Since the day Emily was born, I always had a feeling Christopher wasn’t going to be the only one dealing with this. Maybe it was just pessimism, I don’t know. There were tests we could’ve ran to check whether she could get it. But we decided against it. Besides, all that we had learned with Christopher who better to know all the signs? We were right, we would know right away, After arriving home from work on June 24th, 2008, Kellie stopped me at the door and said”Don’t sit down. We need to go to the ER!” Dealing with this for almost four years, trips to the ER have been frequent. I’m sitting here thinking “Come on, Kellie, we are passed that point!” But before thoughts could translate to speech the last 2 words I wanted to hear came out of Kellie’s mouth....... “for Emily”. “Excuse me?”, I replied. “461, she’s 461!” So we were on our way to the ER. The day I have been waiting for since January 3, 2005 is finally here. Or is it? We get to the ER and give them the lowdown. Of course she needs to be tested again. After talking with the doctors, we started hearing it could be Type 2. Um.... no, it can’t be. We know what we are talking about. They don’t seem too concerned. She’s normal now. Bless those ER docs- they have to know a lot of conditions and must be able to make life or death decisions in split seconds, but Diabetes is not their speciality. Soon, they come in and say “We just heard from your Endocrinologist, they need to see her tomorrow. But you guys can go home tonight.” OK, now we are talking..... huh? What did I just say? After meeting with the endo the next day......... That day has finally come...... Emily has Diabetes too. We were just lucky to catch it early, REAL EARLY. So early, in fact, this has presented new challenges for us. Since Emily’s pancreas still functioned somewhat, her insulin needs were much lower than Christopher’s. Until now. But like her brother, Emily has embraced life with diabetes. She has accepted this disease and has handled it very well. But this is not acceptable to us. It is not fair that these kids need to live their lives like this. We need to find a cure!