Inspire your friends and family with these beautiful cards, while supporting Canterbury families who deal with the challenges of diabetes on a daily basis.
Do you appreciate quality and love to give a meaningful gift? Pep Talk cards are made in New Zealand using exceptional quality stock, print and envelopes. Careful attention has been given to the design of each card and also the deeper inspiring message being shared. Pep Talk cards are not a disposable product, they are a gift to treasure, one that the recipient will keep and revisit again and again, or frame for daily inspiration.
Card Packs
$10 from every pack goes directly to Diabetes Youth Canterbury
The Sassy Collection Card Pack - Large
NZ$25.00
8 large Sassy cards.
Bold, lively & full of spirit.
When a loved one needs support or encouragement, now you can have the perfect card on hand!
The Sassy Collection Card Pack - mini
NZ$18.00
8 mini Sassy cards.
Bold, lively & full of spirit.
When a loved one needs support or encouragement, now you can have the perfect card on hand!
Diabetes Youth Canterbury
Diabetes Youth Canterbury is a group of volunteer parents who complement the work done by the medical professionals involved in our children’s care and who provide financial, educational and emotional support through lobbying, camps, activities, books, equipment and newsletters. Please support this essential service in the Canterbury community by purchasing a Pep Talk card pack.
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Overcoming challenges
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One of the ways Diabetes Youth Canterbury support families is by funding and organising camps where children and teens with diabetes can connect, grow, and have fun together. This also provides valuable respite time out for parents.
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Personal Stories
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Kirsten Rosser
In April 2014, midway through the stress of building a house, our world was turned upside down when our then 7 year old daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Even though I am a nurse, I had missed many of the signs and was shocked to realise how unwell she was. The first inkling was when our GP was trying to decide whether we needed to call an ambulance or if I could drive her straight into hospital by myself. The second shock came when we were whisked straight past the general children’s ward and taken to the high dependency unit as she was in such severe ketoacidosis that she needed cardiac and neurological monitoring. This is when the guilt kicked in, not that we had caused her diabetes – this is an autoimmune condition which is unavoidable and incurable – but that as a nurse and a mother I had let me little girl get so sick before realising there was a problem. Type 1 diabetes can be very insidious and often the early symptoms can be explained away by lots of other things. We had no family history whatsoever so had no reason to suspect diabetes until it was very obvious. |
What followed was a blur of anxiety, very little sleep and lots of needles! Our daughter handled it like a superstar and whenever I felt low I just tried to be as brave as she was being. It was around then that I attended my first Diabetes Youth Canterbury meeting and the relief of being able to share my experience with other parents who had been through it, simply cannot be put into words. I regularly attended these committee meetings which are frankly as much a debrief/counselling session for us parents as they are a charitable organisation committee meeting! Through my involvement I learned about what DYC does and my daughter was able to attend holiday programmes, ice skating, clip‘n’climb and camps with her peers. This has been invaluable to her, as up until last year she was the only type 1 diabetic at her school and so it was awesome for her to hang out with other kids who were finger pricking and injecting insulin. It helped to normalise things for her.
Unfortunately there is now another type 1 diabetic at her school – her 10 year old brother who was also diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in February 2018. Thankfully there was no house build involved this time (and I knew the signs so was on to it much quicker!) Again, the support of my DYC family has been phenomenal, especially as there are now 4 families on the committee with more than one child diagnosed. Again, no one else understands it like those who have been through it. This disease takes so much away from our children in terms of normality and spontaneity. They need to be more organised, sensible and diligent about their diet and health than any of their friends. It is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with no respite and they will have it for the rest of their lives. Organisations such as DYC really make a difference in the emotional and mental wellbeing of our kids (and their parents!) as we navigate this illness through to adulthood.
Unfortunately there is now another type 1 diabetic at her school – her 10 year old brother who was also diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in February 2018. Thankfully there was no house build involved this time (and I knew the signs so was on to it much quicker!) Again, the support of my DYC family has been phenomenal, especially as there are now 4 families on the committee with more than one child diagnosed. Again, no one else understands it like those who have been through it. This disease takes so much away from our children in terms of normality and spontaneity. They need to be more organised, sensible and diligent about their diet and health than any of their friends. It is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with no respite and they will have it for the rest of their lives. Organisations such as DYC really make a difference in the emotional and mental wellbeing of our kids (and their parents!) as we navigate this illness through to adulthood.
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