((((((David)))))),

I'm so sorry that your son is having trouble coping with a new diagnosis.

No one can understand or explain why some get sick and others do not. The ONE THING that I do know is that getting a disease or an illness is NOT a punishment for anything that your son did or did not do.

If your son had been born over a hundred years ago, that diagnosis would pretty much be a guaranteed death sentence.

The research that's being done now on diabetes and scores of other diseases pretty much guarantees that there will be a cure for diabetes before your son grows to be a man.

A combination of stem cell technology and the other awe-inspiring technologies that are being researched will probably contain the answers that your son is looking for.

Teach your son that The Universe guides us to where we need to go. Sometimes as a student, sometimes as a teacher. Your son might be going through this experience now so that he gains an understanding and an empathy of what it means to be ill. Who knows!!?? Maybe this means that he is destined to be a doctor or a nurse or a medical researcher when he grows up. Wouldn't that be wonderful!!

Your son's responsibility is this whole upcoming miracle is to keep himself healthy and well and ready for a miracle -- no excess weight, no smoking, NO STRESS

BLESS YOU BOTH. Hugs.

Barb

PS: Your son might be intersted in this: http://www.sciencedaily.com