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Dear Friends and Family, On Saturday, October 20th, I will be walking in the JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes, along with my church youth group, friends and family. As you may know I have juvenile diabetes and I am insulin dependant. As a result my life is far from normal. My daily routine is on a constant schedule in order to stay healthy. I check my blood sugar 5 to 8 times a day and I’m constantly pumping insulin through my pump site which I change every 2-3 days. This equates to approximately 2,920 finger sticks and 183 pump site changes every year. Since I have been diagnosed, I have poked my finger over 9,592,200 times, taken 7,300 shots, and inserted insulin pump sites 1,278 times. And this will continue for the rest of my life unless a cure is found. I am the only one in my family with type 1 diabetes. Most people don’t know that it can strike any family and that you can never “grow out of it”. I will be insulin dependant for life. Every day I put great effort into doing things I do not want to do and hoping I do not develop the complications associated with diabetes. You see, the longer I have diabetes the more likely I am to develop complications such as kidney disease, blindness, heart disease, stroke, and nerve damage leading to amputation. Even if I do everything I am supposed to, I can still develop these complications. A cure is the only way out. My team has come together to set a goal of $1,000 and we would like to ask for your support by sending a tax-deductible contribution to us that we can submit to JDRF on that day. Please help me and the millions of other kids fight diabetes and find a cure. JDRF gives more resources to diabetes research than any nonprofit, nongovernmental organization in the world. Over 80% of every dollar raised by JDRF is channeled directly into research efforts. Since 1970, they have provided over $900 million to diabetes research. Please support us by making your check payable to “JDRF” and mail it to my address by October 19th. Thank you for your donations and words of support. We are very grateful!!!

im raising money for my juvenile diabetes walk team. im sending out letters to my friends and family asking for donations. i dont want it to sound pushy and i also dont want to sound pathetic when telling about the struggles of living with diabetes every day... any suggestions?

How old do you have to be to be the captain of a team? I'm 12, and my 13 year old friends want to do it. Do we need an adult?

In other words will he be doing anything that JDRF will sponser or will he perform for all those diabetic fans that he has?

My daughter Alyse is 4 and was diagnosed with Juvenile Diabetes 01/2007. We are raising money to help find a cure but I just cant figure out how to get individuals to become big money donors and I need help please.