We're very excited because this Saturday, June 4th, our family is going to participate in the 2011 Arthritis Walk! It's totally short notice, but if anyone who reads this and lives in Utah wants to walk with us, let me know. Of course this is a fundraising walk so there's also the option for people to donate if they wish. I'm not the type of person who would go an solicit donations from people personally (I don't want to be that person) but I did want to let people know that it is an option and if they chose to donate, I wanted to let them know how to do it. Visit this link to the Arthritis Walk-Salt Lake City. There you will find two main options-to 'sing up' or 'donate'. If you choose the sign up option, it walks you through the process of joining our team. If you choose the donation button, there are a few options. Choose the button that says 'donate to a team'. Then just scroll down to find the team called 'Mitchell Family' with Meghan Mitchell as the team captain. At this point, I'm not going to ask anyone individually for donations and I won't be offended if you don't, I just wanted to put it out there.
So why is this so important to us? Well, there are obvious reasons. The other reason is in regards to some sad numbers that I read about. While this walk is for everyone with all forms of arthritis, did you know that there are 300,000 children affected by the Juvenile forms of arthritis? But guess how much money the government spends on JA research.....$9.8 million. That may seem like a lot, but that only works out to $32 a child-that would cover one copay for us to visit the rheumatologist with $2 to spare. So obviously, every little bit helps. This is a disease that has no cure, but wouldn't it be cool if one came along?
Anyway, moving on....Siobhan's been on the prednisone for a few days now and we're really starting to see the side effects. Some are easier to handle than others, but the one that makes me smile is now hungry she is! This girls is hungry all.the.time! The other day for lunch, she ate and entire grilled cheese sandwich, a whole grapefruit, and a bunch of milk. For those who don't know Siobhan like I do, that's a lot of food for her to eat for lunch! Today, she ate every bite of her happy meal a ton of my salad from Costa Vida, an apple, and various other snacks. When we saw Kung Fu Panda 2, she was chowing down on the popcorn that grandpa got. Such a drastic change.
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