Welcome to the second Thriveabetes video interview of 2021 with people living with diabetes in Ireland. Today’s interview is with my friend and fellow Clare blow-in Erin Dolan, from www.crazyaboutdiabetes.com, who was diagnosed with diabetes when she was a pre-teen. 

In this interview Erin talks about growing up with diabetes, the impact that having access to summer camps for children with diabetes had, the challenges of college, travelling and how she dealt with a pump malfunction in the Australian outback and so, so much more.

Erin is a certified Health Coach based in West Clare, mother of two, world traveler and person with type 1 diabetes. She shared some of her diabetes life in a 2019 blog post here where she talked about the difficult battle, especially as a kid, feeling different from everyone else but then making it a way of life becoming active in the community to make your stronger mentally and in a more recent post she talks about why she has decided to devote more time in her busy life (did I mention she also works part time for a company in Galway) to helping people with diabetes through coaching. 

I could have chatted all day to Erin about life with diabetes. Enjoy!

MORE ABOUT Erin:

Erin Dolan, Diabetes Health Coach 

Web: www.crazyaboutdiabetes.com. 

Instagram  @crazyaboutdiabetes 

Tel: +353 87 705 3922 

Email: crazyaboutdiabetes@gmail.com

Previous 2021 Interviews

• Dublin Adults with Type 1 Diabetes Group; Emma O’Toole and Niamh Downes

2020 Interview Playlist

Featuring all of these people with diabetes:

• George Clancy; former International rugby referee

• Aoife Gordon; The Sugar Fairy

• Kate Gajewska; Diabetes Educator, Psychologist and researcher

• Abbie O’Sullivan; Student

• Cayden & Pam Kavanagh; then age 11 and his mum.

Click here for playlist