Phillip and best friend Baxter at work
WELCOME TO PADLS PALS FOUNDATION
Making Life Easier With Diabetic Alert Dogs
ABOUT OUR FOUNDATION
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The purpose of our foundation is to provide financial aid to purchase Diabetic Alert Dogs for children and young adults with type 1 diabetes, providing quality of life, independence, and companionship.
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This foundation is a nonprofit organization created by Jeremy, Tracy & Christian Lewis in memory of their son & brother Phillip.
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If you would like to show your support, please click on the Donate button below, we are grateful for any amount large or small.
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Thank you from the Lewis family
Our beautiful dogs, Bailey on the left & Baxter on the right were both Phillip's, while Bear in the middle is the old man of the group at 18
Our son Phillip passed away on the 12th December 2018 at the age of 28 from complications of type 1 diabetes. Phillip's battle with diabetes started at 11 years of age and he struggled with it all his life. Diabetes is a condition that is mentally draining as well as physically tough on your body. We as a family watched him try to maintain a regular life but sometimes this was very hard for him to do especially in the last few years. He found and we witnessed that people did not really understand how diabetes is an hour by hour condition. High blood sugars followed by low blood sugars can result in coma.
Phillip loved animals and worked as a veterinary assistant and rescued the above three dogs. We as a family feel this is the perfect way to remember Phillip
FIRST PADLS PALS FUNDRAISER
Thanks to everyone for your support at Pub Thirty Two with live music from the Mosquitoes
Thanks to Diarmuid, owner of Pub Thirty Two and Sharon Plumb for all your support and encouragement for our Foundation
Meet Eli & Duke
Because of kind, generous people like YOU, we have been able to fund our first Diabetic Alert dog called DUKE, he is a handsome brown Lab/Retriever mix. We are very grateful to Lily Grace Service Dogs for providing and training Duke.
Here you can see Eli & Duke meeting for the first time, because of the training Duke received, he knew who Eli was right away.
Duke has settled in really well with the Link family who adore him completely.
Duke and Eli both love Easter
Turns out Duke loves the snow
Meet Claire & Hilo
Because of continued generous support from people like YOU, we have been able to part fund our second Diabetic Alert dog called Hilo, she is a beautiful white and brown poodle mix. As you can see both Hilo and Claire are very photogenic
Claire and HiLo have been together for a little while now and they are inseparable
Meet April & Maple
Meet April who is a schoolteacher and mother of two in Mission Viejo, southern California. April has been managing her diabetes since she was a child. We are very happy to be able to provide a donation to Diabetes Alert Dogs of America on behalf of April, who has recently been assigned a beautiful AussieDoodle called Maple. Maple should be home with April by the end of this year once all the intensive training is complete.
