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Kathy Skantzos

I'm walking for a world without type one diabetes

Please help me reach my goal!

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$3,222.05

My Goal

$5,000

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Can test blood sugar levels in a child participating in an ‘artificial pancreas’ trial
$50
Can test whether a baby or child is likely to get T1D in a world-first screening study
$125
Can pay the daily salary of a mid-career T1D researcher to make their ground-breaking findings
$250
Can pay for a participant in a trial to investigate a cutting-edge T1D prevention drug

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Living with T1D

For those who don't know, this year will be 19 years for me living with T1D. I've been injecting insulin multiple times a day since then, trialing insulin pumps and doing literally thousands of insulin injections each year and tracking my blood sugar 24/7 including overnight, at work, on weekends.. I never get a rest day from it. It is invisible yet all-consuming, it requires constant vigilance and there has been no off switch this whole time. I heard someone say recently it's like carrying a newborn with you at all times every day, and that is kind of how it feels; it is the most difficult challenge I've faced and I've not been able to turn the "off switch" for even 5 mins, even at night when you should be able to switch off. I've been hearing it since diagnosis that a cure is only 5 years away, but the idea that a cure could actually be on the cards in the next 5 years brings me so much hope and hopeful relief to almost two decades of monitoring and balancing blood sugar and trying to do the job of an organ at every moment of every day. 

Here's an article I wrote for National Diabetes Week, published in The West Australian in 2016 - 10 years ago now!

I'm walking for a world without type 1 diabetes this March!

I'm joining the world's largest type 1 diabetes (T1D) fundraising event virtually this March! That means I'm walking 140,000 steps from 1-31 March 2026 for the 140,000+ Australians living with T1D. 

Why? To help raise $1.1 million for life-changing T1D research, and ultimately turn type 1 into type NONE.

T1D can strike anyone at any time, and 8 Australians are diagnosed every day. Diagnosis means a 24/7 fight with no break, and facing an extra 180 decisions a day to remain safe and healthy. 

Please support my walk today. 

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Thank you to my Sponsors

$1.02k

Me

For the 1000s of insulin injections I've given myself over the years xx

$500

Helen Skantzos

Go for it Kathy. Love mum

$250

Au

$211

Nino

🙂🤞🏼

$158.25

Brother

💕good luck!!!!!

$131.88

Mark Pownall

Go Kathy

$131.88

Cu

$131.88

Mark Beyer

Good work, Kathy.

$125

Doug Manuel

$125

The Keenan Family

We're proud to support your walk for a world without type 1 diabetes.

$54.12

Will

$54.12

Temika

$54.12

Anonymous

$54.12

Chris Wilson

Awesome work Kathy!

$54.12

Vanessa Stoykov

Well done! Cheering you on as always 😊🏆

$27.81

Bo Wong

$27.81

Claire

You can do it - you're an inspiration :)

$27.81

Michael O’brien

$27.81

Sarah Augustin

Good luck Kathy !

$27.81

Anonymous

$27.51

Lucas O'farrell