Recommended Books
Stop by here to find and buy some great books about life and diabetes, including how to:
live and cope, adjust your insulin settings, survive the medical community, help others and develop advocates, and find the humor in life with diabetes.
From DiabetesMine: Type 1 Diabetes Caregiver Confidence Book Review AND Giveaway!
Check it out! My book review of Samantha Markovitz's first book, Type 1 Diabetes Caregiver Confidence, chock full of advice and tools to help caregivers (grandparents, babysitters, neighbors, etc.) understand the basics of diabetes, treatments, emergencies ......
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Savvy Books: Bright Spots & Landmines by Adam Brown
AMAZING! At the risk of repeating myself, AMAZING! I’ve been reading Adam’s column on diatribe … always interesting. But this is a masterpiece of wisdom, experience, tips and techniques in an easy-to-read, MUST READ resource for how to live as well as possibly with...
read moreOne Lump or Two? Things that Suck about being Diabetic
Haidee Soule Merritt is a "self-proclaimed" realist and cartoonist, doodling her life of personal struggles and experiences with Type 1 diabetes. Her little book of drawings couched in her "dark sense of humor." Some are funny, some are snarky, some are...
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Nicole Johnson (Miss America 1999): Young Adult Type 1 Diabetes Realities
This is a great little primer, short and packed to the brim with practical advice and first-hand stories of how to successfully manage the transition from dependence (life with Mom and Dad) to independence in life while living with Type 1 diabetes. Nicole...
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We Recommend This Book: Cheating Destiny
Cheating Destiny: Living with Diabetes by James S. Hirsch In Cheating Destiny, the best-selling author James S. Hirsch offers an incisive, sometimes surprising portrait of diabetes in America. Hirsch is intimately familiar with the disease: he has lived with type 1...
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A Great Read ~ SHOT: Staying Alive with Diabetes
SHOT: Staying Alive with Diabetes, by Amy F. Ryan, is an intimate portrait of a young woman's sudden transition to type 1 diabetes and a life of insulin dependence. Treatment for a routine infection one Monday morning yielded, with stunning speed, to a glucose...
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