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Fundraiser for Local Boy Helps Fight Diabetes
Foster's Grille will donate 10 percent of all Tuesday sales to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Three years ago this June, Amy Lotz brought her 3-year-old son Jack to see the doctor for what the Reston mother thought was a common cold. But a few days later, Jack got worse — he was constantly thirsty and going to the bathroom; vomiting, sweaty, lethargic. A return trip to the doctor revealed Jack had type 1 diabetes, a shock to a family that had no history of the disease. Jack spent three nights in the pediatric intensive care unit that week. "I'll never forget the look on the doctor's face when he walked into the room. I knew right away it was something serious," Lotz said. On Tuesday, Jack, now 6, and his family will team up with Foster's Grille in Vienna to raise money for the Walk To Cure Diabetes on May 20 in Leesburg, which …
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