It is only a prick….
“It is only a prick.” I told myself the first time I watched her inject insulin into her thigh. The words echoed round my head whilst I tried to mask …
Twin Girl and Type 1 Diabetes
Sleeping through the alarms: The Night Time Hypo
The night-time hypo strikes fear into the heart of most diabetic parents. A hypo; for those who don’t know; is when your blood sugar drops below normal range. In Type …
Are you a pure idiot about Diabetes?
The newspapers have been excitable in the last few months, with headlines shouting: “End of the diabetes jab? New insulin implant controls blood glucose levels without injections” This follows on …
Dancing with Diabetes
We have been dancing with diabetes for almost a year and my limbs are starting to drag. As soon as we master the Tango it seems we switch to a …
Type One Diabetes: Making it fair for my Warrior
It was last August when we took Molly into hospital for the second time in nine months. Right in the middle of the summer holidays, right in the middle of …