This holiday season, Callen’s Wolf Pack is teaming up with the Children’s Diabetes Foundation of Denver to provide under or uninsured families with diabetic supplies. The average cost of the supplies needed to manage diabetes is $700/month. This includes insulin, syringes, blood glucose test strips, blood ketone test strips, lancets and glucagon (for severe low blood glucose episodes). The cost is even higher for those on an insulin pump.
At the Barbara Davis Center in Denver, approximately 38% of the 6,000 children and young adults treated are under or uninsured. Because these supplies are an absolute necessity for diabetic children, it can present an enormous financial and emotional burden on their parents. The Helping Hands committee of the Children’s Diabetes Foundation ensures no child is without these required supplies.
So what do you get the person that has everything? Syringes, of course. Or insulin. We now have paper ornaments available in a “giving tree” fashion, where each ornament represents a diabetic supply:
- $10 (Snowman) – Medical ID bracelet
- $25 (Snowflake/Star) – Box of 25 syringes
- $50 (Candy Cane) – Approximately 1 container (50) glucose test strips
- $100 (Present Box) – Approximately 1 vial of insulin
Each design was created by young patients of the Barbara Davis Center. These are available at a few local schools, and in our living room. The Children’s Diabetes Foundation just posted this as an event to their Facebook page, and linked it to their donation center so you can purchase online as well!!!! Anyone with a Pay Pal account (or willing to create one) can participate.
http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=ue4qmveab&oeidk=a07e5ec53fsc241a957
Happy Holidays!!!
