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Cheating Destiny: Living with Diabetes
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A candid, provocative, and moving account of one of America’s fastest-growing health issues
If you or someone you love has diabetes, you are not alone — more than twenty million Americans now live with the disease. 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 diabetes for three decades. His brother, Irl, also a diabetic, is one of the country’s leading diabetologists. Most poignantly, his son Garrett was diagnosed at age three.
Hirsch draws on his unique expertise to provide an engaging blend of reportage, memoir, history, and advocacy. He offers revealing views of life with diabetes: the urge toward secrecy that many diabetics feel, the everyday psychological and emotional hurdles, and the perseverance — even heroism — required for survival. Hirsch takes a look at the science behind the disease and its treatment, and lays bare the impact on our economy, society, and our families. Anyone who lives with diabetes — or loves a diabetic — will find this book essential reading.
If you or someone you love has diabetes, you are not alone — more than twenty million Americans now live with the disease. 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 diabetes for three decades. His brother, Irl, also a diabetic, is one of the country’s leading diabetologists. Most poignantly, his son Garrett was diagnosed at age three.
Hirsch draws on his unique expertise to provide an engaging blend of reportage, memoir, history, and advocacy. He offers revealing views of life with diabetes: the urge toward secrecy that many diabetics feel, the everyday psychological and emotional hurdles, and the perseverance — even heroism — required for survival. Hirsch takes a look at the science behind the disease and its treatment, and lays bare the impact on our economy, society, and our families. Anyone who lives with diabetes — or loves a diabetic — will find this book essential reading.
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James S. Hirsch
James Hirsch is a writer who has worked on the ‘New York Times’ and the ‘Wall Street Journal’.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I found myself relating a lot to the author and his family. Like his son, I too was 3 and weighed 33 pounds when I was diagnosed. I don't remember trying to run from my insulin, but I guess I might have. I enjoyed reading about the history and the way diabetics were treated before they knew what diabetes was. The story about the boy asking for a canary just so he could eat the birdseed, and eventually starving to death, broke my heart. It is a story I won't soon forget. Sure there were some facts and figures here that I didn't really care about. The part that grabbed me were the true stories of real people and how they overcame, or helped others do their best to overcome this terrible disease. I liked Hirsch's style of writing. I could relate to his own stories of diabetes. A wonderful book for those who are dealing with this disease, those who want to find out more, and those who care about someone who is living it.
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