I live in Mendocino County California and recently met the father of some of the kids that "hang out" at our place. He was explaining to me how he took one of his boys in for a Dr. appointment and happened to mention how thirsty he had been lately to the doctor.... was asked to take a test for diabetes, and since then he has been living close to death every day. The numbers he gets while monitoring this disease are most often diabetic coma level and he seems so lost behind it all.

This 45 year old man has worked hard all his life, fathered and raised seven kids, and has always been healthy until now. He doesn't know what to do in terms of getting a grip on his disease because he is self employed.... without the right kind of insurance, leaving him to pay cash out of pocket any time he sees a doctor, as well as pay for all that costly insulin and testing supplies. (which on the day I met him he had already injected 3 doses that day by 2:30 P.M.).

I have never met persons, or