Proud daddy post

 

You may remember that Arden’s children’s hospital asked her to pose for some photos a while back.  The pictures may be used in their endocrine brochures, posters and stuff like that.  Well today the photos arrived in our mailbox and I just had to share some of them with you.  

Mad props to the photographer, Ed Cunicelli of Glen Mills, PA - www.cunicelli.com.  He captured Arden beautifully!  Chop takes such amazing care of Arden’s type I that we just had to help out when they called.  I don’t usually make pronouncements like this on the site but... if you live within any reasonable distance of CHOP you really must consider making them your child’s endo.  While I’m at it, Arden wore a sleeveless shirt purposely so that her OmniPod would be in the pictures - she is so proud to wear it!  Truth is, I don’t know where we’d be without CHOP and OmniPod, they both have saved us more times then I can count.

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The following are archived comments from this post. You can post new comments below.

Penny

Beautiful pictures of Arden, Scott! They capture her spirit. I love that they feature her OmniPod. We live just outside Philly but don't use CHOP, we use DuPont and Thomas Jefferson. I am glad you have had great experiences with CHOP and her endo, it's so important. Congrats on the pictures, they are just beautiful!

Sunday, June 6, 2010 - 01:25 PM

Strike a pose

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia called us a few weeks ago to ask if Arden would like to “be part of a photo shoot featuring patients of the Diabetes Center for Children at CHOP. Arden’s photos will be featured in brochures and other material that the Diabetes Center uses to educate parents, families and patients, and may also be featured in more general CHOP marketing material, such as advertisements.”

How cool is that!?

The photo shoot is this Thursday afternoon, I’ll be updating this post with photos as soon as I can but if you need a quicker fix...  We’ll be posting live images on Twitter the day of the shoot, look for them sometime after 1:30pm. You can follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ardensday or (for the Twitter aware) @ardensday

CHOP is a wonderful hospital and we feel very fortunate that we live close enough to use them for Arden’s endocrine needs.  Their juvenile diabetes care is, in my opinion, second to none.  A big thank you to everyone at CHOP that thought of Arden when this opportunity came up, I’m very glad that we can help with this project!  

UPDATE: Photos from the day

Everything went great! Look for pictures from the photographer in a few weeks.

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Ed Cunicelli

Hi Scott! It was great meeting you and Arden today. I really enjoyed my opportunity to photograph Arden. She was so sweet and easy... she is a really good model! Thanks for agreeing to help us out. We feel very lucky Arden was a part of our big day!! I hope you enjoy the photographs as much as enjoyed taking them. Ed Cunicelli

Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 07:28 PM

Scott

Ed, So nice of you to check out our site. You were fantastic on Thursday, Arden was very comfortable with you. Thank you for the kind words, Arden had so much fun having her picture taken. Can't wait to see what you got. I'll speak with you soon. Best, Scott

Sunday, May 2, 2010 - 02:20 AM

Final version

Thanks to everyone who provided feedback during our “artistic” process.  It’s a far better ad due to your help and support.

Here is a link to the JDRF Ad Book final.pdf that we just sent off to the JDRF.

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Barbara (Julia's grandma)

Scott,

I am glad  that you are going to adveritise your web-site through JDRF.  And, the ad looks great.

As you know, we learned about your web-site through my friend's daughter who works with your wife.  My daughter and I always talk about how fortunate we are that found out about your web-site.

Now others, who also have type 1 diabetes in their family, will be given the same opportunity to read your caring and knowledgeable words on taking care of a child with type 1 diabetes.   

Thank you for all you do.

Barbara

Monday, April 19, 2010 - 10:30 AM

Julia

Some Arden’s Day readers from Maine came out to our recent JDRF fundraiser in central NJ.  Granted they were already in northern New Jersey visiting with family but they definitely win the prize for longest distance travelled. 

From left to right: Julia (type I), Julia’s mom Holly, Barbara, Julia’s Grandmom, Ava the little sister and Julia’s Aunt Pat.

When I met Barbara in person the day of the fundraiser she told me how much Arden’s Day means to her family. I’ll keep that conversation private, just for me, but I do want to say this, “I am so happy that this site is helping people, the knowledge that sharing Arden’s day is helping other children makes all of this a little more tolerable”.

Thanks for coming Julia!  I hope you had a great time, Arden loved meeting you.  

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Anonymous

I really don t know what to say.. my love for Julia is so deep, i pray every night with my two girls that a cure is close. Julia and her family are amazing. She is without a doubt the most courageous little girl I know as I am sure all childern with type 1 are. I love you Julia 

With more love then you will ever know, 

Auntie Viviene

Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 10:06 AM

Barbara (Julia's Grandma)

Scott,

Thank you for including us in your web-site.  To be included in a web-site that means ever so much to us is such an honor.  It touches us so deeply when we read about similar experiences in caring for our precious girls.

We did a lot of fun activities while visiting family in N.J.  However, Julia said her favorite was your Bowling Fundraiser and meeting Arden.  Again, I cannot emphasize enough how grateful we are for both your web-site and for the numerous fundraisers you have for JDRF.  

Sincerely,
Barbara

Friday, April 9, 2010 - 09:06 AM

Scott

You guys are going to make me cry... Thank you!

Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 01:45 PM

Strike Out Diabetes 2010

Stu & Stew’s 2nd annual Strike Out Diabetes event was fantastic.  I’m not sure how the boys did it but they elevated their JDRF bowling fundraiser to another level.  Check out this post to see a bit of video of Arden bowling...

NEEDS VIDEO

I’ll be back to update this post when I have the final tally for the day.  Until then, thank you to everyone that put so much of their time and effort into this amazing and touching day.  It’s humbling to have so many friends, family and even strangers come together to support you.

UPDATE: Dan raised over $1,600 with his 2nd annual bowling day!  Way to go Dan!