What’s really to blame for Britain’s life-threatening drug shortage
In short supply: equipment for treating diabetes is becoming dangerously hard to come by (Getty)
“They can’t get your insulin.”
My wife’s tone conveyed a mixture of worry and frustration. For me, it felt as if I had been hit with a sledgehammer. Pure fight or flight.
When I was two years old, you see, my immune system went haywire for reasons that are not well understood – and blitzed my pancreas’s insulin-producing cells.