Personal Fundraising Page for Kate
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Kate is raising money for Once Upon a Time

Fundraising Amount=$120.00 ; Goal=$100.00
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Thanks to our 2012 Sponsors!

  • Regal Entertainment Group
  • The William B. Stokely, Jr. Foundation
  • Food City
  • Alcoa, Inc.
  • FJ Management
  • Merrill Lynch - The McLaughlin Group
  • Prodigal Primary Care
  • Rising Star Management
  • Western Express
  • Allegiant Athletic Agency (A3)
  • B&W Y-12
  • Bacon & Co.
  • Challenge Magazine
  • Clayton Homes Inc.
  • Connor Concepts Inc.
  • Home Federal Bank of Tennessee
  • K-9 Search on Site
  • Morgan Keegan
  • Novo Nordisk Inc
  • Phoenix Big Cinemas Management
  • Raven Transport
  • ShoffnerKalthoff Mechanical Electrical Service
  • Skyline Transportation, Inc.
  • The H.T. Hackney Co.
  • University of Tennessee Medical Center

























 

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease in which a person’s pancreas stops producing insulin, a hormone that enables people to get energy from food. While its causes are not yet entirely understood, scientists believe that both genetic factors and environmental triggers are involved.

JDRF is the leading global organization focused on T1D research. Driven by passionate, grassroots volunteers connected to children, adolescents, and adults with this disease, JDRF is the largest charitable supporter of T1D research. The goal of JDRF is to improve the lives of every person affected by T1D by accelerating progress on the most promising opportunities for curing, better treating, and preventing the disease. More than 80 percent of JDRF's expenditures directly support.


















 
Kate's Story
Please join me in the fundraising effort for this organization.My name is KateProffitt, and I have had Type I Diabetes for thirteen years.  First diagnosed at age three, I have become used to a daily routine filled with blood sugar checks and insulin doses.  Sometimes, it is so easy to get discouraged.  I feel like giving up, I am so tired.  This is the time of my life when the world is just getting good.  I don't want to worry about words like Novalog Insulin and blood sugar target.  However, I do have this disease, and I can choose to complain about it, or I can decide to live life normally, like any other person.  I feel so incredibly blessed and happy to have the life I have.  That said, I go through every day believing that one day, I will be cured.   I tell myself that one day, I won't wake up to the beeping of my insulin pump, or the nagging instinct to check my blood sugar.  I know that there is a cure, I have to believe that there is.  If I don't  believe in a cure, then what am I living for?  I believe in a cure, and I want you to believe as well.  Please help JDRF by donating to this organization.  Every donation counts, and please know that you are helping people, changing lives

Donors and Comments

Wilma Proffitt  gave $100.00 10/10/2012