Diabetes

Mad Friday Fun-draising!!!

It’s becoming a bit of a Christmas tradition…! The last Friday evening before Christmas – MAD Friday – has to be spent at the Carpenters Arms in Tickhill, where Vest and Pants do their Christmas set! This year was no … Continue reading →

HbA1c targets…

Talk on Social Media this morning has been mostly about next years NICE guidelines (or the latest draft of them), particularly pertaining to Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) and HbA1C targets. It seems that more criteria are being set within the … Continue reading →

Why aren’t Dexcom Sharing….?

Despite the slightly antagonistic title to this blog post, I’m not setting out to ‘have a go’ at Dexcom as I write this. I simply want to voice our disappointment that the new Dexcom Share accessory won’t be coming to … Continue reading →

The future is nigh!

Today, Nikki and I went with Samuel & Grace (Lily-Anne was on a drama group trip) to Lincoln. Not to visit the Cathedral or old city, both of which would’ve been nice. Instead, to go to a JDRF Type 1 … Continue reading →

A new year and a new challenge

You can’t have helped but notice that 2014 is well under way! In actual fact, January is nearly over already. Time flies! With that in mind, I thought I ought to ‘dust down’ the CureSam blog, as I haven’t done … Continue reading →

My longest challenge to date

Tomorrow is the Half Outlaw! They have some funny names for these things! IronMan, Outlaw…. its all different brands competing to establish themselves within the growing area of Triathlon. For the record, tomorrows race is: – A 1.2 mile swim, … Continue reading →

…And a follow up article.

As mentioned in my last post, a friend of mine publishes our local magazine “Tickhill Today“. I wrote a follow up to the article from last month, that will appear in the next issue, and have published it here too. … Continue reading →

London Marathon

Well I did it… Just! I managed to get round in just over 5 and a half hours – five hours 40 minutes to be precise! At about 21 miles, the legs gave up, so the last 5 or so … Continue reading →

Not good news…

The legs gone again! My left calf to be specific. I did something to it the day I did my 20 mile run but that was three weeks ago and I thought I’d rested enough. With one week to go … Continue reading →

Onto the next challenge…. or two!

No sooner have I bored you senseless with my tales of doing the London Triathlon than its time to tell you about my next set of challenges! The most recent Triathlon in London was my longest to date, and I … Continue reading →