Walk with St. Anthony Hospital for Juvenile Diabetes

WARWICK — Take a short walk this Sunday to find a cure for Juvenile Diabetes.
Everyone is invited to join the St. Anthony Community Hospital “Team St. Anthony” for the annual Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) 5K walk. This year’s event is scheduled for 12 noon on Sunday, Sept. 30, at the Goshen Historic Track on Park Place. Registration is at 11 a.m.
Type 1 diabetes strikes children and adults suddenly, and can be fatal. Until a cure is found, people with type 1 diabetes have to test their blood sugar and give themselves multiple insulin injections or use a pump every day of their lives. And even with that intensive care, insulin is not a cure for diabetes, nor does it prevent its eventual and devastating complications, which may include kidney failure, blindness, heart disease, stroke, and amputation.
“By joining this team and ‘walking for the cure',” said St. Anthony Community Hospital Certified Diabetes Educator Lourdes Braadt, RN, CDE, “you have an opportunity to do something to support research that may eventually help to eradicate Juvenile Diabetes.”
JDRF is the worldwide leader in funding research to cure type 1 diabetes. JDRF is the leading funds provider and advocate of type 1 diabetes science.
Anyone interested in joining Team St. Anthony should go to: www.walk.jdrf.org
The St. Anthony Community Hospital Children with Diabetes support group meets every fourth Monday at the hospital’s second floor conference room between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.
For more information, call 845-987-5168.