Hey there! How have you been. It's been a while eh? Sorry about that! Life, the universe, and everything. You know how it goes.So this isn't the blog post I've been meaning to write about TBR hac...
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Hello!It's been a while eh?!Sorry about that. Truth be told, it's all got rather busy for me, and actually since my last post in my early months on the Tandem tSlim x2, my diabetes has mercifully...
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2023/01/hybrid-closed-loop-insulin-pumps.html
Wait... hang on... December 31st? That can't be right! Have we actually had a year this year? And how come any of the things that happened this year seem to have happened at least 18 months ago? ...
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2020/12/hype-or-hope-dexcom-tandem-tslim-review.html
Some musings on the joys, oddities, encouragement and occasional knock-backs of invites to diabetes events... Lanyards, obviously. Apologies for the radio silence of late. I meant to write ...
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2020/02/hot-and-cold.html
DUK Towers E1, tomorrow. I shouldn't be writing this. It's too late. I've been to the pub and had a couple of beers (as my Libre trace would gleefully tell you). I've just poured a rather tasty J...
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2020/01/plus-ca-change.html
As we transition into holiday season, with the traditional exponential increase in holiday accommodation costs everywhere, many thoughts turn to sandy beaches and the chance to take a break from ...
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2019/07/diabetes-days-off.html
This is a guest post by Robert S who dropped me a line via FaceTwit as he had been writing down his 'diabetes story' but didn't have a blog to share it on. Apparently he has been good enoug...
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2019/04/guest-post-from-dx-to-x2-tandem-tslim.html
As of the beginning of April the new national NHS England criteria for obtaining Freestyle Libre on prescription came into effect. This is who it says should have access to Libre on the NHS: Peop...
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2019/04/libre-limbo.html
Not the machines you are looking for... Public art near TechUK. This time last week my mind was well and truly boggled by this point in the day by a torrent of information and the potential of sh...
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2019/02/t1d-rise-of-machines-2-february-2019.html
I could have redrawn this, but I copied it from this article. Rather than hastily cobble together a half-baked 'review of the year' for the past 12 months, I've decided to write something on a to...
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2018/12/diabetes-and-grief.html
Disney Pixar's Inside Out. One of my absolute favourite films. I've seen a few things about rage boluses in recent months and it did that rare thing of making me think, "I should write a post abo...
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2018/12/rage-bolus-christmas-classic.html
It's with a certain sense of deja-vu that I mark World Diabetes Day this year with the news that Abbott's Freestyle Libre flash glucose monitor will become available to people with type 1 diabete...
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2018/11/frestyle-libre-available-on.html
The Medtronic Mothership poised for takeoff I was chuffed to be invited to join bloggers and diabetes advocates from Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, the UK and other place...
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2018/10/european-launch-of-minimed-670g.html
The last remaining island of 'NO!' in the South West It was great to get together with 30 or so people with diabetes and DUK folks last night in Bristol to consider how to challenge the local beh...
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2018/10/fight-for-flash-in-bristol-diabetes-uk.html
Ugh. Good morning to you too. Apparently this week is Diabetes Week. Me neither. If I get the chance I will try to rattle in a post about the excellent #languagematters work that is being launche...
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2018/06/no-two-days-diabetes-week-2018.html
Abbott's Jared Watkin, Robert Courts MP for Witney, Lord O'Shaughnessy and some scruffbag on the end. A week ago today I had the unexpected honour of being invited to the Houses of Parliament to ...
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2018/05/feeling-lucky-at-houses-of-parliament.html
Last week I was able to sneak in to the halcyon halls of the Diabetes UK Professional Conference for the day. I have been appointed as one of three PWD/people with diabetes/diabetic/lay/patient* ...
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2018/03/t1dcc-at-diabetes-uk-professional.html
I'm sorry to break it to you folks, but things don't look very good for 'us lot' in the event of a zombie apocalypse. But in the world as we know it, where a life-saving medication has existed fo...
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2018/02/thanks-bunch-spare-rose-2018.html
Image by 'aurorasognatrice' used under cc. 2017 is hurtling to a close, and despite my giddy optimism about having 'loads of time' over the festive break to do all sorts of things that I don't ge...
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2017/12/cgm-diabetes-time-travel-and-lessons.html
Every once in a while, some device manufacturer or other drops us a line to see if we'd like to take a look at their fancy new gadget and see what we think. When it comes to blood glucose (BG) me...
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2017/12/keya-smart-meter-review-ketone-and-bg.html
Last night the rumour mill reached fever pitch as Non Disclosure Agreements were stretched to their very limits. And this morning the Twitterweb was a-buzz with the news that Abbott's Freestyle L...
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2017/09/libre-available-on-nhs-big-news-and.html
I have been using NovoRapid for many of my 'pretending to be my pancreas' years. I had a brief dalliance with Humalog not long after we started writing this blog, but switched back to NovoRapid w...
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2017/08/fiasp-review-fun-with-5050-and-mystery.html
More than 20 bloggers from across Europe gather for Dx Amsterdam "I love deadlines" (as Douglas Adams used to say) "I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." If I had set myself a rea...
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2017/07/does-abbott-freestyle-libre-improve.html
Today is the last day of Diabetes Blog Week, and the prompt is an invition to share something non-diabetes related - "an interest, hobby, passion, something that is YOU... because there is more t...
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2017/05/more-than-diabetes-4-minutes-of-marvin.html
Today's Diabetes Blog Week topic recognises that living with type 1 diabetes is not just about looking after our physical health, "What things can make dealing with diabetes an emotional is...
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2017/05/diabetes-emotions-resilience-and-mental.html