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Kirsty Harris

Kirsty Harris

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Hi, my name is Kirsty and I am 48 years old and have been Type 1 for 42 years. I have 4 wonderful children and live in beautiful North Wales. My diabetes has never been easy and I never get two good weeks on the run but I try my best and keep active which helps. I have joined the forum as I have never been in contact with others in my situation, nobody will ever understand what I go through each day apart from yourselves so hello to you all.
 
Hi Kirsty and welcome to the forum. 🙂 I agree it's certainly not easy but we can only do our best. 🙂
 
Welcome to the group Kirsty
 
Hi Kirsty & a very warm welcome to the forum. Sorry to hear you have type1. There are lots of listeners here so if you have any questions/queries then fire away as often as you need to. There are lots of kind & helpful folk here who will accompany you on your diabetes journey, so don't ever feel you are alone. Take care.

DxType2 April 2016
Metformin withdrawn
Diet and exercise only
 
Hi Kirsty welcome to the forum 🙂 x
 
Kirsty Harris said:
Hi, my name is Kirsty and I am 48 years old and have been Type 1 for 42 years. I have 4 wonderful children and live in beautiful North Wales. My diabetes has never been easy and I never get two good weeks on the run but I try my best and keep active which helps. I have joined the forum as I have never been in contact with others in my situation, nobody will ever understand what I go through each day apart from yourselves so hello to you all.
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Hi Kirsty
Warm welcome to the forum.
 
Hi Kirsty and a warm welcome 🙂
 
Hi Kirsty and welcome to the forum
 
Thank you all for the warm welcome, I know I'm not alone with this anymore! My poor hubby tries hard to know what's going on bless him 🙂.
 
You are definately not alone Kirsty.
 
welcome Kirsty glad you found us. It is hugely helpful meeting others here who get what you are on about!
 
Hi Kirsty. Welcome.
 
Hi Kirsty
There's lots of support here - it's been invaluable for me - I don't know any other T1's either so this is "go to" place when I need to rant, or ask questions, or simply know that I'm not on my own.
Welcome to the forum where we do all "get it", even though we didn't want it!
Regards
zx
 
I have noticed you all have very good HbA1c, mine is currently 8.6 which for me is low. I am always scared of hypos as I have children to look after and it can take me 4 hours to recover from one. I also walk a lot and go to the gym so run bloods higher before exercise. I have no routine to my day which doesn't help but that's just the way I am.
 
I got quite a telling off when I had my Hba1c tested for the first time since diagnosis last week was 101 back in November and 33 last week the DSN told me they prefer it to be between 40-50 so cue insulin ratio change, sorry as I was only diagnosed in November I understand that this is the new way of Hba1c and have no idea about the %way :( x
 
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