Kailyn wants to walk to find a cure for Diabetes!

And so we will!
Here is her page.
http://walk.jdrf.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=extranet.personalpage&confirmid=87725312

Kailyn Robie is walking with Team Kailyn on September 19, 2010 in Portland , ME.

Hi!! This year, I'll be walking with my family to try and raise money to find a Cure for Diabetes. I will be riding my bike with my brother Sam and my Mom and Dad will walk and push Keira. We have been practicing and I can ride even farther than 3.5 miles. I am faster than Sam.
Please help me by donating money, even if it is just a dollar, so that we can find a cure. I don't want to prick my fingers anymore all day and night or take shots and wear a pump. I do it because it keeps me healthy, but it would be really cool if I did not have to.If you want to come and walk with us you can. You don't have to donate money to walk with my family. Just come and have fun!!!
Thank you,
Kailyn

"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."