I’m not saying year 12 ball prep is stressful  normally , but add an insulin pump, a CGM, and a dress that costs more than my car and suddenly I was spiralling.  Like… how do you do “formal elegance” when you’re also basically a cyborg?  Three weeks before the ball, I was standing in a change room staring at myself in  the dress . It was perfect. Snatched waist, smooth fabric, no pockets (rude), and definitely not designed with “please accommodate medical device tubing” in mi

I’ve lived with type 1 for almost nine years now, and in that time I’ve tried all sorts of tech: heaps of meters, two pumps, and a bunch of different CGMs. Normally, I’m all-in on diabetes gadgets. But a while ago, things got too much and I decided to take a break from  all  of it.  The huge life changes during COVID really messed with my head. Every news update said something terrifying about people with medical conditions, and I was constantly reacting to CGM alerts, pump a