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Receiving the award was a wonderful surprise, especially as it was the Parents and Medical professionals who nominated me. I really enjoy working with the pupils. Type 1 diabetes is a very complex condition especially for young people and can very easily make life very difficult for them, so any help and advice I can give to them to make things seem more manageable is the very least I can do. My challenge of swimming the length of Loch Lomond (which will take me around 14 hrs ) is nothing compared to what the pupils have to endure every single day and when I start to feel 'the pain' I will just think about them and that will get me through it ! The feeling at the end of the swim will be amazing and I can't wait to start the challenge and just hope the water temperature in July will be warmer than the 4 degrees I am training in just now !