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21/08/2026

This isn’t just a book about type 1 diabetes. 💙

It’s been created to help teachers, school staff, youth workers and anyone supporting a child with type 1 better understand what life with diabetes can actually involve.

The hypos. The highs. The insulin. The carb counting. The technology. The emotions. And the things you won’t always see.

I want to take something that can feel complicated and medical and make it clear, practical and human.

Here’s a quick look through some of the pages…

And this is only the beginning for Team Diabuddies.

If you think something like this could make a difference in schools and youth settings, share this Reel and help me get it in front of the right people. 💙

21/08/2026

You’d think dangerously low blood sugar would wake you up.

But sometimes it doesn’t.

Some people with diabetes can sleep straight through a night-time hypo — even when their blood sugar has dropped frighteningly low.

That’s the part people don’t always see. While the rest of the house is sleeping, diabetes doesn’t switch off.

Have you ever slept through a hypo? Share your experience below — it might help someone else realise they’re not alone.

Teachers, SENDCOs, youth workers — I need your input.What are the biggest challenges you face when supporting a child or...
21/08/2026

Teachers, SENDCOs, youth workers — I need your input.

What are the biggest challenges you face when supporting a child or young person living with diabetes?

Is it confidence? Training? Knowing what to do during a hypo? Understanding technology? Supporting them on trips, during sport or just day-to-day?

I’m currently working on a new Team Diabuddies project designed to help tackle the real problems faced by the people supporting young people with diabetes.

Rather than guessing what you need, I want to hear directly from you.

If you work with children or young people, please inbox me and tell me what you find difficult, confusing or missing.

Your experience could help shape something genuinely useful.

20/08/2026

I’ve deliberately let my blood sugar run high.

Not because I don’t understand diabetes. Not because I don’t care.

Because sometimes, after you’ve experienced enough frightening hypos, being high can feel safer than being low.

You know running high isn’t good for you long-term — but in that moment, the fear of another severe low can win.

After nearly 40 years with Type 1 diabetes, I know I’m not the only person who’s done this.

Have you ever deliberately kept your blood sugar higher because you were scared of going low? 👇

One person. One mission. A much bigger vision. 💙Team Diabuddies started with one simple aim — to make life with diabetes...
20/08/2026

One person. One mission. A much bigger vision. 💙

Team Diabuddies started with one simple aim — to make life with diabetes a little easier for the people living it.

Right now, behind all of this, it’s still just me.

I create the content, write the resources, make the connections and spend every spare hour I can trying to turn this into something that can make a genuine difference.

But I know I can’t do it alone forever.

I want Team Diabuddies to help improve diabetes understanding in schools, workplaces and communities — through education, resources, training and, most importantly, real lived experience.

To take it to the next level, I need the right people and organisations to come on that journey with me.

So I’m asking for your help.

Please SHARE this post.

You never know who might see it.

A business. A charity. Someone working in healthcare or education. A potential partner. Or simply somebody who knows the person I need to speak to.

I’ve started building it.

Now I want to see how far we can take it together. 💙

19/08/2026

40 years with Type 1 diabetes… and I STILL get things wrong.

I misjudge carbs. I mistime insulin. I over-treat lows. I make decisions I know I probably shouldn’t.

And that’s something people without diabetes don’t always understand.

Experience doesn’t make diabetes predictable. You can do this for decades and still get caught out — because no two days with diabetes are ever exactly the same.

So if you got it wrong today, don’t beat yourself up.

How long have you lived with diabetes — and what STILL catches you out? 👇

18/08/2026

Parents of children with diabetes — what’s the ONE thing you wish your child’s school truly understood? 💙

I’m creating a diabetes education resource for schools, but I don’t want it built on assumptions. I want the experiences of families actually living this every day to help shape it.

Hypos? Eating in class? Toilet access? Technology alarms? Exercise? Exams? Or simply understanding how unpredictable diabetes can be?

👇 Tell me your ONE thing in the comments.

And please share this with another diabetes parent. The more families we hear from, the better we can help schools understand.

17/08/2026

Diabetes can be completely silent to everyone around you… while being absolutely deafening inside your own head.

Did I take enough insulin?
Am I dropping?
Why am I rising?
Can I eat that?
Is my sensor right?
Can I safely go to sleep?
What if I get it wrong?

Then you wake up tomorrow and do it all again.

This is the side of diabetes people don’t always see — the constant background noise that never really switches off.

💙 If you live with diabetes, tag someone who needs to hear this.

Someone you love. A friend. A teacher. A colleague. A partner.

Not for sympathy.

Just so they understand.

And if this sounds like your head too… share it. Let’s make the invisible part of diabetes impossible to ignore.

16/08/2026

Someone commented on this today asking me to reshare it so it could reach more people. So I am. 💙

After 40 years with Type 1 diabetes, this is still one of the things I wish more clinics understood.

The hardest parts of diabetes are often the parts nobody sees.

If this resonates with you or someone you love, please share it. Let’s make sure those voices are heard. 💙

I need your help getting Team Diabuddies in front of the right people. 💙Team Diabuddies has grown far beyond what I orig...
16/08/2026

I need your help getting Team Diabuddies in front of the right people. 💙

Team Diabuddies has grown far beyond what I originally imagined.

After living with Type 1 diabetes for 40 years, I created it because I remembered what it was like growing up feeling different, misunderstood and sometimes completely alone because of diabetes.

Today there are children’s books, educational content reaching people around the world, and I’m currently developing a new resource specifically to help schools better understand and support children with Type 1 diabetes.

Now I’m looking for a small number of organisations that genuinely want to help us take that further.

Not just companies wanting their logo on something.

Partners who want to make a difference.

There are so many things we could potentially achieve together:

💙 Put diabetes books and resources into schools, hospitals and clinics
💙 Support diabetes education in schools
💙 Create awareness campaigns that actually reflect what living with Type 1 is like
💙 Develop educational content for children and families
💙 Improve diabetes understanding in workplaces
💙 Help develop and distribute our new school resource
💙 Build longer-term projects that could reach thousands of people

And they don’t need to be diabetes companies.

I’d love to speak to businesses and organisations involved in children, education, health, wellbeing, community projects or social impact — or simply organisations that believe in what we’re trying to achieve.

I want any partnership to work both ways. It needs to create genuine value for the organisation supporting us and genuine impact for the diabetes community.

This is where I could really use your help.

You might know the person I need to speak to without even realising it.

If you work for a company that might want to get involved, know someone responsible for partnerships or community projects, or simply know a business that should see this…

Please tag them below or share this post with them.

One share could genuinely put Team Diabuddies in front of the organisation that helps us take the next big step.

Let’s make growing up with Type 1 diabetes a little less lonely. 💙

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