Finding the chase and cutting to it

I love when people talk about things that have happened to them.  My mum was telling me how she had been driving for a long time and got dehydrated and made a mistake in a parking lot and reversed into a car. Being tired and dehydrated affected her ability to react to her surroundings.  It […]

Now some DIY is out of the way, I am catching up on my blogging. One of my dreams for 2019, apart from my son getting a university place, is to achieve two long distance cycle rides. The first is 100 miles for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund.  The Prudential Ride London, 3-4 August 2019, […]

There’s a meme going round showing a young girl with a syringe in her body representing each of the injections she does a month.  She’s on multiple daily injections a month and conservatively the photo represents 120 syringes. I am on a pump and this is what it is doing for me. I have a […]

I’ve been using tools and mathematical models to establish my insulin requirements for a while.  I keep the links to these calculators on my pump pages and thank my lucky stars for first wifi and then 3 and then 4G mobile networks. Most of them I have produced myself while allowing them to be tailored […]

In the case of diabetes mellitus, a rose by any other name does not necessarily smell as sweet. As a young child growing up in the seventies, very little was generally known about diabetes mellitus and in many ways the definition of type 1 and 2 helped identify that age was not a factor in […]

I cannot sleep: with my last set of training, I learnt how my body performs muscle filling, so I went to bed at 22:34 and fell asleep pretty soon after having set up a 70% temporary basal rate. When that completed at 01:36, I woke up, found I was a little low and treated with […]

The first time I do an exercise, especially if I am heavily learning skills and techniques, will drop my blood sugar while I am doing the exercise. If I have had a big break for an activity that also holds true. But that only holds true for that one time. After that the following happens: […]

In the UK, a verbal contract is binding. If you say something will work in a certain way, that is binding. That makes presentations vital. It also makes what is said to you equally important as what is written down. When it comes to my diabetes, I use a Powerpoint presentation (other tools are available) […]

In the UK, type 1 diabetes is recognised as a disability in terms employment law. When my blood sugar is normal and predictable, this seems a little heavy handed.  By colleagues, I have been given a look to say you must be joking.  It’s all in your control and it doesn’t need protection under law. […]

After self funding for a year, I went to my GP and got my Freestyle Libre on prescription. For me, it costed in like this. Costs of running my insulin replacement therapy on blood tests Item Cost per item Number of items Total cost per month Freestyle Optium strips £19.89 4 (I know, that’s 200 […]