On this week's #diabeteschat, Tom caught up with Jerry Gore. Jerry shared lots of fascinating stories about his amazing expeditions that he has been involved in over the years including; climbing K2, Jerry's Insulin Challenges and the Insulin360 expedition. We also spoke about Jerry's diabetes diagnosis in 2001 and how he manages his [...]
On this week's #diabeteschat we were joined by Ros Gray. She spoke to Flipper and Tom about her diabetes diagnosis and journey and how technology has changed over the past 40 years since diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a toddler. Ros also spoke about her amazing advocacy work she has done for [...]
Mental Health Awareness week commenced Monday Monday 15th May 2023. On the #diabeteschat we talked about mental health and peer support and were joined by the GBDoc community to discuss this very important topic. You can also listen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1OwGWwkqoQpGQ and use the hashtag - #diabeteschat
In this #diabeteschatstories event we were joined by Prof. Partha Kar and we had a live Q&A with the #diabeteschat community; all things Hybrid Closed Looping. We also spoke with Yasmin Hopkins who shared her lived experiences of Hybrid Closed Looping and we shared the communities views on HCL. You can check [...]
On the 1st of May 2023, Jacq Allan joined the #diabeteschat as our guest speaker. Jacqueline Allan is a diabetes psychologist who is also an associate lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, and has been in this role since January 2022. She has worked at King's College London as a trainee clinical psychologist [...]
On the 24th of April 2023, Kes Fuller joined the #diabeteschat as our guest speaker. Kes originally wanted to join the Royal Navy as this had always been something that she wanted to do from her time with the sea cadets. As time went by Kes was unable to do this as she [...]
On the 17th of April 2023, Natalie Balmain joined the #diabeteschat as our guest speaker. Introduction: Natalie is a lady of many talents. She describes herself as a broadcaster, designer & Campaigner. She founded her company Type 1 Clothing back in 2017 based on a novel idea of being able to inject or access [...]
On Monday 27th March 2023 we hosted our third #diabeteschat Research Event with hosts Toni, Tom and Gary. We heard from 6 speakers who shared their diabetes research with our community. Each guest speaker had 15 minutes to share a little about themselves and their diabetes research. We were joined by: - [...]
On the 13th of March 2023, Menopausal Mithersjoined the #diabeteschat as our guest speaker. In this podcast episode Kes and Mary hosted the lovely ladies from the Menopausal Mithers community. We spoke with Alex, Shiv, Anita, Sammy and Dawnie. We had a fantastic lived experience panel discussion taking about each others diabetes diagnosis and [...]
Dawnie joined the #diabeteschat and spoke with Tom & Kes about her diabetes journey and raised awareness about Menopause. In Part 1, Dawnie spoke with Tom and shared her Diabetes diagnosis, symptoms and diabetes journey and then shared with the #diabeteschat community - What is Menopause and what are the three stages of Menopause. [...]
