My Story…

I am taking part in the Million Step Challenge for Diabetes UK. This involves doing 10,000 steps per day from July the 1st to September the 30th 2017.

In January 2017 our beautiful daughter Ruby, aged 6 was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes changing our lives forever. We had no real idea about Diabetes and how it would affect our lives. We were scared and initially found it hard to accept.

We started reading up and researching and I was amazed to learn that 4.5 million people in the UK are living with Diabetes with new cases being diagnosed daily across all age groups, both children and adults.

This is my first fundraising activity and it really is a challenge for me, as having an office job is so not easy in terms of being active and walking around. Two weeks before my challenge commenced, my daily preparation began in work by increasing my daily steps, like walking to the post office, going for a walk at lunch time, walking to work and back and going for walks in the evenings and on the weekends.

What has been more difficult than I thought, is actually how hard it is reaching the 10,000 steps every day. However when I think of why I am doing this, the answer is for my amazingly brave girl Ruby. What has been lovely is that my family have wanted to get involved too, the children are even checking my daily steps.   

The money raised will help fund research into life changing new treatments and making ground breaking discoveries and hopefully one day be closer to a cure. This funding is essential as most if not all research teams are not government funded.

We did not choose Diabetes, it chose us!


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