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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A COUPLE are to run the London Marathon in aid of a diabetes charity after their nephew almost died from the disease.
Kelly and Ian Hargreaves were looking after Harri Douglas and his brother and sister when he fell ill suddenly and had to be rushed to hospital.
He only survived thanks to three days in intensive care after being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.
More than a year later, the 12-year-old from Binfield Heath is on the road to recovery and is looking forward to watching the Hargreaves run on April 21 to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Harri, a pupil at Gillotts School in Henley, was staying with the couple at their home in Newtown Gardens, Henley, in December 2011 while his parents Darren and Belinda were on a two-day Christmas shopping trip to York. Mr Douglas is Mrs Hargreaves? sister.
http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/news.php?id=1251803
Kelly and Ian Hargreaves were looking after Harri Douglas and his brother and sister when he fell ill suddenly and had to be rushed to hospital.
He only survived thanks to three days in intensive care after being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.
More than a year later, the 12-year-old from Binfield Heath is on the road to recovery and is looking forward to watching the Hargreaves run on April 21 to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Harri, a pupil at Gillotts School in Henley, was staying with the couple at their home in Newtown Gardens, Henley, in December 2011 while his parents Darren and Belinda were on a two-day Christmas shopping trip to York. Mr Douglas is Mrs Hargreaves? sister.
http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/news.php?id=1251803
