Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

I've had Type 1 Diabetes for 11 years and it's pretty hardcore. It's boring, painful, exhausting, scary and tedious all at the same time. 

People that know me know that I'm pretty unfit - My diabetes does play a part in this as any form of exercise and anything else (stress, weather, periods, food & drink etc) affects my sugar levels, so until now I've tended to avoid any hardcore exercise (and also because I'm lazy), but Swim22 is an awesome way to raise money for the charity closest to my heart (and my broken pancreas). 

I've recently set up a twitter page dedicated to Diabetes and have been inspired by lots of people with T1 Diabetes and their exercise & fundraising stories for Diabetes UK and I wanted a piece of the action! 

I'm terrible at swimming - I'm very slow, cannot swim underwater and refuse to swim front crawl so please know this will be extremely hard for me to complete! Exercise affects people with diabetes for days after, not just during but I'm determined to swim 22 miles for Diabetes UK (which equates to 1408 lengths in my local pool). 

I'll also be keeping an audio diary throughout and hoping to interview other people / teams taking up the challenge to be posted on Diabetes UK website (I'm yet to hear back if I can do this)! 

Click the link to find out more or take on the challenge yourself: https://www.diabetes.org.uk/Get_involved/Fundraising-events/Swim22/ 

Thanks again for all your support and your cash - good on ya, Sonia! 

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