Arthritis Walk

In 2011, just a few weeks after Esella was diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis, I stumbled across the Arthritis Foundation’s website and read about their annual Arthritis Walks that are held all over the country. When I saw that we had a local walk in the next city over, I thought we should participate in E’s honor. So we formed Team Esella. Our goal was $1000.

11 weeks later, we ended up raising an astounding $17,000+! The response we got from our family, friends, and neighbors was nothing short of amazing. We plan on participating in the walk every year to help raise funds for Arthritis research, education, and community programs.

As I write this, we are currently fundraising for the 2012 Arthritis Walk. If you have found this blog helpful, perhaps you would make a small donation in my daughter’s name as a thank you. You can do so by going HERE.

Please, take just a few minutes of your time and watch this video that I made to help educate about why we walk every year:

And if you would like to learn more about JA, please take another few minutes and watch this video I make in 2011 that has over views so far.

Thanks for reading!!

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April 28, 2012 at 4:14 pm

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Catherine Wells says:

February 8, 2013 at 5:40 pm

Across the country in West Springfield MA lives a little girl with the same story, my daughter Brianna. We just came across this video. Brianna was also honored by the Arthritis Foundation, she was the junior ambassador for our Western MA walk in 2010. This video brought instant tears. My daughter was diagnosed a few months after her 2nd birthday, she is going to be 11 in May. It has been a roller coaster ride to say the least. First her knee, then her fingers, her wrists, her elbows, and eventually every other joint in her little body. We have gone through the weekly injections, the daily injections, the steroid injections, the oral medications, and now for the last 3 years she has been on an every other week infusion. This video was simply amazing and we thank you for creating it. If you google “Brianna Croteau Arthritis” the articles written about her should pop up and you can read some of the stories that were written up about her. She is actually the arthritis “poster child” here in MA, as she is on billboards on our highways for our Shriner’s Hospital =) We are very proud of her. You are not alone, and we are here on the East Coast fighting along with you to find our daughters and all children a cure.

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