Hi Tom,
Sorry to hear you've been having a rough time...that damn diabetes gremlin gets us all from time to time - hopefully this is just a hiccup due to the massive life change you are going through - uni is a big step! Hopefully with a bit of tweaking of doses things will calm down in the next few weeks. 🙂
I really, really wanted to join the RAF when I was younger...I went through the whole Air Cadets thing up to CWO, got my Pilot Nav schol & at that selection board was told despite meeting & exceeding all other criteria the RAF would never have me as a regular due to the diabetes. I was totally gutted.
I still went on & did engineering at uni, got a full time job as an engineer and joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch) ...basically this meant I was a non deployable reservist working as a volunteer on Air Cadet Sqns. Whilst it was totally not the "real thing", and I am the first to admit a lot of VR(T) officers are not all we could wish (don't get me started...), working with the cadets was most of time incredibly fulfilling & gave me countless opportunities to stretch myself that I would not have had if I hadn't bothered with even this "civi" version. If you can accept the fact that being a volunteer organisation there's always a bit of political nonsense involved, it can be very rewarding (obviously that's not in a fiscal sense!). I was just wondering if you'd ever considered something like that re the Army cadets? It would give you a chance to explore your interest in the military whilst helping keep a number of teenagers off the streets & gainfully occupied! 😉
As an added extra, it was through cadets I met my husband...if I'd been accepted in the RAF, chances are I'd never have met him...sometimes things happen for a reason, even if it seems like a totally **** one at the time! 🙄
Hope you're feeling much better after being at home this weekend, all the best,
Twitchy x
