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🥳 That rarest of rare things

That’s right, a full day in range! Days like this are, unfortunately, rarer than rocking horse shit!

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April 15, 2020

Happy birthday Dad

Here’s your doppelgänger with his favourite hat!

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September 25, 2019

Happy birthday Dad

*sigh*

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September 25, 2018

Diabetes - the beginning

Something I’ve wanted to do for ages is to try to describe my diabetes, how and why it affects me and frequently makes me a miserable grumpy git. In time (and more posts) I might even be able to make you understand how I get through so many goddamn jelly babies!

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August 15, 2018

A rare event

This doesn’t happen often - a whole day where my blood glucose level was “in range”.

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August 9, 2018

Random Saturday #478

This wasn’t what I was expecting to be doing this morning! Mum-in-law found him outside. A quick drink and he was off again!

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August 4, 2018

So that’s why I felt crap...

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. I realise now that all evening I’d been feeling run down but couldn’t (at the time) work out why. I didn’t feel low - in fact I felt like my blood sugars were high if anything after having a relatively big evening meal. I finally checked my blood sugars before getting ready to take my basal insulin… the below explains why I’ve felt rough! Nothing a few jelly babies can’t solve.

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August 4, 2018