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I woke at 3:14am this morning

Needing the loo. Whilst doing the doing, I’m kicking myself – should have grabbed the sensor reader or at least my phone though I already know my blood sugar is high and I’m hyperglycaemic or hyper for short. Sure enough, when I check my reader, I’m 21.5mmol/l – that’s four times what it was this […]

Control is an illusion

Given my last couple of posts, it was with some dismay I approach my half yearly review. Yet, my Hb1Ac (that’s glycated haemoglobin to the uninitiated or how much glucose has stuck to a protein in my red blood cells) came back as 6% (or 42 mmol/mol) which is a stunning result given what’s been […]

Love/hate relationships

I truly hope you are well. And this is not your state of affairs at the moment… As a type 1 diabetic, it’s really easy to see your own body as a war zone especially when your beautiful control goes awry for any reason. (Actually, I love this from pinterest, although it seems to have […]

Rolling with the punches

Like many, I am sitting here with a cold: the first nasty cold of the season. I get immunised against flu each year, so I know it’s just a cold. Viral, but limited in its impact to my upper respiratory system and of course my head. It’s not a pretty picture and from the look […]

Scary times

If you discuss type 1 diabetes for the first time with a newbie to the area, there are two fears they discuss.  Injections/wearing a pump and hypos. Hypos have a bad press for good reasons: people do die from them, especially the young.  Of course your average non-diabetic has thousands of these a year because […]

Some days are much harder than others

This is a piece about what it’s like to be diabetic when nothing is working. “Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something,” Wesley to Buttercup from the Princess Bride movie.  We all have those those when nothing seems to be going right, whatever we do doesn’t work and it just feels […]

The secret of becoming a morning lark

I’m a night owl, have been ever since I was born. My peak part of the day (and when I have the lowest insulin requirements) is just after lunch. (Image from wikipedia, photographer is Thomas Roessler). This is not at all compatible with having a serious career and indeed as a young teenager, I felt […]

Picking up the baton

There are 67 days before I head down to London and do the Prudential ride for the JDRF. According to fitbit, I am now “good-excellent” in terms of my general fitness although I have put on a little weight the past few weeks (bad hay fever, so have been adjusting my basal rates rather than […]

Are you surprised?

As a type 1 diabetic, life can seem very unfair despite some fantistic legislation which should give us a fair playing field. I should be protected by law when my blood sugar impacts my behaviour: I keep good records and can demonstrate where my blood sugar varies outside the norm. However, in practice, this is […]

Two months of training left

This is a quick update, not least because of cold/hay fever, I’ve had to take a couple of weeks out of the schedule. On paper at least, I’m ahead of the game.  I am up to 60miles in 5 hours 35 minutes and doing that pretty confidently.  I can actually cycle. The first hour sees […]