Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: fundraising, JDRF, type 1 diabetes, walk
On the eve of her JDRF walk fundraising efforts, Charlotte’s mom has created a special video in Charlotte’s honor… hope you’ll take a minute to watch and be inspired… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PSN9-Q2iJY
Yesterday I learned an important lesson… the importance of just asking for what you need or want. I approached my daughters’ daycare director about holding a diabetes walk to fundraise for JDRF and she quickly and enthusiastically agreed. I had carefully prepared what I was going to say and had anticipated a negative response so I was ready to ask her to give it some thought and then decide – which I still ended up saying, so I suppose I’ve now opened the door for her to change her mind, but I sure hope she won’t.
I’m so excited but now also nervous about how I’m going to make this work and be a success. I’ll be reviewing the walk materials JDRF has provided this weekend and start to make some plans! This is so cool!
Alright now, who’s ready to take me seriously and put your dollars to work… I’ve made this lovely chart an everything… let’s have some fun… who’s ready to buy mile 30? how about mile 130? how about mile 300? Making cute graphics is fun and motivating, but seeing some donations would really make my heart sing! Feel free to use the online donation tool. Don’t make me call you out by name…. I’m doing my part- can you do yours?
So part of my “walk a mile” is literal walking and as of right now I have logged 12,919 steps or approximately 5.71 miles today on behalf of my mission. I actually got up early and got out on the track for a 30 minute walk and I have to admit that while I was fretting about running late and not wanting to walk the full 30 minutes all it took was thinking for a minute would I be questioning my dedication to walk if Charlotte were on the sideline watching? That’s all it took for me to stay with it and walk the full 30 minutes I had committed to, which happened to be the first 4,000 or so steps of my day.
Today was unusual in that I had a training to conduct in the hospital, which gave me the opportunity to schlep a quarter mile there and back, walk the room for the hour and a half training, not to mention my dash to the cafeteria and back before we started to scarf down lunch. So, I’m not sure 12,000+ steps is realistic for everyday, but we will see!
So only 495 miles left to go!
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 500 miles, fundraising, JDRF, type 1 diabetes, walk
So I’ve decided I’m on a mission… you see I have these two nieces with much the same story. Kaelyn will be turning 8 this June and Charlotte will be turning 5 in August. Both girls were diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes (or juvenile diabetes) around the age of 2 following a GI virus that unknowingly set off a dramatic immune response in their tiny little bodies and attacked their panacreas. It amazes me to watch both girls deal with a chronic disease at such young ages and breaks my heart at the same time. I’m busy raising “healthy” twins who are just 7 weeks younger than Charlotte, so I try to imagine walking in my sister’s shoes as she raises Charlotte and contends with her disease daily. And I’ve also watched in awe as my sister-in-law deals not only with Kaelyn’s diabetes but also a diagnosis of Celiac disease – essentially a gluten allergy, which only complicates matters more.
Each year Charlotte and my sister, Michelle, and Kaelyn and my sister-in-law, Anne sponsor JDRF walk teams in the girls’ honor and raise funds to seek a cure. Unfortunately my girls, Hannah and Sarah, and I don’t get to join them as we all live in different states. So this year, I’m on a journey from now until Charlotte’s walk date – 173 days from now- to walk 500 miles – walking in her shoes to raise awareness and hopefully, some money too, for JDRF and a cure. I’ll chronicle my journey here – I’m not sure where the path will lead but I’m excited to begin.
You can visit my JDRF fundraising page at
| http://walk.jdrf.org/walker.cfm?id=87014117 |
