Such is my continuous life of glamour, I’ve got back from a conference of intellectual property practitioners at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (or L’Organisation Mondiale de la Propriété Intellectuelle if you prefer its French name) in Geneva. You’ll be pleased to hear that I won’t bore you with the details of the conference or… Read More »
Every once in while, each member of the pancreatically challenged hoard comes up against diabetes fatigue. This manifests itself through the victim running themselves down into a slough of despond, shaking their fist at the heavens and generally cursing their wonky pancreas. I’ve been suffering from diabetes fatigue recently and it’s not entirely fun. I… Read More »
Despite my championing multiple daily injections in a previous article, I have to finally come out and confess that I’m getting a pump. Eventually. Back in the heady days of July, I popped along to my diabetes clinic and spoke to the specialist diabetes nurse about pumps. We discussed my diabetes and the problems that… Read More »
In an idle moment and for a bit of fun – I use the term “fun” advisedly here – I decided to knock up a diabetes spreadsheet. I thought it would be interesting (again the term “interesting” is relative here) to log my insulin doses, carbohydrate intake and resultant blood glucose. By comparing the carb… Read More »
One of my friends introduced me to someone the other day as a “diabetes expert”. I’d never really thought of myself as an expert. Do I fully, 100%, in depth understand the biology of diabetes? Not really. I function pretty well at the islet cells don’t work level, beyond that I only really take an… Read More »
I went to London for work yesterday. Not a major event really, I go a few times a month and it’s only a couple of hours by train. For some reason though the world was against me yesterday. – 0630: Leave the house. – 0635: Return to the house having remembered that I haven’t picked… Read More »
Anyone who has read an account of Banting and Best’s discovery of insulin will know that they worked their guts out to come up with a cure for us diabetic hoards. Many dogs gave their lives for diabetic research – having their pancreases ligated allowing their pancreases to atrophy – leading to their untimely and… Read More »
We’re all sensible people here. Well, most of us are. By that I mean that we all know how we’re supposed to behave as good diabetics. We know that if we’re on MDI we should use a new needle each time we inject and we should rotate our injection sites. If we’re on a pump… Read More »