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We started our fundraising journey in spring 2018 raising over £1000 which was fantastic. Four years in to her Type 1 Diabetes diagnosis and Sophie now wants to pick up the mantel and be more involved in raising awareness of her condition and fundraising for our two favourite charities both of which have supported Sophie over this last 4 years. So what better way for her to start than with our first fundraiser this year completing Snowdon. On Friday 20th August the forth anniversary for Sophie we are heading out and aiming to complete the 9 mile Lamberis path walk up and down Snowdon in 6-7 hours.

Where to it all began…

It was August 2017, in the middle of the summer holidays when our gorgeous little tinkerbell was shockingly diagnosed with T1 Diabetes. We'd just returned from Abersoch and she had started a week of tennis camp, she was enjoying a care free summer just like most 7 year olds.  Sophie had started to show signs of being really unwell by the Thursday of that week, we just couldn’t put our finger on what was wrong. But by late Friday evening we rushed her to Alder Hay Children's Hospital, with what seemed like symptoms of a nasty sickness bug. She'd lost a lot of weight too, carrying her into the hospital we knew something wasn’t right.

An hour later the medical team confirmed T1 Diabetes complicated by DKA (Diabetic ketoacidosis). the following days were a blur of drips of antibiotics and insulin injections, doctors, nurses and dietician's along with a mass of information and education about T1 and how we needed to take care of Sophie going forward. Our lives had turned upside down, in an instant, forever. 

4 years in and we are doing ok, she has a good H1b1c of 7.3 and is in range 65% of the time but this condition is hard, really really hard to manage, no two days are the same with T1. Our days are dominated by multiple glucose readings with the help of the dexcom G6, hi’s and lows, then there’s the carbohydrate counting, Bolus and Basel monitoring through her Omnipod insulin pump, hospital visits and calls to the diabetes nurses, add into the mix that Soph is also Coeliac (diagnosed 3 months after her diabetes) which means she has to have a gluten free diet to further complicate her condition. 

Soph is an active, funny, kind, super resilient 11 year old, she’s our warrior, she’s taken each day, in her stride, rarely complaining and hasn’t let it change her. She works hard, laughs lots, enjoys all the things she did before, horse riding, netball, tennis, music. She’s so strong and brave and makes us so very proud of her everyday. 

As her family we want to help raise awareness of T1 and raise much needed funds for Diabetes Uk and JDRF UK, these charities  are a life line for children, teens and adults with T1 and are the largest research supporters of T1 in the UK, It's their aim to support the development of technology to make diabetes more manageable and to ultimately find a cure for this condition and we would love to see it in Sophies lifetime. 

Please support Sophie, let’s do something positive and help maybe, just maybe get a cure for T1 in Sophie’s lifetime. Thank You 😘

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