St. Andrews Mom Pleads for Son's Life, Community Help

I am 27 years old and I have two wonderful children, Jeremiah,7 years old and Adryana, 6 years old. They are my world and I would not know what to do without them. My kids are the reason I am here today if I did not have them in my life, my life would have been cut short by myself taking it away.

I have struggled and stressed all my life and I don’t know really how to live any other way. I am a single mother, I have a boyfriend but were not married and he helps me as much as he can. He tries to make me think positive all the time but I just seem to have this gray cloud over my head all the time.

I am so scared all the time because of my son’s invisible illness.

If you look at him you would think nothing is wrong but think again he has something that can take his life away from me at any time. If the Lord wants him, he will take him. I have had so many things happen to me in the past 3 years that I am not sure if I can handle anymore.

I was going back to school to better my education and then my father pasted (sic) in 2009 from cancer, I dropped out. I go back to school in 2010 and in January of 2011 I found out that my 5 year old son had Type 1 Diabetes--I almost lost him. I dropped back out of school because I was working full time and going to school full time and one of them had to go so I dropped out of school, then I tried it again for the third time trying to make a better living for my kids I went back to school but then in August of this year my son had a seizure because his sugar dropped to low, this has made it to where I don’t sleep that much anymore because I am so stressed on checking his sugar.

The few days after his seizure I checked his sugar over 20 times and if you know about diabetes then you know that is way too many times. Well now I am out of school and working a few hours a week and trying to make it. My son Jeremiah is 7 years old and was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in Jan of 2011.

Before Jeremiah was diagnosed he was a normal little boy that had no worries, now he has to watch what he eats, what he drinks, how long he can play and just be like every other little boy. Jeremiah has done really good with this a lot better than me. I think that just because he really don’t understand it like I do. Jeremiah knows that what he has is serious but he don’t understand how serious it really is, there are days that he is really high and he don’t know and he don’t act any different and then there are days that he is low and he don’t know and if you’re not paying attention then you would not know either but I have started learning what his actions are when he is high and when he is low.

With him not knowing how he feels till it’s like in the 20’s that’s not good because he could have another seizure or go into a coma and that is the scary part for me. I am trying to raise money to get him a service dog that will help us detect when he is going low or when he is going high before it actually happens. The dogs are amazing and they are angels from God. I have been trying to get people to help me raise money and have fundraiser and donations but I have not been to successful so now I am turning to you and hope and pray to God that you can help us out with our story. We have to reach $1000.00 to be put on the waiting list to receive a dog in 6 to 8 months. So if you could please help us get our son his ANGEL

Kristina Copeland

For more information, see the Facebook page dedicated to Jeremiah's Cause.