Some walks make memories. Or great music. Take the Beatles' famous walk on Abbey Road.
Other walks save lives. That's where OUR walk comes in. The JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes.
So how can a walk save lives?
Walking for JDRF brings us together as a community. Walking gives us a chance to focus for a moment on a disease that 17 million people must focus on every moment of every day… and as we do, we are part of raising millions of dollars for research towards a cure.
Our son Miles is one of 1.7 million Americans – about 10% of all diabetics – who have Type 1 diabetes. This means he is insulin-dependent. His days are filled with finger pricks to check his blood glucose; insulin doses, and constant monitoring of his health and food intake.
So we walk.
This fall, like you and so many other people, we are raising money to help the people displaced by Hurricanes Rita and Katrina
- many of whom are right here in Houston (in fact two of them have been living in our house for the past 9 days).
Like you, we are happy to help in any way we can.
But we continue to raise money to fund research so that one day a cure for diabetes may be developed.
Miles doesn’t get a day off. So neither do we.
Why JDRF? Because JDRF is committed to one thing: raising money to find a cure for people like Miles.
Insulin keeps Miles alive, but it is not a cure.
And because JDRF has one of the lowest overheads of any organization, spending nearly 90 cents of every dollar raised directly for research.
So we’ll keep walking and raising money and praying for the day that we can say “Our Son used to have diabetes”.
Then, our walks can be walks of gratitude.
Then, as Miles said last year, “We’ll start walking to find a cure for another disease so we can help those people too”.
