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On 1st November last year I took my seemingly fit and healthy daughter to the doctor because she was always thirsty - I thought I was being a paranoid mother.  However, within an hour, instead of the play-date we had planned, we were in hospital and my daughter was being subjected to all sorts of tests and then diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes.

Six days later we came out of hospital changed people - my bright and happy girl was now sad, pale with huge great bags under her eyes from crying so much.  And, in going home from hospital she expected life to get better, but it got worse - every day she has to have at least four injections and eight or more finger-prick blood glucose tests.  She would cry constantly, 'I want to go home' but we were home - she meant the home before diabetes.  It was, in a word, traumatic.

Now, seven months later, things are much better - she is calm about the injections and the blood tests, mostly okay about having her food choices restricted and limited treats.  In short, she is taking it well and getting on with her life, rarely complaining.

We have come a long way - a hundred years ago she would not have survived.  But I would like there to be hope for the future, so that by the time she is grown up there is a cure, or at least improved methods of treatment, so that she and other children (and adults) do not have to go through this.

Please give what you can, so that those with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes can have hope for a cure sooner rather than later.

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Thank you, Abby