Latest / Martin Animations / The School Nurse Called Me At Work And Said_ _How Fast Can You Get Your Son_s Insulin To School
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- 0:00Speaker 1: The school nurse called me at work and said, How
- 0:02Speaker 1: fast can you get your son's insulin to school? What
- 0:04Speaker 1: do you mean? I dropped my coffee mug on my desk,
- 0:07Speaker 1: the hot liquid splashing across quarterly reports I'd been reviewing. Mrs.
- 0:10Speaker 1: Patterson's voice was steady, but I could hear the underlying urgency.
- 0:13Speaker 1: Tyler's insulin pen is missing from his emergency kit. We've
- 0:16Speaker 1: looked everywhere. His blood sugar is at 387 and climbing.
- 0:19Speaker 1: My hands were already grabbing my keys while my brain
- 0:21Speaker 1: tried to process this. Tyler's backup insulin was always in
- 0:24Speaker 1: the nurse's locked medication cabinet. We'd triple-checked it at the
- 0:27Speaker 1: start of the school year. I'm fifteen minutes away, I said,
- 0:29Speaker 1: already running toward the parking garage. His emergency pen is
- 0:32Speaker 1: in my car. Should I call an ambulance? Not yet, Mrs.
- 0:35Speaker 1: Patterson said carefully. He's conscious and talking, but we need
- 0:38Speaker 1: that insulin within the next thirty minutes. I'm monitoring him
- 0:40Speaker 1: every five minutes. The way she emphasized thirty minutes made
- 0:43Speaker 1: my foot press harder on the gas as I pulled
- 0:45Speaker 1: out of the garage. Tyler had been diagnosed with type
- 0:48Speaker 1: 1 diabetes when he was seven. We'd spent three years
- 0:50Speaker 1: perfecting our routine. Backup plans for our backup plans. The
- 0:53Speaker 1: school had two insulin pens. I kept one in my car.
- 0:56Speaker 1: My ex-wife Rachel had one at her house. This wasn't
- 0:58Speaker 1: supposed to happen. The traffic light ahead turned yellow, and
- 1:01Speaker 1: I gunned it. sailing through just as it hit red.
- 1:03Speaker 1: My phone rang through the car speakers. Rachel. The school
- 1:06Speaker 1: called me too. I'm 40 minutes away in a client meeting.
- 1:08Speaker 1: Please tell me you're closer. Her voice had that controlled
- 1:11Speaker 1: panic I recognized from Tyler's diagnosis day. Already driving, I
- 1:14Speaker 1: assured her. ETA 12 minutes. Mrs. Patterson texted me Tyler's
- 1:17Speaker 1: latest reading, 402. At 450, we'd have to hospitalize him.
- 1:21Speaker 1: At 600, he could slip into a diabetic coma. Each
- 1:23Speaker 1: number on that meter was a countdown I couldn't afford
- 1:25Speaker 1: to lose. I took the exit for Highway 9 at
- 1:28Speaker 1: twice the posted speed. tires squealing. Dad's coming with your medicine,
- 1:31Speaker 1: I heard Mrs. Patterson tell Tyler through our still-connected call.
- 1:34Speaker 1: Just keep drinking water, sweetheart. Tyler's voice came through weak,
- 1:37Speaker 1: but trying to sound brave. Tell him not to speed.
- 1:40Speaker 1: I'm okay. That broke me. Even at ten years old,
- 1:42Speaker 1: even with his blood sugar skyrocketing, he was worried about me.
- 1:45Speaker 1: The elementary school parking lot came into view, and I
- 1:47Speaker 1: pulled directly onto the sidewalk by the main entrance, not
- 1:50Speaker 1: bothering with the proper space. I grabbed the insulin kit
- 1:52Speaker 1: from my glove compartment and and ran through the doors,
- 1:55Speaker 1: ignoring the security protocol of checking in at the front desk.
- 1:58Speaker 1: The secretary, Mrs. Chen, just pointed down the hall. Nurse's office. Go.
- 2:02Speaker 1: Tyler was lying on the narrow bed in Mrs. Patterson's office,
- 2:05Speaker 1: his face flushed and breathing shallow. The glucose meter next
- 2:07Speaker 1: to him showed 411. Mrs. Patterson already had an alcohol
- 2:11Speaker 1: wipe ready. I pulled out the insulin pen, dialed the
- 2:13Speaker 1: correct dose, we'd practiced this so many times, and injected
- 2:16Speaker 1: it into his arm. The medicine would take 15 minutes
- 2:18Speaker 1: to start working. 15 very long minutes. How did this happen?
- 2:22Speaker 1: I asked Mrs. Patterson while holding Tyler's hand. Where's his
- 2:24Speaker 1: regular insulin? She pulled out a form on her clipboard.
- 2:27Speaker 1: Someone checked it out this morning at 8.47 a.m. The signature,
- 2:30Speaker 1: it's not one I recognize. She showed me the medication log.
- 2:33Speaker 1: Someone had signed R. Morrison in handwriting I'd never seen before.
- 2:36Speaker 1: Who has access to the medication cabinet? My mind was
- 2:38Speaker 1: racing through possibilities. Mrs. Patterson's face was grim. Only myself,
- 2:42Speaker 1: the principal Mr. Hayes, and the backup nurse Mrs. Walters.
- 2:45Speaker 1: But Mrs. Walters called in sick today. She paused. And
- 2:47Speaker 1: the cabinet wasn't forced. Someone used a key. Tyler's breathing
- 2:50Speaker 1: was starting to normalize as the insulin worked through his system.
- 2:53Speaker 1: His latest reading, 385 and dropping. I texted Rachel the update,
- 2:57Speaker 1: and she responded that she was leaving her meeting and
- 2:59Speaker 1: coming straight over. That's when Tyler said something that made
- 3:01Speaker 1: my blood run cold. The substitute nurse gave me my
- 3:04Speaker 1: morning dose. She said she was filling in for Mrs. Walters.
- 3:06Speaker 1: What substitute nurse? Mrs. Patterson looked confused. We didn't have
- 3:09Speaker 1: a substitute scheduled. When someone calls out, I cover all day.
- 3:12Speaker 1: She immediately picked up her desk phone and called the principal.
- 3:15Speaker 1: I could only hear her side. We need to lock down.
- 3:17Speaker 1: Unauthorized person. administered medication to a student within minutes the
- 3:21Speaker 1: school was in soft lockdown police arrived as tyler's blood
- 3:24Speaker 1: sugar hit 320 finally in a safer range though still
- 3:27Speaker 1: too high detective mills interviewed tyler gently while i held
- 3:30Speaker 1: his hand can you describe the woman who gave you
- 3:32Speaker 1: your morning insulin tyler thought carefully she had dark hair
- 3:35Speaker 1: and a ponytail she was wearing scrubs like mrs patterson's
- 3:37Speaker 1: but blue instead of pink she knew my name and
- 3:39Speaker 1: exactly where my insulin was kept the security footage was
- 3:42Speaker 1: pulled within an hour the cameras showed a woman matching
- 3:44Speaker 1: tyler's description entering through a side door at 7.30 a.m.,
- 3:48Speaker 1: using a keycard. She went straight to the nurse's office,
- 3:51Speaker 1: spent 12 minutes inside, then left, through the same door.
- 3:54Speaker 1: Her face was partially obscured by large sunglasses and her
- 3:56Speaker 1: surgical mask, which hadn't seemed unusual since we were still
- 3:59Speaker 1: in cold season. The keycard, Detective Mills noted, belonged to Mrs. Walters.
- 4:03Speaker 1: She reported it missing from her car yesterday but hadn't
- 4:05Speaker 1: gotten around to reporting it to the school yet. The
- 4:07Speaker 1: woman had known exactly when Mrs. Walters would be absent,
- 4:10Speaker 1: exactly which student was diabetic. and exactly how to access
- 4:13Speaker 1: the medication. Rachel arrived as they were reviewing more footage.
- 4:16Speaker 1: She hugged Tyler fiercely, then turned to me. This wasn't random.
- 4:20Speaker 1: Someone knew his schedule, his condition, his exact medication needs.
- 4:23Speaker 1: I'd been thinking the same thing. This felt personal. Mrs.
- 4:26Speaker 1: Patterson pulled up Tyler's medical records on her computer. Only
- 4:28Speaker 1: authorized personnel can access these. The last person to view
- 4:31Speaker 1: them was, she stopped, her face going pale. Dr. Morrison
- 4:34Speaker 1: from the district office. Two days ago. But Dr. Morrison
- 4:37Speaker 1: is a man, and he's been at a conference in
- 4:39Speaker 1: Boston all week. Someone had used Dr. Morrison's credentials to
- 4:42Speaker 1: access the system. Detective Mills made a call to the
- 4:44Speaker 1: district IT department to trace the login. Meanwhile, Tyler mentioned
- 4:48Speaker 1: something else. She asked me about Mom's new house. She
- 4:50Speaker 1: knew we'd just moved. Rachel and I exchanged looks. She'd
- 4:53Speaker 1: only moved two weeks ago after our divorce was finalized.
- 4:55Speaker 1: The IT trace came back quickly. The system had been
- 4:58Speaker 1: accessed from a computer at the public library branch on
- 5:00Speaker 1: Maple Street. Detective Mills sent officers to pull their security
- 5:03Speaker 1: footage while we waited in the principal's office. Tyler's blood
- 5:05Speaker 1: sugar was now at 280, approaching normal, but the question
- 5:08Speaker 1: of who had done this and why hung heavy in
- 5:11Speaker 1: the room. My phone buzzed with a text from an
- 5:13Speaker 1: unknown number. Check your email. Against my better judgment, I
- 5:16Speaker 1: opened my email app. There was a message with no
- 5:18Speaker 1: subject line from a scrambled address. Inside was a single line.
- 5:21Speaker 1: You took everything from me. Now I'm returning the favor.
- 5:24Speaker 1: I showed it to Detective Mills immediately. Do you have
- 5:26Speaker 1: any idea who this could be? Anyone with a grudge?
- 5:28Speaker 1: I couldn't think of anyone initially. But Rachel suddenly gasped.
- 5:31Speaker 1: Oh my god. Stephanie, she turned to me. Your former assistant.
- 5:34Speaker 1: The one who was fired last year for stealing from
- 5:36Speaker 1: the company. Stephanie Brennan. She'd been embezzling funds through fake
- 5:40Speaker 1: vendor accounts. Nearly $ 200, 000 before we caught her. I'd testified
- 5:43Speaker 1: at her trial. She'd gotten 18 months but was released
- 5:46Speaker 1: early for good behavior. That was six months ago. She'd
- 5:48Speaker 1: blamed me for ruining her life, even though she was
- 5:50Speaker 1: the one who'd committed fraud. Detective Mills called it in immediately.
- 5:53Speaker 1: They had Stephanie's photo from her arrest records and started
- 5:56Speaker 1: comparing it to the security footage. The build matched, the
- 5:59Speaker 1: height matched. More importantly, her sister worked at the same
- 6:02Speaker 1: hospital as Mrs. Walters. They'd have known each other, possibly
- 6:05Speaker 1: been friends. Stephanie could have learned about Mrs. Walters' schedule,
- 6:08Speaker 1: stolen her keycard, studied our routine. The library footage confirmed it.
- 6:11Speaker 1: Stephanie was clearly visible using the computer at the exact
- 6:14Speaker 1: time Tyler's records were accessed. She'd worn the same dark
- 6:17Speaker 1: ponytail and blue scrubs she'd worn to the school. But
- 6:19Speaker 1: what really chilled me was the footage showing her practicing
- 6:22Speaker 1: with an insulin pen in the library bathroom, using online
- 6:25Speaker 1: videos to learn the proper technique. She'd planned this meticulously.
- 6:28Speaker 1: She gave me the right morning dose, Tyler said quietly.
- 6:31Speaker 1: She wanted to hurt me? Why give me the right amount?
- 6:33Speaker 1: Detective Mills had a theory. She took your backup insulin
- 6:35Speaker 1: but gave you your regular dose to buy time. You
- 6:37Speaker 1: wouldn't need the backup until lunch. By then, your blood
- 6:40Speaker 1: sugar would spike, you'd be in serious distress, but she'd
- 6:42Speaker 1: be long gone. The malicious calculation of it made me sick.
- 6:45Speaker 1: She'd wanted Tyler to suffer, wanted us to panic, but
- 6:48Speaker 1: not in a way that could immediately be traced to her.
- 6:50Speaker 1: If we hadn't had security cameras, if Tyler hadn't remembered
- 6:53Speaker 1: specific details, she might have gotten away with it. They
- 6:55Speaker 1: found Stephanie at her apartment three hours later. The blue
- 6:58Speaker 1: scrubs were in her trash, along with the empty insulin pens.
- 7:01Speaker 1: She'd disposed of the medication to prevent us from having backup.
- 7:04Speaker 1: Her laptop showed searches for insulin overdose, diabetic coma in children,
- 7:08Speaker 1: and how long before high blood sugar causes damage. She'd
- 7:11Speaker 1: been researching how to hurt my son for weeks. During
- 7:13Speaker 1: her interrogation, which Detective Mills later summarized for us, Stephanie
- 7:16Speaker 1: admitted everything but showed no remorse. He destroyed my life,
- 7:19Speaker 1: she kept saying about me. I lost everything because of him.
- 7:22Speaker 1: My house. My reputation. my future. I wanted him to
- 7:25Speaker 1: feel that same helplessness. She'd learned about Tyler's diabetes through
- 7:28Speaker 1: social media, where Rachel had posted about his condition in
- 7:31Speaker 1: diabetes awareness groups. The prosecutor charged her with attempted murder,
- 7:35Speaker 1: practicing medicine without a license, breaking and entering, identity theft,
- 7:38Speaker 1: and endangering a minor. With her prior conviction, she was
- 7:41Speaker 1: looking at 15 to 20 years. The judge denied bail,
- 7:44Speaker 1: considering her a flight risk and danger to the community.
- 7:46Speaker 1: Tyler's blood sugar stabilized completely by evening, but the psychological
- 7:49Speaker 1: impact lingered. He became afraid to eat at school, worried
- 7:52Speaker 1: someone might tamper with his food. He started checking his
- 7:55Speaker 1: insulin pens obsessively, making sure they hadn't been switched. We
- 7:58Speaker 1: had to add therapy to his medical routine, helping him
- 8:00Speaker 1: process the trauma of being targeted. The school implemented new
- 8:03Speaker 1: protocols immediately. All medication would now require two-person verification for access.
- 8:08Speaker 1: Substitute medical staff would need photo ID verification from the principal.
- 8:11Speaker 1: They installed a biometric lock on the medication cabinet that
- 8:14Speaker 1: recorded fingerprints of anyone accessing it. It felt like closing
- 8:17Speaker 1: the barn door after the horse had bolted, but at
- 8:19Speaker 1: least future kids would be protected. Rachel and I, divorced
- 8:22Speaker 1: or not, became a united front in protecting Tyler. We
- 8:25Speaker 1: installed security systems at both houses, varied his routines, and
- 8:28Speaker 1: took turns doing surprise check-ins at school. The constant vigilance
- 8:31Speaker 1: was exhausting, but Stephanie had taught us that Tyler's medical
- 8:34Speaker 1: condition could be weaponized by anyone with enough hatred and planning.
- 8:37Speaker 1: Three months later, during Stephanie's sentencing, she finally showed emotion.
- 8:41Speaker 1: but it was anger, not remorse. You care more about
- 8:43Speaker 1: that kid than the life you destroyed, she spat at me.
- 8:46Speaker 1: I went to prison because of you. I lost everything
- 8:48Speaker 1: because of you. The judge cut her off, sentencing her
- 8:50Speaker 1: to 18 years with no possibility of early release. Tyler
- 8:53Speaker 1: testified via closed-circuit TV from another room, bravely describing his
- 8:57Speaker 1: fear when his blood sugar kept climbing. and no one
- 8:59Speaker 1: could find his insulin. I thought I was going to die,
- 9:02Speaker 1: he said simply. I kept thinking about all the things
- 9:04Speaker 1: I'd never get to do. His testimony was what convinced
- 9:06Speaker 1: the judge to add an extra three years to Stephanie's sentence.
- 9:09Speaker 1: The endocrinologist adjusted Tyler's treatment plan after the incident. We
- 9:13Speaker 1: now kept insulin in multiple locked locations at school, each
- 9:15Speaker 1: requiring different access codes. Tyler wore a continuous glucose monitor
- 9:19Speaker 1: that sent real-time readings to both Rachel's and my phones.
- 9:22Speaker 1: If his levels went above 250, we'd get an immediate alert.
- 9:25Speaker 1: Technology became our safety net where human systems had failed.
- 9:28Speaker 1: I changed jobs six months after the incident, leaving the
- 9:30Speaker 1: corporate world for a remote position that let me be
- 9:33Speaker 1: more present for Tyler. The pay cut was significant, but
- 9:35Speaker 1: being able to drop everything and get to him within
- 9:37Speaker 1: minutes felt worth more than any salary. Rachel did the same,
- 9:41Speaker 1: negotiating flexible hours that aligned with Tyler's school schedule. The
- 9:44Speaker 1: school district settled our lawsuit out of court for $ 500, 000,
- 9:48Speaker 1: which went directly into a trust for Tyler's future medical
- 9:50Speaker 1: expenses and education. They also named the new medication protocols
- 9:54Speaker 1: Tyler's Law, though we'd asked them not to. Every school
- 9:56Speaker 1: in the district now had to follow the two-person verification
- 9:59Speaker 1: system we'd helped design. Tyler surprised us all with his resilience.
- 10:02Speaker 1: He started a diabetes awareness club at school, teaching other
- 10:05Speaker 1: kids about the condition. He turned his trauma into advocacy,
- 10:08Speaker 1: explaining to anyone who'd listen why medical security mattered. At
- 10:11Speaker 1: 11 years old, he was more composed discussing his condition
- 10:14Speaker 1: than most adults. One year after the incident, Tyler's insulin
- 10:17Speaker 1: pump malfunctioned during a school field trip to the Science Museum.
- 10:20Speaker 1: This time, the system worked perfectly. The teacher had backup supplies,
- 10:23Speaker 1: knew exactly what to do, and Tyler's blood sugar never
- 10:25Speaker 1: went above 200. What could have been another crisis became
- 10:28Speaker 1: a manageable medical moment. Tyler handled it like a pro,
- 10:31Speaker 1: even reassuring the panicking parent volunteers that he was fine.
- 10:34Speaker 1: Stephanie tried to appeal her sentence, claiming the punishment was
- 10:37Speaker 1: excessive for what she called a prank gone wrong. The
- 10:40Speaker 1: appeals court not only upheld the sentence, but added two
- 10:42Speaker 1: years for showing no remorse and minimizing the severity of
- 10:45Speaker 1: attempting to harm a child. Her lawyer dropped the case
- 10:47Speaker 1: after that, finally acknowledging they had no winning argument. The
- 10:50Speaker 1: ripple effects continued for years. Mrs. Walters, the nurse who'd
- 10:53Speaker 1: called in sick that day, still blamed herself, even though
- 10:56Speaker 1: she'd done nothing wrong. She ended up leaving the school,
- 10:58Speaker 1: unable to shake the guilt that her missing keycard had
- 11:00Speaker 1: been used to hurt Tyler. We stayed in touch, and
- 11:03Speaker 1: I regularly reminded her that Stephanie would have found another way.
- 11:06Speaker 1: Predators always do. Tyler's now 13, taller than me, and
- 11:09Speaker 1: manages his diabetes with a confidence that amazes everyone. He
- 11:12Speaker 1: still has nightmares sometimes about that day when his insulin
- 11:15Speaker 1: went missing. but they're less frequent. His continuous glucose monitor
- 11:18Speaker 1: and insulin pump are his constant companions, but he doesn't
- 11:21Speaker 1: let them define him. He plays basketball, goes to sleepovers,
- 11:24Speaker 1: lives the full life Stephanie tried to steal from him.
- 11:26Speaker 1: The blue scrubs still trigger both of us. I see
- 11:28Speaker 1: them in hospitals or medical offices and immediately flash back
- 11:31Speaker 1: to that security footage. Tyler admits they make him uncomfortable too,
- 11:34Speaker 1: but he's working through it in therapy. I won't let
- 11:36Speaker 1: her steal colors from me, he said once, and I've
- 11:39Speaker 1: never been prouder of his determination to not let trauma win.
- 11:41Speaker 1: rachel and i developed an unlikely friendship through this crisis
- 11:44Speaker 1: the divorce had been bitter but protecting tyler united us
- 11:47Speaker 1: in ways marriage never had we have dinner together as
- 11:49Speaker 1: a family once a week coordinating his care seamlessly tyler
- 11:52Speaker 1: jokes that it took a psychopath to make his parents
- 11:54Speaker 1: get along which is dark humor for a 13 year
- 11:56Speaker 1: old but probably accurate The investigation revealed Stephanie had a
- 12:00Speaker 1: list of three other targets, all people involved in her prosecution.
- 12:03Speaker 1: Tyler had been first, because hurting a child would cause
- 12:06Speaker 1: the most pain. The other potential victims were warned and
- 12:08Speaker 1: given protection. One family moved out of state entirely. Stephanie
- 12:11Speaker 1: had created detailed plans for each, showing a level of
- 12:14Speaker 1: premeditation that chilled everyone involved. I still check Tyler's blood
- 12:17Speaker 1: sugar readings obsessively through the app. Every spike makes my
- 12:20Speaker 1: heart race, even when it's just because he snuck an
- 12:22Speaker 1: extra cookie. Rachel does the same. We joke that we
- 12:25Speaker 1: have PTSD, post-traumatic sugar disorder, but it's not really funny.
- 12:29Speaker 1: That day when Mrs. Patterson called asking how fast I
- 12:31Speaker 1: could get insulin to school changed how we see every
- 12:34Speaker 1: number on his meter. The school nurse position became a
- 12:36Speaker 1: rotating schedule after Mrs. Patterson retired early. unable to shake
- 12:39Speaker 1: the trauma of that day. She'd handled everything perfectly, but
- 12:42Speaker 1: the what-ifs haunted her. What if she hadn't called me immediately?
- 12:45Speaker 1: What if Tyler's blood sugar had spiked faster? What if
- 12:47Speaker 1: Stephanie had given him an overdose instead of withholding insulin?
- 12:50Speaker 1: The questions drove her to anxiety medication and early retirement.
- 12:53Speaker 1: Tyler's emergency kit now looks like a pharmacy. We have
- 12:56Speaker 1: insulin in his backpack, the nurse's office, his classroom, the
- 12:59Speaker 1: principal's office, and the gym teacher's desk. Each location has
- 13:02Speaker 1: a different access protocol. It's probably overkill, but overkill feels
- 13:05Speaker 1: like appropriate kill when someone has tried to weaponize your
- 13:08Speaker 1: child's chronic illness. The district implemented mandatory training for all
- 13:11Speaker 1: staff on recognizing medical emergencies and unauthorized persons. They now
- 13:15Speaker 1: run quarterly drills on medication security breaches. Tyler's incident became
- 13:19Speaker 1: a case study at the state education conference, teaching administrators
- 13:22Speaker 1: how quickly a medical vulnerability could become a crisis. Five
- 13:25Speaker 1: years later, we still live with the echoes of that day.
- 13:27Speaker 1: Tyler just got accepted to a diabetes summer camp, where
- 13:30Speaker 1: he'll be a counselor in training, teaching younger kids with
- 13:32Speaker 1: new diagnoses. He wrote in his application essay about survival
- 13:35Speaker 1: being a choice you make every day, not just in emergencies.
- 13:38Speaker 1: He didn't mention Stephanie by name, just referred to a
- 13:41Speaker 1: challenge that taught me vigilance and resilience. Last month, I
- 13:44Speaker 1: got a notification that Stephanie had requested to add me
- 13:47Speaker 1: to her prison visitor list. I deleted it without responding.
- 13:50Speaker 1: She had no more power over our lives. Tyler's blood
- 13:52Speaker 1: sugar was stable, his spirits high, and his future bright.
- 13:55Speaker 1: That was the only response she deserved. Our continued thriving
- 13:58Speaker 1: despite her attempt to break us. The insulin pen I
- 14:00Speaker 1: keep in my car now sits in a locked box.
- 14:02Speaker 1: Some habits born from trauma never fully fade, but Tyler
- 14:05Speaker 1: is alive, healthy, and turning into an amazing young man
- 14:08Speaker 1: who happens to have diabetes. He runs cross-country, maintains a 3.8 GPA,
- 14:12Speaker 1: and talks about becoming an endocrinologist to help kids like himself.
- 14:15Speaker 1: Stephanie tried to use his illness as a weapon. Instead,
- 14:18Speaker 1: she taught him that even his greatest vulnerability could become
- 14:21Speaker 1: a source of strength. Looking back, Those 15 minutes racing
- 14:23Speaker 1: to school with his insulin were the longest of my life. Mrs.
- 14:26Speaker 1: Patterson's question, how fast can you get your son's insulin
- 14:29Speaker 1: to school, still sometimes echoes in my dreams. But I
- 14:32Speaker 1: made it in time. We all made it through. And
- 14:33Speaker 1: Tyler learned that having diabetes meant being vulnerable. But being
- 14:36Speaker 1: vulnerable didn't mean being weak. The story should end there,
- 14:39Speaker 1: with triumph over adversity. But real life keeps going. Tyler
- 14:42Speaker 1: still checks his insulin obsessively. I still panic when the
- 14:45Speaker 1: school calls. Rachel still monitors his glucose levels at 3am
- 14:48Speaker 1: through the app. We're functional, but scarred. Stephanie took more
- 14:51Speaker 1: than just insulin that day. She stole our peace of mind,
- 14:54Speaker 1: but she didn't take Tyler, and that's the only victory
- 14:56Speaker 1: that matters. If you enjoyed this video, don't forget to
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