What if this was it? What if this was THE announcement? Where were you when you first heard the news?
We were in the living room. Susanne was sitting on the brown "site-change chair" with Charlie laying across her knees. She peeled the site off of Charlie's bottom while he resisted, elbowing her in the ribs and screaming, "break! break! break!"
Susanne begged him to be still.
And then suddenly everything stopped as we all became transfixed to the words coming out of Brian Williams' mouth on the television and the graphic over his left shoulder that said "Diabetes & Kids."
"And there is news that is creating quite a bit of excitement tonight. A potential treatment for type 1 diabetes. It involves two drugs already on the market used to treat some cancers. Now we should say clearly and at the outset, this is a study of mice. But it's generating excitement because it could hold the key to putting diabetes patients into a kind of permanent remission."
Upon hearing the words "permanent remission" and throughout the entire story, my body tingled with goosebumps. Susanne and I just looked at each other, with cautious excitement.
The chief science correspondent went on to say that the combination of the drug Gleevec, used to treat leukemia, and another similar drug called Sutent, has cured diabetes in mice. Interestingly, the mice did not need continuous treatment. After stopping the treatment, the mice did not revert back to being diabetic.
The scientists say they could have meaningful results about the drug's ability to treat diabetes in humans within a year. Not 10 years. Not five years. Within one year.
More tingles up around my shoulder blades and down to my toes.
With half of his bare butt hanging out, Charlie turned to us with a smile.
"A cure? For me?"
We hope.
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