[Jan B]

Hi,

Just wanted to share with other readers. I bought a book yesterday that I am thoroughly enjoying: Cheating Destiny/ Living with Diabetes. The author is James S. Hirsch. Copyright 2006.

(Good history included . . . )

"Skillfully combines journalistic expertise with his personal story . . . this is an informative and moving analysis."
-- Publishers Weekly

"Powerful."
-- St. Louis Post Dispatch

"Hirsch has an insider's candor speaking about life with diabetes, the sensitivity of the parent of a child with a chronic illness, and skill of a good journalist reporting on the medical, social, economic, and scientific details of what was once called "the wasting disease"."
-- Booklist, starred review

"Through nuanced profiles of patients, doctors, researchers, and activists, Hirsch persuasively illunstrates an epidemic that is at odds with modern society at almost every level . . . Hirsh has written the book that people who care about diabetes have been waiting for . . . . . ."
-- Washington Post

"A character-driven account, written with barely controlled anger, of what diabetes is, what it is like to be diabetic, and how and why the medical community is failing to deal effectively with this wedespread and as-yet-incurable condition . . . A provocative amalgam of staunch advocacy, personal experience, and investigative reporting."
-- Kirkus Reviews, starred review

[parrotletzoo]

It is a good. One of my favorite Diabetes related books.