Sister, Sister - girl saves live of diabetic twin sister

Girls' Life, Dec, 2000 by Bob Blaskey

At first glance, fraternal twins Jackie and Mollie Singer of Las Vegas appear to be like any other six-grade girls. Then you learn that Mollie has diabetes and that Jackie has saved her life on three separate occassions by calling 911 and giving Mollie juice to raise her blood sugar. As you can imagine, Jackie and Mollie have a personal grudge against diabetes and are doing everything they can to help find a cure.

So, when they want to Washington, D.C., over last summer's vacation, it turned out to be a lot more than your average field trip to that nation's capital. Yeah, the twins saw the Lincoln Memorial and the White House. Then? Millie took a seat before a Senate panel and delivered a moving testimony. She and her sister are trying to urge Congress in increase funding for diabetes reserah. "Everything I do is planned around my diabetes--eating, sleeping, playing and even homework," Millie expressed to the panel. "If things aren't planned exactly, my blood sugar levels can go out of control". Her sister Ja ckie points out, "Some people were even crying because Mollie's speech was so touching." So how to you think you'd feel, talking to members of Congress with cameras taping your every word? "It was kind of hard," Mollie admits. "But I knew there were people out there listening who could help find a cure for diabetes." The sisters also met Gov. George W. Bush, Jr. Mollie put the then-presidential candidate in the hot seat, asking him if he would increase funding for diabetes research if he were to win the election. Gov. Bush said he would. "I felt like jumping up and down," Mollie remembers.