Diabetogenic

I have only been blogging at Diabetes Australia – Vic. It’s where I work and our blog is just getting started really, so most of what I have been writing has wound up there.

So (again) I am pulling together all of my recent posts here. And I really am going to try to actually blog at diabetogenic. At least, that’s what I keep promising myself! Anyway – here’s what you’re missing if you don’t read the DA-Vic blog.

Somewhat strangely, diabetes writes me a letter here at A message from diabetes.

As I was getting ready to present at the annual scientific conference for the Australian Diabetes Educators Association and the Australian Diabetes Society, I started thinking about role of people with diabetes at these conferences. Right now, it’s pretty much zip. In Just ask us I question why we’re not consulted.

Kicking diabetes’ arse so thought’s I’d look at the good things in What’s not to like?

Actually, the truth of the matter was that I wrote ‘What’s not to like’ in response to this post. The changing face of diabetes is my telling of the scary ‘white out’ hypos I’ve been having lately. Which in turn have made me start to fear the turn my diabetes is starting to take.

So – what happens when I find my first grey hair and my ophthalmologist calls me old? I realise that Sometimes it’s not diabetes. And I feel old!

I can now proudly say that I actually did walk in the five kilometre part of this year’s Run Melbourne. But before the fact I was freaking out. It’s all here in Walking the walk.

Who knew there was such a thing as ‘hug a person with diabetes day’? Not me until Facebook told me. So, I discussed diabetes advocacy in Go on; give me a hug!

And yay – I managed to find a Harry Potter angle in Harry Potter and the great unknown, where I wonder about my diabetes future.

Also – during National Diabetes Week – all the way back in July – I guest blogged at Open Forum. Here I talked about All I want for National Diabetes Week which really was just for the media to differentiate between type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Not asking much, really!

That’s all for now.

…I thought I’d link to some blog posts I’ve written for the Diabetes Australia – Vic blog. I manage Type 1 Diabetes and Community Programs at DA-Vic and have worked there for the last almost-ten years. Our blog was started last year. So here are my musings to date:

Diabetes for a Day talks about some interesting examples of health professionals pretending to have diabetes.

Cures not cuts is my on-the-ground report from a rally in Melbourne protesting proposed cuts to medical research by the federal government.

Oops I did it again is not my homage to Brittney Spears, but rather a discussion about my all-too-frequent ‘dia-mistakes’.

It takes a village is where I thank all the people who help me live well with diabetes day-to-day.

In Things I wish I’d been told about diabetes I reminisce about my diagnosis and fill in some of the information gaps that would have been useful back then.

Everyone’s experiences of their own diabetes is different. In A perspective on perception I write about this….and how my bird brooch is also, apparently, a mango.

It’s all about the food shares my ten food philosophies.

The invisable condition that is type 1 diabetes is discussed in Sick? Not me!

And finally, my first post on the DA-Vic blog, Balance, were I ponder where diabetes fits into my crazy-busy life.

I’ll start writing here soon, but in the meantime, I hope you enjoy what I’ve already written and that you come back soon!

I have been considering staring my own blog for some time now, and after posting occasionally on a blog at work, decided that it was time to get going!

My name is Renza and I have type 1 diabetes.  It’s not a confession – it’s a fact. My life is not all about diabetes, but it certainly is part of me and has changed who I am. I guess the aim of this blog is to try an make sense of a life that is lived along side an unwelcome guest that never leaves. That’s how diabetes feels at times. 

So, I’m just going to write and try not to be self-conscious as I share the reality of my life with diabetes – and hopefully other things as well.

DISCLAIMER – I work for a diabetes organisation.  My thoughts on this blog are not in any way aligned with this organisation and this blog is not sponsored by the organsation.  At times, I may link to their website, because there are some fantastic things going on there that may be of interest to people living with type 1.