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Katie Smith
Diagnosed 2018
"I remember being out with my friends and thinking ‘I'm different now, I wonder if I'll ever feel like part of the group again?'"
When Katie Smith met a former work colleague and discovered that they both live with type 1 diabetes she felt a weight fall off her shoulders.