By
MikeH on
April 23, 2013
With self-publishing on the rise, it seems like everyone’s an author these days — and the diabetes community has its share of book-writers of all sorts.
Just skim through the listings over at Amazon. A quick search of “diabetes” brings up 22,000 “new and popular” titles, many of them involving food and diets, but also exercise, lifestyle and personal encounters with this illness. The term “type 1 diabetes” narrows the findings down to 952 books…
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When I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 19 years ago, the very first person I met was Stacey McGill of Stoneybrook, CT. If you are a woman diagnosed with diabetes between the late-80s and mid-90s, she was probably one of the first diabetics you met, too.
The thing is, she’s not a real person. Despite her being the first person “like me” who made me feel less alone with my diabetes, Stacey is actually…
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By
AmyT on
September 7, 2010
Back to School seems to be coming earlier every year — although for me, psychologically, it will always be the Tuesday after Labor Day. Speaking of the psychological aspects of school life, I asked my D-correspondent extraordinaire Allison Blass to share her thoughts about being a kid with diabetes in the classroom: who do you tell about the Big D and how, and what’s a parent to do these days?
A Guest Post by Allison…
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