{"id":133,"date":"2010-01-08T12:57:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T12:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2017-01-12T04:41:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T04:41:36","slug":"sodding-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/sodding-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"<b>Sodding Diabetes<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t blog about my diabetes much. It&#8217;s as much part of my daily routine as brushing my teeth; washing my hair; making bad jokes.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, however, before trudging into the snow to defrost the car and get to work I failed to notice that my phial of daytime insulin (<em>Novorapid<\/em>) was almost empty.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, I&#8217;ve just had 4 units of Novorapid instead of the usual 14 I take to counteract the sugars my body will make from my lunch. I&#8217;m only a little bloke but I metabolise fast so I&#8217;m lucky enough to be able to eat like it&#8217;s going out of fashion.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8230; today, I&#8217;ll be getting through to teatime with only one slice of bread, some (<em>carbohydrate-free<\/em>) cheese and ham and nowt else inside me. The rest of my scrummy goodies will be going back home uneaten.<\/p>\n<p>Within an hour my stomach will feel like my throat&#8217;s been cut.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_134\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-134\" data-attachment-id=\"134\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/sodding-diabetes\/imag0744\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAG0744.jpg?fit=1509%2C1485&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1509,1485\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;v1615&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1262954428&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"On 4 Units Of Insulin? Nope!\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;On 4 Units Of Insulin? Nope!&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAG0744.jpg?fit=272%2C267&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAG0744.jpg?fit=203%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-134\" title=\"Bloody Diabetes, grrrrr.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAG0744.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"Bloody Diabetes, grrrrr.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAG0744.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAG0744.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAG0744.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On 4 Units Of Insulin? Nope!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Curse you, <a title=\"Diabetes UK. Good information. 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This morning, however, before trudging into the snow to defrost the car and get to work I failed to notice that my phial of daytime insulin (Novorapid) was almost empty. 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Personally, I was lucky. I was diagnosed with diabetes at 20 years old. I was an independent\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Diabetes&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":303,"url":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/the-habits-kill-you-not-the-treats-diabetes\/","url_meta":{"origin":133,"position":1},"title":"The Habits Kill You Not The Treats","date":"10 March 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, I'm not going to talk about what it's like to live with diabetes. Nor am I going to share with you how it affects my day-to-day life (not right muchly). 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I'm also fortunate enough to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Diabetes&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAG0219-e1272024622844.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":831,"url":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/cycling-safety-and-the-b-euqals-n-plus-1-rule\/","url_meta":{"origin":133,"position":5},"title":"Cycling Safety And The b=n+1 Rule","date":"14 April 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Cycling Safety IDs Clive's blog today really struck a chord. \u00a0I have diabetes. \u00a0I ride alone at least once a week, after dark. \u00a0I have diabetes so if I was to take a tumble or get clipped by a motorist, I could potentially be having a post-exercise hypo whilst insensible\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cycling Challenges&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3918,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/3918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}