Hi everyone

Thanks for your entries into the competition to win Diabetes Through the Looking Glass: A Book for Parents of Children with Diabetes by Rachel Besser.

I used a random number generator to choose a number between 1 and 8 (which was how many of you with young T1 kids replied), and drew number 7, which is Jolene. Jolene’s comment was:

Hi.
On Auckland Anniversary day 2 years ago, our beautiful daughter was just shy of turning 3 when our world was just thrown upside-down. So…Monday will bring back those memories for us. Not that I haven’t relived those first few days many, many times in my head and my heart.

The biggest challenge I think would have been to try and live a “normal” life, as we were told to do by so many people.
Nothing felt “normal” and easygoing as it were before.

But it is amazing how she never complains, although she has also asked the question of why she had to get T1, and sometimes she will just sit there and say “when will it go away, I don’t want it anymore!”

But at night when she is asleep, and we test her , I look at her tiny fingers, and see the tiny marks of all the fingerpricks we had to do that day, yet she never complains of sore fingertips !!

Goodluck to everyone with the draw. I have found heaps of inspiration by reading all the comments.

Jolene, I’ll be in touch to get your address to send the book out to.

Thanks to everyone who entered, and for the support you’ve already given each other via the comments on this site. Keep up the amazing work with those precious kids of yours.

Thanks again to Class Health UK and Rachel Besser for the book to give away.

Nic