for the next hour here, we re going to tell you what they discovered that could have saved kevin s life, certainly. it could save anybody else s life. and how they re taking action to get legislators in ohio to listen. they actually already did that. all the way to governor kasich s office. even when the governor was on the trail. in the primary election, he took note of what was happening, they passed a law there. some of the people i talked to said i had no idea, that the symptoms of ketoacidosis mirrored the influence. such a painful feeling. well, there s supposed to be say national cease-fire in syria, but the fighting there has not stopped all together. we ll look at what comes next in the shaky world as the cease-fire holds.
judy says it was a sign from heaven. the day governor john kasich was on the campaign trail took a moment to sign the bill into law. that was december 22nd. kevin was born on 2-22. kevin was the sacrificial lam and there s still so much more that needs to be done. their new mission, to make sure a diabetes test is included in every child s well visit to the doctor. it s a simple blood test, just a prick on the finger that could keep your child healthy and alive. diabetes is an epidemic. the numbers support it. and it s not being treated as an epidemic. no. and it needs to be. this is what they hope will be kevin s legacy. and they hope somehow he s proud of what they re doing. what do you think ehe ll say to you now? keep making memories. keep living my life and that he s always with me and he ll be
big sister amy either. every day she says she feels a part of her died with him. we were just so much alike. everybody says that if they didn t know better, they would think we were twins. and he he was my soul mate. he s my other half. he got it we got each other. reporter: she remembers kevin the runner. the kid who loved to fish. he would walk down to the end of our street without a pole and come back with, you know, four or five fish, caught them all by hand. reporter: the truth that s so hard to reconcile, is that when kevin got sick that day, he had no idea his body s organs were shutting down. no idea he was dying. that s the devastating part. is that he thought he was coming down with a stomach virus because he had cramps and he was vomiting. and he was at work. and, of course, he can t be a
hundreds of miles away when they checked their phone. and there were all these voice mail messages. and text messages from all of our children, all of our kids. who said, call us, call us, call us. reporter: they tried desperately to get home. but it took three days. it was a horrible, snowy deep frigid winter, and we couldn t get a flight out because the previous days, everything in and out of new york, cleveland, the whole northeast was all cancelled. reporter: when they finally got home, kevin s death still felt like a mystery. when they said he died of quiketoacidosi ketoacidosis. i said, what? i have no explanation for that other than he was noncompliant. he wasn t taking his medication. reporter: you see, kevin had diabetes. but judy said he was faithful about taking his medication. the news made no sense to his
he just said, kevin died. i just screamed and couldn t believe it. when they said he died of ketoacidosis. and i said, what? he said, i have no explanation for that. other than that he was noncompliant. that he wasn t taking his medication. his mother contends kevin who was a diabetic was faithful about taking his insulin. it turns out kevin tried to get more when he ran out but he was denied the medication. in the meantime, he thought he was really getting the flu. what was really happening his organs were shutting down. he was dying and he didn t even know it. he died alone in his apartment. that s how the houdeshells know that they couldn t let any family go through what they were going through. kevin did not want to die, kevin took care of himself. reporter: kevin houdeshell, a son, a brother, a diabetic, died