Posts by helwild
Fury: The Battle with diabetes
Guest Post from Dave Barnes Fury I saw a movie recently called, Fury. It’s about a tank crew blasting their way through Nazi Germany. It shows the crew stuffed inside, tasked to do no end of jobs to keep the tank moving, to keep the guns primed for action and to keep themselves alive. What…
Read MoreSleep ’tis a gentle thing..
Oh Sleep..’tis a gentle thing, belov’d from pole to pole.. Our occasional blogger, Dave Barnes, has shared his thoughts on the ‘night life’ experienced by most people living with type 1 diabetes: the lack of sleep, the various physical needs that must be attended to through the night, the impossibility of an uninterrupted night’s sleep,…
Read MoreGive Happy Live Happy: Celebrating our #Volunteers
Update: This post was written to thank Volunteers during the time we operated as a Charity. The Charity is now closed. Volunteering is no longer available. ‘May 2015: Every day we support thousands of people here and in the Social media platforms of Facebook, Twitter etc. As we have a very small staff, we rely on…
Read MorePoetry that touches the heart: for the #diabetes parents out there
To my Mum Mother. Sleeping with your clothes to drink in your smell, Grabbing your long dark hair as I learnt to walk. Camping by rivers and mountains and trees. My baby sister, Your face. Holding onto you tight when the needles came knowing this was it, a life of diabetes, Terrified. Road trips and…
Read MoreOn the edge: risk taking & diabetes #dblog
Welcome to a story from one of our guest bloggers, Dave Barnes. Dave is an extreme athlete who has lived with type 1 diabetes since early childhood. He has also worked as a Mentor for troubled youth, using physical challenges to help young men to understand their lives, and to make positive changes. Dave has…
Read MoreFeeling knackered: how do I go on?
Guest Post from Dave Barnes – an extreme athlete with type 1 diabetes. He was on a driving holiday in the NT when he wrote this piece and at the time was a wonderful volunteer for our former charity. The post has been updated to reflect the change of focus of this website. For Dave,…
Read MoreGuest Blog: Foot care, Diabetic Neuropathy
Edited 30/03/17 to reflect changes in the page from DCO to Diabetes Can’t Stop me. One of our Closed groups on the Social Media platform of Facebook was called ‘Diabetes Education and Management’. This group was supported by Diabetes Educators and a Midwife, a Dietitian, and a Pharmacist, as well as Mental Health Counsellors. In…
Read MoreGuest Blog: Thanks Teacher
Our guest poet, Maureen Campey, has written another great poem about Parenting a child with diabetes. This time, Maureen has written about her teenage son starting a new year of High School, one of those momentous hurdles that we all face as parents. Here are Maureen’s wise words. Sending our kids back to school always…
Read MoreResearch: Why does it matter? The Endia study
Edited 30/03/17 to reflect the changes from the former DCO to Diabetes Can’t Stop Me. As the parent of someone with Type 1 diabetes, it can seem that the only organisation in the world doing research into diabetes is the International Charity, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, or as it is more usually known nowadays, the…
Read MoreConversation: Parents: Who else is up checking their child’s bgl??
As the Mum of a type 1 diabetic, I was very moved by the online responses during one night to a simple question posed by a Mum in one of our former Closed groups on Facebook. The Community spirit of these Mums is just wonderful. We are all heroes, it is a quiet herosim, a…
Read MoreCarb Counting Queen: am I really good at Maths, or is it an illusion?
First posted on September 5th 2014. Edited 30/03/17 to reflect the changes from the former DCO to Diabetes Can’t Stop Me. I’m always so profoundly moved by what people are so prepared to share with me. I received the following lovely piece of writing from one of the Parents in our former ‘Parents of Kids…
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 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#shortcuts or the #longwayround? Which is best? Making decisions & weighing up #choices
by Helen Wilde Yesterday I had an appointment at the Dentist. Groan. Yes, it was just a check up & clean, but I did end up with a new filling as well. My dental appointment had been delayed by about 6 weeks, due to a month long virus that had also resulted in the cancelling…
Read MoreAfter the #party’s over: #guilt #regret #acceptance
by Helen Wilde So, the Moveable Feast of Eostre, the goddess of spring fertility, is upon us once again. It’s Easter. We have a full moon, rabbits & chickens, chocolate & sweet fruit buns with a cross baked into the top. For some religions, there are other, more sombre & deeply significant symbols associated with…
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