June 18, 2013, a day I will never forget. We found ourselves rushing my 12 year old baby to Arkansas Children's Hospital. We had previously just thought he had gotten dehydrated from a baseball camp and it was just taking his body alittle longer to recooperate but that just wasn't the case. His blood sugar was at 790 and my baby almost looked like death. We could not drive fast enough. It was a new world for us. I was overwhelmed with all the information I was about to receive and feared that Mack would give up doing everything he loved because of our new diabetic lifestyle. Once again, that was not the case. Mack, a.k.a. BoBo, proved us wrong. He was determined to lead his baseball team to the State Championship in one week. He overcome his HUGE fear of needles and was giving himself his insulin shots by day 3 in the hospital. His courage was contagious and showed me we could knock diabetes out of the park.
One week after being released from the hospital, Mack and his baseball team went on to go undeafeated to become 11&under "A" Arkansas State Champions.
De Queen, AR