Jake's Battle JDRF Type 1 Diabetes - 2011

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It was one year ago today, September 20 th 2010, that our lives changed forever… Jake was diagnosed with Insulin dependant diabetes.

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We never would have known when God blessed us with our perfect baby boy, that seven years later he would develop this devastating, incurable disease.

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On the outside, children with type 1 diabetes look like every other kid.

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Jake still loves to be silly

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Play baseball and football

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And have fun with friends and family

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And have fun with friends and family

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But on the inside he faces a life long struggle as his pancreas no longer produces the insulin needed to keep him alive.

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Injectable Insulin is not a cure, it is life support . It allows us to manage this disease but not control it.

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Every minute of everyday is a constant balancing act between activity, food, emotions and insulin… always hoping that our hard work will minimize the devastating complications of this disease.

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There is no guarantee… Despite all of our efforts

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Diabetes does not take vacations.

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It does not stop for sleeping.

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It does not stop for celebrations

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…or for holidays.

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Jake’s days of being a carefree child are over. He can’t just hop on his bike and go for a ride or grab a snack…he needs to test his blood sugar first

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And take insulin EVERYTIME he eats ANYTHING

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Jake has been living the last year enduring at least 10 finger sticks per day and… multiple daily injections just to stay alive.

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Since diagnosis one year ago, he has had over 3,700 finger sticks, 700 injections and almost 100 pump insertions.

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He has been very brave, but unless we find a cure he will have to go through his entire life like this and could suffer the complications that a lifetime of diabetes causes.

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Please help by donating to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) so we can one day find a cure before diabetes…

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Can take his vision…

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His limbs…

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His Kidneys……

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or his Heart.

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or his Heart.

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We are hopeful a cure will one day be found. That is why we walk http://www2.jdrf.org/goto/JakeMarchetta