New complications - Six Until Me

Category: Emotions (burnout, motivation, diabetes distress, adjusting to diagnosis) / Managing Complications / Eye / YouTube and Video / Peer (person or family with diabetes) / International / Adults with T1

Added/Updated: 08/10/2016

One of many blogs by Kerri Sparling discussing living with T1.

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Sophie Harris

Kerri talks about complications and the emotion, particularly failure, associated with being diagnosed with diabetes complications

Mike Kendall

US blogger Kerri Sparling (sixuntilme.com) has a way of putting things that really speaks to me. Here she talks about how she felt about her diagnosis of Macular Oedema - whether she blames herself and how she is learning to live with it.

Keywords: support, opinion, retinopathy, failure, blame, new complications, retinopathy, macular oedema

Links (open in new window): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIKM6OWK_0Q

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