Category: Living with Diabetes
Hi There My name is Marty Wilson and I thought you might want to be interviewed for my book, What I Wish I Knew about Diabetes. It’s the next book in my bestselling What I Wish I Knew… series (Sorry, I’m aware that sounds smug, but now it’s official I can’t stop saying that word…
Read moreI have been having a bit of a light globe moment lately. I realised that my life had become ALL about diabetes and that this was not healthy for me. Managing a growing organisation and undertaking my PhD in diabetes, as well as living it, was burning me out. I remember when I started working…
Read moreI feel like I am on a roller coaster at the moment. And I am not enjoying it. My diabetes has decided the past week and a half, that it is going to go out on a limb and make all the decisions. I feel like the lion tamer that has lost his stick and…
Read moreSometimes you need a moment away from diabetes. It is so consuming, so in your face, so part of nearly every moment of your day, that sometimes you need to step back and say “enough”. Trying to find this balance can be a challenge. You don’t want to forget about it , or neglect your…
Read moreOn the 7th and 8th of February a team of us headed down to Mount Gambier to host a workshop on ‘Transitioning’ within diabetes. The trip was definitely worthwhile, an experience I will never forget. The workshop consisted of two days at Mount Gambier, first day including speeches and discussion from people living with Diabetes,…
Read more* DIABETES ** I am diabetes, I never ever shall leave you alone. Even if I am type 1 or type 2 I shall remind you in many ways I am here. That packet of jellybeans, they’re mine, that vial of insulin, that’s mine, that BG meter that’s yours, to watch me with ALL THE…
Read moreSo it goes like this. Pump company rep offers me trial of new shiny bright CGMS (continuous glucose monitoring system) which is now about to be available in Oz. I gush an “oh yes that would be brilliant” like a knee jerk reaction. Christmas then intervenes, as does life and I start to ponder whether…
Read moreThere is a bit of a theme running through my life at the moment and hence, through my blogging. I am burnt out. From life, from diabetes, from pushing myself to get fitter and lose weight, from work and study, family and the whole lot of it. This is not a whinge fest. I do…
Read moreSometimes you wake up and feel like you don’t want to do this anymore. You want to get off the train, hand in your name tag that says “diabetic”, unhook the pump, throw the monitor in the bin and walk away. Today is one of those for me. I spent half the night feeling sick…
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