Tag: Diabetes Management
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Diabetes Stage Fright
Imagine this: You are at work and desperately need to do number 2’s. You head to the bathroom inconspicuously and rejoice quietly on the realisation that you’re alone in the bathroom. You’re about to drop the kids off at the pool in peace. At that same moment, someone comes in and…
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Expectations
When it comes to my diabetes healthcare team, I am particularly fussy. I won’t settle for someone who won’t engage, provides me with generic advice or interrogates me on that one high BGL two months ago. I don’t spend hundreds of dollars to be guilt-tripped that I haven’t done enough for myself or…
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What’s Next Diabetes?
I probably have ranted on this topic enough for it to be common knowledge that my diagnosis has always been a confusing one. I don’t have the typical characteristics of a type 2 diabetic but neither do I fit neatly into a type 1 category. The decision to progress me…
