Mandy was the oldest of the three Morris girls growing up in Meredith in the 1970s and ’80s. When she was 7, Mandy was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, and her life became a struggle to keep her blood sugar in the normal range. Her high blood sugars were very high, and the lows, very low.

By the time insulin pumps came along as the first innovation for diabetics, Mandy was in college; her eyesight had been affected by the disease, and she couldn’t see well enough to use the pump independently.

Even after Mandy graduated college and married, her parents and two sisters worried about her constantly. As a family, they created a GoFundMe campaign, and in 2014, two years before Mandy turned 40, they raised $25,000 for a diabetic alert dog named Mylo.

“One of us always had eyes and ears on her

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