I have been diabetic all my life. As a kid I remember riding home on my bicycle, a mile from home, trying to race the inevitable sugar crash I was about to endure. I had to get off my bike because I was feeling faint and as I stopped to sit on the curb a group of teenagers drove by, hollering and calling names out the window at me. As they passed, I realized that they had thrown an orange out of the window. My saving grace! From that point on I knew there was a god and I decided to pay it forward by being an advocate for diabetes awareness.