I'm sorry!

It's funny how easily life takes over and time runs away from you. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I started this Pump Life blog but didn't follow up. I'm sorry I didn't check back in and provide consistent and entertaining reading. Most of all I'm sorry I let my lack of confidence in myself and the negative voices in my head stop me from coming back earlier. Don't get me wrong they are still there but I am slowly learning to tune hem out and focus on how I want to feel, and what I want to do. I want to share with the wonderful diabetic community that is out there and growing each day. I want to be the support system a newly diagnosed person, no matter their age, starts with. I also want to help educate the wider world one reader at a time, correcting the misconceptions surrounding diabetes, especially type 1 and the confusions between it and type 2.

Now that the apology is out of the way what shall I write about. What do you my lovely readers want to see, learn and hear? Should I start at the beginning? Should I focus on the mental health side, or should I stay clinical? I have lived with this disease, disorder, condition, whichever word you prefer, for a quarter of a century now. I have seen the good side, yes there is one, and the bad. I have even seen the downright ugly! My immune system which is supposed to protect me has gone back into overdrive and is now attacking my joints and muscles, it may eventually progress to other organs. For now I'm stable, I'm happy and I lead as much of a life as I can whilst pacing myself and leading what the buzzword calls slow living. Now please don't panic I'm sure your immune system won't do the same. I don't know why mine has but I am finding the positive side and deciding it's to help you, help those in need of support. Help those who need reminding they can do this, that it's ok to have days, weeks or even months of where it is just too much.

So ask away, suggest away. Help always comes to those that ask and no question is too weird, off limits of daft.

Until we chat again

M

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