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Pregnancy & motherhood | Adventures | Hypo tales | Poems
My journey | Sport & music | Thoughts & challenges
Relationships | Diagnosis

Vanessa's Adventures of Pregnancy & Motherhood

• Maybe Baby?
• The First Trimester: What Did You Think I Was Doing?
• The Second Trimester: Don't Poke the Baby in the Head
• The Third Trimester: Crumbed Prawns and Oatmeal
• The Arrival: Honeeeeee... I'm Leaking!!
• The First Few Months: Adventures of a New Mum
• Diabetes and New Parenthood: A Dizzying Rollercoaster

Adventures

• Through the Andes to the Amazon - Gavin
• Dancing with the Devil: 3 Events that changed my life - Andy
• Postcard from China - Gin
• Advice about a "rave" - Denise
• How much Insulin for a Fried Scorpion? Travelling in China - Elise
• My Love Affair with My Pump - Amy
• My Olympic Experience - Kim
• Diabetes and Recreational Drugs - a user's perspective - Dave
• Waxing USA - Karen

Hypo tales

• My Embarassing Hypo - Jeff
• Hypo at Four - Cate
• Skating Hypos: Dumb Things People Say - Natasha
• On the Job - Narelle
• Witnessed by Nelson Mandela - Robyn

Poems

• Ode De Diabetes - Natasha
• I saw truth outside my window - Sabbrina
• Break the wall - Nanneke
• I want - Sean Hughes, comedian

My journey

• Two and Counting: A Reflection on Diabetes and Pregnancy - Anneika
• My Journey Until Now: India to Sydney - Pooja
• My First Pregnancy with Diabetes - Cathy
• Musings from a Youth Pastor - Mike
• Ron Raab's story - Daniel
• Type 1 Talk - A New Blog - Kate

Sport & music

• A Diabetic Demon - Barnaby
• Those Bloody McKennas
• Fessin' up to my basketball team - Monique

Thoughts & challenges

• The Stupidest Thing Anyone's Ever Said to Me about Diabetes - Becky
• I'm not the only one, am I? - Troy
• The Myth of the Perfect BSL - Vanessa
• Eating Disorders and Diabetes - My Story - Allison
• A process of self-disclosure - Zoe
• Just another challenge - Moo
• Has anyone else had an insatiable urge to punch a non-diabetic? - Kate
• In A Culture Like My Own - Sabbrina
• Ignorance - Sophie
• Quality of life counts for more than perfection - Cate
• It's Like Living with a Rope Around Your Neck Every Day - Gina
• Melrose, Trackies and .... Tim Tams? - Gin
• A bloke's perspective - Troy
• Eating disorders - Sarah, Zoe and Amanda
• Just Do it! Exercise ideas - Monique & Kate
• Reflections on the first year of Reality Check - Cate

Relationships

• About a Boy with Diabetes - from the partner's perspective
• Punching non-diabetics - Allie
• Ten Commandments - Richard Rubin

Diagnosis

• Diagnosed with a View - Natasha
• Weddings and Diagnosis - Cathy V.
• Me and Cyclone Tracy - Teresa
• I didn't ask for it but I got it! - Katie
• We were diagnosed as adults - 15 more stories of diagnosis
• Determined not to let it beat me - Shona

Updated February 23, 2009

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