Sweet and Sour- The Type 1 Diabetes Rollercoaster

Low blood sugars make you do stupid things. Stupid, dangerous, scary things. I must have had a whole lot of luck on my side today because this could have turned nasty. I was walking back to redfern station when my blood sugar dropped. I didn't notice it and took a wrong turn.... and so the saga begins. I finally stopped to check it, but there was no where to sit. Stupid low mistake #1: Crouch down and check it in a shifty looking side street. My shifty side street was near a shop, so I suppose low error 1 wasn't too bad. It was then I realised I was going the wrong way. Stupid low mistake #2: Walk back and forth past the same guy on a corner, showing that you're evidently lost. So I managed to head the right way, which brings me to this. Stupid low mistake #3: Keep walking when low, AND walk through a shifty looking side street. I quickly walked through and encountered two women nearby, so I asked which was it was to Redfern station. "Oh it's just u...

I'm a bit delayed, but I found out about this lovely incident this morning. A cafe decided that they would name a cronut on their menu diabetes. In short, the internet exploded. They issued an apology, and have taken it off the menu- I have no issue. But I have a HUGE issue with the comments section on their facebook page. Many are commenting that the people complaining - don't have a sense of humour - are oversensitive - need to get over it One comment even linked diabetics with cheap toys- poorly made, weak,  and fragile.     *deep breath* Im breaking out a list 1) Oversensitive? Right, ok. So if it's ok to call a dish diabetes, it's ok to call one renal failure? Stroke? What about cancer? They are equally inappropriate names. 2) "Oh get a sense of humour". I like to laugh about my diabetes, I encourage everyone to do the same! But misinformation isn't funny, it's ignorance. By putting out a dish clearly swamped in sugary treats and ca...

I was going to write about my crazy exam blood sugars, but I've done that before. I think now I might blog a response to a frequently asked question that isn't even remotely diabetes related! "How do you know exactly what you want to do with your life? Why do you want to be a speech pathologist?" Back in Year 12 when everyone felt swamped in the pressure of choosing a degree, I was one of the relatively few that didn't experience a crisis. Sure, I had about a week of reconsidering, maybe going into teaching, or psychology, or sociology etc. But once again I was drawn back to speech. I found out about speech in a Job Guide book, well to be more accurate my mum found it. I was focused on psychology at the time, so glazed over the speech entry, but it turned out to be everything I wanted and more. My main goal is to help people. I wanted something medical without being a doctor, teaching without being a teacher and psychological without being a psychologist. Pl...