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Thoughts

I find myself pondering life most days, my mind is a whirlwind of thoughts and questions, full of hows and what ifs. I suppose me and my tho...

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Insulin For All

World Diabetes Day falls on the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, the man who co-founded insulin, I sometimes think that while World Diabet...

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World Diabetes Day- on behalf of NHS England

World Diabetes Day; the birthday of Frederick Banting. Banting was the man who co-discovered insulin and is the reason that everyone with Ty...

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Diabetes Awareness Month

I've been living with Type One Diabetes since I was 11 years old, I was diagnosed at the end of Year 7. Not only did I have to adjust to...

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Connected

For every one of my diabetic friends, this one's for you. A couple of weeks ago I went to Thorpe Park with my sister, her boyfriend and ...

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80,000

80,000. 80,000 people have, at one time or another read my blog, that's a hell of a lot of people. I'm doing my best to get back int...

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For me

When I started my blog I was in school, I was 15, and apart from having to do school work I didn't have much else to do or have much els...

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7 years

It's that time of year again, my diaversary. I was diagnosed on June 21st 2009, I was almost 12 years old. I was 5ft8 and I weighed 7 st...

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I'm a terrible blogger

I have abandoned you again, I have abandoned my blog so much so that I have taken 'Blogger' out of my Twitter, the shame! This week ...

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Diabetes Blog Week: Why do I blog? #DBlogWeek

Today is the first day of #DBlogWeek. The topic for today is 'Message Monday', which basically poses the big question: "Why?...

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A letter: Diabetes burnout

Dear, whom it may concern, If you're feeling burnout, you're probably not too sure what it is you're experiencing at the moment,...

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Officially in adult clinic

April 4th 2016 was my last ever appointment with the Children and Young People's Team at my hospital. I'm now officially in adult cl...

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Parliament with JDRF #Type1Catalyst

Yesterday, I took myself off to Parliament to join JDRF, MP's, their constituents, and some health care professionals, to celebrate the ...

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Are we brave? How do we get people to take us seriously?

There was a conversation happening on Twitter on Sunday, and the general consensus was about how do we convey that diabetes is serious and i...

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Diabulimia

I bet you've probably never heard of Diabulimia, you probably don't even know what it is. Let me give you the Google definition that...

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Diabetes UK Professional Conference 2016- Blog 1

I am not huge on numbers and data and statistics and all that side of things, I'm not an expert on totally understanding it but I get th...

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PWDC16

PWDC16

On Saturday 27th February my mum and I got up at 5:30am, and got to St. Pancras for 7:30am to catch the train to Nottingham. From that point...

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My tonsillectomy

I had my tonsils 3 weeks ago on Wednesday. It's not common to get your tonsils out as an "adult", I put it in quotation marks ...

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Blood sugar meter review: My Dario

Blood sugar meter review: My Dario

When I was approached by Gina from My Dario to review their blood sugar meter I was very keen! As a young person I'm very interested in ...

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