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Continue reading →: Surviving
What are you most proud of in your life? Never thought that I would say this or have needed to say this, but I truly know what it means to survive. We all have our own trials and tribulations, some of which may seem insignificant to others. It doesn’t really…
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Continue reading →: Slowing down
What could you try for the first time? I would really love to try to slow down and go with the flow a bit more. Although my desire to rush around and just get things done has reduced over the past year, I still would like to simply swith off…
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Continue reading →: Film night… Broken
I stumbled across the 2012 film, Broken, on BBC iPlayer a few weeks ago – mainly due to its mention of Cillian Murphy. I don’t want to give too much away, but both the plot and the cast delivered both a touching and challenging story. Eloise Lawrence impresses as the…
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Continue reading →: Impactful research
If you had a million dollars to give away, who would you give it to? Whether it be in the form of reading or experiment, the advancement of knowledge through research really is a powerful thing. If I was lucky enough to suddenly acquire a million dollars (or pounds), I…
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Continue reading →: Disabling world
What’s a topic or issue about which you’ve changed your mind? It isn’t that I have changed my mind about disability necessarily it’s just that I now understand what it means to be disabled a little better. Being diagnosed with type 1 diiabetes quite late in life was hard to…
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Continue reading →: Beautiful industry
What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in? I’m not sure whether this is due to my cultural heritage or just me… but I do find myself drawn to traditional crafts and industrial landscapes. Coming from a working class background and born in the…
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Continue reading →: VX-880 offers hope for brighter future
Promising results from Vertex brings further hope of a potential cure for type 1 diabetes. This exciting research investigates how experimental stem therapy might restore insulin production within type 1 diabetics. Latest data using their VX-880 therapy show a significant improvement in participants A1C (time in range), along with a…
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Continue reading →: The amazing axolotl
Meet Dinky – my gorgeous little axolotl from UK toy maker extraordinaire Jellycat. Not only is the axolotl a beautiful sea creature, it is helping pioneering medical research due to its ability to regenerate damaged tissues – truly amazing 💙 Axolotls belong to the classification of animals known as tetrapods,…
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Continue reading →: My future city would be
How would you design the city of the future? Simple… accessible 💙 #disabled #equality #future #city #accessible #fair #abelism
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Continue reading →: Smart way forward
Amazing research funded by Type1 Diabetes Grand Challenge focuses on the development of smart insulins, which could massively improve diabetes management. £2.7 million is to be invested in 6 projects looking at how these novel insulins can react faster and more precisely than current insulins to help improve the lives…
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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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