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Most of the teams who participate in our local JDRF Walk for a Cure are composed of friends and family walking for a child with diabetes. The child gets to be the focus of attention for a fun-filled day of raising awareness for that which normally separates him (or her) from his friends. There's also the smattering of company, corporate, and fraternal teams walking in the name of public service.

 

And then there's the third type of team: those who walk to honor the memory of a loved one killed by diabetes.

 

Memorial teams may be the fewest in number, but they serve as a poignant reminder of why we must walk - why we must continue to walk - and why insulin is not a cure.

 

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Once you get past the congestion of sheer numbers and the mix of colors, designs, and graphic techniques, there's one thing that stands out on every team shirt at the Seaside Heights, NJ JDRF Walk: cure. It's not just because the event is called the Walk to Cure Diabetes (emphasis mine), or because insulin is "not a cure" for autoimmune diabetes. It's not because parents are struggling to pay for their children's pumps and CGMs, or because adversity breeds strength.

 

 

The reason we see the word cure is same reason we see another word on team names and slogans, and that word is hope.

 

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While I posted yesterday that Nick Jonas was in New York Sunday for the Diabetes Research Institute's Carnival for a Cure, I didn't mention much about the event itself. Billed as "New York City's largest indoor carnival," the event was a cross between a street fair and an arcade, aimed largely at the under-twelve crowd. Three walls of the Metropolitan Pavillion were lined with inflatable mazes, slides, and bounce rooms, and a human-powered "mechanical bull". Several street-fair games-of-skill, aimed again at the under-twelve set, occupied a block of canopies in the center of the room. Prize tickets were given to the winners, and by the end of the afternoon almost every family there was wrangling multiple shopping bags of toys. (READ MORE)

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I guess technically, I joined the diabetes online community back in October, 2005 when I joined dLife, and I became active in the overall DOC some time in 2008 -- but it wasn't until this year that I, and others, had the opportunity to "eyeball" the folk we'd been e-mailing, blogging to, commenting blog posts from, tweeting, and otherwise conversing with on various diabetes-related forums and social networks. 2009 is also the year dLife launched the dLife Community, and the year I started blogging here at Blogabetes.

 

 

Some of my year's highlights include:

 

March

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He doesn’t say "if there’s a cure." He says, "When there’s a cure."

 

We are on our way to Carlucci’s, a restaurant that will donate 15% of one night’s dinner sales to JDRF.

 

I glance at Charlie in the rear-view mirror.

 

"When there’s a cure, I’m going to take my pump, jump up in the air and smash it down on the ground like football players do when they score a touchdown."

 

"You mean you’re going to spike it?" I ask.

 

"Mmhmm."

 

"And I’m going to throw all of my diabetes supplies in the garbage."

 

He stares through the car window at used car dealerships and strip malls, thinking longer about it.

 

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Charlie’s Angels were in large numbers for the JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes. It was a great day. So cool seeing all of our friends and family coming together for our cause.

 

We looked pretty darn spiffy in our T-shirts designed by Charlie. Of course he managed to make it a hockey theme - completely ignoring my suggestion for T-shirts based on the movie, The Piano, about a mute Scotswoman sold into marriage to a New Zealand frontiersman.

 

 

 

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The winners of the first annual Chachi Awards wore their medals with pride.

 

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[This post follows "A Day At the Races (I) — Before the Event", where I discussed some of the work that goes into setting up a fundraising walk, run, or ride.]

 

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When I was in grade school, regardless of whether our Trick-or-Treat costumes were home-made or store-bought, whether we wore masks or make-up, our huge paper loot bags were accompanied by small orange milk cartons stamped with information from UNICEF -- The United Nations Children's Fund. Printed on the cartons were examples of what a small donation might do for a child in a third-world country -- a nickel, for example, might provide a child with a pencil and notebook for school; a dollar might vaccinate him against smallpox or polio; five dollars could get his town clean water. The following school day, our teachers would collect the milk containers. The local PTA would count up the money and submit the school's UNICEF donation for that year.

 

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Just about a month until our Walk to Cure Diabetes. I’m hoping for a good homestretch. Fundraising is hard.

 

I actually did get a response from the golf course regarding my request for a "Longest Marshmallow Drive for Diabetes" competition. Just getting a response is half the battle. They said they were intrigued with the idea and asked me to submit a proposal with details of the event. They wanted to know how much space I needed and how far a golfer can hit a marshmallow? Good question. I bought a bag of marshmallows to test it out, but never did because the marshmallows were all conjoined in one big sticky lump. I’m not much of a golfer anyway. I hope I get this fundraising event. Crossing fingers.

 

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