Hi everyone

I got an email from a health reporter from TVNZ’s Close Up who wants to do a story on Type 1: specifically the work which Professor Elliott is doing on the pig cell trials.

She’d love to talk to anyone who either (a) volunteered for the Middlemore trials and has been accepted; or (b) volunteered for the trials and didn’t make it through for whatever reason (you wouldn’t need to disclose why this is, I would presume). Preferably people who live in the Greater Auckland area too (which was a pre-req for the trial anyway).

Is this you? If so, please drop a line to Gill Higgins at TVNZ: Gill.Higgins@tvnz.co.nz.

I personally am not a fan of having my picture taken, and definitely not keen on being filmed – but I see this as another chance to tell our story to the wider public, so have volunteered. The more we educate the wider public out there, the more prominent we are when lobbying for more funding, or indeed the less we will have to explain that we didn’t get this condition through any faults with our lifestyle. Go on, do it!