To All My Family and Friends
Each year more than 13,000 childr en are diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in the U.S. Diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the body’s immune system attacks and destroys the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. Unlike Type 2 Diabetes, Type 1 cannot be managed merely with diet, exercise, and oral medication. It strikes suddenly, making its victims dependent on injected insulin for life, and carries the constant threat of devastating complications. Insulin is not a cure for diabetes. It is merely life support until a cure can be found. We desperately want a cure!
We hope you will help our family raise funds for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). JDRF is the world’s largest charitable funder of Type 1 Diabetes research, as well as an advocate for families. JDRF volunteers have been a great support to our family, and we decided to join in helping find a cure--not only for Jayden, but for the millions of other children who, through no fault 
of their own, nor their parents, fall victim to this lifelong disease.
On May 5th 2009, Jayden Gillespie was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. He spent days at Primary Children's Medical Center with his family as they learned how to count carbs and give insulin injections to manage this devastating disease for the rest of his life. We are amazed and inspired by his strength and courage as he deals with all that having Type 1 Diabetes entails. Jayden has a goal to raise $500.00 by the day of the walk, please help us help him and the millions of other children and their families affected by this complicated disease.
We will be walking at Wheeler Farm on August 21th.
We are one of the many people that thought type 1 diabetes could be controlled by insulin. But we have learned that insulin is merely life support for those with type 1 diabetes, it is NOT a cure.
The good news, though, is that a cure for type 1 diabetes is within reach. We are writing 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! We appreciate the opportunity if nothing more than to make you aware and educate you regarding the challenges faced by children and their families dealing with Type 1 diabetes.
Together, we can make the cure a reality, We hope to see the day when Jayden no longer has to count carbs for everything he eats, prick his finger for blood sugar test after test and, is given innumerable insulin injections.We hope that he never sees the long term complications that come as a result of having this disease. By supporting the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation you can help us give him and so many others like him hope for that very future.
Please visit my Walk Web page if you would like to donate online or see how close we are to reaching our personal goal: http://walk.jdrf.org/support.cfm?id=87723514 you can make checks payable to JDRF and the contributions will be given to the JDRF on the day of the walk.
Thank You,
The Gillespie Family
of their own, nor their parents, fall victim to this lifelong disease.
On May 5th 2009, Jayden Gillespie was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. He spent days at Primary Children's Medical Center with his family as they learned how to count carbs and give insulin injections to manage this devastating disease for the rest of his life. We are amazed and inspired by his strength and courage as he deals with all that having Type 1 Diabetes entails. Jayden has a goal to raise $500.00 by the day of the walk, please help us help him and the millions of other children and their families affected by this complicated disease.
We will be walking at Wheeler Farm on August 21th.
We are one of the many people that thought type 1 diabetes could be controlled by insulin. But we have learned that insulin is merely life support for those with type 1 diabetes, it is NOT a cure.
The good news, though, is that a cure for type 1 diabetes is within reach. We are writing 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! We appreciate the opportunity if nothing more than to make you aware and educate you regarding the challenges faced by children and their families dealing with Type 1 diabetes.
Together, we can make the cure a reality, We hope to see the day when Jayden no longer has to count carbs for everything he eats, prick his finger for blood sugar test after test and, is given innumerable insulin injections.We hope that he never sees the long term complications that come as a result of having this disease. By supporting the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation you can help us give him and so many others like him hope for that very future.
Please visit my Walk Web page if you would like to donate online or see how close we are to reaching our personal goal: http://walk.jdrf.org/support.cfm?id=87723514 you can make checks payable to JDRF and the contributions will be given to the JDRF on the day of the walk.
Thank You,
The Gillespie Family
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