#DearDrBanting Campaign It has been 100 years since the famous co-discovery of insulin, that has continuously saved millions of lives ever since. In this campaign, teaming up with Banting House in Canada, we simply wish to say THANK YOU! Not only to Dr Banting, but to those who make a positive impact in our lives
Visibility: does size matter? One 'off-putting' thought about insulin pump therapy is: would wearing a pump make my diabetes more publicly visible... Making âdiabetes more visibleâ isnât the major issue; in fact, whether in making introductions to a sports team, a new teacher at school, colleagues at work, a partner on a date⌠somewhere down
October â November is always a crazy period of events, the âhealth conference seasonâ which usually for me combines continuing the work of reaching local communities with the fancy international congress events in diabetes care. It is a season of hypocrisy: preaching about improving healthcare whilst conferencing with little exercise and often at these events,
Is my pancreas âextinct?â Often on social media there are comments across the type 1 diabetes online community stating with understandable frustration: âdodgy pancreas,â or âif only my pancreas worked!â But what is this organ and what exactly is so faulty about it, for those of us living with this condition??? It is not often
Shakira Chahal is from Dumbarton, and gets admitted to Royal Alexandria, Paisley, just outside of Glasgow in Scotland. She is 23 years old, a mother and had an adolescent aged diagnosis to type 1 diabetes, at 17 years old. Shakira has very bravely and very openly shared about what has been a difficult period in health
