Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
When Becky Conroy saw how many people had donated money to her online giving page she told her mother ?I want to kiss them all?.
The seven-year-old was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in March ? a complication of norovirus, the sickness and diarrhoea bug that erupts in many schools every winter.
But while most children shake off the bug after a couple of days, Becky will have to cope with diabetes for the rest of her life, or until a cure is found.
Routine at home in Jennett?s Park, for Becky, her parents Jan and Richard and 10-year-old brother Benjamin is a relentless round of injections and blood tests using 56 needles a week and strictly measured meals every two to three hours.
Without medicine she would die within three months. If her blood sugars are too low she can go into a diabetic coma, too high and acid in her blood could damage her body, with complications including amputation, kidney failure and blindness.
http://www.getbracknell.co.uk/news/s/2124846_diabetic_girls_thanks_to_fundraisers
The seven-year-old was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in March ? a complication of norovirus, the sickness and diarrhoea bug that erupts in many schools every winter.
But while most children shake off the bug after a couple of days, Becky will have to cope with diabetes for the rest of her life, or until a cure is found.
Routine at home in Jennett?s Park, for Becky, her parents Jan and Richard and 10-year-old brother Benjamin is a relentless round of injections and blood tests using 56 needles a week and strictly measured meals every two to three hours.
Without medicine she would die within three months. If her blood sugars are too low she can go into a diabetic coma, too high and acid in her blood could damage her body, with complications including amputation, kidney failure and blindness.
http://www.getbracknell.co.uk/news/s/2124846_diabetic_girls_thanks_to_fundraisers