dizzy : support 4 diabetes

24/07/2025

21/07/2025

Today we were kindly donated some small toys, so have been able to top up our popular 50p and 20p toy boxes 🚗 🚂 🦕
We love that all our regular little people run straight to these boxes with excitement to see what they may find! They will have a nice surprise this week 🥰

🌟We also have a few items of school uniform available.

20/07/2025

☀️This beautiful sunshine yellow, Phase Eight dress will keep you cool and looking stylish this summer☀️
Size 12 - £8.50

15/07/2025

14/07/2025

🩷💚I saw a piece of writing that really moved me today. It captures and sums up life with Type 1 Diabetes perfectly! PLEASE READ:

💕Imagine this:
Your body has a broken organ.
And no, medicine can’t fix it.
So you have to do its job.
Manually.
Constantly.
For the rest of your life.

That’s what it’s like living with type 1 diabetes.

My pancreas doesn’t work, so I’ve become my own organ, one that can never rest.

I don’t just “manage” diabetes, I become a pancreas, every second of every hour of every day.

I inject insulin for every bite of food.

I check my blood sugar constantly.

I calculate carbs, activity, stress, sleep, hormones, the weather, anything that could send my body into chaos.

And even when I get it all right, it can still go wrong.

I can go low and feel like I’m fading, sweaty, dizzy, confused, scared.

Or I can go high and feel sick, heavy, foggy, angry, drained.

All while pretending I’m fine.

There are no breaks. No days off. No sleeping through the night without alarms.

Some nights I wake at 3am shaking and drenched in sweat, forcing sugar into my body just to stay conscious.
Then I go back to sleep, if I can, and wake up as if nothing happened.

Still expected to work. Still expected to smile. Still expected to “cope.”

Even on good days, my brain runs calculations constantly:

• Do I have insulin with me?
• Will I go low if I walk too far?
• What if my insulin fails?
• Do I have snacks in case I crash?

Nobody sees it.
But my mind is always busy.
My body is always on edge.

Type 1 diabetes is invisible, but it’s exhausting.

It’s the weight of survival resting on your own shoulders, every second.

It’s doing what a healthy body should do on autopilot… but having to manually control it, while living a “normal” life on the outside.

So next time you see someone with diabetes, don’t just say “at least you can still eat sugar” or “all you have to do is inject.”

Understand this:
I’m doing the job of a vital organ.
And I’m tired.
But I keep going.
Because I have to.

Source: Unknown

13/07/2025

🩷💚 Education, Support, Friendship, Chatting, Fun🩷💚
This is what our peer to peer group is all about!
Living with and managing diabetes can be stressful enough, but then life throws things at us too!
Stress (like a multitude of other things!) can affect glucose levels, making it more tricky to manage. It can’t be avoided, but in this session we learnt some techniques to help calm us.
A huge thank you to our special guest Marika, for joining and helping us 🫶

12/07/2025

🩷💚A great peer to peer meeting today. Educating on stress and how it affects glucose levels. Whilst stress cannot always be avoided, Marika helped us with things we can do to help alleviate it 🩷💚

11/07/2025

REMINDER for TOMORROW..
We are so excited for this one!

🩷💚 Come to our next peer-to-peer meeting and learn techniques on how to ease the impact of stress on glucose levels.

Stress is unavoidable for everyone and can leave those living with diabetes even more drained and unwell.

Our meet-ups are informal and a friendly atmosphere in which to connect, support and chat with others living with diabetes 🩷💚

WHEN: Saturday 12th July
TIME: 10am
WHERE: Dove Lodge Community Resource Centre - Littlehampton

09/07/2025

How great is this? 🥰 love it