I was having a gentle peruse of Mike’s review of the Diabetes UK Professional Conference and I was struck by a few things. Firstly, it was good to get an insight into what’s being talked about in the world of diabetes, so if you have no qualms about being unfaithful to us and wantonly read… Read More »
Not a right lot by the looks of things. We might have disappeared for two years but on our return our blog posts still offer no useful purpose in society and the comments are a happy mix of abuse and general pedantry. So, aside from having a baby which changed just about everything, has anything actually… Read More »
You won’t believe number 3!! In the two or so years since my last article for your soaraway Shoot Up, I’ve noticed a growing trend for sensationalised, click-bait, Buzzfeed-style headlines, accompanied by vapid, ill-informed and inaccurate articles. Never being one to miss out on the lowest common denominator, here’s your soaraway Shoot Up’s top five… Read More »
Just in case you were wondering (which I suspect you weren’t), I’m glad to report that your soaraway Shoot Up is alive and well and hasn’t in the time since our last published article either become comatose or, indeed, had any podiatry-related issues relating to our collective toes. Earlier today I put a post on… Read More »
As is pretty common, I wandered out of the office to grab some lunch today. So far, so not very exciting. But on my way to the local sandwich emporium my eye was drawn to a discarded test strip. It was lying there forlornly on the pavement, half-in and half-out of a pile of sick… Read More »
Avid diabetic spotters like myself are always on the look out for our fellow pancreatically challenged types. It brightens up our day to spot another of our species out in the wild. But it’s not always the visual clues that give us away. Sometimes it’s the sounds… The slurp of a juice box being emptied… Read More »
I admit it, I am a secret diabetic spotter. I’m not quite at the anorak wearing, binocular carrying stage yet (despite photographic evidence to the contrary), and I haven’t ever kept a log of my sightings, but I am always on the lookout for others who are playing at being a pancreas. I’ve known about… Read More »
After yet another diabetes related bed sheet incident I am now starting to think that diabetes and sheets are simply incompatible bedfellows. This time there was no visible problem, no massacre-like blood stains or mysterious slime. Oh no, this time it was the smell. Thankfully not the smell of my toes rotting off or my kidneys… Read More »