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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A Derry schoolgirl, who says her life could be made much easier with access to insulin pump therapy, has written to Health Minister Edwin Poots
At eleven years old school girl Abby Davidson is all too aware of the potential complications of Type 1 Diabetes - a condition she was diagnosed with a year ago.
?If your blood sugars go too low you can collapse. Or if they go too high you can collapse, go into a coma. And sometimes you don?t wake up,? she said, matter of factly.
Added to this the fact that each time her sugars drop too low or go too high she risks long-term complications setting in - risks which could include losing her sight and nerve damage to her feet or limbs which could, in the worst scenario, result in amputation of her limbs.
And yet, as the school girl - who is just starting her first year at Thornhill College - points out, Northern Ireland is the only region in the UK which does not have a dedicated Service Framework for diabetes.
http://www.derryjournal.com/news/lo...h-minister-to-improve-diabetic-care-1-5440418
At eleven years old school girl Abby Davidson is all too aware of the potential complications of Type 1 Diabetes - a condition she was diagnosed with a year ago.
?If your blood sugars go too low you can collapse. Or if they go too high you can collapse, go into a coma. And sometimes you don?t wake up,? she said, matter of factly.
Added to this the fact that each time her sugars drop too low or go too high she risks long-term complications setting in - risks which could include losing her sight and nerve damage to her feet or limbs which could, in the worst scenario, result in amputation of her limbs.
And yet, as the school girl - who is just starting her first year at Thornhill College - points out, Northern Ireland is the only region in the UK which does not have a dedicated Service Framework for diabetes.
http://www.derryjournal.com/news/lo...h-minister-to-improve-diabetic-care-1-5440418