Staying at the Hotel La NHS (again)
Irony can be, well, an ironic bastard. Remember, back on Halloween 2012, when my eldest girl got diagnosed with type 1 diabetes? Well, it put my smallest girls nose a …
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Shaming the children: Sports Day 2013
It has taken me almost a week to write this tale, this alone will tell you how scarred I was by the experience. So let me take you back a …
Type 1 Diabetes: What you don’t see
Let me tell you what you don’t see. You don’t see the impact the heatwave has on my daughter. I presume most people think the bags under her eyes are …
Sleeping like a mother without her kids
Six am and my eyes snapped awake without the aid of any alarm clock. A few seconds passed until my memory restored itself and realised why I was conscious, then my …
