Us with Gavin Griffiths (@diathlete) after he’d run from John O’Groats to Land’s EndAmy
a fun-loving girl, diagnosed with type 1 diabetes on 29th December 2010, aged 10.
Read her story about diagnosis.
Here’s a link to all her articles.
Kev / Dad
an IT geek who just can’t seem to get enough of learning as much as he can from bloggers and sites on the net. He’s a bit of an Indophile having been to India 4 times already and has enough trip plans for the next 5 once-in-a-lifetime holidays. Recently he’s been introduced to the Diabetes Online Community, but feels rather fraudulent joining in as he doesn’t have type 1. Most of the posts will be written by him.
Read his story about Amy’s diagnosis.
Here’s a link to all his articles – or just look to the left as he’s written most of them.
Jane / Mum
a self-confessed IT illiterate who’s unlikely to write many articles herself.
Read her story about Amy’s diagnosis.
Here’s a link to all her articles.
Emilia
Amy’s elder sister, thankfully possessing a healthy pancreas and pacifist T cells.
Hi I am a Medical Illustrator working in Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust, I was searching the web for a picture of a child wearing an insulin pump when I came across your site.
It is great to a story like Amy’s on the web for all to see, it helps to alleviate fears for children and adults who are new to the condition.
With this in mind would very much like to use the picture of Amy wearing her insulin pump in a resource I’m working on for the Bradford Diabetes Team which is being produced to guide teachers who have Type 1 diabetes students in their class. If you think this would be possible I’d love to hear from you.
Kind regards,
Andrea
Hi Andrea, yes that’s fine. I’ve emailed you.
Hi Kev, since I can’t find an email addess on this site: Would you please get in contact with me? I’d like to get your permission to use one of the pictures here for publishing. Thanks!
Sure, email sent, approval given for the ‘How does Dexcom, Nightscout’ image to be used in your publication
Hello,
I’m looking for UK English-speaking children aged 10-18 to participate in a localization project for Spectrum Translation, and I’m wondering if you could help me by sharing this message or referring participants (or maybe your daughter is interested?). Participation pays $100 USD and involves reading a questionnaire then having a 45-minute phone interview about the language in the questionnaire. You’ll receive $25 USD for every participant referred.
Thanks,
Riteba McCallum
Thanks for posting this and giving Amy and others the opportunity to take part. She enjoyed the experience and would happily do it again if you ever have any similar opportunities
Kevin did you ever manage to get Dexcom CGM funded by NHS? We spoke at the Bournemouth event. Best Richard (richardr_baker@fastmail.co.uk) m:07811157321
Hi Richard, no we never did, we actually stopped asking as things were unlikely to change. Still on G5, still self-funding and luckily received many spare G5s left over from people who’ve switched to G6.