Finding the chase and cutting to it

I hit the gym today.  I’ve been a little lackadaisical in hitting the gym which would be great except for the fact winter has struck.  When I say winter, I mean the English version – dull, damp and decidedly chilling to the bone.  It’s not been foggy but that kind of damp, lacklustre effect is […]

My family may be forgiven for thinking my life revolves around computers. I like to think it doesn’t but it’s when you talk to other mums in parents evening that you realise just how far down the rabbit hole you have indeed travelled. Since losing my computer in early October thanks to difficulty mounting an […]

JDRF are doing some pages to allow people to produce their diabetic statistics, how many blood tests they’ve done etc. Being “an old diabetic”, mine is a little unconventional: Item Per day Period Total Insulin Injections 1 1 yr      365 Insulin Injections 2 8 yrs   5,840 Insulin Injections 4 14 yrs 20,440 […]

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 […]

Being diabetic, I have a bigger footprint than the average person on the planet. As a household, we’re making an effort. The Electric Car According to the New Scientist this week, in the UK, a fully electric car has a much lower carbon emission footprint than a hybrid petrol/electric car this year and on-going years.  […]

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 […]

Go back to last week and it became obvious that while I’d been backing up my data regularly I hadn’t actually tested that backup. That has been rectified, but I had suffered some data loss. Thankfully, not a huge amount not least down to Google taking a cached copy of my site reasonably regularly.  It […]