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<div>This is my nephew, Christian. Back in 2019, my nephew got extremely sick. Finally, in 2020, at the age of 10, about 3 months later, the doctors diagnosed him as a type 1 diabetic. Christian got sick Saturday, January 11th, around 6 pm with flu-like symptoms and went to bed. The next morning, January 12th, 2025, my brother, his dad, found him on the floor no longer breathing. With his diabetes and the flu, he passed in his sleep. When he passed, he was 16 years old and 4 weeks away from turning 17. In the five years with him, struggling with diabetes, we learned so much. <strong>Childhood diabetes is much more common than we realized, and we would like to help support the funding towards treatments and possibly a cure for future families.</strong>
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<div>Christian was a highly active kid. You would never have known that he battled with type 1 diabetes. Even through his early years of being a diabetic, he played baseball and he was always outdoors riding dirt bikes, four-wheelers, and going on bicycle trips. He’s been to Hatfield and McCoy many times. The last few years, he took up bowling and he enjoyed that so much. He worked alongside his family at the family business, working on cars.
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<div>He would always ride his bicycle as much as he could. We were going on trips every week with friends and family to ride different trails in the area, and every month we would go and ride the Great Allegheny Passage. But depending on the weather and how he felt with his diabetes, he would not always go. Last year, he finally did Pittsburgh to Cumberland in one trip with us. And this year, we planned to go from Cumberland to DC. In August, our family and friends will be taking that trip in his memory and we would like to have met our goal by then. <strong>If you feel like you want to donate to the charity, please do.</strong> We are doing this in Christian‘s memory. He was such a bright light in this dark world, and he was loved more than he ever knew. We will forever miss him and we cannot wait to be with him again. Thank you for your time and your donation.
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<div>funds will be sent directly to the charity listed. In hope of helping other families fight this horrible disease. 
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