Now that I’ve passed my Type 1 diabetes on to one of my children, I felt that I should be making more of an effort to raise funds for research and support. So, thanks to the goodwill of Dr Phil Worley taking over my 12 hour place in a team of 3, I’ll be aiming to raise another $2,000 by riding for as much of 24 hours as my fat, unfit and recently injured body will let me. 

I know there are a number of other horrible things going on in the world at present, but every cent that steps us closer to curing Type 1 diabetes will change lives EVERY day. What’s more,  like many of you, I used to think that would never happen, but in the 15 years I’ve had T1D, researchers have been closing in, and I believe we will see massive changes, if not a cure, in our lifetimes.

Leading the fight against type 1 diabetes (T1D), JDRF is committed to funding research to improve lives and cure this disease and has been doing so for the past 45 years.T1D is a lifelong autoimmune disease that destroys the body’s ability to process sugar by attacking the cells that produce insulin. Since people with T1D cannot produce insulin naturally, they must take it either through multiple daily injections or from an insulin pump.

In just the past few years, JDRF has achieved some major milestones, such as:

• 12.8 million needles avoided with the Federal Governments Insulin Pump Program
• 52 clinical trials and studies funded in the last FY
• 960 support and education packs delivered to families newly diagnosed with T1D
• Over $13 million invested into research in the last FY

and it’s all thanks to the generosity of people who share the vision of a world without T1D. With your help, we can turn type one into type none.