“DIABETES doesn’t define me and I’VE NEVER LET IT STOP ME.”
“I found out I had diabetes in the middle of 1946, not long after my seventh birthday. I’d been feeling a bit tired so my mother took me to see the local doctor in Milton in NSW, where we lived, and he picked up on the fact that I had diabetes straight away. That was actually pretty astute of him at the time.
“I spent about a week in the Milton hospital while they arranged for me to go up to the Royal
