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Hi there,
I'm a newbie to this site - so bear with me haha!!
I was diagnosed with Type 1, age 13, back in 2005 after being poorly for a while and virtually at the same time, told I was asthmatic too. Also, within the last 6 months, I have been diagnosed a coeliac. I don't do things by halves and its a long running joke in the family that I bleed the NHS dry with all my medication needs etc!!
I was absolutely gutted when I was initially diagnosed as I've always been an outdoor person who played every sport possible at school, so it seemed really unfair to me and i found it very hard to accept.
Now, 8 years on, I still have my down days where I wish I could just be a normal healthy human being but I've come to realise I'm not going to let it stop me doing anything!! ...Which is why I applied and have a place to run in the 2013 Virgin London Marathon - for Diabetes UK!! The training for it has been far from easy, what with finding gluten-free food alternatives and trying virtually every inhaler under the sun, to ease my asthma!!
It's now hitting home that the marathon isn't far away at all (101 days to go as of today!!) and this may be hard to believe but I am finding raising the sponsorship MUCH harder than the training itself!! As I'm running for a charity I have a minimum of ?1850 to raise and I want to raise at least this, if not more, to help fund the vital research that can help those affected directly and also indirectly, by Diabetes.
So if anybody out there would like to sponsor me, however big or small... I'd be eternally grateful!! My online sponsorship page is:

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/BrionyStevens

Thank you all for reading 🙂

Kind Regards

Briony
 
Hi Briony, welcome to the forum 🙂 Sorry to hear about all you have had to deal with, but well done on not letting it stand in your way! Running the London Marathon is a tremendous challenge, I hope that your training is going well and that you manage to raise loads towards your target. My recommendation would be to set up a blog so you can give updates on your progress, and also if you can get the local press to cover your story - getting the website into a newspaper will help spread it out to those who perhaps don't go online.

We have quite a few runners here, so if you need any tips, let us know. What insulin regime are you on, and how are you finding having to balance your training with your BG levels?
 
Welcome to the site Briony 🙂
 
asthma

Hi As a life long asthmatic I have found over time a couple of things which help --- coffee in quantity seems to help -- swiming as often as possible helps with breathing paddeling a canoe ( not kayak or sit on top) ------ good luck andrew ---



BriS_92 said:
Hi there,
I'm a newbie to this site - so bear with me haha!!
I was diagnosed with Type 1, age 13, back in 2005 after being poorly for a while and virtually at the same time, told I was asthmatic too. Also, within the last 6 months, I have been diagnosed a coeliac. I don't do things by halves and its a long running joke in the family that I bleed the NHS dry with all my medication needs etc!!
I was absolutely gutted when I was initially diagnosed as I've always been an outdoor person who played every sport possible at school, so it seemed really unfair to me and i found it very hard to accept.
Now, 8 years on, I still have my down days where I wish I could just be a normal healthy human being but I've come to realise I'm not going to let it stop me doing anything!! ...Which is why I applied and have a place to run in the 2013 Virgin London Marathon - for Diabetes UK!! The training for it has been far from easy, what with finding gluten-free food alternatives and trying virtually every inhaler under the sun, to ease my asthma!!
It's now hitting home that the marathon isn't far away at all (101 days to go as of today!!) and this may be hard to believe but I am finding raising the sponsorship MUCH harder than the training itself!! As I'm running for a charity I have a minimum of ?1850 to raise and I want to raise at least this, if not more, to help fund the vital research that can help those affected directly and also indirectly, by Diabetes.
So if anybody out there would like to sponsor me, however big or small... I'd be eternally grateful!! My online sponsorship page is:

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/BrionyStevens

Thank you all for reading 🙂

Kind Regards

Briony
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Welcome to the forum Briony 🙂
 
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