Recent Content by sammythehammy

I had been a soldier in the Royal artillery for 16 years when i became more and more tired and thirsty and lost loads of weight.In the army they have a sort of macho type attitude to illness and so when i reported sick to the army doctor he just sent me away with a flea in my ear and a couple of...

when i recently applied for a position at the post office as a sorter the interview was going very well we even discussed starting dates etc.....then i thought best to be honest and informed him i was type1 but my control was good and wouldnt affect my work. He bluntly said packing up and...

I Think it would be very helpfull if somehow Diabetes.co.uk could go some way to teaching people in the workplace about how diabetes type 1 and having hypos at work affects them. I remember sometimes at work no one even had a basic understanding of type 1 they all assumed that diabetics are all...