets kicked out of the country). Saturday 20th May is the proposed date? And picnic in Hyde Park? We have rugs, sunscreen and champagne at the ready. If you're interested in joining us, we'd love to meet you in the flesh - hit reply or click below for more details (or suggestions) as we work them out. Friends, partners, babies, all very welcome. |
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Two of Melbourne’s top comic acts, Chris Bennett
(formerly ‘Benno’ on Fox FM) and Doug Chappel (‘The
Steamers’) come together after successful shows at
the Melbourne International Comedy Festival to
with a great ‘World Cup Comedy’ concept.
The duo will perform their standup routines following a live showing of the Australia vs Greece game on the big screen direct from the MCG. The night will begin with drink specials from when the doors open for the game at 7:00 p.m. and continue throughout the evening when the comedy starts around 9:30. A raffle is also being held on the night with a chance to win a brand new Xbox 360 amongst other great prizes. All proceeds from the night go to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Venue: The Comic’s Lounge, 26 Errol Street,
North Melbourne |
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Some Sydney Reality Checkers are thinking of getting together later this month too. Click through for the details, just in the final stages of being decided. |
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Anyone out there interested in training for a Half
Marathon? Yes, it sounds daunting, especially when
you also have to deal with popping jelly beans every
few Ks! Reality Checker, Peggy is competing in the
21km part of the 'Run to the G' in Melbourne on June
18 and also in the Melbourne Marathon in October.
Is anyone else keen to form a team of diabetics with Peggy? Peggy's thinking it would be a good opportunity to help each other in dealing with the high's and low's of extreme exercising. If you're interested in putting a team together or if you just want to have some D company while running, please email peggy_radio@ hotmail.com |
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On Thursday morning, Sunrise on Channel 7 did a
segment about Type 1 diabetes and did an excellent
job of explaining our favourite condition - not an
easy task - including the differences between Types
1& 2 etc etc. The segment featured an interview
with Professor Ian
Frazer. Did you see it?
If you saw it, and liked it (or are just inspired by the media getting the whole thing right!), please send them a note of thanks, via the link just here: |
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Road tests - independent and honest, of course - on
our website of lots of new toys available. Three
brand new ones just added today: Freestyle Papillon,
SensoCard and SensoCard Plus. One of them even
talks to you - what de..?
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A shiny Gold Star to you for very nearly getting to the end of this huge issue of Yada Yada! |
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... to everyone who completed, and spread the word about, our recent survey. We had a whopping 867 responses. And the results - well they weren't surprising to someone who's lived with D for 23 years, let alone read thousands of your stories over the last 9 years - but they are set to shock the pants off the rest!
We have submitted an abstract to the next International Diabetes
Federation conference with some of the results,
and are working on something for an Australian
conference or two. (Hence can't publish any results
yet, sorry.) |
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