In this #diabeteschat episode Tom was joined by Bastian and Renza from the #dedoc° team. #dedoc° is an international community by and for people with diabetes and was founded in 2012 by Bastian Hauck, who created the Twitter hashtag #dedoc to host weekly TweetChats for the German chapter of the Diabetes Online Community. [...]
In this podcast episode of #diabeteschat we caught up with guest speaker Verity Pitts. Our hosting team Gary and Claire got to know Verity with our quick fire questions and we heard about her diagnosis stories and journey with her diagnosis during the COVID pandemic. We will talked about her travelling and her time [...]
In this video, #diabeteschat founder Tom Dean highlights the togetherness of community and peer support and celebrates the journey #diabeteschat has been on and the huge achievement of the QiC Peer Support Award 2023 in a thank you message. We wish to thank all the amazing people that have supported the #diabeteschat community [...]
In this #diabeteschat community chat we spoke to our guest speaker Dr Rose Stewart. Mary and Flipper were our hosting team. We chatted about Rose's career as an Consultant Clinical Psychologist. We also talked about diabetes burnout and the emotional challenges of managing diabetes and mental health and stigmas attached to diabetes and lots [...]
In this #diabeteschat, Tom is joined by our guest speaker and diabetes consultant Dr Alistair Lumb. We talked about: 💙 his career working in the diabetes field 💙 his role as DTN UK chair 💙 technology 💙 sports & exercise tips 💙 & Dr Alistair Lumb welcomed questions from the community You can also [...]
On this #diabeteschat episode Flipper spoke to Duke about his diabetes diagnosis and journey, OCD, mental health and peer support. We also spoke about Duke's career as a poet and did a live performance reading his poems. You can also listen on Twitter spaces: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1mnxepyyANAJX/peek
This week we welcome Gavin and Paula as our guest speakers from Diathlete and your hosting duo are Mary and Tom. Gavin with diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 8 and Paula was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 4. Paula is a Paediatric Diabetes Dietarian. In [...]
This week we welcome Tiernan as our guest speaker. We will be talking about his diagnosis and journey with living with diabetes from the age of 4. We'll hear how life was growing up with managing diabetes in his childhood, teenage years and beyond and talk about the tech he has used. We'll [...]
On this #diabeteschat episode Tom was joined with Paul, Lesley and Alison from the #diabetes community. We will also be joined by Daniel from Diabetes Scotland. Our important topic was learning about the Tech Collective and all about #DiabetesTechCantWait. We talked about access and equality across Scotland, the UK and all around the [...]
In this #diabeteschat we were joined by Leon Tribe from Australia. You may also know Leon as the practical diabetic online or from his website. Leon is a diabetes advocate, public speaker, writer and trained physicist based in Sydney, Australia. Leon was originally misdiagnosed with Type 2 before correctly being diagnosed as having [...]
