Can YOU survive diabetes?

So, are you up for a challenge? 

My son Jacob was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes November 9, 2007, at the age of 3 years, 4 months.  Since then, there has not been a single day when Jacob did not require specific treatment and care to survive until tomorrow.  Type 1 Diabetes doesn’t kill immediately, but it also never takes a day off.  For Jacob, and for his family, it is a way of life.  

Now to the challenge:

The Morning After

Like so many others, we woke to a clear, bright day that morning ten years ago.  We got ready quickly; the movers would arrive soon.  Looking around our small half of the duplex, on our Mister Roger’s Neighborhood street, I saw the boxes stacked everywhere.  On the table with our wallet and cell phone were the airplane tickets for this evening: Pittsburgh to Boston.