JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes

This year, I will be participating in my first JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes, and I will be doing so in Louisville, KY, on October 22, along side my good friend Meredith, who has lived with Type 1 Diabetes for the last 11 years.  I walk in support of Meredith and numerous other friends who live with this disease.

Type 1, or juvenile diabetes, is a devastating disease that affects millions of people, a large and growing percentage of them children.  And as Meredith and hundreds of our friends in the Diabetes Online Community can attest, it is not an easy disease with which to live.

Finger sticks and multiple daily injections of insulin are only part of the hardships that people living with this disease face each and every day.  Type 1 is both financially and emotionally taxing as well.  Speak with Meredith or anyone living with this disease, and it becomes painfully clear why finding a cure is of the utmost importance.

The JDRF funds more type 1 diabetes research than any other charity worldwide and it’s making progress along many promising paths toward better treatments and a cure.

Please join Meredith & me in our walk and fund raising efforts to help find a cure.  Each person who walks or makes a contribution makes a difference, and every penny earned will go a long way in our search for the cure.

We can show the world what can be done when people with all types of diabetes unite for a common cause.

Together, WE can make a Difference!

Mike Durbin, PWD Type 2
www.mydiabeticheart.com