I used to see needles and faint, so when we spent a week in hospital with Willow, learning our new lives when she was diagnosed, the first thing I had to overcome was that fear.
“The doctors saying to me ‘in order for you to go home, you have to inject your daughter with insulin’ was so scary. My biggest fear, apart from the needle, was giving her too much.
“To this day, I still don’t remember putting that first needle into her. I think I kind of blacked out, but
