Obama, Girls With Diabetes To Take
Kaylah a President Barack Obama, more recently, pop star Nick Jonas and retired from boxing great Sugar Ray Leonard as part of a youth delegation lobbying for research money to find a cure for diabetes.
Kaylah, 6, Palmetto, which are in the first year at Braden River Elementary was among the more than 150 young people from across the nation, with the president, and a list of famous people during his visit Washington
They even came home with a coin inscribed with the words “U.S. House of Representatives,” she received as a gift from the Republic of Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota.
Photo by Brian Kenny, ESPN anchor, one of the participants in the Diabetes Foundation in Washington, with benefits Kaylah Palmetto.
The question of how she thinks that the President, who is shy Kaylah said: “I loved her.
She also said they see the Lincoln Memorial and played with other children because they are diagnosed with type I diabetes, severe chronic, debilitating disease that affects all organs.
The visit is part of the juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Children’s Congress and the drum to support the study of type 1 diabetes, which strikes children suddenly and makes them dependent on injected or pumped insulin for life.
Children and young people in all 50 states participated in the Town Hall Group athletes and people suffering from diabetes, a visit to each of the young with their Senators and Representatives, the Senate hearing testimony.
“It was a once in a lifetime for us,” said Kaylah grandmother, Diane Chancey of Bradenton, who, with Kaylah’s mother, Andrea Gunst, was also in the case of 22-24 June “I felt that we came to meet our objectives.”
“We’re very well with this organization, because the disease is so devastating,” said Chancey, who, as a volunteer for training in the southwestern part of Florida Council, based in Lakewood Ranch.
Nick Jonas, the Grammy of candidates, many of the platinum group Jonas Brothers, testified on the basis of title, as the Congress of the urgent need to treat the disease, he lives every day.
“Despite the fact that technology is much easier for me, my diabetes, the technology has not yet healed. Insulin is not a panacea. Like all here today, I know that the promise of healing is possible only in research, “said Jonas with a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes at the age of 13 years, I ask each of you, I am in favor of extending the Special Diabetes Program for next year, so that researchers working on the treatment of this disease. My life depends on it. All our lives depend on it.
Diabetes occurs in two forms: type 1 is an autoimmune disease, also known as juvenile diabetes, type 2 is a metabolic disorder known as “adult diabetes”.
Sarah Rankin, a local executive director, said the group emphasized the message, “promise to remember me.”
“This is not to forget, if something happens diabetes funding,” said Rankin.
Since its founding in 1970 by parents of children with type 1 diabetes, the Foundation has provided more than $ 1.3 billion for research, including more than $ 156 million last year, after the site Web Foundation. Over 85 percent of support costs directly related to research funding for the education of more than 1,000 centers, grants, scholarships, and in 22 countries, nearly 40 human clinical trials, said he says.