OK, so who is Anne Forbes and what qualifies her to write such a booklet?
Well first of all I’m a self confessed idiot – those who know me I am sure will agree. Secondly 17 years ago I knew very little …….. almost nothing in fact ……. about diabetes. I was vaguely aware that someone with diabetes had to take insulin and eat special things and I had this weird idea that it had something to do with feet. But that was about it. As you will learn there is some truth in all the above, although my ideas were vague ……. and confused. Then I started dating this guy …….. perfectly normal chap …… we did all the usual dating stuff …… then one night he dropped a bombshell. “I have to go now.” He said – we’d been out to the pub – “I have to eat soon …… you see I’m diabetic.” Anyway I asked him about it. He explained. He stayed and I fed him and a couple of months later he proposed to me flat on his back on a trolley in the A&E Department of Worthing General Hospital. He’d had a hypo in the wee small hours of the morning. I had awoken to find him unconscious beside me. That
