Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation JDRF Walking for A Cure

Help Support Carter's Crew

We invite you to support your Garden Crossings team in the "Walk For A Cure" to help raise money for JDRF research. All donations are tax deductible. Online donation can be made at the JDRF website!

Carter Grasman at age 6. Please support my walk!

In 2006 juvenile diabetes hit very close to the heart of Garden Crossings when our, at the time, four year old son Carter was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. This year Garden Crossings has put together a team of walkers to raise money for JDRF research.

JDRF Facts:

Every hour of every day, someone is diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, the most severe form of a disease that annually accounts for more than $100 billion in health care costs in the U.S. alone. Usually striking before the age of 30, type 1 diabetes takes a harsh toll on people. Not only will they be insulin-dependent for life, but devastating life-limiting and life-shortening complications such as blindness, amputation, heart disease and stroke, and kidney failure are an ever-present threat. Insulin is not a cure for the disease—it is merely life support.

Type 1 diabetes is destructive both to children and to childhood. Controlling the disease requires 24/7/365 vigilance and imposes a grueling regimen. It includes eating a carefully calculated diet, checking blood glucose levels several times each day (by lancing a finger) and insulin injections—as many as six per day—or delivery of insulin through a pump just to stay alive. It means children and families living by the clock, day and night, for the rest of their lives—lives that turn out to average about 15 years less than normal.

You can't outgrow type 1 diabetes. As JDRF International Chairman Mary Tyler Moore has said, "Diabetes is an all too personal time bomb which can go off today, tomorrow, next year, or ten years from now—a time bomb affecting millions...one which must be defused." The only solution is a cure. That's why JDRF has a singular mission: to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research as soon as possible.

Carter's Story!

In the Fall of 2006, our son CARTER was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. Carter is doing well. He is such a brave little boy. It has been a learning experience for all of us to know how to best care for his needs. He gets 5-6 injections a day. Carter started Kindergarten this year which was an adjustment for him and also for his mom. Now that he was in school for lunch 2 days a week this meant that mom had to go to school every lunch time to give him his shot. Carter thought it was cool that his mom got to be there every day. With your generous donation, someday they will find a cure for all these children.

In September 2008, our family will be walking for a second year to support the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Carter's Personal goal this year is $6,000.( He wants to beat last years $4,726 raised) He would appreciate any support that you could give him for this very worthwhile cause.

Since there are 18 million Americans affected by diabetes, we believe that our work with JDRF is a important and well worth the effort.

Please visit Carter's Walk Web page if you would like to donate online. All donations are tax deductible.
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Thank you so much for your help!!!!

Rod & Heidi
Logan, Carter, & Marissa Grasman