Posts Tagged ‘national diabetes week’

*+-It’s National Diabetes Week 2014, which is a week really focused on encouraging people to recognise their risk of type 2 diabetes, and to prevent more and more people developing this rapidly exploding and potentially devastating condition. It is the same every year. This usually leads to lots of people saying “what about type 1?”…

*+-The day will be stuck in my memory forever. I am a T1 for 33 years and was diagnosed when I was 13 years old. My younger brother and sister are also T1. My sister was diagnosed several years earlier at 3 years of age. My younger brother was diagnosed before me but in the…