Archive for December, 2010

A Salute to Ron Santo – Baseball Great & Champion for Juvenile Diabetes

There’s a tear in the eye of every Cub fan today. The great Ron Santo passed away this morning from bladder cancer. The famous Chicago Cub third baseman and broadcaster lived an incredible life that touched millions. His perseverance through a life lived with type 1 diabetes and the complications of that disease is incredibly commendable and an example of the attitude I hope we all may have if faced with the same “speed bumps” as he would call them.

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Break Out the Red Ribbons for World AIDS Day

Today, December 1st, is World AIDS Day. I was all of 3 or 4 years old when news about AIDS and HIV were the latest headlines. It wasn’t until I was almost 11 years old that we started having HIV/AIDS education in school. Today, while we’re better informed about how it is contracted and what the treatments are, more research is needed to work on eradicating this virus that affects millions.

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