Dr Ashley Ng

How the world has changed so quickly within a few days/weeks/months where we’re suddenly living out the Contagion movie. I didn’t think it would take me so long to adjust to isolation life; I was always keen on the idea of working from home anyway. It wasn’t until I saw a quote on twitter that… Read more

I have access to subsidised (aka free) CGM and I feel guilty as heck for it. As my diabetes educator signed the forms, the wave of emotions hit me. I was excited, happy, relieved, angry and frustrated. It felt incredibly unfair that I was accessing CGM without cost while others were scraping every dollar to… Read more

Recently I found out that a high school friend passed away from cancer. His diagnosis took over six months as the first doctor he saw said it was nothing. His mum persuaded him to get a second opinion. He eventually went but argued that “they show no interest in me”. Twenty-four hours later, he was… Read more

Accepting a diabetes diagnosis is difficult. I often hear people saying that they just ‘go through the motions’. They’ll take their medication as prescribed and be done with it. Some won’t even check their blood sugars. I mean, I totally understand. Life goes on as usual, and no one wants to think about living with… Read more

Here’s an exercise my partner told me he’s been working on and I thought it would be a good idea for me to do as well. There are three things to focus on: 1) something that you felt went well during the year, 2) what didn’t work so well and 3) what you want to… Read more

I have had a nice, unintended and well-needed break from my blog over the past few months. During this time, I’ve had lots of conversations of whether to stop my blog and diabetes advocacy altogether (even my involvement with Beta Change) and just live the simple life. Life has been absolute madness and to think… Read more