Finding the chase and cutting to it

Back in 2000, I met someone with an insulin pump.  I’d had difficulties controlling my blood sugar with long acting insulin since I was a teenager and I didn’t have the tools to be able to tune my background insulin levels by using long acting insulin. Unfortunately, I was “too well controlled” to gain pump […]

Food is something I care about.  I have to, not understanding how food works in the body is not possible for a type 1 diabetic. I do not diet per se.  I do count my carbs, that is the foundation of my bolusing decisions: if I am not aware of what sugar, protein and fat […]

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) […]