I'm James t1 and on an insulin pump been diabetic for 5 years I'm 27 live in leeds in the uk hoping to get some useful info from the forum and maybe speak to people who have the same day to day as I do as been diabetic and living a "normal life" can be hard nice to see so many people get together on here and share stories and support each other shame I only found this now
I was on injections at first but was finding it really difficult with work had a lot of hypos just nice to find others like myself thankyou for the response
Well I think I may have been a bit lucky with that I could of gone two ways with it I was flying at my work moving on upwards I have two lovely girls then boooooooooooom got type 1 nearly broke me ended up working 10 hours a week not been very good at home started to think that was it couldn't get my head around it I was fine at home then as soon as I got to work hypo hypo hypo and because I lone work with adults with challenging behaviour and learning difficulties I couldn't keep up and was getting quite dangerous really I have heard the pumps are hard to come by for most people so I do really count myself lucky but I don't know what the outcome would of been without it I prob don't want to think about it
I'm James t1 and on an insulin pump been diabetic for 5 years I'm 27 live in leeds in the uk hoping to get some useful info from the forum and maybe speak to people who have the same day to day as I do as been diabetic and living a "normal life" can be hard nice to see so many people get together on here and share stories and support each other shame I only found this now