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Article: Health Zone: Nikki is 28 and diabetic. She can't get drunk, eat chocolate, skip meals or smoke. If she does she risks slipping into a coma, blindness, and having her legs amputated. Our unhealthy lifestyles mean diabetes has now spread from the middle-aged to the young. So are you at risk of getting ..pains and needles.(Features)
- Article from:
- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 28, 2002
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Byline: SALLY JANES
NIKKI Exton stares at the syringe, knowing precisely what she has to do but unable to summon the courage to do it.
For two days, she has been trying to inject herself, with a district nurse sitting by her side, gently coaxing her.
At 28, Nikki has been diagnosed with diabetes. She feels overwhelmed by the prospect of a lifetime of daily injections - and now she has been sitting on her bed for hours, butterflies in her stomach, eyeing the syringe.
Eventually, she forces herself to touch her skin gently with the needle. ...