It’s taken me a little longer than expected to get around to posting this review of Erin Spineto’s new book “Islands and Insulin“ — but hey, good things take time, right? It’s a different kind of diabetes book from any I’ve encountered so far; it’s a narrative of a huge sailing adventure + the college-age experiences that shaped Erin’s life, with a generous helping of diabetes on the side — rather than the other way…
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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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By
MikeH on
February 25, 2013
Those of us living with diabetes carry a lot of baggage. And no, that doesn’t just mean the various cases and pouches we need to haul our myriad D-supplies all over the place!
Any PWD (person with diabetes) knows the daily challenges we endure, involving both literal and physical “bags” we need to carry along the way.
That is the exact focus of a new book just released by Naomi Kingery, a fellow diabetes advocate…
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