type 1 diabetes

I have been thinking a lot about babies the past few days. And kids. And life. And being a mum. You know, all the little things. There are lots of reasons for this. Firstly it is because my dear friend who passed away a month or so ago had a birthday on the weekend and…

Do you ever get those “ho hum” days? The ones where you feel just a little bit out of kilter? You don’t really know what it is, can’t place a finger on it, but the shine is not there? Today is one of those days for me. I think it has to do with getting stabbed…

In this cross-sectional descriptive study, 124 adolescents aged 13–18 years were invited to complete three self-administered questionnaires. The Youth Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (YEDE-Q) and the Eating Disorder Inventory −3 Risk Composite (EDI-3RC) assessed risk for an eating disorder. The third questionnaire, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) assessed emotional and behavioural concerns. Clinical data were…

It’s been a while. Life has been very busy and we have been away from home for over a month. Blogging has not been on the agenda. While I have been away from my familiar environment, my oldest son, my cats and my comforts of home, diabetes has been ever present. It comes with me,…