<p class="">Has anyone noticed their blood sugar/glucose numbers dropping lately as the Spring temperatures tease us? Welcome to Spring, where it’s hot, it's cold, it's summer one day and winter the next.</p>

I'm going to be an auntie again, after a 7 year gap in the birth of nephews and nieces. It’s going to happen any minute now. An-ny minute!!! And like any good big sister I've been sharing valued advice about the last days of pregnancy. I'm sure it's very welcome advice too:-D OMG, I can't wait to kidnap babysit this small baby. ONE MOMENT PLEASE! Sarah, please tell baby to get the head down, engage and one big whosh from in there:-) WHERE WAS I? All this sisterly advice has p

Lucky for me, or maybe for the world :-O, I never aspired to be an astronaut or an airline pilot for my career. But I have met just a few people with diabetes who did. In particular, a couple who all they wanted in life was to fly airplanes. But when they were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes they ruled it out. At the Diabetes Hands Foundation MasterLab 2016 conference there was a fantastic presentation on “ Diabetes Discrimination in the Workplace ”  that prompted me to featur

Last May, I was asked by the organisers of the Future Health Summit to give a presentation on how I became an empowered person with diabetes. Some friends asked if I could blog about it. The reason for my topic choice was because the theme of the conference was Empowering the Patient, Information, Choice & Accountability and I decided to focus on Empowering the Patient element for my presentation. I feel like I am one, that diabetes does not have power over me, I have a lot o

Chances are that if you found my website you already know a little something about diabetes. But, you might be like me and always want to learn more. And there's ALWAYS is more to learn about diabetes. In this page/post I will attempt to give you my interpretation of diabetes. But I will also refer to medical people who can get more technical. I will also talk about the symptoms of diabetes, the risk factors and different types of diabetes. Diabetes is not easy to explain and

Last week was completely mental for me. Definitely not the life of a stay at home parent and way too  exciting. Wednesday, a bunch of us diabetes advocates went to Leinster House to meet with our TD’s and Senators. This is the equivalent of meeting with congress in the US, kindof. I won’t go into detail here but if you're interested in what happened I posted about it here on Thriveabetes last Tuesday. Thursday was the complete opposite, live moving from a developing country t

I have been using a Continuous Glucose Monitoring device (CGM) for six months and I feel that I have enough information now to share what I have learned about my diabetes management in those short months. A couple of weeks ago I shared how I came to get my hands on this little golden nugget and you can read about that here . So here it goes, in no particular order, what I have learned. Rapid acting insulin is not that rapid at all! If my blood sugar levels dare to go ⇑ and be

I had so much to write about from the Future Health Summit  on Friday 27th May last that I had to divide it into two post. Disclaimer: The organisers of this conference reimbursed me for my travel expenses to attend as a patient speaker. But all opinions are my own. Here is my review of the  Diabetes Summit Event  which was chaired by Dr. Ronan Canavan, co-chaired by Anna Clarke from Diabetes Ireland with our panel being chaired by Dr. Eva Orsmond. This was the event that I s

I have so much to share from the Future Health Summit last Friday I really don’t know where to start. So. Much. To. Write. It was very much an honour to have the opportunity to attend and to get a glimpse into the health care professionals' world and to have access to a diverse range of AM-azing speakers from all areas of health. Friday morning, I arrived in, what I thought, was plenty of time to browse the exhibits but due to a minor mix up in the timetable I lost forty fiv

This season of RTE ’s OperationTransformation   has been focusing on type 2 diabetes in a big way. This is my first time to watch Operation Transformation and I find it a very interesting programme though not why you would think. I was extremely interested in the piece about how unfit our school aged teenagers are, especially the girls. That was eye opening but when I thought about it not surprising. However, it’s the feature on Petrice, which aired on Wednesday, 8th February