Our hope is that someday S5Health will be put out of business.
Yes. You read that right. We actually do hope that the online diabetes management resource we offer someday won't be needed, and the millions living with this chronic condition can find freedom from the grueling daily duties we now face.
This may go against any typical business-like bottom line, but this is a dream that we hope will become a reality sooner rather than later. When a cure for diabetes is found, that hope can become a reality for millions of people - that we won't have to count carbohydrates, monitor blood sugars with finger pokes, take insulin injections or be connected to a medical device every day, and we won't have to be as close to our medical teams.
That's my dream, as someone who's been a Type 1 diabetic for 26 years - since the age of 5. That's all I've ever known, and I'd like to think that someday I'll have a chance to know that children won't have to endure the same type of lifestyle that I have. A successful life is possible, but balancing the daily D-duties is challenging and difficult at best.
Now, you have a chance to help turn my hope into a reality.
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) is on the front line to making that happen, funding more Type 1 research than any other charity worldwide. This 40-year-old organization is making progress along many promising paths toward better treatments and a cure, and in a typical year 85% of JDRF expenses support research and education.
The group's largest and most popular annual fundraiser is the Walk To Cure Diabetes, and one of those is the 2010 Central Indiana Walk to Cure Diabetes. This happens Oct. 9, 2010 in Military Park in downtown Indianapolis, one of five walks that happens statewide each year. The state's JDRF raises more than $2 million combined and nationally these walks raise roughly $100 million a year.
S5Health is part of that effort, and we have a walk team excited to be participating in this year's walk. This JDRF walk partnership is only natural, as S5Health offers an important management solution for people with diabetes and their families. In addition to the main online tool for tracking D-Data such as blood sugars, insulin intake, food, and exercise,the S5Health Advantage also enables patients to find educational and training information as well as social networking and interaction within the Diabetes Community.
This year, S5Health has set a goal to raise at least $5,000 for diabetes research. With your help, our team can reach this goal. Please support our team by sending us a tax-deductible contribution, in any amount, made payable to JDRF, or visit this link http://walk.jdrf.org/walker.cfm?id=87727567 if you would like to donate online.
Every dollar helps, but you can participate in more ways than just contributing to this greater cause.
• Corporate Sponsors who donate $250 will get their company name noted as a sponsor of our S5Health team on http://www.s5health.com/. In addition, our corporate sponsors will be promoted by S5Health in a nationally released press announcement about JDRF’s Walk to Cure Diabetes.
• Corporate Sponsors who donate $500 will get their company name promoted proudly on our team T-Shirt, and also be noted as a corporate sponsor of our S5Health team on http://www.s5health.com/. In addition, our corporate sponsors will be promoted by S5Health in a nationally released press announcement about JDRF’s Walk to Cure Diabetes.
• Corporate Sponsors who donate $1,000 will be proudly promoted on our team t-shirt and also be noted as a corporate sponsor of our S5Healthteam on the http://www.s5health.com/. In addition your company will earn the JDRF Golden Sneaker Award and be announced as an S5Health Premier Corporate Sponsor in a nationally released press announcement about JDRF’s Walk to Cure Diabetes.
While this effort for better diabetes management and an ultimate cure is personally important to me, it's also the foundation for what S5Health is about. Founder James Jordan created this resource initially to benefit his daughter, Courtney, who is now 14 and has been living with Type 1 diabetes for a decade.
We need your help.
Together, we can make a difference and help pave the way for a cure. Thank you so much in advance for your generosity.
Michael is a 31-year-old writer and Diabetes Advocate who’s been living with Type 1 diabetes since the age of 5. By day, he is a newspaper journalist in Indiana. But in his spare time, he focuses his time and effort on Diabetes Advocacy operates a personal blog, The Diabetic’s Corner Booth. He also volunteers with local, national, and worldwide diabetes-related charities and initiatives and tries to help fellow diabetics better Live With Diabetes. His personal and professional worlds aren’t connected, except that Michael takes on both roles in whatever time is available in a given day. This is how he became involved with S5Health, in which Michael now writes for a little each week in a strictly volunteer capacity. Originally from the Southeast Michigan area near Detroit, Michael and his wife Susanne have lived in Indianapolis since 2004.
