Last week I shared I have started wearing a FreeStyle Libre sensor, so I can measure by blood glucose levels. For the best part of a week every few hours I have opened the app on my phone and held the phone over the part of my arm the sensor

Earlier this month I posted I was going to wait for my doctor's surgery to get in touch and in the meantime keep on keeping on. In the days after publishing that post I recognised an increasing pattern of feeling very spaced out at the end of the

This morning my phone reminded me I need to sort my “three months on blood test”. It’s been nearly three months since my last few diabetes notes, when I documented the days after being told I was “officially” diabetic. I had been told to keep doing what I was

_Keeping doing the good things you are doing_ was the advice I was given earlier this week. With my levels coming in at 51, up from last summer’s 44, something isn’t quite right with _the good stuff I am doing_. I need to have a look back over

After expecting a follow-up call from the GP surgery’s diabetes nurse on Friday I spent the weekend not knowing what is next. I decided to wait until Monday and ring the GP surgery and just explain I’d been expecting a call on Friday, what do I do next?

Previously I left off feeling disappointed and uncertain having not been told the outcome of my test results on Friday as planned, having seen the diabetes nurse previously on Tuesday 3 March. Yesterday I remembered I could access my test results using SystmOnline, the system my GP practice uses. I

Previously I left off at the pause in my diagnosis journey of _waiting for a call to talk about my test results_. At the end of the appointment the nurse was clear: * We’ll send these samples off * The results will be back by Friday * I will call you on