I’m currently reading Michael Bliss’s excellent book “The Discovery of Insulin” (a full review coming soon, book fans!) which is a genuinely fascinating and sometimes thrilling account of insulin’s discovery and its path to mass-production. As someone with Type One it’s been very interesting and occasionally thoughtful look at the major breakthrough insulin undoubtedly was.… Read More »
We’re back from our long weekend in Venice, it was all the things they tell you in the guide books – romantic, beautiful, lots of bridges, water, gondolas etc and one thing they don’t tell you – carb heavy. I’ve thought for years that as well as eating low GI foods reducing the number of… Read More »
I’ve used a Medtronic Paradigm insulin pump for the past 2 years. Pumps are getting more and more popular in the UK and I get asked a lot of questions. Inspired by Shelley of circleD fame here are the top 11 questions I get asked about using a pump (sorry, I tried for a nice… Read More »
I’ve just emptied the washing machine (stick with me, it does get marginally more interesting I promise). There’s a nice clean load of washing ready to be hung out. Except for one small problem. It’s covered in slime. Every item of clothing has different coloured sticky goo on it, and there are bits of paper… Read More »
Shooting up in public always seems to be a controversial and emotive topic. This was highlighted recently by the letters page of this month’s Diabetes UK magazine Balance, which was crammed with missives about the pro and cons of injecting in public. I’m not exactly shy and retiring and I’ll happily shoot up in front… Read More »
There’s a lot of nonsense talked about what you can and can’t eat as a diabetic. This blog focuses on Type One diabetes and those lucky enough to have Type Two might find their experience differs. But probably not much. When I was first diagnosed with Type One a few years ago, part of my… Read More »
Received opinion says that good things come in small packages. This is clearly not true, I can think of loads of things that come in small packages which are simultaneously small and completely rubbish. Chief amongst these would be a certain ex-girlfriend of mine who was somewhat height-challenged. She was a small package but she… Read More »
Recently I was delighted to be invited on a weekend away. I was delighted for two reasons, first it was the stag weekend of my chum Ru and it thus marked the fact that his and HP’s three-hundred year long engagement was finally coming to an end and they would, at last, become man and… Read More »