We were on family vacation at the beach when Brantley our 3 year old started getting sick he woke us up early one morning with trouble breathing so his daddy and I rushed him to the emergency room from years of working in the er i knew if they take you back and look concerned something is wrong. The doctor takes one look at him and says you have a very sick little boy they initially said pneumonia but when blood tests came back the doctor came in with a devastating blow that he was a diabetic and his sugar was almost 800 and that he was in diabetic ketoacidosis and really bad dehydrated. They had to fly him an hour away to a childrens hosptial picu were we spent 3 days trying to get him better and a crash course in how to take care of a diabetic toddler. People don't realize how much a life change a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes is till it hits them. But im so proud of our little guy of course he cried at first with the mutliple finger sticks and shots but know i think he has realized it is part of his life now and takes it in stride. We can only pray that one day a cure is found so that other children doesn't have to go thru such a life changing diagnosis.

melissa ramsey
newport, TN