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Continue reading →: What price for staying alive?
Living in the UK and having access to what is still a pretty wonderful National Health Service, I had never really thought about the cost of insulin. I stumbled across a few articles recently that opened my eyes to what it means to be a diabetic in other areas of…
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Continue reading →: Discovery One Walk
Join others with Type 1 diabetes and their families on a fun walk around Alexander Stadium, Birmingham. JDRF is launching this new event on Saturday 8th June, which will be a day of celebration and information sharing by guest speakers from the diabetes community. For further information about the day…
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Continue reading →: Working girl
As my various health appointments can sometimes seem to come all at once, I find that I need the support and understanding of my employer more than ever. So, what are my rights when it comes to working and having Type 1 diabetes? JDRF offers a really useful overview of…
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Continue reading →: KiDS rule in school…
A wonderful partnership between Sanofi and the Shanghai Soong Ching Ling Foundation sees the implementation of the Kids and Diabetes in School Kids (KiDS) programme in China. The programme aims to provide psychological support and health education to school-age children and their parents. With high numbers of both adults and children…
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Continue reading →: Amazing beta cell research
Check out this inspirational article from Type 1 Diabetes Grand Challenge which shares new research from world-leading experts on beta cells, Professor Shanta Persaud and Dr Aileen King. Their project focuses upon improving the successful transplantation of beta cells, which could ultimately help to restore insulin production in people with…
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Continue reading →: Not so phenomenal…
Does anyone else get up in the morning with their BG levels in range, only to see them rise by several numbers within around 20 minutes? I am sure that most of us stay in bed for as long as we possibly can, so we tend to have our breakfast…
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Continue reading →: Getting your artificial pancreas
It’s a bit of a postcode lottery at the moment with regards to anyone with Type 1 diabetes being able to obtain an artificial pancreas through the NHS, and access seems to be changing at a rapid pace. Following draft recommendations from NICE in January 2023 which recommended the use…
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Welcome to Crumbling Pavlova, where we hope to encourage an open and honest sharing of what it means to live with diabetes.
We aim to highlight issues which impact on the diabetic community, in the hope of supporting and giving encouragement to help you to believe that you can live a happy and full life.
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