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Hi folks,
I joined your group because my father is a long term type 1 diabetic of over fifty years. He has been using an insulin pump for quite some time and it was donated to him as an old second hand pump as he has been on a disability pension since he was in his mid forties due to complications from diabetes and my mother has been on a carer's allowance as he had vast problems with hypoglycaemia prior to going on the pump, which did not cure the problem, but did help it a lot. The pump failed on Monday and he is back to injections and severe hypos.
They have been saving to have the roof of their home repaired as it had a smallish tree fall on it, and is in poor condition in other areas. It looks like now that they will have to put their savings towards a new pump and I can't help them as I am a single parent with two children on a disability pension due to severe burns in a fuel explosion in 2004.
I am wondering if somebody has a spare pump in good condition that they could loan, sell, donate, anything to get him back off the needles as he is not going to last much longer on them, plus if they do not get their roof fixed they are extremely vulnerable to the many severe storms that occur this time of year.
I leave it in your hands and hope and pray that somebody can help out a decent old pair of battlers, who find themselves in an emergency situation, and who would give the shirts from their own backs to help out somebody else in trouble.
Sincere regards,
Roger Barnes
I joined your group because my father is a long term type 1 diabetic of over fifty years. He has been using an insulin pump for quite some time and it was donated to him as an old second hand pump as he has been on a disability pension since he was in his mid forties due to complications from diabetes and my mother has been on a carer's allowance as he had vast problems with hypoglycaemia prior to going on the pump, which did not cure the problem, but did help it a lot. The pump failed on Monday and he is back to injections and severe hypos.
They have been saving to have the roof of their home repaired as it had a smallish tree fall on it, and is in poor condition in other areas. It looks like now that they will have to put their savings towards a new pump and I can't help them as I am a single parent with two children on a disability pension due to severe burns in a fuel explosion in 2004.
I am wondering if somebody has a spare pump in good condition that they could loan, sell, donate, anything to get him back off the needles as he is not going to last much longer on them, plus if they do not get their roof fixed they are extremely vulnerable to the many severe storms that occur this time of year.
I leave it in your hands and hope and pray that somebody can help out a decent old pair of battlers, who find themselves in an emergency situation, and who would give the shirts from their own backs to help out somebody else in trouble.
Sincere regards,
Roger Barnes