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    Diabettically Challenged: Aka Diabetes Sucks: Living with Diabetes
    Diabettically Challenged: Aka Diabetes Sucks: Living with Diabetes
    Diabettically Challenged: Aka Diabetes Sucks: Living with Diabetes
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    Diabettically Challenged: Aka Diabetes Sucks: Living with Diabetes

    By Joy Miller Tibbs

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    I have been a diabetic for 48 years. I would like to share my story on how I fought this chronice disease and atleast I can give hope and inspiration to the readers who are alos suffering from this disease to give them hope and faith in God that this disease can be fought. This is my story on how I fought it from Age 2 to 50.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJun 20, 2014
    ISBN9781496919762
    Diabettically Challenged: Aka Diabetes Sucks: Living with Diabetes
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    Joy Miller Tibbs

    Joy Tibbs lives in Virginia. She had been suffering with Diabetes from age 2 up to 50 years old. She wrote this book to dedicate it to her father and share her story about the perks and dissualions on her fight with this chronic disease.

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      Diabettically Challenged - Joy Miller Tibbs

      © 2014 Joy Miller Tibbs. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 06/16/2014

      ISBN: 978-1-4969-1975-5 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4969-1976-2 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2014911012

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Scripture quotations marked NASB are taken from the New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

      Contents

      Dedication

      Chapter 1 Ants And Urine

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3 The Beginning

      Chapter 4 Nothing Fun About A Chronic Disease

      Chapter 5 Young And Kinda Free

      Chapter 6 Young And Kind Of Free But Not Really

      Chapter 7 School Days Basically Gone Wrong

      Chapter 8 Joy Jesus:

      Chapter 9 Strong Shoes

      Chapter 10 The Preacher’s Daughter And The Hippie

      Chapter 11 Major Trouble Or A Blessing???

      Chapter 12 Pregnant But Never Alone

      Chapter 13 Joshua

      Chapter 14 Dying And Despair

      Chapter 15 Life Goes On In

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