Mary Lincoln and the American "Sweet Tooth"

[Eva Elisabeth]

Definitely - there's no way she suffered form type I diabetes. This always begins before adulthood, and would have been fatal at early age without taking insulin, thus in those days. The beginning you describe ("my cousin was a seemingly healthy, active normal boy of 13, skinny as a rail but he loved to eat. One morning almost without warning he became groggy and passed out at the breakfast table in front of his entire family") is 100% typical, though not each case comes to such an ending at that age. I'm sorry to learn what you and yours went through, Toia!