Browsed by
Tag: Awareness

TeamBretMichals.com / LifeRocksFoundation.org Story: Addison Gets Ready For Diabetes Camp!

TeamBretMichals.com / LifeRocksFoundation.org Story: Addison Gets Ready For Diabetes Camp!

I have been a huge Bret Michaels fan since I went to my first Poison concert. I followed every album and enjoyed many concerts over the years.  I never expected to meet Bret, nor did I ever expect we would be connected in another way -Type 1 Diabetes.  My daughter, Addison, was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes on February 26, 2010, at the age of 5.  As a parent, it is heartbreaking and overwhelming when your child is diagnosed with this disease….

Read More Read More

TeamBretMichaels.com / LifeRocksFoundation.org Story: Crystal’s Courage

TeamBretMichaels.com / LifeRocksFoundation.org Story: Crystal’s Courage

The middle of my 8th grade school year I went to the doctor’s office for a checkup or so I thought. They ran a few tests and the doctor left and came back with the tests results, she told my parents and I to go home and pack my bags, there was a room waiting on me at the hospital and to go straight there. When I got to the hospital the nurse showed me where my room was, they…

Read More Read More

TeamBretMichaels.com / LifeRocksFoundation.org – Justin’s Diabetes Inspires Fantasy Game

TeamBretMichaels.com / LifeRocksFoundation.org – Justin’s Diabetes Inspires Fantasy Game

My son Justin is 12 years old. He was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was 8. He wears an insulin pump and works really hard to be responsible about his health. Being in middle school with type 1 diabetes is a challenge. Last year Justin created a game called Fantasy Diabetes to help his friends understand type 1 and to make it fun for himself to test his blood sugar. His friends guess his blood sugar before he…

Read More Read More

TeamBretMichaels.com / Life Rocks Foundation Story: Summer & Noah Find Inspiration

TeamBretMichaels.com / Life Rocks Foundation Story: Summer & Noah Find Inspiration

Dear Bret, I am a single mom who had to put my life on hold to raise my 9 year old son who was born with kidney damage. The doctors said he wasn’t supposed to survive. He is a true miracle child. Noah had a kidney transplant 3 years ago at Cincinnati Childrens hospital. It was touch and go for a while. I had used your music during some of my darkest hours of not knowing how things would turn…

Read More Read More

TeamBretMichaels.com / Life Rocks Foundation Story

TeamBretMichaels.com / Life Rocks Foundation Story

At age 27 I became a part of the Type 1 diabetic community. In 2004 I awoke in an ER to an orderly checking my vitals. I was told that by text book definitions that I should not be living. I survived DKA. Since then I have devoted every thing I do to spreading awareness and helping newly diagnosed and informing the clueless about Diabetes. From participating in the Annual JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes, becoming a board member of…

Read More Read More

TeamBretMichaels.com/Life Rocks Foundation Story

TeamBretMichaels.com/Life Rocks Foundation Story

Hi my name is Laurie and I have a story about my nephew who has type 1 diabetes. I call him my nephew but he is actually my cousin Tara’s son but we are very close. Justin was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes at the age of 7. He is now 14 and on an insulin pump. I admire his courage and strength for having to deal with this terrible disease day in and out. I too suffer from type 2…

Read More Read More

TeamBretMichaels.com/Life Rocks Foundation Story: Rachel’s day at The Bob & Tom radio show and Indy 500 Carb Day

TeamBretMichaels.com/Life Rocks Foundation Story: Rachel’s day at The Bob & Tom radio show and Indy 500 Carb Day

Dear Bret and Patrick, Thank you once again for all that you did for Rachel. It was an honor to see Bret on the Bob and Tom Show and we haven’t seen Rachel laugh like that in a long time and the Indy 500 Carb Day concert was amazing. Thank you both for trying to accommodate Rachel. Rachel said that you give her so much hope to keep fighting this disease and to find a cure for diabetes while the…

Read More Read More

Another T1 Superhero: Callan

Another T1 Superhero: Callan

T1 Superhero Callan “has had 5800 finger pokes, 2154 injections, and 100 site changes!! He rarely cries or complains. When people stare at him he speaks up and says ‘I have diabebes, my pancreas is broken.’ He is actually proud to be Type 1!”