cressida.sw
Member
- Messages
- 18
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
So here I am, introducing myself!
I'm Cressida, I am 35, I live in Leicestershire in the UK . I work for an older people's supported housing association (which I love but is a lot work and a lot of hours) like most jobs these days..... I have a beautiful wife, a gorgeous rescue dog, 2 rescue cats (1 of which I have had for the whole 12 years of her little life) and two Hermann tortoises! I like animals!
I have a small but perfectly formed family and am about to become an Aunt in August 2014. I am also
I am a 'bad' diabetic (T1, diagnosed in Jan 2013), in the way I am a bad part time university student!!! I am trying, I promise but I always seem to come to the party late and none of my shizzle is organised until too late in the day.
So, that is one of the reasons I am here. To learn, get a little bit of motivation because all I can see is that it sucks. I've had a period of ill health over the last year and the most recent bout, when I was off work, I felt like I was really starting to improve in my management of diabetes. Now I am back at work - back into everything being the wrong way round and I have to find tools to work this out.
Things on my checklist that may help this (and I would like to hear others views) and not necessarily in order!
Having the full complement of testing, LA and SA insulin by bed so I can take first thing in the morning with ease.
Find a couple of apps - or one ideally - that will help
Enrol on DAPHNE course
See the people who manage effectively in Leicester and use that support network - MAKE time for this and prioritise
See if perhaps there are others that I can support as I go through this newly diagnosed stage - at present I do still feel newly diagnosed
Stay in touch as I should with the diabetic nurses
Read the book I was advised to read a year ago - diabetes and young people (how I am young still, I don't know!!)
Work out how to fit this all in with work, my wife, exercise, uni, book group (still haven't made it to a meeting) my friends, my family and new nephew or niece - but I guess these are all first world problems!
Ho hum! Onwards and upwards and here is all about the diabetes and if I don't get this within my control - it will be a bigger problem than any of these.
So, that's me ;o)
Have fun
Cx
I'm Cressida, I am 35, I live in Leicestershire in the UK . I work for an older people's supported housing association (which I love but is a lot work and a lot of hours) like most jobs these days..... I have a beautiful wife, a gorgeous rescue dog, 2 rescue cats (1 of which I have had for the whole 12 years of her little life) and two Hermann tortoises! I like animals!
I have a small but perfectly formed family and am about to become an Aunt in August 2014. I am also
I am a 'bad' diabetic (T1, diagnosed in Jan 2013), in the way I am a bad part time university student!!! I am trying, I promise but I always seem to come to the party late and none of my shizzle is organised until too late in the day.
So, that is one of the reasons I am here. To learn, get a little bit of motivation because all I can see is that it sucks. I've had a period of ill health over the last year and the most recent bout, when I was off work, I felt like I was really starting to improve in my management of diabetes. Now I am back at work - back into everything being the wrong way round and I have to find tools to work this out.
Things on my checklist that may help this (and I would like to hear others views) and not necessarily in order!
Having the full complement of testing, LA and SA insulin by bed so I can take first thing in the morning with ease.
Find a couple of apps - or one ideally - that will help
Enrol on DAPHNE course
See the people who manage effectively in Leicester and use that support network - MAKE time for this and prioritise
See if perhaps there are others that I can support as I go through this newly diagnosed stage - at present I do still feel newly diagnosed
Stay in touch as I should with the diabetic nurses
Read the book I was advised to read a year ago - diabetes and young people (how I am young still, I don't know!!)
Work out how to fit this all in with work, my wife, exercise, uni, book group (still haven't made it to a meeting) my friends, my family and new nephew or niece - but I guess these are all first world problems!
Ho hum! Onwards and upwards and here is all about the diabetes and if I don't get this within my control - it will be a bigger problem than any of these.
So, that's me ;o)
Have fun
Cx