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Freestyle LibreLink – First Thoughts
The start of my week included being in a room of Aussie diabetes bloggers and advocates talking about all things diabetes and playing with the Freestyle LibreLink app that will hit our app stores on the 5th of June. Disclaimer applies that Abbott Diabetes Care paid for my accommodation and meals for the dX2Sydney2018 event Read more
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Climbing Mountains
Things have been tough recently. Work has been challenging, which has made keeping up with life a little bit harder. Things have been left to pile up, scripts have been left unfilled, meals have been left to last minute decisions and my self-care was worn down to the bare minimum. I felt like I have Read more
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Being Kind to Yourself
Yesterday I spoke with some budding credentialed diabetes educators about living with diabetes. At the end of my talk, one of the students asked me what the best advice I ever received was and who gave it to me. Read more
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YpsoPump – My Thoughts
There’s been an excited buzz in the diabetes community with rumours of new pumps coming on the market. YpsoPump is one of the new kids on the block. Officially, the pump will be launched at the end of May. However, they have been doing the ninja. The accompanying myLife App was released on the apple Read more
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Holidaying with a new pump
To celebrate the end of my PhD and my (not so) new job, my partner and I decided to (finally) have a holiday. We decided on Singapore as my sister had already made plans to visit some relatives and we wanted to tag along to surprise them. Preparation for this trip happened like any other Read more
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Diabetes Chores & Burdens
Living with diabetes comes with many extra details in various aspects of life that we have to think about and plan for. For me, the way I think about these little bits and pieces frames my attitude towards living with diabetes. Some of these daily decisions that people without diabetes may take for granted: Healthy Read more
Welcome to my Bittersweet Diagnosis Blog
When I started this blog in 2011, I never thought it would be going over 10 years later. Writing is my way of reflecting and processing the world around me. Over time, I didn’t realise my stories resonated with others or helped them to learn more about living with diabetes. And so it is the power of sharing stories that keeps me going with this blog.
Initially, I named my blog “Bittersweet Diagnosis” as that is exactly how I feel about my diabetes. Learning to live with a chronic condition as intensive as diabetes has been one of the toughest challenges I’m still navigating. Yet along the way, diabetes has made me grow and develop into a better person, physically and mentally.
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