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Ten dietitian tips for pregnancy in type 1 diabetes
Guest Post, Sally Marchini, Dietitian I’ve been asked to write this blog as a dietitian. It’s a little challenging mostly because each of us has different requirements and should set personalised targets, so these tips are for a general guide only. I recommend that you should check with your own diabetes health professionals before changing any…
Read MoreWhile we’re busy making other plans..
A diagnosis of diabetes brings the ‘C’ word into everyday life: Control. We get bombarded with information, instructions, advice. We’re told to ‘test’, given pieces of paper to go to a clinic or hospital for a variety of even more ‘tests’. We’re monitored, measured, & judged. For some people, this becomes more important than anything…
Read MoreA poem from a diabetes Mum: I lost a layer of skin
One of our members has written this beautiful and moving poem about her child with diabetes – she has agreed to share it. We are sure many of you will identify. thank you Maureen xx I lost a layer of skin I lost a layer of skin as we entered the hospital on the day…
Read MoreLife..’More than #diabetes’ Ups & Downs
How much does diabetes dominate your life? It is a health condition which, because it is related to food and exercise, can seem like the most difficult health condition you could possibly have, doesn’t it? And because the symptoms are not always obvious or noticeable, it can seem that if you ignore it, it will…
Read More#Parenting a child with #diabetes #struggles & #rewards: owning your own #lifetime
This is a blog I have wanted to write for some time. As the parent of a now grown up child with diabetes, I feel a ‘special’ bond with other parents. Because of this, I am one of the moderators of the Facebook Closed group Parents of kids with diabetes. Almost every day I read …
Read More#Control: to Major Tom: take your protein pills & put your helmet on..
by Helen Wilde Control: as people with diabetes this is a word that can rule our every waking minute. It can be the word our health care professional(s) use to ‘scare’ us into ‘compliance. It can be the grinding slog that makes us feel, “When do I get a break!” If we do let…
Read MoreAn empty nest or a full one?
Are you a parent? And have any of your children grown up? The age at which kids grow up these days is questionable and very different to when my generation were young (MY generation, does that make me sound old?!). I moved out of home at 18 as I had to go to the city…
Read MoreIt’s all in your p.o.v..changing perspectives
Today is likely to be one of the hottest days on record in Adelaide. It is also going to be the hottest day of any city in the world today, according to the forecasters. How do people handle something like this? The answer lies largely in how people are situated, and what their outlook on…
Read MoreOut of the mouths of babes, support can come in so many forms
I have been having a lot of trouble with my diabetes lately. It has not been playing fair, I think due to troublesome lumps in my stomach from too many injections and the drip, drip, drip of my insulin pump, as well as a slow tummy from my Gastroparesis playing up with the way my…
Read MoreTaking control of diabetes & letting go of guilt
Life with diabetes is closely connected with the word “control. When diagnosed with diabetes there is usually a sense of being “out of control” and talk around you from mostly well meaning people, that you need to “take control”. There can be many reasons why it is hard to get, maintain, or hold onto, control –…
Read MoreThat is enough,saying no & doing the big things
I get a lot of opportunities to travel in my work and PhD study and have done a lot of it over the past 10 years. Some has been to far flung places like South Africa (which was the best trip in my life) and Florence (which was also pretty amazing). Lots has been to…
Read MoreEat well and prosper when living with diabetes
Guest Post, Sally Marchini, Dietitian Today is my 48th birthday. That means it’ll be my 36th diaversary this year! Reflecting on my life with diabetes always amazes me, especially the way that I’ve ended up as a health professional *and* still have excellent health despite living with diabetes. I think the *most important* influencing factor…
Read MoreTen tips to reconnect with what matters
Today a little inspiration about how to be happier and healthier by re connecting with what really matters in your life. I know I am permanently connected to technology and often running at a fast pace and this can make me feel disconnected from everything else in my life. Do you feel the same? Here…
Read MoreThursday: review of PATS remote & rural assistance
By Helen Wilde As the parent of a Type 1 diabetic child living in a country town with no Diabetes Educator, dietitian, endocrinologist etc., we as a family had to travel to the ‘big smoke’ every 12 weeks for my child to have bgl, ketones HbA1c etc properly tested, records looked at, problems or concerns…
Read MoreOn being a parent, diabetes complications, worrying, holding hands & looking after each other
Being a parent is one of the most wonderful, terrifying, complicated, rewarding, challenging and crazy things you will ever do. As mum to three boys I can attest to that! I also know, as a person who has type 1 diabetes from seeing, experiencing and now looking back as a parent myself, what extra hell…
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