You can call me DR labradorknitter

I made it, I travelled to Manchester last night and I passed my viva, i.e. I discussed my doctoral thesis and now I am officially a dr! Well I have to say that it wasn't easy, it took about three hours for the examiners to go through my thesis chapters and I had to fight to defend my points. Diabetes wasn't much of an issue, as I deliberately decide to "run high". When I told this to my supervisor, he actually though that high bg sugars were a bit like caffeine. I guess he's not so much mistaken, as I don't feel sick around 12s, only "hyper", whereas sometimes before perceiving a hypo I feel sleepy, especially in the evening. I am really happy for achieving all this. I was diagnosed with diabetes during my last year of the PhD and I fought hard not to be taken over by it and not having to postpone it's conclusion. Today I can really say that I deserved this achievement, not because I sacrificed 4 years of my life to do it, but because I didn't let diabetes change my plans. Now you can certainly call me dr labradorknitter

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