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Louise Dorgan

One Walk Manchester 2024

We're stronger together

I’m taking part in One Walk Manchester to help raise money to fund life-changing research and make a difference to the lives of people affected by type 1!

400,000+ people are currently living with type 1 diabetes in the UK, and with your support and your generous donations, we can fund JDRF UK’s important work towards finding a cure. Here are just a few examples of what your money can do...

Every £10 could help run a research laboratory for 10 minutes - bringing us 10 minutes closer to finding a cure for type 1 diabetes.

Every £25 could pay for an hour of research nurse support for someone involved in a clinical trial, which could ultimately lead to the next big breakthrough. Without this support, there would be no trial.

Every £50 could enable a scientist to use lasers for two hours, allowing them to study the immune cells at the heart of type 1, monitoring the success of clinical trials and further improving knowledge into type 1.

Thank you for your support, whatever you donate is really appreciated. Together, we can help JDRF to eradicate type 1 diabetes!

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£472 + £34.83 GiftAid

My Goal

£500

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Thank you!!

Monday 12th Feb
Me and Pixie would like to say thank you to everyone who has donated so far!! Never in a million years thought we would raise almost £500!!   Thank you all so much x 

Pix & Needles - Our Story. ❤️

Sunday 4th Feb
October 15th 2022. Our lives were turned upside down on an unexpected diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes for our daughter Pixie, age 7 at the time. 

Pixie seemed a healthy kid. Loved sport, always on the go. As she was growing she had lost weight, she was getting taller and thinner. It’s all part of growing up I thought….. a growth spurt!  As they grow taller they get thinner right?!

She’s always loved a glass of Diet Coke (don’t we all?), but Pixies love of it seemed to become obsessive. “Mam, I NEED another drink. Mam, I’m SO thirsty!”  She could literally neck a pint of Diet Coke quicker than I could neck half a pint. 

“Pixie, you’re being greedy!”  I would say. But it didn’t matter what I said, she was forever thirsty and begging for more to drink. It got to the point where I would deny her a drink. “Pixie, you’re being greedy, you’ve drank more than me!”

Then the constant needing a wee started. Every 2 minutes “Mam, I need a wee.”   In my head I was thinking, of course you need a wee, you’ve done nothing but drink all day.

After these symptoms went on for a couple of months, gradually getting worse I started to question what was happening. My mam mentioned that excessive thirst was a symptom of Diabetes. I googled the symptoms (as you do) and I knew there was something wrong.  We got an appointment at the emergency doctors, they pricked her finger and sent us straight to A&E. T1D confirmed.

Little did I know she was in DKA (Diabetic Keto Acidosis). It’s a life threatening complication of T1D. 
For some unknown reason her pancreas had stopped producing insulin which controls the amount of sugar in her blood.  Her blood was turning acidic, and the excessive thirst was her body trying to flush out the ketones that were building up. 

Type 1 is lifelong. There is no cure. 

Once diagnosed Pixie was having 12-15 injections of insulin per day along with countless finger pricks. We’ve come a long was since her diagnosis and she now has a Omnipod 5 insulin pump which minimises daily injections.  This pump has to be changed every 3 days at home which means she has an injection in her belly every 3 days.  She wears this along with a Dexcom G6 continuous glucose monitor on her arm which measures her blood sugar levels constantly and sends the data to our phones.   This monitor has to be changed every 10 days - so that’s another needle, every 10 days. We are so grateful for this technology, and grateful for insulin as without this she wouldn’t be alive. 

Pixie is a true hero, never complains, she is brave and inspiring. 

Living with T1D is hard. It requires 24hr monitoring and constant decision making. We have to carb count everything she eats and give her the correct amount of insulin to compensate for it.  Too much insulin can drop her levels (Hypo) and kill her, too little insulin can cause her levels to go high (HPYER) and puts her at risk of DKA. 

Please support us to help find a cure for this life changing disease.

Thank you x


Thank you to my Sponsors

£53

Debbie Greenwood

Go Pixie! We’re all with you girl!

£51

Joanne Nolan

Go on my Pixie Bob, good luck to our little hero warrior, we love you Pix, love from uncle Alan and uncle Gaz haha x

£26.50

Gwen

£21.20

Emma Lowe

Pixie the T1 warrior ❤️

£21.20

Christine Nolan

Pixie you have done so well xxx

£21.20

Jenny Dorgan

Good luck Pixie. You can do it. Xxx

£21.20

Astrid Cook

£21.20

Steveo Thompson

Support where it’s needed….🤗

£21.20

The Lawlers

So proud of you Jack, well done. Love Claire, Ste, George & Tommy xx

£21.20

Karen Taylor

Good luck Pixie.

£20

Christine Thompson

£10.60

Sarah Barker

Good luck Lou & Pixie x

£10.60

Katie Lynch

Good luck!

£10.60

The Lees

Good luck Lou and pix ❤️

£10.60

Lynne Puckrin

Good luck and well done x

£10.60

Lee & Jack

£10.60

Anonymous

£10.60

Tracey Carter

£10.60

The Fittons

£10.60

Natalie Duffy

Good luck Pixie x

£10.60

Hayley

£10.60

Kay Hubbard

Well done xx

£10.60

Tiina O’brien

Good luck for your walk 🫶🏼

£10

Elizabeth Conroy

Good luck Lou & Pixie

£10

Rita Coverdale

£10

Kirsty & Newton Tucker

£5.30

Alexe Vin Lil And Ted Xx

£5.30

Helen Rooms

Good luck Pixie xx

£5.30

Rita Nolan

There you go Bob, you did it, £500 love from Rita 🐶