Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

As those of you know me will know, my Diabetes is me. I don't let it rule my life, but it is always there. When I was diagnosed as a child in 1983, my wonderful mum and dad learned a whole new way - from carbohydrate counting, to injecting, blood tests and spotting hypos. It all had to be learned from scratch and as a 9 year old child, I had to learn it too. And it all has to be learnt over and over again because us diabetics get complacent, or down right stubborn sometimes almost in denial about diabetes. I've tried that and it doesn't work!!

Along this 33 year education, I have had the most amazing family and friends all of whom have become expert hypo buddies always ready to throw anything with sugar in it my way whenever I need it (apparently as I don't always know!!). And I'm sorry for what I do and say at those times, even if it is bad dancing as Louise used to call it - I think the clinical term was a fit or a seizure.

From learning to put together a metal and glass syringe which was kept in sterilzed water in a butter dish in the fridge - and waiting 30 minutes to eat after an injection, to injecting twice a day with a plastic syringe and then up to five times a day with an insulin pen - it was all learning!

Andy, Mum, Dad and Louise all helped me adapt to biggest change which came when I moved onto the insulin pump - I was scared stiff. If my family and friends hadn't listened to me when I was freaking out about becoming part robot on a pump I would never have gone ahead with it. I'm so glad that I did, and you know what? It's kinda cool being part robot and I owe that to Diabetes UK and their research and funding.

33 years so I now want to raise a minumum of £10 for each PD year (that's Post Diabetic years!!).

So please help me raise £333 just to thank them for keeping me here and relatively normal!! :-)