Little Summer, five years old and possessed of a vivacious and outgoing personality, started off Friday little girl perfect and finished the day in a sirens wailing, lights flashing ambulance being transported from the hospital where she had been diagnosed with type one diabetes to Children's, where she was to be treated.
Five years old and in a coma is the shape and size of a parents worst nightmare. The fine folks who make Children's work did their magic and today Summer is back to her old self. A couple of days in for everyone to understand the ins and outs of a diabetic diet, of blood tests and insulin injections and they will all be back home.
So, what are the blessings?
The love that binds Summer's family together. Grandparents who took Logan, her brother in for the duration of the crisis. A medical system that, for all of it's many faults, worked swiftly and compassionately to diagnose and deal with the problem. A faith community that rallied around with it's prayers of support for the family. A society that includes all of the systems needed to deal swiftly with medical problems that in another day would have resulted in a line entry in the family bible, died young. Thank God!
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