Educating our community about Type 1 Diabetes & our childs Diabetic Alert Dog Type 1 is VERY different from the more common Type 2 Diabetes.
My name is Maggie Lou Hughes I am 11 years old & I was diagnosed with a disease in 2011, Type 1 Diabetes. It is an autoimmune disease that attacks & kills the good cells in our Pancreas that make insulin. The kind I have won't ever go away & I have to take a life saving medicine many times everyday for the rest of my life. T1D makes my blood sugar go too high & too low everyday. I have to prick my
fingers about 10-12 times a day to check my blood & see if I am at a safe number. We are trying to raise money for all the things we need to take care of me. An example of one of the things we are fundraising for is my Diabetic Alert Dog ("DAD") that will help keep me safe. A DAD will alert us when my blood sugar is about to go too high or too low. When I go low I feel terrible, it makes me get sweaty, shaky, confused and feel yucky. Low blood sugar is an emergency & I have to eat sugar right away. If I don't I can have seizures & go into a coma. When my blood sugar goes too high I get a headache, feel shaky, angry, confused & my stomach hurts. A Diabetic Alert Dog is trained to tell me before either of those happen so we can get what I need right away. Sometimes I'm nervous & scared at bedtime because I know that blood sugar lowers when we sleep & I'm scared about going too low. I don't wake up on my own when I go low. My mom & dad take turns pricking my finger every night while I sleep to make sure I am safe. Sometimes they have to make me wake up & drink juice & eat snacks when my blood sugar isn't safe. If I had an alert dog I wouldn't have to worry so much and neither would my family. I would also be healthier because my body probably wouldn't have to go through a low or high. Also I wouldn't have to go through all the symptoms so I would feel better and won't have to eat snacks as much. We have to have so many things to manage my disease. I have to have insulin every single day. I'm using an insulin pump right now. We hope people will donate for my Alert Dog or help us if you have a fundraiser we can do. Please share my page along because somebody you know might want to help me. Donations for my service dog can be made online at www.sdwr.org
After donating you will receive a confirmation email requesting you confirm my name! If you want to talk to us you can ask my mom or dad. If you post me note on this page I can answer you! Thank you
Hauling spots available!
Good morning, we will be hauling from Fort Myers Florida to Southern Michigan and back.
We have stops scheduled along the way if you have pigs that need moved north or south please let us know. $100 per head.
Leaving Fort Myers August 29th late and returning no later than September 2nd to SWFL.
If you need something hauled please call
9412880056
I will need 840 tags, cvi, and entry permit number to bring back into Florida.
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More info coming soon! Vendors click the picture.. email for vendors is at the bottom.
By Children's Diabetes Foundation
Only a few days left to fill out our Needs Assessment Survey! Complete the survey to be entered in a drawing for a Lee County Parks & Recreation parking sticker, pool pass, or family 4-pass to the 2025 SWFL Ag Expo. Visit https://arcg.is/1Lz4vP to complete the survey.
The survey will remain online until Wednesday, July 31.
By The Faulty Pancreas
We are looking for a couple business locations to set up and sell BBQ. If you own a local business and would like us to come set up please email
[email protected]
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•Reserved table at the buyers dinner for 6
•3x5 Banner
•6 t-shirts
•Social Media Recognition
Registration is open 🐇 🐓 🐐 🐖 🐄👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
https://showman.app/shows #/gulf-coast-youth-livestock-inc-cd37
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Did you know that young people living with type 1 diabetes (T1D) are twice as likely to struggle with depression and face challenges like disordered eating? Anxiety is also a common hurdle in this community. But remember, you are never alone on this journey! 💙
At the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes, compassionate social workers are here to provide the support you need. Together, we can face these challenges and thrive. Reach out and lean on your . 💪
The first picture is now, the others are from back then 🐾💙 He is still by her side, alerting to fluctuations in her blood sugar daily! Every single alert is still as amazing as the first. She is happy, healthy, & thriving! He saves her in more ways than you’ll ever know 💙
***Buyers Thank you Gifts***
Thank you Jessica Jones for inspiring me to shop local for Buyers Gifts this year! At the Gulf Coast Youth Livestock, Inc. on Saturday, Ruby Hughes had this super cute gift box of 🐷 cake pops from Cake Pops by AJ to hand her buyer on the spot! Then today she brought him goodies from M&M Farms & Cattle Co!!!
Have fun with your thank you’s this year & order super cute 🐷 or 🐮 cake pops from Ashlee Marie Jenkins 🫶🏻 along with pre-made non perishable buyers gift boxes from M&M!!! They also sell Farm to Fork boxes with fresh food in them! Here are the pictures of what Ruby bought her buyer!
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Any local friends need/want Medtronic backstock?
If you don't get a chance to buy an animal or you just want to spread your budget out to multiple exhibitors...here's how you can do it! ⬇️
In this link below the ADA explains what businesses and state/local governments must do to make sure that they do not discriminate against a member of the public with a disability who uses a service animal.
Overview of the ADA’s explanation of what businesses and governments must do to make sure that they do not discriminate against people who use service animals.
We have new jewelry at Riverside Market of Moore Haven! There are 60 vendors here today and it’s a beautiful day🤩
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IMaggie Lou started power lifting about 6 months ago. This was her first competition. She completed her first 2 deadlifts with ease so bumped up the weight on her final one. This is a new personal record for her, 214lbs. The video is only 16 seconds but in person it felt like we were watching her in slow motion for a looong time. Many people in the audience were saying that they saw the moment on her face when she makes the choice that she is not giving up on this lift. I am SO PROUD of her, put aside the lift, I am so proud that she wants to succeed, she doesn’t give up, she just keeps pushing herself in every aspect of life💪🏻❤️🏋️ She ran herself a little high all day to avoid lows. We thought for sure her BG would be crazy after this set! The first thing I did was asked her to check & she was a perfect 100🙌🏻 imagine that! #trueblueformaggielou #powerlifting #girlsgotgrit #t1dwarrior #beastmode
Tomorrow, May 8th, is Jasper’s 10th birthday🎉🎉This morning we celebrated Mother’s Day at the Bonita Dog Beach at Lovers Key 🐾 🏖 We had such a great time! Jasper, Mac, Charlie, & cousin Cletus had a blast running, swimming & meeting lots of new dog friends! Happy happy 10th birthday tomorrow Jasper💙 Erin Gray this is the beach we took you to in 2013, seems like a lifetime ago!
Jasper is away at 4-H camp with Maggie Lou this week. Here he is singing camp songs at Camp Cloverleaf with Camp Staff Director Bill. Thank you to the staff for including him in our camp activities!
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