Diabetes Counts: RSVP Events Page

Summer Events 2012

Please RSVP for the following events on the web page, click on the link above called 'Web Page' to take you there.

Or you can click on the event name to take you directly to the RSVP page. For further information please email us at dccgjt@gmail.com or call Summer at 970-434-6223

Swim Party - June 24th, 2012 - Sunday - 11:00AM to 1:00PM @ Lincoln Park Pool

Back to School BBQ - July 27th, 2012 - 4:30PM to 7:00PM @ Canyon View Park, Grand Shelter next to the playground, please bring a dish to share.

Visit with a Team Type 1 Cyclist Guest Speaker - August 25th, 2012 - Saturday @ The Bike Shop on North Avenue next to Colorado Mesa University - time to be determined.

Community Hospitals Tour of the Valley, Team Type 1 Ride - August 26th, 2012 - Sunday @ the Doubletree Hotel.

What is Type 1 Diabetes?

Diabetes (medically known as diabetes mellitus) is the name given to disorders in which the body has trouble regulating its blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels. There are two major types of diabetes: type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes, also called juvenile diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes, is a disorder of the body's immune system -- that is, its system for protecting itself from viruses, bacteria or any "foreign" substances. A third form of diabetes called monogenic diabetes, is sometimes mistaken for type 1 diabetes.

Type 1 diabetes occurs when the body's immune system attacks and destroys certian cells in the pancreas, an organ about the size of a hand that is located behind the lower part of the stomach. These cells -- called beta cells -- are contained, along with other types of cells, within small islands of endocrine cells called the pancreatic islets. Beta cells normally produce insulin, a hormone that helps the body move the glucose contained in food into cells throughout the body, which use it for energy. But when the beta cells are destroyed, no insulin can be produced, and the glucose stays in the blood instead, where it can cause serious damage to all the organ systems of the body.

For this reason, people with type 1 diabetes must take insulin in order to stay alive. This means undergoing multiple injections daily, or having insulin delivered through an insulin pump, and testing their blood sugar by pricking their fingers for blood six or more times a day. People with diabetes must also carefully balance their food intake and their exercise to regulate their blood sugar levels, in an attempt to avoid hypoglycemic (low blood sugar) and hypergylcemic (high blood sugar) reactions, whick can be life threatening.

This and more, like the signs of type 1 diabetes, can be found on the JDRF website @ http://www.jdrf.org/index.cfm?page_id=101982

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