Teiva, who wasn’t athletic before being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 10, asks us to sign him up for surf school. An extremely demanding sport: 1 hour and 30 minutes in 16° water, paddling against the current, and blood sugar levels that drop slowly with each session. Our fear of hypoglycemia out at sea, his monitoring equipment left on the beach facing the break, and how surfing has become his source of balance.