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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
BY THE time Tommy Weeks is 13 years old he will have had 19,000 injections.
The nine-year-old campaigner has lobbied Parliament to raise awareness of what it is like to live with type 1 diabetes.
Tommy, of Southway, was among children who urged MPs to push the condition up the political agenda.
He spoke out at a special event in London organised by the JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation).
As a Youth Ambassador for the charity, the Beechwood Primary pupil is also raising money for medical research.
Tommy was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was 16 months old.
His mum Marie said: "By the time he is 13 he would have had 19,000 injections.
http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Tom...0-injections/story-15942433-detail/story.html
The nine-year-old campaigner has lobbied Parliament to raise awareness of what it is like to live with type 1 diabetes.
Tommy, of Southway, was among children who urged MPs to push the condition up the political agenda.
He spoke out at a special event in London organised by the JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation).
As a Youth Ambassador for the charity, the Beechwood Primary pupil is also raising money for medical research.
Tommy was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was 16 months old.
His mum Marie said: "By the time he is 13 he would have had 19,000 injections.
http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Tom...0-injections/story-15942433-detail/story.html