T1DaysSheet 01 · Ireland · online

Type 1 diabetes support shaped around your life, not a leaflet.

SHEET 01 · YOUR DAYSSCALE 1 : 288
A reading every five minutes288 a day

Cara has lived with type 1 for 40 years and works as a psychotherapist. Jamie builds the software. Together we help you see how your own days move your glucose, and what that feels like to live with, so you can work towards the A1C and time-in-range goals you’ve set with your diabetes team.

At the end, you get a detailed report of your patterns to take to your team.

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  1. 107:00Woke at 4.6. Porridge, tea.
  2. 211:30Rain since dawn. 9°C, a soft day.
  3. 314:30Chicken wrap, left a quarter.
  4. 417:30Walked home by the canal.
  5. 519:30Pizza with friends.
  6. 622:40Up at 13. The pizza, three hours on.
An example day, made up. Height is glucose, in mmol/L. The good ground, 3.9–10Your routeHeight
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We never tell you how much insulin to take or change your pump settings: that stays with you and your diabetes team.

O 162 228 Route notes

Doing everything you’re told, and it still doesn’t add up?

  1. The same breakfast, a different morning.

    You count it the same way. Monday it’s fine; Tuesday you’re high until lunch.

  2. Nights you dread.

    The 3am alarm, the jelly sweets by the bed, and the tiredness that follows you all next day.

  3. Worn out by it.

    Hundreds of small decisions a day, and the feeling that you’re failing at something nobody else can see.

  4. Advice that isn’t about you.

    Rules written for everyone, and fifteen minutes at clinic twice a year.

None of that means you’re doing it wrong. It usually means nobody has looked at your life and your numbers together, with you, for long enough to see the pattern.

O 165 226 Ninety days

Ninety days. No two the same.

Every line is one day of glucose, midnight to midnight. The green band is the 3.9–10 range. Same person, same pump, same food, and still every day is its own shape. That’s what we look at with you.

00:00one line = one day · hover over a day to read ittap a day to read it24:00

Made-up days, drawn for illustration.

Cara with her pump’s infusion set and her glucose sensor side by side, the tubing running to the pump in her hand
Cara · 40 years inO 16 · 22

O 168 224 Your guides

I spent years wondering why the same breakfast behaved differently on different mornings.

CaraPsychotherapist. Living with type 1 since childhood.

Legend

Three things you rarely find in one room
40 years

Lived experience

Cara was diagnosed as a child and has lived through injections, pens, pumps and now a closed loop. She knows the parts the leaflets leave out, because she has lived them.

The weight

A psychotherapist’s ear

Burnout, fear of lows and the guilt around numbers are part of type 1, not a side issue. Cara is an IACP-accredited psychotherapist, working with clients since 2011, so that part gets real time.

Your days

Your own patterns

Jamie’s software lines up your glucose with your real days, so we talk about what happens to you, not what happens to most people.

What we look at together

  • Your porridge
  • The 9°C rain
  • The walk along the canal
  • Six hours of broken sleep
  • Day 21 of your cycle
  • The sensor that dropped out at 3am
  • How you felt about all of it

Only what you choose to share, only with your consent. Nothing connects to your pump or changes it.

O 170 227 Signposts

Not another list of rules.

The kind of thing we find, set beside the general advice it replaces. Examples, not anyone’s real results.

The leaflet saysHigh-fat meals can raise glucose later.

Your days showYour Friday pizza rises about three hours after you eat, long after your other dinners have settled.

The leaflet saysExercise lowers blood glucose.

Your days showOn days you walk home, you tend to dip about an hour after you get in, not during the walk.

The leaflet saysStress and sleep can affect your glucose.

Your days showYour three hardest days this month followed the three nights you slept under six hours.

We describe what happened. Decisions about insulin and your pump settings stay with you and your diabetes team, and we help you bring them a clear picture.

O 172 229 Our story

It started at our kitchen table.

T1Days began as an app Jamie built for Cara, to make sense of her own type 1: the coffee on the go, the late pizza, the hot days, the nights the sensor dropped out.

Seeing her life and her numbers side by side changed the conversations she had with her diabetes team. The patterns weren’t in any leaflet. They were in her days. Now we’d like to do the same with you.

Cara

Psychotherapist · 40 years with type 1

Cara was diagnosed with type 1 as a child and has lived with it for 40 years: injections, pens, pumps and now a closed loop. She is an IACP-accredited integrative humanistic psychotherapist and has worked with clients since 2011. She holds a Masters in Integrative Psychotherapy and a Higher Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy, with further training in CBT, mindfulness, Autism Informed Therapy and complex PTSD.

She also founded Hike Psych, Ireland’s original hiking psychotherapy practice, where sessions happen walking or sitting outdoors around South Dublin, and online. In all of it she works from one belief: you are the expert on you.

Jamie

Builds the software · Cara’s fiancé

Jamie has worked in the tech industry for over 30 years. He designed and built T1Days for Cara, from the meal photos and the patterns behind them to the companion side that lets him know she’s OK through the night.

He turns your glucose, meals and days into pictures you can actually read, and keeps your data private and in the EU. Away from the screen he’s a Dublin poet and author, writing as The Wandering Paddy.

O 174 231 For the people beside you

Someone in your corner, even at 2am.

The T1Days app has a companion side, for a partner, parent or close friend. We built it for ourselves first: for the nights Jamie wanted to know Cara was OK without waking her, and the days we’re not in the same place.

  • You chooseYou decide who, if anyone, and you can switch it off at any time. They can look, never change anything.
  • Alerts when you’re apartTap “I’m up, treating it” and their phone gets an alert straight away, wherever they are, so they know you’re working on fixing a low. Tap “I’m OK” when you’re back up and they hear that too.
  • A gentle nudgeThey can send you a nudge if they’re worried, and see when you last checked in or opened the app.
  • The same pictureThey see your days and patterns too, so the people close to you understand what type 1 asks of you.

It isn’t an alarm. Glucose data can run an hour or more behind, so your sensor and pump alerts stay your warning, and it never replaces a phone call.

O 171 230 Route card

Four stages, at your pace.

Ninety days, walked together. You set the pace; we bring the map, and a report for your diabetes team at the end.

StageWhenWhat happens
1Week 0

A free call

Twenty minutes to hear what’s hardest right now, and whether we’re the right fit. No forms to fill first.

2Weeks 1–3

Your patterns, together

With your consent you share your glucose data and snap a photo of what you eat, living as you normally do. Then Cara and Jamie go through your own patterns with you, and make room for how it all feels, not only the numbers.

3Up to three months

Alongside you

Sessions every two weeks as life happens, with your patterns updated along the way, and a plain summary to take home after each one.

4Day 90

Your review, and your clinic

We look back over the three months with you. If you’d like, one of us comes with you to your diabetes clinic appointment to pass on what we’ve found, together.

O 176 233 Programmes

Start small, or work with us for twelve weeks.

We look at the whole picture: meals, sleep, stress, cycle, exercise and illness, not just the glucose line.

First call20 minutes · video

  • We listen, you ask anything
  • We tell you honestly whether we can help
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Pattern reviewAbout three weeks

  • Two weeks of your data and meal photos
  • A 90-minute session with Cara and Jamie
  • A detailed report of your patterns for your diabetes team
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Twelve weeks togetherThe full route

  • Everything in the pattern review
  • Sessions with Cara every two weeks
  • Your patterns updated as life changes
  • Room for burnout, fear of lows and the emotional side
  • Messages between sessions
  • The companion for someone close to you, if you’d like it
  • An updated report before each clinic visit
  • A 90-day review of the three months
  • If you’d like, one of us at your diabetes clinic appointment with you, to pass on what we’ve found
Ask usStart with a call

Online, by video, anywhere in Ireland. We’ll talk through prices on your free first call.

O 178 235 Questions

Plain answers.

The one rule

We never tell you how much insulin to take, or change your pump settings. That stays with you and your diabetes team.

Are you doctors or nurses?

No. Cara is a psychotherapist who has lived with type 1 for 40 years, and Jamie builds software. We work alongside your diabetes team, never instead of them.

Which pumps and sensors do you work with?

We started with CamAPS FX. If you use another pump or sensor, tell us on the first call and we’ll be honest about what we can look at together.

What happens to my data?

It’s used only to support you, only with your explicit consent, and kept in the EU. You can see it, take it with you or have it deleted at any time. Our privacy notice has the detail.

Do I need a CGM?

It works best with a continuous glucose monitor. If you don’t use one, talk to us on the first call about what we can still look at together.

I was only diagnosed recently. Is this for me?

Yes, and so is someone thirty years in who is tired of it. What matters is that it feels harder than it should, and you’d like to understand why.

Can you come to my clinic appointment?

Yes, if you’d like us to and your clinic is happy with it. At the end of the three months one of us can join you, in person or on the call, to pass on what we found together. We ask you first and share only what you agree to. Your diabetes team stays in charge of your treatment.

What if I’m struggling right now?

We’re not an emergency service. For a severe low or high, contact your diabetes team or call 112 or 999. If you’re in distress, Samaritans are there day and night on 116 123.

START Talk to us

Tell us what’s hardest right now.

A line or two is plenty. We’ll reply ourselves with a few times for a free 20-minute call.

Cara & Jamie