Photo by Łukasz Nieścioruk on Unsplash The trick or treat edition for all parents Like many parents of a certain age in the UK I never went trick or treating in our neighbourhood when I was younger. That was just something that happened in American movie’s (I reference one of my all-time favourite’s E.T.). However, in more recentContinueContinue reading “What sugary hell is this?”
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Type 1 diabetes: needles vs pump
I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reaction to technologies:1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary andContinueContinue reading “Type 1 diabetes: needles vs pump”
Is it a tantrum or a hypo?
Photo by Zahra Amiri on Unsplash It can be quite hard as a parent of a child who has type 1 diabetes, to know whether they are having a tantrum because they can’t get their own way, or whether they are hitting their brother because their sugar levels have gone through the floor. In my previous article, Appraisals,ContinueContinue reading “Is it a tantrum or a hypo?”
Appraisals hidden disabilities and me
Photo by me Only two years ago, work goals and objectives were being set; it was time to take my career to the next level after returning from a year’s maternity leave. It was a good opportunity to set goals around what I wanted to achieve at work for the next year. But you know whatContinueContinue reading “Appraisals hidden disabilities and me”
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