Articles tagged Diabetes:
How using Freestyle Libre Has Helped Me With My Diabetes
- 29 May 2021
This article has just been published in the Diabetes UK magazine, Balance. I suspect I am the same as any other diabetic. I struggle to keep my blood sugars under control. After 13 years I know what I am supposed to eat and drink but I have all the self discipline of a...
From Fat Chozzer to Finally Getting Under 16 Stone
- 18 Aug 2018
Until I was 13 I was as thin as a rake. Then I got a terrible bout of food poisoning on a school trip to Russia, the effects of which lasted for six months. Since then I only have to look at a Smartie and I put on a pound. I also have quite a big frame (all that bale carting i...
I Wonder What Dr Ruth Would Say?
- 3 Mar 2008
I've been reflecting further on the post BELOW on my blood-sugar machine. Oscar Wilde once said that a cynic is someone "who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing". We in Britain take for granted that our healthcare is provided free at the point of delivery. W...
Being Diagnosed with Diabetes
- 18 Jan 2008
I got a bit of bad news on Wednesday, when I was told I had been diagnosed with diabetes. It wasn't a shock as - using my enormous medical expertise :) - I had already diagnosed myself. For some time I have had an unquenchable thirst and other symptoms. Luckily it is Type 2, s...