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I can do it!!!!
Goal: $300.00
Achieved: $435.00
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Dear Friends and Family
As you may know, I have accepted the challenge and am participating in the 26th annual Nordstrom Beat the Bridge to Beat Diabetes on Sunday, May 18. The event benefits the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and their mission to find a cure for diabetes and end its often deadly complications.
I am eager to get started and I need your support! I have pledged to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Your support will help uncover the clues to finding the cure through the support of research and education about research. It is faster and easier than ever to support this great cause. Please consider making a donation online by simply clicking on the donate button on the side of this page. Whatever you can do will help! I truly appreciate your support and will keep you posted on my progress.
About Diabetes
Did you know that more than one million Americans have juvenile (type 1) diabetes; a disease which strikes children suddenly, makes them insulin dependent for life, and carries the constant threat of devastating complications. Someone is diagnosed with juvenile diabetes every hour. It can and does strike adults as well.
In juvenile diabetes, a person's pancreas produces little or no insulin, a hormone necessary to sustain life. Although the causes are not entirely known, scientists believe the body's own immune system attacks and destroys insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. It is not caused by obesity or by eating excessive sugar, which are two common myths about juvenile diabetes. Each year approximately 30,000 Americans are diagnosed with juvenile diabetes, over 13,000 of whom are children. That's 35 children each and every day.
We need people like you on my team.
I know diabetes likely touches your life in some way. Think about the ways that diabetes has impacted those around you. The money we raise will go to find a cure and bring and end to this disease for the millions who have to endure its deadly complications.
We need your support, so please do anything you can, make a donation on my behalf or register as an individual if you'd like to participate in the event. The more the merrier!
Thank you so much for all of your support. With your help I'm sure to Beat the Bridge and help Beat diabetes.
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