This week is Diabetes Week in the UK, a week which is partly about people telling their stories online about Diabetes in the hope of raising awareness of what still is a very misunderstood condition.   Diabetes will have been part of our lives for nine years next month, as one of my sons was diagnosed just after his fifth birthday. It isn’t a date or an experience that I am ever likely to forget. I’ve written about his diagnosis before and it was a very scary time in our lives.     I try on here and on social media to talk honestly about Type 1 Diabetes and all that it en ..read more

  Today I have a new interview for the Meet the Parents of Children with Type 1 Diabetes series, this time the interview is with Helen from Actually Mummy. To find out all about the series, pop to the initial Meet the Parents post.     Name: Helen Wills   Where do you live? I live in St Albans, just outside London, with Jason, Maddie – who has type 1 – and her 10-year-old brother Evan.   When was your child diagnosed and how old were they? Maddie was diagnosed in August 2014, when she was almost 10. She’s 13 now, and has been living with diabetes for nearly 4 ..read more

Our review of the iHealth Align Gluco-monitoring System from MySelfCare. *sponsored review     I was recently sent the iHealth Align blood glucose monitoring system meter by MySelfCare to test and try out with my son who has Type 1 Diabetes. In the almost nine years since diagnosis, we have tried several meters. Although we are happy with the blood glucose meter that we have now, what we were lacking is a back-up spare meter, just in case his current meter breaks or is lost. Included inside the iHealth Align glucose monitor box is the following to get you started;   iHealth ..read more

  When my eldest was first diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes eight and a half years ago, everything that I saw via my online searches was negative. Negative and downright scary.     This was a major part of why I started my blog in the first place, to help others feel less alone and hope that when they were sat in that hospital bed with their child their google searches would find posts of mine showing that life does go on and things do get better.     I really did feel so alone at the start, Type 1 Diabetes is a major thing to live with. For my son and the whole family a ..read more

  Today was the last day of Diabetes Awareness month and sadly I have to say that some of those who need to be more aware of Diabetes (Types 1, 2 and more) are the GPs and Doctor’s surgeries around the UK.     If you don’t have Diabetes yourself or are close to someone who has, then you may not know the absolute battle that it can be sometimes simply to get the basics for Diabetes care.   The blood testing strips, insulin pens, insulin, needles etc etc aren’t optional things, they are all things that keep someone with Type 1 Diabetes in particular ALIVE. Without the means t ..read more

  Imagine if there was a test you had to take every few months that would answer definitively in your own head whether you were a good or a bad parent? Scary thought hey?   We have one of those tests every 3 months without fail and have had for the last eight years. The HbA1c test is a blood test that my eldest has, which tells us and his Diabetes team how good his blood glucose control has been for the last three months.   So in theory it’s just a blood test. A pretty important one though, as how good his blood glucose control is, is highly likely to affect what complications o ..read more