DISARMING DIABETES DAILY

Written by Ankunda "Karen" Blessing I have been living with type 1 diabetes for a year now in Uganda. I was diagnosed on July 31st 2018 and the shock from that moment froze us. I did not   fully understand what diabetes was. I just thought managing it was a matter of eliminating sugar in my diet, taking medications and I'd be good to go! Alas, that wasn’t the case. It was not that simple. I was actually wrongly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes but lucky for me, it was corrected in a short time. Testing my blood sugar levels at work There after, a cousin of mine interacted with me and said she knows a friend who is a type 1 diabetic, and she introduced me to Edith Mukantwari and we talked in detail about diabetes. Being a nutritionist and diabetes educator, she really helped me understand a lot and I felt a lot more at ease knowing someone else out there had the same condition as mine. She proceeded to add me to the Africa Diabetes Alliance WhatsA

Written by Sarah Biyinzika At the Uganda Diabetes Association Annual Scientific Conference, 2019 I would like to welcome you once again to our Africa Diabetes Alliance blog. My name is Sarah Biyinzika and I come from Uganda. I am 26 years old and have been living with type 1 diabetes for 14 years now. I have come to realise that there is nothing like a perfect diabetic and trying to be one is simply asking for major frustration, but we can learn to understand how our food, bodies and medications work together to prevent high blood sugar and low blood sugar, and stay safe. However, if setbacks do happen, it is okay, and we should simply know how to solve the challenges that are bound to happen. I know, though, that there is such a thing as a bad diabetic and I believe I was once one. When I was diagnosed, apart from the basics like which insulin to take, the dose and what not to eat,   I wasn’t given much information and it didn’t occur to me that there was information that