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-+*Control: as diabetics this is a word that can rule our every waking minute. It can be the word our health care professional(s) use to ‘scare’ us into ‘compliance. It can be the grinding slog that makes us feel, “When do I get a break!” If we do let go of ‘control’, even for a…

-+*Are you a parent? And have any of your children grown up? The age at which kids grow up these days is questionable and very different to when my generation were young (MY generation, does that make me sound old?!). I moved out of home at 18 as I had to go to the city…

-+*Today is likely to be one of the hottest days on record in Adelaide. It is also going to be the hottest day of any city in the world today, according to the forecasters. How do people handle something like this? The answer lies largely in how people are situated, and what their outlook on…

-+*I have been having a lot of trouble with my diabetes lately. It has not been playing fair, I think due to troublesome lumps in my stomach from too many injections and the drip, drip, drip of my insulin pump, as well as a slow tummy from my Gastroparesis playing up with the way my…

-+*Life with diabetes is closely connected with the word “control. When diagnosed with diabetes there is usually a sense of being “out of control” and talk around you from mostly well meaning people, that you need to “take control”. There can be many reasons why it is hard to get, maintain, or hold onto, control –…