Claire is the founder of Organising Chaos, which sells a range of products and accessories to help people decorate their diabetes. Claire was diagnosed with type 1 in 1997, and in her words has been on a journey from ‘diabad to diabadass’ in the past 23 years.
We cover SO much in this conversation, from a 10 year period in which Claire decided she no longer had diabetes and barely took her insulin, to relearning what it means to live with type 1, finding the online community, diabetes technology, how gross diabetic chocolate really is, diabetes in the workplace and ultimately how her toughest challenges prompted the start of a thriving business based on the very illness she refused to acknowledge for so long. Claire also speaks openly about her two miscarriages, and how her diabetes affected – and was affected by – her experience.
This is a very real but also a very hopeful story – Claire has shown incredible resilience through so many hurdles and I feel like there is something for everyone in this chat!
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