Episode 154 - 'Life should be about my family, not my diabetes' with Richard Dixon

Richard Dixon has been living with type 1 diabetes for nearly 40 years, and has spent a lot of his life in fear of his next insulin injection, due to a debilitating fear of needles.

Diagnosed with the condition at the age of 2, every mealtime would cause huge amounts of worry, and the multiple daily injections Richard had no choice but to take steadily impacted every aspect of his life. Like so many people, Richard believed that insulin pumps were huge, bulky and incompatible with his lifestyle.

He's been amazed to discover that this is not the case, and while deciding to change your diabetes management or try diabetes technology is an individual choice, the changes he's personally experienced in the last couple of years have transformed life for not only himself, but his young family too.