5/27/2023 0 Comments Needles by andie dominick![]() ![]() You might think that this would result in them all being healthier, but no. Rather than let her eat special meals, the whole family went on a diabetes-approved diet, essentially whole foods and they all took plenty of exercise and kept regular getting-up and going-to-sleep hours. ![]() I have a niece who was diagnosed with diabetes when she was 9. It is to the credit of people with diabetes that they don't foist all that on us and let people happily think they are just like normal but have carry sugar cubes and stick a needle into themselves a couple of times a day. I hadn't thought that without constant care it could lead to major disabilities and premature death. I hadn't really thought it was a tremendously serious systemic disease that needs attention throughout the day, everyday, and will impact just about every aspect of life. I had thought that type 1 diabetes was a matter of insulin injections and balancing the diet. This could have made for a very depressing and disjointed book but the writing is so spot-on - detail where you want it, brevity where an episode is necessarily included but is not interesting in itself. This book is exactly what it says it is which is a memoir of growing up with diabetes and is not a memoir in general of Andie Dominick's sister's life, but only where diabetes has touched it. ![]()
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