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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
TWO fathers from Tonbridge are taking on a mammoth challenge after their children were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.
Scott Mitchell, 32, from Norton Crescent and Lee Wenham, 31, who used to live in Woodfield Road before moving to Maidstone, have decided to take on the Ironman at Hever Castle next summer.
The pair who met as students at Hugh Christie Technology College are doing this to raise awareness of the illness and raise money for JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation).
Mr Mitchell’s two-year-old daughter, Freya, who goes to Roselands Pre-School in the town, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in October. She now has to be injected with insulin four times a day.
http://www.courier.co.uk/Tonbridge-...elp-children/story-24966821-detail/story.html
Good for them 🙂 I would point out though that it's not 'a junior condition to have type 1', anyone can have it, and of course, those juniors become adults...
Scott Mitchell, 32, from Norton Crescent and Lee Wenham, 31, who used to live in Woodfield Road before moving to Maidstone, have decided to take on the Ironman at Hever Castle next summer.
The pair who met as students at Hugh Christie Technology College are doing this to raise awareness of the illness and raise money for JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation).
Mr Mitchell’s two-year-old daughter, Freya, who goes to Roselands Pre-School in the town, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in October. She now has to be injected with insulin four times a day.
http://www.courier.co.uk/Tonbridge-...elp-children/story-24966821-detail/story.html
Good for them 🙂 I would point out though that it's not 'a junior condition to have type 1', anyone can have it, and of course, those juniors become adults...
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