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\"Dodger<\/a>I’m a bit late on this post but it’s been one hell of a Diabetes Awareness Month for this lady! \u00a0This post is the follow-up from my JDRF New York City Walk for a Cure post<\/a>. \u00a0Our team, Alecia’s Stem Cells, expanded again this year. \u00a0On November 11th, I walked with our first EVER<\/strong> Alecia’s Stem Cells Los Angeles team at Dodgers Stadium (and the crowd goes wild….. Rrrraaahhhh). \u00a0It was wonderful to have a 2nd team again this year filled with friends and family. I was amazed by the team spirit exemplified by my cousin, his wife (my wonderful friend), her sister, and her sister’s boyfriend. \u00a0They sent walk donation letters out as a group. \u00a0When I received one, of course, I cried. \u00a0Their letter talked about me and used parts of my own NYC letter, but then it included a story about the beloved uncle of my cousin-in-law and her sister, who had died of complications of diabetes.<\/p>\n

Our little newbie team managed to beat our LA team goal and raised $2,210. \u00a0I was, and remain, amazed. \u00a0Our NYC team had just raised $21,631.62 and I was 100% sure I had asked anyone and everyone to donate already by the time the LA Walk was on the horizon. If you doubt the power of social media, I offer you this, friends posted a zillion NYC walk team photos on Facebook right away. \u00a0It was an incredibly exciting day for me and I think that comes across in the photos posted. \u00a0As the LA Walk approached, I posted something about how great Walking in NYC was and if anyone felt they missed out, there was still time to help<\/strong> out our LA walk team. \u00a0Within minutes, two Facebook friends I barely know donated! \u00a0Right before I left for LA, I posted that we were $50 away from our team goal. \u00a03 people who had already donated to the NYC walk all donated AGAIN to help us reach our goal. \u00a0I’m teary just typing this! \u00a0AMAZING (not the teary part, since I’m a crier, but how many people cheered us on and supported our team’s efforts).<\/p>\n

LA Walk Day was incredible. \u00a0Gorgeous weather, a new venue and fun stories. \u00a0The walk route circles Dodger Stadium twice (but different paths both times) and THEN, the last lap is around the infield! \u00a0There were tons of diabetes vendors to visit and lots of swag. \u00a0I got samples of LEVEL Glucose Gel<\/a> (the mandarin was super duper sweet tasting but very effective as I learned on the last lap when Dexcom beeped bg 87 and an arrow down) and Quick Sticks<\/a> (which are freaking awesome – said me, the girl who’s never had a pixie stick ever). \u00a0I also got chatty with an Animas rep and begged for the Vibe (oh I know, I know, it hasn’t been submitted to the FDA yet, but a girl can dream and ask the same question over and over, and yes, over).<\/p>\n

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About 8 years ago, I went to some sort of JDRF NY luncheon. \u00a0It may have been a walk kick-off lunch but I’m really not sure. \u00a0I sat next to the only other person who seemed my age at the table, and she was a fellow T1D. \u00a0We became friends and she walked many moons ago with Alecia’s Stem Cells NYC. \u00a0At least 6+ years ago she moved back to Los Angeles, got married and had two kids. \u00a0All these years we’ve stayed in touch via Facebook and right before the LA walked she signed up for our team along with her family.\u00a0 It was so great to reconnect with an old D friend and meet her adorable family.<\/p>\n

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The Set-Up & Reconnecting with an old friend<\/p><\/div>\n

I also tweeted asking if anyone in the DOC was going to the LA Walk. \u00a0Although our team did the Big Blue Test<\/a>, I never managed to meet-up with Mike Lawson (boo hoo) BUT, Diane from Type 1 Trip<\/a> said they had a team and described their Team Julia shirts. \u00a0I found them in the infield. \u00a0I’m fairly certain I may have come across as a stalker, but I asked a ton of people in pink shirts who Diane was and although we were both busy with our teams, we had a few minutes to chat and I believe that was the first time I introduced myself as “Alecia, ummm Surfacefine on twitter”. \u00a0We had a big hug moment and my team was off and running (well walking).<\/p>\n

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As I’ve posted before and will say here again, Walk Day is like a weird holiday for me. \u00a0Its a day full of hope, promise and an incredible amount of love! \u00a0It is a day near and dear to me. I can\u2019t thank my friends, family and fellow walkers enough for their amazing generosity and supporting the ongoing efforts of JDRF.<\/p>\n

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I’m a bit late on this post but it’s been one hell of a Diabetes Awareness Month for this lady! \u00a0This post is the follow-up from my JDRF New York City Walk for a Cure post. \u00a0Our team, Alecia’s Stem … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,15,107],"tags":[543,16,116,117,540,115,119,114,118,57],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alecias-stem-cells","category-jdrf","category-jdrf-walk","tag-alecias-stem-cells","tag-animas","tag-diabetes-support","tag-fight-diabetes","tag-jdrf","tag-jdrf-la","tag-level-glucose-gel","tag-los-angeles-jdrf","tag-quick-sticks","tag-walk-for-a-cure"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2tD0n-50","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}