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Morning all, started a new Libre sensor on Wednesday and it's the best one I've ever had. Well, so far. It's reading 0.1 difference from my monitor from first go. Long may it last! Two, weeks, anyway.

Woke on a 6.1. thank you that'll do. Sadly 10 by the time I got back from the puppy's first trip to the vet. I picked up a friend on the way who held her in the car as she seems to be a bit of a shrieker (the puppy, not the friend) and the whole trip went well apart from the drive to and from my friend's when it wasn't such fun. I'm hoping the puppy will learn to just lie down, as she's more comfortable like that and the few times she finally did it on the way home she was better. There are no signs of car sickness, I think she doesn't like the motion when she's on her own whihc is why lying down is better. We'll see.

Hopefully time for some gardening today, hope all your Fridays go well.
 
Hello again friends,
I wanted to ask as a single adult who is a student, is there anything I could claim? In terms of benefits? Unfortunately I am slowly spiralling back down to darkness. My bf has been out of work since January just after New Years. He has very good qualifications so he is in the process of getting into another job now. But we are both struggling financially. I am more of a financial burden to my family and him because I haven’t been accepted by anyone for work. I have been given interviews but no job. I feel quite ashamed of myself because I am 26 with no investments, no car, no house, essentially nothing. I cannot always rely on my parents, who are both not working but they have properties to receive rent every month.
Unfortunately I wasn’t given that job near my house and I have been turned down for another 3 jobs that I applied to. I am continuously applying for jobs but I feel the real world doesn’t want me. I might consider doing something from home so I feel like I have some purpose in life. At the moment, uni is still available to me but thats it.
 
MeiChanski said:
Hello again friends,
I wanted to ask as a single adult who is a student, is there anything I could claim? In terms of benefits? Unfortunately I am slowly spiralling back down to darkness. My bf has been out of work since January just after New Years. He has very good qualifications so he is in the process of getting into another job now. But we are both struggling financially. I am more of a financial burden to my family and him because I haven’t been accepted by anyone for work. I have been given interviews but no job. I feel quite ashamed of myself because I am 26 with no investments, no car, no house, essentially nothing. I cannot always rely on my parents, who are both not working but they have properties to receive rent every month.
Unfortunately I wasn’t given that job near my house and I have been turned down for another 3 jobs that I applied to. I am continuously applying for jobs but I feel the real world doesn’t want me. I might consider doing something from home so I feel like I have some purpose in life. At the moment, uni is still available to me but thats it.
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I honestly don’t know, lovely, but sending a hug fwiw. I think that because you live with your boyfriend that you wouldn’t be classed as single as far as benefits go. Is he claiming JSA/Universal Credit? As I understand it you need to make a joint household claim as you cohabit. Not sure how long you’ve been living away from home, but you’d need to make sure it’s over a certain amount of time as they class you as the financial responsibility of your parents well into your 20s. The best option is to contact the Citizen’s Advice Bureau in your town, and they should be able to point you in the right direction. Does your uni have a hardship fund? Student Union Finance may be able to advise as well.
 
Mel dCP said:
I honestly don’t know, lovely, but sending a hug fwiw. I think that because you live with your boyfriend that you wouldn’t be classed as single as far as benefits go. Is he claiming JSA/Universal Credit? As I understand it you need to make a joint household claim as you cohabit. Not sure how long you’ve been living away from home, but you’d need to make sure it’s over a certain amount of time as they class you as the financial responsibility of your parents well into your 20s. The best option is to contact the Citizen’s Advice Bureau in your town, and they should be able to point you in the right direction. Does your uni have a hardship fund? Student Union Finance may be able to advise as well.
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Thank you. If I think about it long and hard, I know cohabitation is recognised but what is there to prove it? It’s not like marriage where you get a certificate. I’ve been away from home for more or less 2 years, my bf has been paying for 99% of everything - food, rent and bills. No, I don’t think JSA/universal credit covers rent or anything. He has help from his parents for rent for the last couple of months. My parents have only been giving me money for the sensors and I have told them that I have it on the nhs, so they’ve stopped sending me money for it. I know my university has scholarships and other things but I’ll have to look into it. Thank you again, Mel :)
 
Hello all, been lurking for a while since I found this thread shortly after being diagnosed in May. Admitted to hospital on return from a holiday with what turned out to be DKA and an hba1c of 122. Left hospital after 9 days with a T1 diagnosis and armed with Lantus and Novorapid. Had first proper review last week and have got hba1c down to 45 (in part down to you guys here as reading this thread has made me feel like I’m not alone being diagnosed at 49)
 
MeiChanski said:
I have no excuse but could I ask how does everyone post a gif on a forum post? I know about insert images and videos but not gifs. :hilarious:
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Hi,

They can be incerted into post just like you can with pictures. But just like pics the Gif file needs to be below a certain size.
 
Dabootie said:
Hello all, been lurking for a while since I found this thread shortly after being diagnosed in May. Admitted to hospital on return from a holiday with what turned out to be DKA and an hba1c of 122. Left hospital after 9 days with a T1 diagnosis and armed with Lantus and Novorapid. Had first proper review last week and have got hba1c down to 45 (in part down to you guys here as reading this thread has made me feel like I’m not alone being diagnosed at 49)
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Well done dabootie i was also diagnosed at 49 i can tell you it was a shock and a half for me had it about 2 1/2 years now and learning to doddle along especially with help and support on here
 
Dabootie said:
Hello all, been lurking for a while since I found this thread shortly after being diagnosed in May. Admitted to hospital on return from a holiday with what turned out to be DKA and an hba1c of 122. Left hospital after 9 days with a T1 diagnosis and armed with Lantus and Novorapid. Had first proper review last week and have got hba1c down to 45 (in part down to you guys here as reading this thread has made me feel like I’m not alone being diagnosed at 49)
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Hi,

Welcome to the forum @Dabootie .

What took you so long to post.. :)

Feel free to ask anything.
 
Hi @Dabootie and welcome to the most random thread on the forum! We’ll be needing pet photos ASAP. Borrow some if you don’t have any...
 
Thanks for the welcome guys, I’ve read about half the thread so feel like I know most of you already. I appear to have a similarly silly sense of humour to most here.
I’m Scottish, live in the south east and work in London in a fairly stressful job so find BG difficult to control when adrenaline kicks in. Hubby is T2 so already had some idea of controlling sugars before diagnosis.....

Oh and we’ve got 3 kitties so plenty of feline pics to come once I work it out!
 
Evening friends,
I have found the cause of my sadness, monthly visitor is here to stay with me for the week. I wanted to say I love my bf very much but his parents are quite the opposite of favourite parents. I wanted to know or ask since some are parents here: Do you force yourself to like your son's or daughter's bf or gf? I feel very unloved by my bf's parents and it does hurt to swallow. More over, it is also because I'm not a christian. My bf was on the phone to his parents about his updates on his job hunt and he needed some more money for his car insurance etc, otherwise he won't be able to drive it and for some food. His dad said "I feel like I'm paying for the both of you". I'm sorry to be such a financial burden too y'know, I've been looking for work as well and it's not like we both chose to be unemployed.
I did discuss this with my bf and said should I go home? He said he doesn't want me to go home because it doesn't make much difference.
 
MeiChanski said:
Evening friends,
I have found the cause of my sadness, monthly visitor is here to stay with me for the week. I wanted to say I love my bf very much but his parents are quite the opposite of favourite parents. I wanted to know or ask since some are parents here: Do you force yourself to like your son's or daughter's bf or gf? I feel very unloved by my bf's parents and it does hurt to swallow. More over, it is also because I'm not a christian. My bf was on the phone to his parents about his updates on his job hunt and he needed some more money for his car insurance etc, otherwise he won't be able to drive it and for some food. His dad said "I feel like I'm paying for the both of you". I'm sorry to be such a financial burden too y'know, I've been looking for work as well and it's not like we both chose to be unemployed.
I did discuss this with my bf and said should I go home? He said he doesn't want me to go home because it doesn't make much difference.
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Hi Mei,

I have absolutely no idea what kind of work you & yer fella are after.

But have you both considered signing up for an agency till you find full time positions?
 
@Dabootie welcome! Well done on the HBA1C reduction too!
@MeiChanski luckily I love my sons partner. So sorry you are in a miserable situation at the moment. It will get better eventually I am sure. Just keep plugging away at the job applications. A job when it comes will help your self esteem as well as your pocket.

In other news I suspect I forgot to take my Toujeo this morning. Switched alarm off but pretty sure I omitted to inject. Bang head! Will know tonight when things go to pot. Haven’t done that in a while. In mitigation I was concentrating on spraying 4 protective layers of Cavilon on and putting my new sensor on.
 
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