Posts Tagged ‘Inspiration’

It’s ok Mummy, remember I’m a Doctor

*+-Out of the mouths of babes. That really is true. I have come to realise this after having 3 lovely boys. Now aged 18 years old, 12 years old and 3 years old they have brought me joy, tears, sadness, happiness, laughter, cuddles, sticky fingers (and floors), frustration, awe, imagination, pleasure and immense love. Having…

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Is waiting what life is all about?

*+-Waiting. I sometimes feel like I spend my whole life waiting. Waiting to grow up, to get my license, to leave school, leave home, leave town. Waiting to get out of bad relationships and in the the “right one”. Waiting to get married, to get pregnant, waiting for babies to be born. Waiting for kids…

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Finding a voice – diabetes voices unite

*+-When I started www.diabetescounselling.com.au all those years ago in 2001, there were not many voices in the online space for people living with diabetes. The Internet was still new and in Australia, the wonderful Type 1 Diabetes Network http://www.d1.org.au (then just Reality Check) was the loudest voice I could find and a fine one at that.…

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Pumps are for everyone

*+-When I was first considering an Insulin Pump I remember worrying about a lot of things, but one big one was how my kids would handle the pump, or more to the point, given we were planning baby number 3 at the time – how would the Pump handle the kids!! Over the years I…

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