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I drew a blank yesterday when I sat down to write - there was something there but I couldn't quite see it.  It vaguely came to me as I s...

I've dusted off my password and come back to write something. If you've been keeping up-to-date with any of my social media, you...

Before the world began to teeter on the edge of nuclear annihilation and every media outlet imaginable turned into Politics 24/7, I was thin...

Last night I had a hypo. Nothing overly unusual there really. Whilst thankfully not a daily occurrence, low blood glucose does play a fru...

November is DIABETES AWARENESS MONTH (though I'm fairly sure every month is Diabetes Awareness Month...). The current JDRF campaign f...

I don’t have a good relationship with food.   I have to work harder at eating more than I do almost anything else.  I know that’s true for ...

Today marks a milestone for me.  It’s my 5000 th day with diabetes.  It’s nothing special in itself I suppose – I’m coming up on 14 years ...

Mondays pretty much start the same way for me every week… The alarm goes off around 5:45am, and, silently cursing, I take stock of how I’m ...

I've been asked a few times (well, a couple of times), on Twitter what I think of the FreeStyle Libre so instead of sending a million tw...

I wish that "what's my blood?" wasn't the first thing I thought every morning.  I wish that sometimes, waking with the all...

I'm a worrier.  There - I said it.  I worry about things that I suspect most regular people don't worry about... I spend a fair prop...

Now I’ll confess I never experienced clinic transition – certainly not in the way we think of it today.  I was diagnosed with Type 1 in 200...

There's more serious stuff to come from #DPC16 - a lot more.  But the conferences (#YDEF16 included) did have a personal side to them as...

As we started with a cliched "this is what it's like" post, we end with this "this is how it was" entry.  Except tha...

This one's short - I promise! I want to start by para-phrasing that ( disputed (scroll to the bottom) ) Margaret Mead quote... Never...

I’d had my eye on the Education session on Day 1 with equal excitement and trepidation.  The education campaign is one I feel personally co...