2009 JDRF Walk To Cure Diabetes!

[LadyBug]

NorthernAutumn wrote:

Keep it up girl!
Proud of you for taking this on... people like you make research happen!

aww, thanks:hug:

Dying to see pictures of you in your T-shirt

i'm dying to see me in my shirt too.....the graphics i made turned out with colored fuzz wheni printed them out and i couldn't fix it. read all about it here.

here's what Fran did for me-

isn't it great?!?!?! she matched the colors and fonts so good. Mom and i are thrilled, i think Mom's going to try and do the shirts tomorrow. i'll let y'all know how that goes, it's our first time with the printable transfers:shock:!

i'll try and get mom to up load photos early next week and when she does that i'll post some:dude:!

our team is up to 18:shock::biggrin2::dude::scared::highfive::bunnydance:inkelepht::thumbup:balloons:inkbouce::jumpforjoy::yes::dancingorig:arty:!!!!!

that's our biggest team ever!

 

[trailsend]

Good luck Anna! What an amazing job you've done. I bet the t-shirts are going to look great - can't wait to see pictures!

 

[LadyBug]

trailsend wrote:

Good luck Anna! What an amazing job you've done. I bet the t-shirts are going to look great - can't wait to see pictures!

they do look great! except for the JDRF logo on the back of one shirt(we ran out of paper:rollseyes) their all done, mom stayed up ironing. a few have hairs underneath the transfer however that look strangly like Prince and Jamie hairs........and neither one of them had been anywhere near the shirts:?!

the walk is 4 DAYS AWAY!

 

[LadyBug]

Well, our team is down to 15. one of our families the mom came down with the flu:shock:!

THE WALK IS 2 DAYS AWAY!!!

 

[LadyBug]

arty0002:arty0002:arty0002:WALK DAY IS TOMORROW!!!arty0002:arty0002:arty0002:




:bunnydance::bunny24:highfive::rainbow:inkelepht::thumbupink iris::hyper::sunshine::balloons:inkbouce::magicwand::jumpforjoy::yes:



:bouquet::happyrabbit::headflick::bunny18:rabbithop:thankyou::yahoo::laughsmiley::weee:arty:

 

[TinysMom]

I'm so excited for you - enjoy the day!

 

[LadyBug]

TinysMom wrote:

I'm so excited for you - enjoy the day!

I'm sure i/we will! i have one girl friend who's spending the night and another that we're picking up on our way out of town, so loads on fun:biggrin2:. we're also going to bop into the mall for a bit afterwards hopefully:nasty:!

Em's complaining about having 2 more teenage 'sisters' for the night/morning, though:rollseyes:coolness:!

 

[LadyBug]

WALK DAY IS HERE!!

Hey guys! been up for ten minutes, walk morning is insanely early.............

oh well. me and my friend are the only ones up, but i gotta go find mom, my blood sugars through the roof-240:shock:! normally it's low on walk morning-go figure

we'll be leaving at 7:30 and i finally get to meet one of the girls(and her family)i've been mentoring through JDRF! so mom and i are really excited about that:biggrin2:!

I'll post and let y'all know how it is!

 

[slavetoabunny]

How did it go Anna! I hope you had a wonderful day. The weather certainly cooperated with you!

 

[LadyBug]

we had a really good time, some of us were really tired and the music was loud, but we still managed to party until 12:dude::biggrin2:! the weather was nice, a little warm when we were walking, but still better than 2007 when we all froze. didn't get the total number of walkers and money at ending time but i'm sure there will be an e-mail soon and i'll post that as soon as i can. i have $1030 dollars counted right now but there's a few people who are still giving me money, so that's not our final countinkelepht:inkbouce:.

i'm sure mom took loads of pictures, i'll post as soon as i can, some time next week probably.

thanks for all the donations and support guys, it means the world to me:blushan:

 

[slavetoabunny]

Good job! I was thinking about you today. It looks like you may come close to achieving your donation goal.

 

[pinksalamander]

Oooh! Let me see how the t-shirts went!

 

[LadyBug]

pinksalamander wrote:

Oooh! Let me see how the t-shirts went!

I'll e-mail you pictures as soon as mom up loads them. i took a camera, mom's old one that she sat up for me, and it was supposed to have 30(ish) pictures left on the card and when i tried to take a picture it said 'card full', so i have to wait on mom and we'll be gone at church and grandma's house tomorrow

 

[LadyBug]

hey guys. we got the pictures up loaded....monday? i'm at grandma's right now on her computer cause mom has another doctors appointment(for those of you that haven't heard, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer two weeks ago today. she'll be doing chemo and surgery, not sure what and when yet, though). anyway, as soon as i get some time i'll post pics(i've been really busy helping mom get the house and stuff in order. plus i had a endo(diabetes doctor) appointment on tuesday!).

thanks for your patience!
life is soo crazy right now:tears2:

 

[LadyBug]

ok, so i'm back at Grandma's.........but i had the for thought to up load to photo bucket before ileft the house. so here's some of the walk day pictures!

team photo-

that's me front and center with the little girl, two of my three best friends to the left of me, my grandparents and my mom to the right along with my sister and her friend and some friends from church.

my sister Emily(the one sans head wear) and her friend

me, molly, michaela and aunt shirley

my friends and i under the balloon arch at the start of the walk

molly, me and michaela

lunch

Emily fussing at uncle mike(who is affectionately called 'trouble' by Em and i...course, he calls me trouble too:shock::?)

these pictures i have daubed 'the hat' pictures. this is the ball cap i got with one of my team logos from cafepress. i just think it's really cool that mom got pictures of it on all of us!

me, trying to get away from Emily's teasing(about my other best friend who happens to be a guy. she thinks we should be together:rollseyes:shock::Xssd

michaela, looking funkay

and molly, being forced into it:biggrin2:




we had a really good time, which is exactly what mom was going for. she told me and Em 24 hours later that she had breast cancer. she knew before the walk but didn't want it to spoil the day for us. i should have a new team total soon, but tentatively it should be about $1168....maybe $1268ish! so we did really good!

thanks for all the support, posts and donations guys(i'll try to remember to post the thank you letter when i get home(some time next week))!

 

[LadyBug]

slavetoabunny wrote:

It looks like you may come close to achieving your donation goal.

we've exceed it:biggrin2::coolness::dude:!
new total-$1533(my $1498+another walker's $35)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:bunnydance::highfive::thumbupinkelepht::balloons:inkbouce::yes:arty::happyrabbit::bunny18:thankyou:arty0002::trio:yahoo::clapping::big kiss::jumpforjoy:
and counting.............:biggrin2:

 

[DeniseJP]

Congratulations on a good walk!

I got outfitted with a continuous glucose monitoring device today - it is temporarily downloading information for three days then I remove it and send it in to the doctors to download the data. If you have seen dolphins getting tagged with devices to track them, that it what the thing I am wearing looks like (and felt like when they stuck me with it!).

Today's read is going to look like a rollercoaster - from 46 to 331 and everything in between but this is what we are trying to figure out why I am stable one minute and then high or low the next. My goal is an A1C of 7. I have yet to see something below a 9.

When I was diagnosed 19 years ago this past February, I was on 4-5 shots a day. The pump has made things easier but I agree with you - insulin is NOT a cure - just a patch until they figure out why this disease happens and how to prevent it from happening and how to fix it if it does.

Congratulations for a successful walk and all you and your team did to help find a cure. We will get it done, one step at a time.

Denise :highfive:

 

[LadyBug]

DeniseJP wrote:

Congratulations on a good walk!

I got outfitted with a continuous glucose monitoring device today - it is temporarily downloading information for three days then I remove it and send it in to the doctors to download the data. If you have seen dolphins getting tagged with devices to track them, that it what the thing I am wearing looks like (and felt like when they stuck me with it!).

Today's read is going to look like a rollercoaster - from 46 to 331 and everything in between but this is what we are trying to figure out why I am stable one minute and then high or low the next. My goal is an A1C of 7. I have yet to see something below a 9.

When I was diagnosed 19 years ago this past February, I was on 4-5 shots a day. The pump has made things easier but I agree with you - insulin is NOT a cure - just a patch until they figure out why this disease happens and how to prevent it from happening and how to fix it if it does.

Congratulations for a successful walk and all you and your team did to help find a cure. We will get it done, one step at a time.

Denise :highfive:

(sorry i didn't see this, things have been crazy with mom)

yeah, i know what those look like, one of my long-term mentees, a four year old, has one that she wears all the time. the thing covers most of the back of her arm! but it has helped her mom alot, especially since she's so little and most of the time can't feel her lows.

 

[JadeIcing]

You are someone to admire. You handle this better than a lot of adults I know.

 

[LadyBug]

JadeIcing wrote:

You are someone to admire. You handle this better than a lot of adults I know.

thanks Ali:hugsquish:!