Team sports have always been central for rising rugby star Layla Sae. Her type 1 diabetes is something she manages on the side – her ‘normal’.
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In writing about her twin journeys – with type 1 diabetes and kidney disease – Ana Hutchins inspires and encourages others, and releases some of the burden for herself.
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Liam Fryer, seven, from Dunedin, received a Jerry the Bear learning pack as part of our programme for children 4–10 years old living with T1D.
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Leigh Sharland had a gut feeling about what was affecting her daughter Macie, but the GP wouldn’t listen. Two years on, Leigh recalls the frustration.
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Diabetes NZ’s Brave Bear pack for children has been flying off the shelves since it was launched in November. Cassy Hay, and her daughter Zanthia, 4, from Katikati, explain how it’s been helping them learn about diabetes.
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As a double-amputee, Paul Rowland has been dealing with a stretched and unwieldy health system, but he is, as he says, ‘a stubborn bugger’.
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