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Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month

March 1 means it's officially the first day of Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month in Canada.

Did you know...
- A family's average annual direct medical costs for a child with arthritis is $1,686 (more than childhood asthma).
- Juvenile arthritis affects 1 in 1,000 Canadian children under the age of 16 - making it one of the most common chronic childhood diseases.
- It is currently believed that the body's immune system may be responsible for the inflammation common in juvenile arthritis. In children with arthritis, the immune system seems to be overactive and may be responding inappropriately to infection - or mistakenly identifying something in the body as an infection, causing continuous inflammation.
- Juvenile arthritis does not usually run in families, and is almost never passed from a parent to a child.

Does this break your heart a little bit? Me too. But it's good motivation to make this Garage Sale happen at the end of March, to raise money and awareness for this very important cause.

I celebrated this auspicious occasion by helping to connect HOT103 morning show co-host Chrissy Troy with a young girl I know who has arthritis. Chrissy will run the Jamaica marathon in her honour... And this ten-year-old media darling in the making is THRILLED.

The best part? It's only the 1st, and I've already done my good deed for March. Sweet!

Labels: Arthritis/Fibromyalgia

posted by Lindsay @ 5:31 PM