What Makes A Hero?

On days like today, I am grateful.

On days like today I realize that I could have lost my son

I watch him dance, spin, hop and jump and am at a loss for words when I realize that he could have very well not have made it.  

As he eats his bedtime snack, he leaned over to his baby sister and took her hand and whispered, just inches from her face "I love you, Tenley"

What would Tenley have done without her big brother?  Our world would never have been the same...

But he is alive!  And I am eternally grateful to the men in Toronto who stumbled upon the discovery of insulin!  Thank you Frederick Banting for not doubting your discovery!  Only in the last 90 years have we had a way of treating this Disease.  Without you and your discovery, my beautiful son would not be here today, and that is why I look at you as one of my heros!  

he·ro

   

[heer-oh]  Show IPA

–noun, plural -roes; for 5 also -ros.

1.

a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for hisbrave deeds and noble qualities.

2.

a person who, in the opinion of others, has heroic qualitiesor has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model orideal: He was a local hero when he saved the drowning child.

Thank you for not doubting in what you saw, in what you were learning.  Thank you for not second guessing your mind and what became real before you. 

You will always be a hero in our eyes... 

A true Canadian Hero!!!!  

I can not imagine what life was like for those who came before this discovery.  I can not imagine the pain, the defeat and the fear of this disease before it was manageable. All it took was 1 student, someone who came across something and wasn't afraid to look further.  That is something I will teach my children... Try until you get results.  It doesn't matter who you are, what your ranking is, your social class, or your age.  You can be used.  You can make a difference big or small.  Frederick was just a student at the University of Toronto.  He was no professor, he wasn't a doctor.  But he used what he saw and today we have something that allows those fighting this disease daily to look forward to a future.