dizzy : support 4 diabetes

17/11/2025

🩷💚 Diabetes themed baubles for our shop window Christmas tree💚🩷

It will be in place this week, ready for the East Preston Christmas celebration event on Saturday 22nd November 🎄🎄

14/11/2025

💙🩵Today we celebrated World Diabetes Day with a sale… but don’t worry because if you weren’t able to make it today the 50% off sale continues tomorrow!!! Don’t miss out🩵💙

14/11/2025

💙🩵Happy World Diabetes Day💙🩵

Just over 100 years ago, Diabetes was a death sentence!
Huge thanks and gratitude to Frederick Banting and his team of scientists for discovering insulin, that has saved and continues to save so many lives!
THANK YOU

13/11/2025

It’s World Diabetes Day tomorrow, so we are having a 2 day, 50% off sale to celebrate!
Friday and Saturday (some exclusions apply)

13/11/2025

🩷💚This story gives me goosebumps every time!💚🩷

🩵WORLD DIABETES DAY💙
In 1922, at the University of Toronto, scientists went to a hospital ward with children who were comatose and dying from diabetic keto-acidosis. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child.

The scientists went from bed to bed and injected the children with the new purified extract - insulin. As they began to inject the last comatose child, the first child injected began to awaken. One by one, all of the children awoke from their diabetic comas. A room of death and gloom, became a place of joy and hope.

The discovery of insulin by Dr. Frederick Banting, Charles Best, James Collip, and John Macleod at the University of Toronto stands as one of the most dramatic breakthroughs in medical history. Before 1922, type 1 diabetes was essentially a death sentence, especially for children, who would waste away despite strict starvation diets.

The first clinical use of insulin in January 1922 transformed the fate of patients almost overnight. That ward of comatose children became a living testament to scientific achievement, within hours, the extract was reversing symptoms once thought irreversible. Parents who had been preparing for funerals were instead embracing their children.

This moment didn’t just save those young lives, it reshaped the future for millions worldwide. Today, insulin remains an essential therapy for people with diabetes, and the events of that day in 1922 are remembered as a turning point from despair to hope in modern medicine.

11/11/2025

🩵💙Window Change for World Diabetes Day🩵💙

10/11/2025

For World Diabetes Day (14th November) let’s turn FB blue and raise awareness!

09/11/2025

08/11/2025

🩷💚Sharing information, knowledge, friendship, fun, laughter & support - this is what our peer to peer group meetings are for… 🩷💚

We had a great session today with homemade mini Christmas puddings too 😋

07/11/2025

💚🩷Our peer to peer/support group meeting is tomorrow. We will be having an early World Diabetes Day celebration and talking about Christmas Food🩷💚

Join us and chat with others living with Diabetes, in a friendly and informal setting.

When: Saturday 8th November
Where: Dove Lodge Community Resource Centre
Time: 10am

06/11/2025

🩷💚40 years ago, when I was first diagnosed with T1 Diabetes, my insulin had to be given via syringes, then I transitioned to insulin delivery pens and was eventually injecting up to 8 times a day.
Next I was given an insulin pump. Worn on the body, a small device that would deliver the insulin instead of injecting.

Today, I’m feeling super grateful and excited to be upgraded to this new insulin pump system.
Using cutting edge technology to
monitor my blood glucose levels and deliver insulin; I’m really hoping this will make living with diabetes just that little bit easier ☺️
Thank you NHS 🩷💚

05/11/2025

🩷💚Together we are stronger🩷💚
Big shout out to all those and their families living with Diabetes