tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16774010.post4725043875160373522..comments2024-01-25T17:58:34.297-05:00Comments on Scott's Web Log: A Diabetes MemeScott Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03286529314567223617noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16774010.post-56880628611127785652010-09-10T17:45:18.122-04:002010-09-10T17:45:18.122-04:00How is making yourself bleed on a daily basis and ...How is making yourself bleed on a daily basis and sticking a needle in your stomach normal? <br /><br />I hate that too. And "Diabetes doesn't have to stop you. You can do anything when you have diabetes" to which I call bullshit on since I could not join the Air Force and that was only because of diabetes. So there! :)<br /><br />Sorry for the venting my friend.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14508213573891885604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16774010.post-17072667018556306482010-09-10T17:23:28.439-04:002010-09-10T17:23:28.439-04:00I really like your very well thought out and detai...I really like your very well thought out and detailed description of what is and isn't a cure.<br />I also appreciated the link to Deb Butterfield's site.<br />She has a lot of thoughts in common with FAIR:<br />http://fairfoundation.org/<br />Fair Allocations in Research Foundation.jpnairnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07465601373068594133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16774010.post-21753579192628623162010-09-09T22:22:20.180-04:002010-09-09T22:22:20.180-04:00Hello Scott,
I read with much interest your blog o...Hello Scott,<br />I read with much interest your blog of 9/9. This month makes it 53 years I've had insulin dependent diabetes. Joslin wanted to bring me up to Boston to give me a bronze medal, but I'm holding out for the gold. I hope you feel the same.<br />I wrote a memoir about having diabetes all these years that was supposed to be published in '08 by Farrer, Straus & Giroux, but was shelved when the economic climate changed and my editor over there was also shelved--these things happen, of course--but I decided not to wait, as my agent suggested, for the situation to ease or reverse itself. I published it as an e-book and it's been doing pretty well.<br />I wrote the book mainly because so little is understood about he emotional components of diabetes and what it's like to live with a disease such as this especially as an adolescent and "young" adult. The title of the book is: JUNK SICK: CONFESSIONS OF AN UNCONTROLLED DIABETIC, and you can get a look at it, if you wish, by either googling my name or going to: http://bit.ly/V5RBO.<br />I, too, live in NYC and am working on a new piece of fiction as well as working to stay out of a cardboard box. I'm sure you know how that goes. I'd certainly like to hear from a fellow traveler.<br />Take care of yourself, brother,<br />Norman SavageSavagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10527439086814243647noreply@blogger.com