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I have done many things in my life that might appear foolish:

•                Walking over the wettest and most hilly parts of our countryside carrying a rucksack full of bricks to make it more difficult;

•                jumping out of a perfectly serviceable aircraft - on  more than one occasion.

And some things which seem not so foolish:

Volunteering to walk over red hot coals in my bare feet to raise money for Juvenille Diabetes Research Foundation (www.jdrf.org.uk).

18 months ago my son Edward was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of 4.5.   Since then his blood has to be tested at least 8 times a day to measure his blood glucose levels.  He has to have insulin injected into him after every meal and last thing at night in order to keep him alive.

This is the very minimum as if his blood glucose levels fluctuate in the night or between meals he has to be retested and possibly be given another insulin injection.

If his blood glucose levels go too high he risks permanent damage to his kidneys.  If they fall too low he would fall unconscious and if not treated pass into a coma or die.

There is no history of diabetes in either my or my wife's family so this is an unexplained occurrence.  It will be with Edward for the rest of his life.  So far he has a minimum of 8 blood glucose tests a day and 4 insulin shots.  That's AT LEAST 56 lancets going into his little fingers each week and 28 injections of insulin into either his arms, legs, tummy or bottom.   This keeps him alive.

This equates to 2,912 blood glucose lancet tests and 1,456 insulin injections a year - he is only 6 years old.   By the time he is 20 years old it will have been a minimum of 40,768 lancets and 20,284 injections of insulin.

In order to raise money for research and to find a cure, I have volunteered to carry out a fire walk on the 6th February 2013.  This involves walking over 5 meters of red hot coals at 800 degrees fahrenheit.  The same temperature as reached on the surface of Mercury and 426 degrees centigrade.   Please look at the temperature gauge on your oven when you go home this evening - they generally cap at 230 degrees centigrade.  In any even it is as they say in God's own County "a tad warm"!

However, they do say you will walk over hot coals for your children so I am doing to ask you to support me to prove the expression is true.

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