Testimonial from Nicole, Victoria
“On a mission to help my partner (diagnosed at 26) better manage his own type 1 diabetes, I stumbled across Type1Screen. I didn’t hesitate to quickly register our daughters aged 10 & 5 years.
I had my suspicions about the 10 year old, so when we received a phone call from the Type1Screen team I wasn’t surprised. She had tested positive for antibodies.
Two days later after eating some cake and feeling tired, I used her dad’s glucometer to check her levels; it consistently read 17mmol/L. She was later clinically diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne.
We couldn’t be more thankful to A. Professor John Wentworth and the Type1Screen team for the amazing work they are doing. As upsetting as it was to find out our daughter had type one like her dad, we are extremely happy it happened the way it did. Thanks to Type1Screen she presented to the hospital as a healthy happy kid when most start off in ICU, so for that we are so glad to have found Type1Screen.
Moving forward I have arranged for our youngest to be screened every 6 months. There is nothing negative to say about the experience we’ve had. Our youngest might say different when her next blood test kit comes in the mail, but knowing her future is better than not knowing at all.”
Nicole, Victoria
