My Diabetes Accomplishments: Big, Medium, and Small

From borderline diabetes to gestational diabetes to LADA, my boys are my biggest accomplishment. Diabetes made my pregnancies difficult. (So did giving up coffee.) But we did it!

This post is part of Diabetes Blog Week. See more D-Blog Week posts on diabetes accomplishments here.

Jessica Apple

Jessica Apple grew up in Houston. She studied Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan, and completed an MA in the same field at the Hebrew University. She began to write and publish short stories while a student, and has continued to write essays and fiction while raising her three sons (and many pets).

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