type 1 diabetic – elisabeth pike

Living with Type One – What it looks like

Note: I think there may be quite a bit of type 1 jargon in here. Apologies for that. Also a normal blood sugar (what we’re aiming for) is 4-8. I haven’t written that much about type 1 diabetes on here although I have intended to but two of the poems about Type One diabetes inContinueContinue reading “Living with Type One – What it looks like”

For When We Don’t Know What is Coming: an unexpected diagnosis

We had just moved to the wilds of Shropshire, with a two-week old baby and two pre-schoolers, and everything was new. My husband was beginning to concentrate on his music full-time, and the two eldest children had just started in a new preschool. There was time for the dust to settle. But I still hadContinueContinue reading “For When We Don’t Know What is Coming: an unexpected diagnosis”