Sweet Genes

Diabetes struck the Sloanes’ first son when he was seventeen months old and their second son several years later when he was nine.  At a time when information about the disease was sparse—and not on every physician’s radar—Susan Sloane worked to gather all she could to give her sons as normal a life as possible. Early in her search, she discovered the Joslin Diabetes Center, and the family’s meeting with Dr. Joseph Wolfsdorf put them on the right path to coping with this disease.