Author: Ashley Ng
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Dealing with diabetes the nerdy way
In my early diabetes diagnosis days, I thought that the key to having perfect BGs came from restricting the amount of carbohydrate food I ate and exercising a lot. I kept logs of what I ate, what activity I did and plotted them against my BGs on an excel spreadsheet…
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Diabetes Expo 2015
On Saturday I attended the first ever Diabetes Expo for people with diabetes by Diabetes Victoria. 1400 people turned up for the day, which ran similar to how a typical day at a scientific conference would. The only difference is that presenters were speaking to people living with the condition…
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The Vampire Strikes Again
A few years ago, I blogged about my simple 15 minute test dragging on for two hours due to my tiny, tricky veins here. Since then, I’ve been getting overly anxious over my routine bloods. I find myself repeating the motions and pep talks when I see the little reminder in…
