Who wouldn't want to meet Nick Jonas?!
Ivie Macy from Ava, MO was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes last year is beating her diabetes by writing about her experiences of living with the disease. She encourages other type 1 diabetics to score a simple win of beating the disease with staying positive.
This amazing 12 year old has submitted a video to Nick Jonas' web site and has been selected as one of the finalists to meet the superstar, but she can't win if you don't vote. Go to the web site and select Ivie's video and vote. You can only vote once a day and the contest is up next Friday (July 31, 2009). So get your friends and family to support the Ozarks' own Ivie Macy to meet Nick Jonas by forwarding the link to your e-mail lists.
Springfield's first annual JDRF Walk To Cure Diabetes hosted over 500 people and raised $25,000 for type 1 diabetes research! It was an outstanding day on May 30, 2009 and we'd like to thank all of our vendors, walkers, supporters and definitely our volunteers. We couldn't have pulled it off without you!
Click on the picture to see more photos from the walk.
Social networking is everywhere. Chances are you have heard of Facebook or MySpace, but JDRF has taken it one step further with their own social networking site specifically for type 1 diabetics.
Although, the site is originally geared for 15-19 year old type 1 diabetics, I am a social networking junkie so therefore I had to check it out. Funny how most of the people I ran into were young adults around my same age.
Nonetheless, it is a great site for blogs, media uploads, forums and groups for people that deal with the same thing every day. So head on over to Juvenation.org and check it out.
Did you wake up and and check your blood sugar today? I did. As well as 246 million people worldwide.
How in the world can you not feel the desperate need for a cure for this disease that affects so many of us? This epidemic has 246 million people dealing with the daily injections, blood sugar tests, doctor appointments, carb counting and everything that comes along with this wretched disease. I feel their pain (literally) when it comes to just the constant nagging voice in the back of your mind saying things to themselves like "I wonder what my blood sugars are" or "why am I so thirsty?" It's exhausting.
The weird thing about it is, that this nagging voice doesn't just speak to people in English. It also nags diabetic children and adults in French, Italian, Japanese and Spanish just to name a few. It may be a different language, but the feelings are still the same. Whether it be that your insides feel like they are caving in because of a low blood sugar or your skin is crawling because of a high blood sugar. It is all the same and it is a universal feeling.
Today is World Diabetes Day and blue is the representative color, hence the reason the text of this post is all in blue. Sorry, the hyperlinks don't stand out for you, but they are still underlined and still highly encouraged that you click on them to find out more. So whether it is a dollar, euro, peso or yen...donate it to our cause and help us find a cure for this disease that much faster.
I know you've seen the Google doodles. Those cute little nods to the season, a specific holiday, or something significant bring life to the generic search engine.
With World Diabetes Day quickly approaching on November 14th, here is your chance to ask Google for our own doodle.
Help us reach our goal of getting 20,000 signatures by November 1, 2008 by signing the petition. The petition is free and the donation at the end is optional. It only takes a few seconds of your time...sign the petition here.
