Insulearning with Antonia

The art of injection taking is something I pride myself in as I would now consider myself quite the experienced self-injector. I don’t really brag to many about this form of art but thought there was no better place than my blog to share this special skill and provide a few of tips and tricks […]

Kia Ora, I’m sorry you have not heard from me in while but my first semester at university (Otago, Dunedin) has been rather hard work despite the fun I’ve also been having. If any of my friends at St Margaret’s College (my residential college at university) are reading this, thank so much for being so […]

Coming from Malaysia I had attempted to mentally prepare for the weather here in NZ. I thought about refusing to wear a jumper in our local cinema (it does get pretty chilly when you’re inside) and perhaps thought about tactically positioning myself in front of the air conditioning in my school classes (these were military […]

Kia Ora.  Done with my full two weeks of quarantine so I can officially say that I’m a seasoned quarantinee. I have some tips on completing a 14 day isolation in NZ, some of which are related to diabetic survival and some of which fall into the bracket of general survival.  Two weeks can feel […]

Not going to lie, I was a little anxious to hop on board a plane as this was going to be my first time flying with Type 1 Diabetes but a few travelling jitters weren’t going to stop me.  I rejected the idea of being left behind in Malaysia with the dogs. Don’t get me […]

I hope you had a merry Christmas everyone. No doubt that some of your festivities may have been a little different in the year of 2020 with the new normal being face masks and temperature checks.  For me it was face masks, temperature checks and glucose checks. On Christmas Eve we went to watch the […]

There is a show I’ve come across on Netflix very appropriately named Sugar Rush but perhaps not for the reason you might first think. It is a baking competition where pairs of cupcake warriors have to scrap it out through a series of  baking head to heads striving to survive a knockout competition. Not only […]

Hello!  Long time no blog but I’m back on the scene now as exams are finished. Yay!!! Now that I’m not revising and taking A levels I’ve started reading more.  I came across an article recently that commented on a recent Diabetes New Zealand campaign that was disappointing Type 1 diabetics. (https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/123359777/type-1-diabetics-disappointed-with-diabetes-nz-campaign ) The controversy […]

With my A level exams closing in fast I have found it hard to get creative on all manner of things and unfortunately I have experienced, for the first time since diagnosis, writers-block.  Even my usually reliable (https://insulearning.com/2020/03/29/nightmare-on-sugar-street/) vivid sugar driven dreaming seems to have settled into a pre-exam funk.  This has spurred me on […]

“Remember, candidates sitting for the examination are to conform with the outlined Standard Operating Procedures.  In particular, candidates are not permitted to bring in any items that are not required for answering the question paper.” I have an issue with these SOPs. No matter how much I’d like to be a conforming candidate I simply […]