JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes

Dear Friends and Family,

I'm writing to you to ask for your support in a very special cause.

As you may know, I have type 1 diabetes. In fact, this July marked my 10th year of having diabetes. I blogged and chronicled my own diabetes story in four parts (if you follow this link, scroll down to find the four-part saga).

Once again this year, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is holding a Walk to Cure Diabetes. Over a half-million walkers across the country will participate. Our goal: To raise $100 million to help fund research for a cure for type 1 diabetes and its complications.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.

I'm blogging to ask for your support because now more than ever, EACH of us can be a part of bringing about a cure. Each of us can make a real difference.

Won't you please give to JDRF as generously as you're able?Together, we can make the cure a reality.

Thank you,

Mike

Please visit the Walk webpage of my mother-in-law (Paula Marczak) if you would like to donate online or see how close we are to reaching our goal:

http://walk.jdrf.org/walker.cfm?id=87071335

Follow this link to make a donation:

http://walk.jdrf.org/support.cfm?id=87071335