Family Conflict

A family conflict. There isn't really a lot of conflict between two people in my family, or is there any between someone in my family and a random person. But I would still say that me and my brother don't get a long at most times, but who does with a brother, or sister. This isn't about me and him though, it's about what he had to deal with. The conflict that affected not only him but me, my parent's, other brother, sister, or anyone else in our family. This affected him the most. It wasn't recent, it was about 5 years ago I believe. My brother was in 5th grade and it was late winter January or February sometime around there. He was about 5'2'', not a big kid but still he was a little on the chubby side but not much. He was an outgoing kid hyper a lot of the time, but that's mainly because he has A.D.H.D., a lot of people in our family do, I have it my Father has it. But still this isn't what the story is about. Most people in their lifetime don't encounter a time where someone in their family is stricken with an illness that isn't yet curable. I can say that I have and still do. This conflict has been going on for sometime now, like I said it's been 5 years, but it's still going on to this very day. It's a conflict that he wakes up with everyday that he goes to bed with every night. Something that he knows is always going to be there with him wherever he goes in his life, it will be following him. The conflict that I am speaking of has had a lot of impact of everyone that surrounds him. This about my brother Zakk, the conflict that he had to deal with, was being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Now he was in 5th grade, a normal fifth grader my brother hadn't dealt with this his whole life. It's not like he was born with it, no he hasn't grown up with it. It just came like Odysseus hiding in a trojan horse. In other words nobody saw it coming. There was a period of 3 days where my brother didn't feel good, he was sick peeing a lot, and throwing up. Now we had no idea what it was at the time. So my mother took him to the doctor, the doctor examined him and after examining him and hearing what the symptoms were he took some blood from my brother, and had him pee on a strip. I can't remember what the strip was called although we have them at our house for when he gets sick to make sure he is alright. Anyway the reason they took the blood was so that they could check his glucose level, glucose is the sugar in the body, and he was checking to see if the levels were normal along with the strips. Now the normal glucose level for someone is about 4 milligrams per deciliter. Well as you can tell, his glucose wasn't normal and the strip wasn't what it should have been either. Now the doctor told my mother that Zakk had to go to the hospital right away, so that they can take care of him and give him the proper care that he needs. For the next week my parents were at the hospital with my brother, learning what they needed to know about diabetes. Now like I said we didn't see this coming so immeadeatly it wasn't taken too well.