What if I was newly diagnosed all over again? If I was 20 year old me again and newly diagnosed what would I want knowing what I know now about what’s out there in diabetes management? What would I want to have in my diabetes care?

I had completely run out of patience waiting for my health service to be a current and up to date one. So I’ve joined the #WeAreNotWaiting movement and become a member of the closed loop crowd.  

I don’t openly share much about how diabetes has truly impacted my life. I tend to push all that down as a coping mechanism. However, this post has come about from lots of ponderings and conversations with my devoted husband over the last week on how diabetes has impacted my life, his life and questioning my levels of hypo awareness. And I had to write.

World Diabetes Day 2018 is a distant memory now but I’m still pondering some of the negative feelings I had during that time period. This year, I felt the community was more polarized than ever before. The type 1 community seemed to want more and more separation from the type 2 community.

I wrote "Irish Diabetes Role Models" blog post in 2014, so an update is certainly due. Role models are good because they reassure us that diabetes isn't going to stop us from achieving anything in life. I needed that kind of reassurance when I was diagnosed way back in 1993.

Diabetes Support Barriers - what are the barriers to attending a diabetes support meeting? What do we actually talk about and more importantly what do we NOT talk about.