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For the past three falls since Bisi was diagnosed, we\u2019ve done the JDRF walkathon to raise money to cure, prevent, and treat type 1 diabetes. The first year it was a mad scramble to form our team, since Bisi had been diagnosed only a little more than a month before. But having her friends, new and old, come together to support her as she set out on her own path as someone with diabetes meant an unmeasurable amount to Bisi and to us.\u00a0 Another bonus, for Bisi, has been the chance to design Team Bisi t-shirts (a girls\u2019 version AND a boys\u2019 version) through the web site CustomInk. Throughout the school year, it\u2019s been fun to see various friends of hers show up on the playground in their colorful Team Bisi shirts. And in the two years since our first walkathon, it\u2019s been interesting for us to note how Bisi\u2019s seriousness of purpose\u2014and her taste\u2014has evolved.<\/p>\n

See below the 2012 version, with Bisi\u2019s favorite colors of pink and orange, a blue elephant (her stuffed elephant, Ellie, whom readers may remember from my Safari Report<\/a>, is also blue), and then a rose, a butterfly, and a heart, just because she liked them. No mention of diabetes\u2014just a bunch of colors and pictures that appealed to a six-year-old girl.<\/p>\n

Now the 2013 version, again pink, again with a blue elephant, but with an updated record of her interests and priorities: a red dog, like our new dog Cinnamon at home, a dolphin, a horse, and, on the back, a girl doing gymnastics and some stars just for fun. At the top, in small, hard to read script, she added the message: \u201cWalk to cure type 1 diabetes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Skip ahead to the 2014 version, which is simple and on message. (You\u2019ll also note that her favorite color has changed from pink to blue; unfortunately, just about everything she owns is pink, and she\u2019s now impatiently waiting to grow out of it.) No more fun pictures; just a shoe with the words \u201cwalk for a cure,\u201d and text in clear, block letters saying \u00a0\u201cTeam Bisi 2014\u201d and \u201cWalk to Cure Type 1 Diabetes.\u201d This new tone extended to the note Bisi wrote when encouraging people to walk with and support her team:<\/p>\n

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Dear Family and Friends,<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have had diabetes for two years. This will be my third walk; I love doing the walk because it’s a time when I get to be with friends and family working together towards a cure for type 1 diabetes.\u00a0I also like the walk because it feels good to be with other people with diabetes.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I want to find a cure for T1D so I don\u2019t have to go to the nurse all the time or wear a pump and a\u00a0constant glucose monitor on my body, and so I could eat whatever I want, whenever I want, without my parents bugging me to take insulin.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I hope you will walk with me and contribute to JDRF to help cure type 1 diabetes.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Bisi\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Now that Bisi\u2019s 8, now that she\u2019s had diabetes for two years, the JDRF walk isn\u2019t about a chance to put butterflies and blue elephants\u00a0 on a t-shirt. It\u2019s a chance to get the message across that she wants this disease cured.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s hoping that the money she raised will help spur things along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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