Crossfitting, pancreas acting, single mum to three
Fate is an ironic bastard at times. It took a while for us to notice the signs of twin girl’s diabetes, we put the excessive bed wetting down to the stress of moving house and we just simply failed to see the weight drop off her and her skin pale to whiteness. We failed to…
…. a Merry Christmas. It may be early for some but it is starting to get a little manic here… Nativity is tomorrow, and please hold your breath for me around lunchtime when Twin Boy takes to the stage as Joseph and lets all hope to the big man upstairs that no body parts are…
How to know if your child has Type One Diabetes….. It has been five weeks to the day since twin girl was dramatically rushed into A & E, in five weeks she has injected 140 life saving insulin injections into her arms, legs and tummy. (I also do one in her bottom but she doesn’t…
Almost a month later – living with a child with Type 1 diabetes… November came and went, what started on Halloween over ran into firework night and it is only now as the Christmas lights start to twinkle in the stores that I finally feel like me again. For the last month I have eaten,…
To my diabetic daughter, Its been just over three weeks since diagnosis, three short weeks to consume a wealth of information and to start adapting to a new way of life. You have placed a needle in your body over ninety times, that number sounds so loud when written down and yet I know by…