"Are you thirsty? Don't drink the bathwater, it's yucky. I'll get you something to drink." I walked into the kitchen, suddenly alert. With a sippy cup of chocolate milk in my hands
An important book about diabetes is "Bittersweet: Diabetes, Insulin, and the Transformation of Illness" by Chris Feudtner. The New England Journal of Medicine said, "The introduction of insulin in 1922 transformed the acute, rapidly fatal course of a diabetic coma into a chronic illness that could be monitored and managed over the years. As a historian and a pediatrician, Feudtner is sensitive to the ironies implicit in insulin therapy.
My instinct was to say that I couldn’t throw up what I’d eaten because I had diabetes, but I knew that diabetes also meant that I should never have eaten all that food in the first place. But it felt so good to eat without thinking, to eat the foods that were on the bad list..
I don’t want to go through life preparing for the worst...
Thinking of oneself first as an athlete, and then as a person with diabetes changes the motivation for taking care of oneself...
There is a billboard I drive by on my way to teach English Comp. that says, “What Have Your Done For Your Marriage Today?”...
Diabetes will always be different in each person who has it, and because of that the way to find unity and identity all comes down to words...