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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
When her young daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, JUBIE WIGAN rallied her well-connected friends to help launch a fundraising initiative with a very special society dinner.
Sitting on her sofa at home, in a Disney princess dress and tiara, gently tending to a dolly with her toy doctor?s kit, four-year-old Aliena Wigan is the picture of contentment and chubby-cheeked innocence.
Her smile never wavering, Aliena lifts her tutu to show me dark bruises across her tiny thighs ? bruises that conceal rock-hard scar tissue underneath, caused by having four injections every single day to stay alive. It?s no wonder she is treating her doll with such competence and care: it?s a routine she knows well. In July 2012 Aliena was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of just two and a half. Each year, over 3,500 needles go into her tiny body, including a finger-prick blood test every two hours.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2548175/The-sugarplum-fairy-godmother.html
Breaking the Daily Fail embargo for this story, which isn't actually that badly-written 🙄
Sitting on her sofa at home, in a Disney princess dress and tiara, gently tending to a dolly with her toy doctor?s kit, four-year-old Aliena Wigan is the picture of contentment and chubby-cheeked innocence.
Her smile never wavering, Aliena lifts her tutu to show me dark bruises across her tiny thighs ? bruises that conceal rock-hard scar tissue underneath, caused by having four injections every single day to stay alive. It?s no wonder she is treating her doll with such competence and care: it?s a routine she knows well. In July 2012 Aliena was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of just two and a half. Each year, over 3,500 needles go into her tiny body, including a finger-prick blood test every two hours.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2548175/The-sugarplum-fairy-godmother.html
Breaking the Daily Fail embargo for this story, which isn't actually that badly-written 🙄