Alex was 11 when his world changed forever; little Abbie was just five.

Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, an auto-immune disease when the pancreas loses the ability to make insulin, Alex and Abbie must endure up to eight finger pricks a day, all foods consumed must be weighed and measured, and then there are the needles; all necessary to avoid a diabetic coma. But there are also other battles to be withstood by both the children and their families living with this lifelong disease – school, social life and stigma.

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