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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A DIABETIC woman from Northampton has been presented with a medal to mark 70 years of coping with the condition.
When Grace Jarnell was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes while aged 12 in 1942, treatment was so basic she had to heat her own samples at home over a Bunsen burner to see if she needed insulin.
Now, more than 100,000 injections later, she has defied the worst fears of doctors and been awarded a medal in recognition of seven decades of coping with the condition.
Mrs Jarnell, aged 82, of Weston Favell, said: ?When I was diagnosed, there was a war on, so putting someone on a special diet was very difficult; you just didn?t have the range of food.
http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/n...n-who-has-had-diabetes-for-70-years-1-3620224
When Grace Jarnell was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes while aged 12 in 1942, treatment was so basic she had to heat her own samples at home over a Bunsen burner to see if she needed insulin.
Now, more than 100,000 injections later, she has defied the worst fears of doctors and been awarded a medal in recognition of seven decades of coping with the condition.
Mrs Jarnell, aged 82, of Weston Favell, said: ?When I was diagnosed, there was a war on, so putting someone on a special diet was very difficult; you just didn?t have the range of food.
http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/n...n-who-has-had-diabetes-for-70-years-1-3620224
