I was 16 years old, standing in the locker room stacking kickboards, as any swim team coach does after practice, when I heard screaming coming from the pool area. I bounded out of the locker room to see a woman with an infant in her arms, screaming and pointing towards the pool.

As a stay at home mom for the past four years, I hadn’t given thought to the possibility of returning to school. I previously worked as an area manager for a local retail grocer and had placed obtaining my accounting degree on hold after starting my family.

Diabetes is a devastating chronic disease that affects millions of Americans and leads to a heavy financial burden for the individual.