Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A FESTIVE fundraising drive inspired by a Crook boy who cheated death from diabetes symptoms is underway.
Wendy Watts hopes to generate funds for diabetes charities at her shop Nicoleivy at Mill Street in the town by selling Christmas baubles.
It comes after her godson Keaton Allison, five, was taken into intensive care as a toddler after carers missed the signs of his Type 1 diabetes. He pulled through but needs an insulin pump to get day-to-day.
Keaton's mother Catherine Allison said: "The symptoms of diabetes can easily be mistaken for other illnesses and are often missed, even by trained medical staff, and that is what happened with Keaton.
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/ne...draising_drive_inspired_by_five_year_old_boy/
Wendy Watts hopes to generate funds for diabetes charities at her shop Nicoleivy at Mill Street in the town by selling Christmas baubles.
It comes after her godson Keaton Allison, five, was taken into intensive care as a toddler after carers missed the signs of his Type 1 diabetes. He pulled through but needs an insulin pump to get day-to-day.
Keaton's mother Catherine Allison said: "The symptoms of diabetes can easily be mistaken for other illnesses and are often missed, even by trained medical staff, and that is what happened with Keaton.
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/ne...draising_drive_inspired_by_five_year_old_boy/