Category: Health

  • My broken heart

    I can’t recall now if I mentioned it, but last month, on June 20th, I had to have my beloved white German shepherd Willow put to sleep. She’d had a long battle with cancer which finally got the better of her. The months before were quite stressful as you can imagine, but nothing compared to…

  • Diabetes and hypertension – the double-whammy

    So, now that it looks like I may still have Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), and I definitely have hypertension (aka – high blood pressure), I started looking into the link between these diseases. It’s pretty stark. Hypertension is twice as frequent in patients with diabetes compared with those who do not have diabetes. Moreover, patients…

  • My heart hasn’t been in it – NHS woes

    10 days since my last blog entry – you have to wonder if my heart has been in it. Well – I can honestly say it’s been a rollercoaster 10 days, and as a result – no it hasn’t been. Firstly – I got the results of my “official” blood test results back, or at…

  • Shit got really, really real!

    As I mentioned in my last blog post, I just had a worrying diagnosis of type 2 diabetes (T2D). This sparked a real and bigger concern for me, since diabetes is caused by problems with pancreas function, and my dad had died from pancreatic cancer (PC) when he was 53, a year younger than I…

  • 2023 weight loss goal – diabetes remission – this shit suddenly got real!

    OK – I’m back, and blogging again as a way to remind me to stay focused. My last blog entry, ironically enough and purely coincidentally, was dated exactly 2 years ago tomorrow, 7th July 2021! At that time I’d yo-yo’d back up and down and then up again a few times after my initial weight…