Given the number of medics it took to conceive and gestate this baby, I’ve never been under the illusion that getting her out would be an all natural affair. I may occasionally dream of a candle-lit water birth accompanied by whale song or maybe a soothing string quartet, but I’ve never held out much hope.… Read More »
Last week I performed my civic duty of attending the hospital diabetic eye clinic in order to reduce the average age of attendees by at least 30 years. There was also a bit of faffing round with my eyes which left me gobsmacked at quite how disjointed diabetes care can be. My local PCT have… Read More »
ShootUp’s resident Type 2 Terry gives a personal insight into the complication of diabetes we often forget…depression. How often has that been said to you? Maybe not very often, because people have learned to avoid using this somewhat patronising phrase when people are suffering from depression. There, I’ve said it, the big ’D’ word; depression.… Read More »
Tim & Alison talk about the cheery topic of diabetes complications…
In between slaving away writing posts for your beloved soaraway Shoot Up I have a day job. That I’m actually employable may come a surprise to some of you – but there we are. Anyway, I won’t bore you with the details of my job as it usually requires a plethora of pencil-drawn diagrams to… 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 »
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 »