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This month is the 56th Anniversary of diagnosis. Nothing to rejoice about as my parents were told in 1962 ‘We’ll Have a cure in 2years’.

Letter from GP secretary saying that ALL diabetics must now use RxNexus strips and meter and were ‘invited’ to a special session to give up their old meter and ‘be issued’ with a new one. The new meters cost £10 on Amazon so I said that rather than pay for a taxi and come to a ‘session’ I’d buy...

I have sudden acute pain in my chest and throat which my cardiologist puts down to ‘oesophageal spasms’. My GP shrugged it off but it’s agonising and I’m lucky it doesn’t happen too often. I eat one main meal a day a vegetarian one and it’s this one that causes the pain. I need to eat it because...