“Iremember the day I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes like it was yesterday. I was 13, in year eight at school and it was my Dad’s birthday, so Mum had organised for all of our family and friends to go out for dinner.
“Mum had also made a doctor’s appointment for me, for that afternoon, because for a month or two prior, I’d been really thirsty and was going to the toilet a lot. But I was also training four or five times a week in athletics
