Welcome to episode 13 of Type 1 Diabetes, Don't Let It Mess You Up.

This episode covers grief and relationship strain after my partner's mother's sudden death, growing and expanding a recruitment business, the failed MBO and the 2008 financial crash that forced closures and redundancies. I describe how stress and long hours made my blood sugars yo-yo into severe hypos, led to burnout, and ultimately selling the company — plus a brief look at personal consequences and what comes next.

In episode 12 the host describes starting a demanding new role at a struggling executive search and consultancy business while managing type 1 diabetes. He uncovers a broken model, restructures the consultancy network, drives new revenue, and earns promotions to commercial director and then managing director.

Throughout, he battles long commutes, low and high blood sugars (including dangerous hypos), long hours, and personal strain as his partner’s mother becomes seriously ill. The episode covers the professional turnaround, the physical toll of the work, and how these frenetic years affected his health.

In episode 11 the host reflects on managing type 1 diabetes in the early 2000s with multi‑injection insulin pens and frequent testing, describing erratic highs and lows, embarrassing symptoms, and the practical challenges of injection site lumps and unpredictable blood sugar.

He also discusses early complications like retina damage and erectile dysfunction, how an intense focus on work affected his health and relationships, and the life changes that followed as he moves toward a new job and chapter in episode 12.

In this episode the host recounts quitting a successful role—possibly influenced by high blood sugars—and impulsively launching a teacher recruitment job board in 2001. Within a year the site reached top Google rankings and generated six-figure revenue while the host juggled supply teaching and refurbishing a house in Italy.

He explains rapid growth, buying better technology, expanding operations in Italy with local staff and an internet café, and the lifestyle changes that followed. However, relationship breakdown and internal conflict led to client losses, increased competition, and mounting financial pressure.

The episode closes with the business struggling despite earlier success and a hint that the story continues in the next episode.

After a life-threatening diabetic coma, the host examines a troubled marriage, impulsive choices like buying a derelict Tuscan cottage, and the emotional aftermath of recovery.

As he rebuilds his health and career in education sales, rapid success leads to conflicts at work, a dramatic resignation, and the decision to start his own competing business.

In this episode I describe renovating a cold house and unknowingly suffering carbon monoxide poisoning, starting a demanding teacher training role while managing Type 1 diabetes, and bonding with students through trips to the Bank of England and Disneyland Paris.

Ongoing stress and high blood sugars lead to diabetic ketoacidosis, a coma and a long recovery that ends this chapter of teaching and pushes me back into education-related work.

Episode 7 follows the host through university and early adulthood, exploring how Type 1 diabetes affected mood, relationships and decision-making amid heavy drinking, financial strain and a turbulent personal life.

The episode covers life as a halls warden, working in student bars and as a Harvester manager, dental and health consequences, and the transition toward a teaching career.

Episode 6 explores how daily activities, stress, alcohol, and work routines can cause extreme blood sugar highs and dangerous lows in people with type 1 diabetes.

The host recounts real-life incidents—from driving-related hypos and a motorway collision to loss of hypo awareness, neuropathic pain, and the treatments that followed—highlighting how management and care can make a difference.