I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 1950 and so have no memory of life without diabetes. I have been lucky and/or careful. Diabetes has not stopped me doing anything – went through school, University (Ph.D. 1975, D.Sc. 2001 both from the University of Bristol) and travelled fairly widely to Europe, West Indies, USA, India, Japan and Australia speaking at international scientific conferences about injury to the central nervous system pathology in “head injury” such as people experience after an assault, a fall, or a motor vehicle accident. I have two sons, of which one is healthy and the other has coeliac disease. I am a retired Senior Lecturer in Human Anatomy, University of Glasgow.