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Christine

One Walk Edinburgh

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I’m taking part in One Walk Edinburgh to help raise money to fund life-changing research and make a difference to the lives of people affected by type 1!

Breakthrough T1D funds world-class research, supports the T1D community and campaigns for broader NHS provision of treatments and technologies. Their collaborations with the best researchers in the world have led to new developments in diabetes technology and treatment.

This is where you come in. With your support and your generous donations, we can fund Breakthrough T1D’s important work.

Just £20 could help towards the next big T1D breakthrough. 

Whatever you can donate, it is really appreciated - Thank you!

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My Updates

Type 1 for 47 years

Saturday 9th May
I was diagnosed age 10 in 1979. 
At the time I only had one aunt age 8 (from my mother’s side who was type 1.) 
Many years later, (as an adult in his 30s) my uncle, (my mother’s brother,)  was then diagnosed.
On diagnosis in 1979 I was started  on two injections a day, (Actrapid - fast ancting mixed with the cloudy Monotard - slow acting insulin,)  administered via a glass syringe which needed boiling to sterilise, 
I had to follow a rigid diet of three meals a day of set carbohydrates (including two mid morning and mid afternoon snacks to prevent low blood glucose due to the insulin peak.) 
In those days, the only way to test glucose was with an inaccurate urine test. 
My parents encouraged me to not let diabetes rule my life and I quickly learned how to self inject and I slowly took more and more responsibility and independence.
A few years later home glucose testing became available and the insulin pen, so I moved to MDI therapy.
In approximately 2015 I started pump therapy, and in 2023, the “magic” started when I started hybrid closed looping.
Life living with this relentless disease is so much easier than when I was diagnosed in 1979, but, having so much information (and dealing with the technology and it’s problems ) at my fingertips feels like it’s more apart of my life than my younger days and has brought another set of problems. 
I hope one day in my lifetime there is a cure for this cruel hidden disease. 




Thank you to my Sponsors

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Brian Pattie

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Julia

Good luck Mum! Love you so much xxxx

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Libby Romaines

Good luck! x