Living with Diabetes
Lifting the Burden of Chronic Disease
I have been going through some changes to my health lately, including high and low blood pressure, lightheadedness and a couple of instances of vertigo, mood changes, sleeping troubles, night sweats and unexplained overnight blood glucose spikes (incredibly cruel when I am on a low carb diet and changing my pump sites daily). I was…
Read MoreLive Diabetes Chat 2: Dealing With Diabetes Burnout
Life with diabetes can be very hard. Some days you can wonder how you will keep going. Diabetes burn out is a common experience. Connecting with each other is one of the most important things for staying well and happy with diabetes. I am running an ongoing series of live video chats in our Facebook…
Read MoreMore Than The Sum of Our Parts
It’s the final day of the eighth annual Diabetes Blog Week, started by Karen from Bittersweet Diabetes The day one topic is here about expecting the unexpected and day two is here about the costs of diabetes and day three here, about the diabetes blame game and day four here about what brings me down. You can find the link to…
Read MoreTo the Top of The World: What Brings Me Down With Diabetes
It is the eighth annual Diabetes Blog Week, started by Karen from Bittersweet Diabetes and today is day 4 – The day one topic is here about expecting the unexpected and day two is here about the costs of diabetes and day three here, about the diabetes blame game. Today’s prompt is one I have lived and breathed since…
Read MoreLive Diabetes Chat 1: Blood Glucose Checking & Management
Connecting with each other is one of the most important things for staying well and happy with diabetes. When I first started Diabetes Counselling Online, there was no social media and so I created forums, chat rooms and email buddies, which meant people could communicate and connect – in fact that was the tagline of…
Read MoreKnow When to Hold’em: Playing the Diabetes Blame Game
It is the eighth annual Diabetes Blog Week, started by Karen from Bittersweet Diabetes and today is day 3 – The day one topic is here about expecting the unexpected and day two is here about the costs of diabetes. Today’s prompt is one I am very passionate about and have written, spoken and shouted about –…
Read MoreCounting the Costs of Living with Diabetes
It is the eighth annual Diabetes Blog Week, started by Karen from Bittersweet Diabetes and today is day 2 – well I just scraped in as it being day 2! The day one topic is here about expecting the unexpected and today the prompt is about the costs of living with a chronic condition (I prefer not to…
Read MoreThe Surety of Expecting the Unexpected
It is the eighth annual Diabetes Blog Week, started by Karen from Bittersweet Diabetes I participated a while back now and given I am back on the D Blogging seat, thought I would hop on in and join. I am looking forward to reading and connecting with diabetes bloggers across the world this week. The day one…
Read MoreA Life That Just Gets Better!
Guest Post by Annabelle Leve Hi, let me introduce myself! I was diagnosed with T1 diabetes in 1977, at the age of 11 years. I was admitted to the Royal Children’s hospital (Melbourne) almost in a coma. I stayed in the hospital and was ‘trained’ to look after my condition over 2 weeks. I was embarrassed…
Read MoreComparing, Deciding & Letting Go
Having worked on the interwebs now since 2001, a verrrry long time ago in the lifetime of the interwebs, but not that long ago in the lifetime of the world, I have seen a lot. A bit like the way the management of diabetes has changed so much since I was first diagnosed in 1979,…
Read MoreHow to Handle Easter with Diabetes
What does Easter mean to you? For me, this time of year is full of my memories of many years, stretching way back to before I had type 1 diabetes, down along the pathways of my life and out again, snaking over hills filled with images of family, seaweed fights at our beach shack, hunting…
Read MoreBells, Buzzers, Beeps and Whistles
Sometimes I feel like my life is a series of bells, buzzers, beeps and whistles….the constant beeps of the blood glucose machine as it tells me it is on, and then that it is ok to add a drop of my blood. The beeps of my insulin pump as I take a bolus, and the…
Read MoreWhy People With Diabetes Are a Bit Like Ducks
You would think that after 37 years of life with type 1 diabetes, I would have it all sorted. It is something you get, learn about and manage, right? (cue injecting into oranges here). In some ways that is true. Once you get the basics of managing diabetes, once you understand how it works, what…
Read MoreDealing with Prednisolone and Diabetes
Living with a chronic health condition means there is part of your body that needs a little assistance to function at its best. In diabetes you know only too well all the ways in which it can impact on your body and your life. After a while it is easy to get into a space where…
Read MoreWhy You Need to Take a Break From Diabetes
We all have our favourite memories and ideas about what makes the perfect holidays. Maybe yours is skiing on a powder white slope; lazing on a golden sunny beach under a palm tree; hiking in bushland; an eco holiday; rail journey or cruise – whatever the word “holiday” conjures up for you, there will be many dreams, memories, emotions…
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