“It’s Such a Dream for Me”: Katonah Mom, Daughter to Run NYC Half for Diabetes Research

Katonah resident Karen Panzirer will never forget the nights she had to wake her six-year-old daughter Morgan to prick her finger, test her blood sugar and give her an insulin shot. Morgan would crouch in the corner of her bedroom crying, “You’re going to hurt me!”

Those first days after Morgan was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes were intensely stressful.

But just a few weeks later, the middle-of-the-night ritual took an unexpected turn. Morgan pointed at the insulin injection…

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