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…
A Successful First Diabetes Walk
April & I traveled to Indianapolis on Sunday to participate in the American Diabetes Association’s 20th Annual Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes event. It was the very first time that I’ve participated in a diabetes walk since my diagnosis nearly three years ago. And I much say that it was an unqualified success in terms of both surpassing my fund raising goal and my completing the walk itself. Thanks to the generous support of friends and family, I raised $200 for the event. Which was twice the amount I had set for a goal. Yay! April & I enjoyed the event and it was great to share my first diabetes walk with Cherise, her husband Scott and daughter Niya,…
Help me reach my Step Out goal
On October 2, I will be taking part in the American Diabetes Association’s Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes event in Indianapolis. This will be the very first time I’ve been able to participate in a diabetes walk since being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and Congestive Heart failure in late December 2008. I am extremely excited and proud to be doing so. I’m hoping to meet and exceed the $100 fund raising goal that I’ve set and that’s where you come in. By making a donation on my behalf, you will be helping the ADA provide community-based education programs, protect the rights of people with diabetes and fund critical research for a cure. No matter how small or large,…
Stepping Out to Walk to Cure Diabetes
Over the last couple of years, I’ve given considerable thought to participating in the various diabetes walks hosted by the American Diabetes Association and the JDRF, but because of the weakened state of my heart, I just didn’t have strength or energy to do so. Wanting to be involved in some way, though, I decided that if I couldn’t walk myself, I could at least make contributions to the fund raising efforts of fellow Diabetes Online Community members. And I’ve done so proudly. While I’ve found great reward in being able to support everyone else, though, it just isn’t the same as participating in the walk and fund raising efforts myself. And that’s what I’ve really wanted. To be out…