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Guest Blog: Foot care, Diabetic Neuropathy
One of our Closed groups on the Social Media platform of Facebook is called ‘Diabetes Education and Management’. This group is supported by Diabetes Educators and a Midwife, a Dietitian, and a Pharmacist, as well as Mental Health Counsellors. Recently one of our Diabetes Educators posted a link to a blog about complications and Foot…
Read MoreGuest Blog:Thanks Teacher
Our guest poet, Maureen Campey, has written another great poem about Parenting a child with diabetes. This time, Maureen has written about her teenage son starting a new year of High School, one of those momentous hurdles that we all face as parents. Here are Maureen’s wise words. Sending our kids back to school always…
Read MoreResearch: why does it matter? The Endia study
As the parent of someone with Type 1 diabetes, it can seem that the only organisation in the world doing research into diabetes is the International Charity, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, or as it is more usually known nowadays, the JDRF. For many years, I have ‘walked for the cure’ hoping that one day it…
Read MoreCarb Counting Queen: am I really good at Maths, or is it an illusion?
I’m always so profoundly moved by what people are so prepared to share with me. Recently I received the following lovely piece of writing from one of the Parents in our ‘Parents of Kids with Diabetes’ group on Facebook. Check out the link if you are the parent, carer or grandparent of someone with diabetes.…
Read MoreMy Journey, Member Stories: Julie
We are featuring our member’s stories on the blog – want to share yours? Drop us a line. Here is Julie’s story. My husband and I both have Type II diabetes. We have just come from our regular diabetic assessments and we’re celebrating the great news that we are both doing really well. But, it wasn’t always…
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