Walk To Cure Diabetes

Donation time....

If you're interested in supporting Tomas in the Walk To Cure Diabetes (on June 10, 2007 at Beaver Lake) please either email or call with your donation. Tax receipts will be issued in late Summer 2007 for any donations of $20 or over. You may pay by cheque, cash or credit card (support a good cause and earn aeroplan/air miles!).

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation of Canada is dedicated to finding a cure for diabetes and its complications. And we need your help. The insulin that Tomas receives is NOT a cure.

In addition to tightly managing his diet Tomas' treatment includes finger pokes between 5 and 9 times a day and insulin injections 3 or more times a day.

Over 200,000 Canadians are afflicted with Type 1 (juvenile) diabetes – many of them children. Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure and lower limb amputation and a leading cause of adult blindness, nerve damage and heart disease. Insulin is not a cure.

You may be interested to know that Canada has the third highest occurrence rate of Type 1 diabetes in children 14 years or younger in the world and the Type 1 diabetes occurrence rate is rising by 3 - 5% per year; the greatest rise occurring in 5 - 9 year olds. No one knows why but what we do know is the constant demands of Type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is NOT brought on due to lifestyle choices it is a chronic autoimmune disease.

There have been great advances and each year research provides more promising hope for everything from reducing the number of daily finger pokes to creating an artificial pancreas to restoring the insulin-producing beta cells that are destroyed by Type 1 diabetes and most importantly developing a cure for Type 1 diabetes.

Thank you very much in advance for your generosity. With your support the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation will realize its mission; to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research. We hope that children with diabetes will soon be able to enjoy happy, active, normal lives. Together we can make great strides in finding a cure for diabetes.

For more information check out the JDRF website: http://jdrf.ca/

Thanks, Tomas-hockey-player-K. (and family)