Ashlea's fundraising page

My Story

Welcome to my Diabetes UK One Million Step Challenge page! I’m stepping up for Diabetes UK this summer to support the 5 million people in the UK who live with diabetes, day in day out. Not many people know but when I had that fall at the start of the year my back was so sore that I took really strong pain killers which I accidentally overdosed on. Honestly the worst feeling in the world, the pain in my stomach was so bad I was violently sick and couldn’t move or sit still never felt pain like it. The first thing I did was ring my mum 🤣 as you do, she told me to ring 111 who wanted to send an ambulance out to me which I declined as my mum was on her way to me, so I was like “nooooo it’s ok my mum will take me” 🤣🤣 I was grey, cold and felt like I was on a cloud. I still refused to go to the hospital even when me mum got me, so I asked her to take me the walk in centre. I still couldn’t walk with the pain in my back, They done all the usual obs and then they asked if I was diabetic? I was like “nope but I had gestational diabetes” she wanted me to have bloods done there and then as my blood sugars were 17.1 which is bad. She got me an appointment with the doctor late night surgery that night for bloods, so off I went in my happy little cloud 🤪 the nurse wasn’t happy as my bloods hadn’t gone down and she didn’t want to leave my blood samples over night. So the next day I had bloods done and was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes that day. It’s been a bit of a kick in the teeth and the kick up the ass I needed, the tablets that I’ve been taking have had me scared due to them possibly putting my into a hypo as they rapidly bring my blood sugars down. I was having to do my blood 7 times a day which was a pain in the ass and my fingers were killing me, but eating healthier and now exercising has bought my Hba1c from 94 to 70 and are now 61. But I still have a long way to go, to go into remission. I had had a couple of hypos over the past week but I know the signs and what to do, I’ve also had to teach Wayne and the kids how to take my bloods just incase and the kids know to ring an ambulance straight away if they find me unconscious and what to say. From all this blood taking I’ve also found out I’ve got an enlarged fatty liver which they are investigating so I’m doing 1mil steps in 3months for diabetes uk from 1st July till end of September. I’m not asking for much but just a small donation would be a big help. ✌🏽🫶🏽😘 xx