I’ve always been a fan of the concept of electronic patient records. All the data available in one place to me and to any of my healthcare team. We can all work from the same info, it doesn’t get lost in the post and there isn’t a massive upheaval if you happen to move house.… Read More »
Monday was a beautiful sunny bank holiday in north west England. We spent most of it gardening. It was a perfect day for washing so I stripped the bed and the washing line was soon full of nice clean bedding drying in the breeze. On Monday night we climbed into nice, clean, crisp bedding. It… Read More »
Since I was diagnosed with diabetes (yay!) a few years ago, I’ve travelled quite a bit on planes. As you’ll all know, insulin hates getting too cold or too hot and therefore keeping our spare supplies in the hold is really out of the question. Although a normal passenger plane’s hold will be heated to… Read More »
The more avid and fanatical readers of this lovely blog will have noticed I’ve been away for the last few weeks. I was holidaying with my wife Katie in the marvellous United States of America, which as the more observant will have noted is on a different continent to the one I live in. Sadly… Read More »
I spent an age yesterday searching for a proper blueberry muffin. I could find a low fat, low sugar version, or one made with bran (I know it’s healthy but it’s not meant to take me 10 minutes to chew through a muffin, hence I like mine without the bran) but not a genuine, full… Read More »
I’ve been told this numerous times and it always makes me smile. But last week I realised that we diabetics are very hard to spot. The Jonas brothers (teen band sensation apparently) are in the UK at the moment promoting something or other. Not being a teenage girl, this would have completely missed my radar,… Read More »
Inspired by the marvel that was Saturday night’s Eurovision Song Contest, I was feeling a bit global so had a look at where visitors to the blog have been coming from over the last month. I knew we had a lot of Brits and Americans gracing our pages, but you’re coming from all over the… Read More »
We Brits like to whinge about the NHS. It’s apparently inefficient with long waiting times and poor service. Yet despite its faults, I’m a fan. Why? Good or bad? I’ve always been generally supportive of the concept of the NHS, but this support has grown over the last few years, partly driven by greater exposure… Read More »