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I went for my 3-monthly check-up with the Nurse yesterday, not looking forward to it as the last time she took blood I was sitting in a local cafe about 10 minutes later and noticed blood running down my arm! My mother (a retired nurse) reckons it's because the nurse didn't strap down the bit...

... or so said a fellow-Diabetic at work, when I ranted about the insensitivity/stupidity of my manager for giving me a chocolate easter egg - and not a mini or cream egg, it was a normal size one, containing 780 calories and 92g of carbs! But what kind of thought could have been in her head...

I've just made the appointment for my first retinopathy screening and am rather concerned by the receptionist's initial insistence that I should bring someone with me because my eyes will be dilated and my vision blurred afterwards. Is it really so bad that I need an escort? I have a 10-miniute...

Morning! Hope you all remembered to put back your clocks!! Feeling rather annoyed (and a bit "down") - diagnosed in April and last week had my first check-up with the Diabetes GP in my practise - my blood sugar levels have come down form 7.7 to 6.6 (yippee!) and I've lost 4 kilos in weight...

Does anyone else "nod off" in front of the computer? My job is mainly computer-based and most days I have a phase (about an hour) when my head falls forward and I "nod off" for a second or so... colleagues say it's as tho I'm about to faint... this happens repeatedly for an hour or so, usually...