“My wife is a Diabetes Champion because she has diabetes since she was 2 years old then last year our son was diagnosed at age 3. He was very scared and she has been a very strong woman and great role model for him to see that you don’t have to be scared of it, you’re not different from anyone else, you can live a very normal life and it should not hold you back. She is also a great sign of success for some other parents whose children were just recently diagnosed because when they saw her at a diabetes class one of the mothers whose daughter was just diagnosed was very worried about her child’s ability later in life to have children and live a “normal” life. When they saw her there she was pregnant with our 2nd child and I think she made the other mother feel a lot better about her daughters future health.”