1. 1923 2. Leonard Thompson 3. 2007 4. Type 1 diabetes 5. decrease in blood glucose level 6. A lack of insulin, fatty acids being burnt and the production of ketones 7. 347 million however i think this number may have increased a little. 8. Happiness 9. 1962 by Leland Clark and Champ Lyons 10. With diabetes bad…
Tag: Glucose meter
No strips and expired strips!
As a T1D I know how important it is to have blood glucose strips which aren’t out of date, an expired strip could potentially give me the wrong blood glucose reading. Let’s face it that number that appears on the meter is so important, because as a diabetic I live by the numbers which appear…
My first hypo!
Let’s face it you can never really be ready for that first “hypo”. “What was to come?” Although I’d read about the symptoms, I could never have imagined the way it would affect me. I wasn’t really prepared for the feelings I was going to experience. The most frightening thing about it all was that…
Test your sugar girl!
Blood glucose levels = diabetes management A major aspect of being able to manage my diabetes is to regularly test my blood glucose levels. This involves inserting a test strip into a blood glucose machine, pricking my finger to draw blood and applying my blood to a test strip. Testing blood glucose levels (BGL) is a…
Sugar High Sugar Low - My life with Type 1 diabetes 