Tweet 24 years old, on the other side of the world and I’m in for a big surprise. I found myself in Sydney, Australia working for an insurance company 12 hours a day, losing whatever weight I still had like you would never know was possible. My eyes were constantly bagging, I was drinking litre…

Tweet We are now almost two months into our six-month backpacking trip and thought that it was a good time for an update on the lessons learnt since leaving the UK. The good news straight away is that we haven’t really experienced any major issues and confidence in backpacking with diabetes is only ever growing…

Tweet I have just received my invitation to the Freedom for Life course follow-up session and started to consider what I have done differently since the course. Unfortunately, I can’t think of much and I fear I may be drifting back into some of my old habits. This lead me to start making a list…

Tweet My name is Scott and I have been a Type 1 diabetic since the age of 8. Now, almost 20 years on, I have been through the trials and tribulations of living with diabetes during my adolescent years to reach an exciting crossroads in my life. I now intend to go backpacking across South…

Tweet Share Whilst it’s been a pretty non-stop 2015 so far, time seems to have plodded by at a fairly pedestrian pace for the most part.  The familiar chorus of “I can’t believe it’s nearly August” is ringing out in my office, but I’m struggling to think back to what happened in January – it…

Tweet Share So in November last year the Daily Mail published an article titled “Have researchers found a way to REVERSE Type 1 diabetes? Common heart drug found to work in mice and set for human trial” and they reported that these trials would start “next year”, well that time has come. The FDA has approved…