Comment on Boy from Gray tells Senate committee about his life with diabetes

A diabetic 10-year-old boy from Gray offered a deal Wednesday as he testified about his illness before members of Congress. Charlie Albair, who hopes to play professional baseball, urged members of the Senate Committee on Aging to continue to support funding for diabetes research, education and treatment. “If you do, I will invite you to a game when I am on the Red Sox,” said Albair, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 6. Albair was one of several people invited to testify Wednesday in Washington, D.C., on why research to discover life-changing therapies for Type 1 diabetes – also known as Juvenile diabetes – is so critical to him and other children, at least until there is a cure. Sen.