The Diabetes Is Not the Hard Part
Seventeen years, four consultants, roughly forty thousand injections. The insulin I can do in my sleep. What I have never got used to is being spoken to as though my blood sugar is a report card on my character.
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J.
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Type 1 since I was nine. Twenty-six now. I have had roughly forty thousand injections and about four useful conversations.
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