Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
It's a hypo! Not me doing the sniffing, but one of the wonderfully trained dogs from Cancer and Bio-detection Dogs UK!!!
It's the Great South Run on October 24th 2010, and this year I am hoping to raise money to help this relatively small charity train more of these wonderful animals. Last year I managed to raise over ?750 for JDRF and the previous year I raised around ?300 for Diabetes UK, so I thought this year I would run for one of the charities who do a great job, but don't have the clout of the big charities.
It would be fantastic if you could spare any amount, no matter how small (or large!) to help the charity achieve its 'Sniff for Life' goal of training 50 dogs in the next three years. Obviously, many of us here know about hypos and their dangers, particularly to young children and those with poor hypo-awareness, but the charity is also training dogs to detect the signs of cancer and Addisons disease crisis (a problem with adrenalin response). The more dogs they train, the more they are able to understand the science of just what it is that the dogs can pick up on.
My Just Giving page is here: http://www.justgiving.com/sniff-for-life . I know there are many calls on people for charitable donations, and that times are tough, but as I always say - if you would buy me a pint, then please consider donating the cost of that pint as it will definitely help me get round the course on race day!
It's the Great South Run on October 24th 2010, and this year I am hoping to raise money to help this relatively small charity train more of these wonderful animals. Last year I managed to raise over ?750 for JDRF and the previous year I raised around ?300 for Diabetes UK, so I thought this year I would run for one of the charities who do a great job, but don't have the clout of the big charities.
It would be fantastic if you could spare any amount, no matter how small (or large!) to help the charity achieve its 'Sniff for Life' goal of training 50 dogs in the next three years. Obviously, many of us here know about hypos and their dangers, particularly to young children and those with poor hypo-awareness, but the charity is also training dogs to detect the signs of cancer and Addisons disease crisis (a problem with adrenalin response). The more dogs they train, the more they are able to understand the science of just what it is that the dogs can pick up on.
My Just Giving page is here: http://www.justgiving.com/sniff-for-life . I know there are many calls on people for charitable donations, and that times are tough, but as I always say - if you would buy me a pint, then please consider donating the cost of that pint as it will definitely help me get round the course on race day!
