Gosh, it’s been a while hasn’t it? How’s things? Things have been mostly happy and uneventful at this end in the two years since I last blogged. Although – shock horror – I have split up with two of my diabetes old-faithfuls. Here’s a round up… *Spoiler alert*: I’ve not been cured. The child has… Read More »
Due to popular demand (that is, no demand whatsoever) we’ve revived your soaraway Shoot Up’s poll feature. This month we’re asking how you react when people ask about your diabetes. People’s reactions to talking about diabetes ;
I wrote about our second favourite flash glucose monitoring device – Abbott’s Libre – and covered off all the undoubtedly good things about the device. But all is not milk and honey in the land of the Libre and so I’ve jotted down a few of my annoyances for your delectation. Some of these are… Read More »
I posted my initial thoughts about the Libre a few weeks ago here; so how has it been after two weeks using everyone’s second-favourite flash glucose monitoring system? In summary, when it’s good it’s very, very good. When it’s bad it’s just annoying. First of all, let’s cover off the good. The snaking worm of… Read More »
Last night I found myself sitting in a lecture theatre in the studenty-bit of the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh. Surrounded by about 175 other type ones (who knew Edinburgh had so many pancreatically-challenged denizens?) we were about to be introduced to Abbott’s flash glucose testing do-hicky – the Libre. Apparently demand for the new device had… Read More »
Step by step, little by little, the machines are taking over my diabetes. It started in the mid 1980’s when the traditional family pre-bedtime routine of passing round the test strip came to an abrupt end. For anyone who hasn’t had the pleasure, before there were meters there was a great family game of passing the… Read More »
During the course of some earlier discussion on your soaraway Shoot Up, I used an over-complicated analogy describing myself as being Managing Director of my diabetes. Never being one to avoid over-egging a pudding, I thought I would draw this out into a whole company, which I’ve dubbed “Tim’s Pancreas Limited”. Being an organised sort of chap, I’ve drawn… Read More »
From time to time, when I have nothing better to do – like invent a perpetual motion machine, herd cats or enjoy a warming beverage from my chocolate teapot – I have a look around the Diabetes Online Community™ and see what all the cool kids are talking about. As an aside, and as I’ve… Read More »