On Monday last week though, my status as an insulin addict was put to the test. My little boy Hugo was ill and my husband had been home with him. He rang me at about 4pm to say they were off to the hospital as Hugo had suspected pneumonia. I was at work so jumped in my car as soon as I could and…

Had breakfast (the usual), bolused (the usual) then got on with all the other chores which had been waiting for me while I completed my four days at work. One hour passed, my…

I’m sure she thought she had seen pretty much everything that Dominion road had to show her by now but on Wednesday, in came someone that tried her patience in a totally new way!

My friend runs a recycled fashion boutique and said customer had come in to sell some shoes. Just as this potential customer arrived though, said friend was in the throes of…

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A big group of young teenagers with diabetes were given a postcard and told they could write anything to, or about their diabetes… obviously there were a few “I eat sweets without my mum knowing” type responses but there was also a huge amount of heart wrenching deep ones…”I think I let my family down so I lie about my blood sugars” and so on…

All of the group responded well…

I mean, I don’t think anybody is particularly looking forward to seeing a needle descend into their flesh but some are a little more squeemish than others and some of those people are inevitably diabetics.

Then there are the people around us that don’t like seeing them including our family members, colleagues and friends. I remember one colleague who had to turn away when I did finger pricks and a cousin that almost passes out when she sees a needle come out so the problem is real and it’s out there.

Personally, I can’t imagine that there are many conditions…

Excitedly I came inside and ripped it open – only to find two boxes of site insertions inside. Boooo. Had totally forgotten about ordering them the day before. It’s like when you hear a text come through on your phone and think “ooooh, a text for me!” and it’s just from Vodafone telling you about the latest special. Stink.

When I left the house I checked my BG and it was 6.5 but it was only an hour after a meal. The thought crossed my mind that I was heading for a low but I didn’t really have time to do anything about it…

Years later, I took that bracelet off because I got sick of people asking me what it was for and what I ‘had’ when I was at high school/university and it stayed in a drawer, hidden for quite some years. Then I travelled after uni and the Medic alert stayed well hidden in the…

After twenty years of these visits and numerous Drs, nurses, dieticians others I had reached the point more than once of being quite fed up with it all. That said, I have to say that the team I have at the moment from the dietician to the specialist and the nurse are absolutely fantastic. I’ve not seen them that much yet because they are all relatively new and I only go once a year but what I…

It has been a long time in our dreams and  a good time in planning but as of last week, I have resigned from the job I love and on August 3rd, I will say goodbye to a good many friends, family, colleagues and the country I love for what is already promising to be an incredible adventure.

We have tickets, insurance, hostels, backpacks, itineraries, bus transfers, hotels, activities and visas all done as well as a long list of paperwork for taxes and all that guff well underway. All…