'We thought it was growing pains'

23 June 2012
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Sam Rowbotham spent five days being treated in hospital when he was diagnosed


When 10-year-old Sam Rowbotham was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, his parents felt awful.
"We thought it was growing pains at the time. He had grown a lot, maybe four or five centimetres. We put them together and thought it was puberty," says his father Gareth, from

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