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Last call for donations for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

Hey everyone! This is my last plea for help, and I hope you’ll answer the call!! This year, I’ve signed up as a team captain for JDRF’s Walk to Cure Diabetes. I set a pretty high personal goal for myself to raise $1000 for the cause, and so, I’m currently recruiting team members and trying to collect donations. Right now, I am ridiculously far from reaching that goal, and I’m counting on you to help me get there!!

For those not familiar with JDRF, here’s a little background:

Type 1, or juvenile, diabetes, is a devastating, often deadly disease that affects millions of people–a large and growing percentage of them children.

Many people think type 1 diabetes can be controlled by insulin. While insulin does keep people with type 1 diabetes alive, it is NOT a cure. Aside from the daily challenges of living with type 1 diabetes, there are many severe, often fatal, complications caused by the disease.

That’s the bad news… and yes, it’s pretty bad.

The good news, though, is that a cure for type 1 diabetes is within reach. In fact, JDRF funding and leadership is associated with most major scientific breakthroughs in type 1 diabetes research to date. And JDRF funds a major portion of all type 1 diabetes research worldwide, more than any other charity.

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is a great cause, and I’m hoping many of you will get involved. Anyone who has diabetes or know someone who does knows just how hard it can be to live with.

Now, those of you who live in the area are more than welcome to join my team and walk with me. The walk will take place on March 27, from 9:00 – 10:00 am here in Jacksonville, NC. So if you live close to Jacksonville, I hope you’ll sign up as a walker. You’ll get a chance to help raise money for a fantastic cause, we’ll have a fun morning, and heck, you can also meet me (since I’m just so amazing and all). It’ll be a great time, and I hope to see some of you there. For those of you who don’t live in the area, I hope you’ll find it in you to be generous and donate. I set a pretty darn high goal for myself, and I’m definitely going to need help getting there! But I’m hoping that all of us together can not only meet that goal but exceed it. I have absolute faith in all of you. Honestly, even $5 helps. If a lot of you each donate a small amount, it WILL add up. Please don’t feel like you can’t donate anything because it’s “not enough”. Like I said, the small donations add up, so please, be generous and give to a good cause — even if it’s just a little bit.

So, if you’d like to sign up to join my team or donate to sponsor me in the walk, you can do either here. Together, we can help make a difference!

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  • JFH says:

    Cassy,

    I’ll donate (as soon as my wife goes to bed just because we’ve been discussing controlling our budget tonight, so it wouldn’t go over well right now).

    That said, I’d be interested in how you got involved with this charity. I mean I’d always given 5-20 dollars when I had friends or relatives do these JDRF walks, but never gave it much thought, you know, like giving to the Salvation Army or MS or any other worthy charity…

    That all changed almost two years ago (April 3rd will be exactly two years ago), when my little girl, just 6 years old at the time was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. As you’ve said, yes we can control the disease with insulin, but its still a chain around the neck of every diabetic. If you go without food for 24 hours, you’d be hungry; if a diabetic goes without insulin for 24 hours, he/she could easily die.

    I feel for the people that have Type 2 diabetes, but they can almost always “cure” themselves by a proper diet (which the lack of typically caused the problem in the first place) and pills. Type 1 diabetics don’t have this option. Not only, do they have to control their diet everyday, but still have to take insulin to stay alive.

    Thanks for doing this Cassy

  • mj says:

    I was curious about why you selected this charity, too. I even tried looking it up with Google several weeks back.

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