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    • 6 March, 2012 at 8:02 pm #10065
      Tim
      Keymaster

      I’m currently reading The Fight to Survive: A Young Girl, Diabetes, and the Discovery of Insulin [ https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005IQBXPM ] which is a good read. If I get over my allergy to doing book reviews I will do a book review in due course.

      But has anyone read any other books about diabetes that are worth adding to the Kindle?

    • 6 March, 2012 at 8:13 pm #13843
      Peter Childs
      Participant

      Its rather old and is probably out of print…… I was given it on a BDA (Yes it was still called the BDA back then) camp back in 1994, but its well worth a read……

      Diabetes, A Young Person’s Guide by Rowan Hillson

      Well lets just say its still on my book shelf 18 years on and in truth none of its really changed.

      Peter

    • 6 March, 2012 at 8:16 pm #13844
      Tim
      Keymaster

      Ah, good old Amazon New and Used – you can get it for 1p here:

      http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/0356154157/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used

      I might wait until pay day and then send off for it ;-)

    • 7 March, 2012 at 8:15 am #13845
      Dave
      Participant

      May I venture to say the target audience for the book was when we were 18 years younger?

    • 7 March, 2012 at 8:37 am #13846
      Tim
      Keymaster

      I have a mental age of about 12 so…

    • 7 March, 2012 at 8:53 am #13847
      Alison
      Keymaster

      If that’s the intellectual level you’re looking for @Tim there was a very colourful guide to blood/urine testing featuring Rupert the Bear which was always a cheery read.

    • 7 March, 2012 at 8:59 am #13848
      Tim
      Keymaster

      Rupert the Bear was type one??

    • 7 March, 2012 at 9:47 am #13849
      Dave
      Participant

      @Tim He was. I met him at a BDA Teddy Bear’s Picnic along with Gary Mabbutt at, I think, Woburn Safari Park once. While there I ‘was robbed’ when I entered the ‘biggest bear’ competition and lost to a smaller girl with a smaller bear.

      Grrr, and yes, it still hurts! I did get a photo on the front of the next balance though.

    • 7 March, 2012 at 10:42 am #13850
      Tim
      Keymaster

      @seasiderdave – this sounds like you’ve been very badly scarred through your experience; do you need counselling?

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