Sweet Dreams
(A Momma’s Story of Infant Diabetes Type 1 and Beyond)
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As we all entered the examination room, my husband firmly, yet with respect, demanded this doctor test our baby boy for Diabetes; explaining to the doctor we had tested David’s sugar at home with Jim’s own test tape, and the results showed positive.
Not being familiar with this young pediatrician, we were certainly taken by surprise when he responded with, “Statistically speaking, we’ve never diagnosed a diabetic child to a diabetic parent”.
DO WHAT? I immediately started searching the walls for the ever present degree(s).
Dilemma - there we sat with a baby who was, we were afraid, on the verge of a diabetic coma, and the doctor chooses this moment to spew statistics?!
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For Patty and her husband, Jim, a diagnosis of infant diabetes type 1 invaded their lives like an unwelcome visitor.
In 1995, local doctors weren’t familiar with this apparently uncommon diagnosis; consequently, local hospitals stated they were “not set up to handle infant diabetes type 1,” giving Patty and Jim two options: Little Rock, Arkansas, or Tulsa, Oklahoma. The decision was made for them as they watched their infant fighting the diabetic coma that was quickly overtaking him. Tulsa was closer, and the race to save their infant’s life ensued.
Diabetes was in Patty’s family history, and in one unexpected diagnosis, it reemerged into her present-day life. Thrown into this new role of caregiver to her newly diagnosed son, her husband, and eventually her dad, she shares lessons of endurance, patience and grace under fire.
By no means relinquishing her own sweet dreams of a cure for the diabetics in her life, Patty discusses how scientists can discover star births and sing happy birthday to a rover on Mars, but eliminating the stick from the countless sugar checks a diabetic will experience in a lifetime seems impossible! Concluding that diabetes is just too lucrative a business, in Sweet Dreams
Patty reveals why they fear the cure has been sold out to the almighty dollar.Sweet Dreams (A Momma’s Story of Infant Diabetes Type 1 and Beyond) is personal, thought provoking, and inspirational. It confirms that as we allow God His place in our lives, we will indeed overcome!
About the Author
Patty Doss, a praise and worship artist with Faith’s Touch Music Ministry, is the daughter and granddaughter of adult-onset diabetics and wife and mother to insulin-dependent diabetics. Her experience is real-time; her successes are by grace. Patty, her husband, Jim, and their four kids reside in Van Buren, Arkansas.