Bittersweet Diagnosis blog

The Secret to Success

I have always believed that the people you surround yourself with help to shape the person you are. Sometimes, we don’t realise how lucky we are until we take a step back. And I’m pretty bloody lucky to call some of these people friends. Read more

January 14, 2018
OzDOC – A Season of Change

On December 5th 2017, the OzDOC as we know and love, held its last Tweetchat after 5 years. The OzDOC team made the difficult to call it a day (for now) as no one had the capacity to continue leading it. As part of our last tweetchat, we reflected on what OzDOC meant to us. Read more

January 8, 2018
2017 – recap and reflect.

What a year! Things have taken off so quickly with work, PhD and Beta Change in the last few months that I haven’t been able to keep up with my blog. So getting back into a regular blogging routine is definitely on my cards for 2018. Read more

December 28, 2017
HbA1c Conflict

In the diabetes community, there is a push to look beyond the A1c. Traditionally, the A1c was the golden child to see how our diabetes management is going. To put it simply, the A1c is an average of all your blood glucose over the past three months, which is the lifespan of a red blood Read more

October 15, 2017
Goodbye Animas?

Late Thursday night, I received a huge shock when a friend forwarded me this press release from Johnson and Johnson. The press released announced that Animas will exit the insulin pump market, effective immediately in the States and Canada. In the meantime, Animas selected Medtronic to help phase out Animas pumps. For more details, check Read more

October 7, 2017
Cellnovo

The launch of a new insulin pump player in Australia is super exciting. I love that Cellnovo quietly sneaked into the landscape, with only a tiny stand at the recent Australian Diabetes Society and Australian Diabetes Educators Association conference. Read more

September 19, 2017

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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