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Metal Jam

lizdeluz

lizdeluz

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Type of diabetes
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Just wondered if anyone has read this autobiography by Teresa MacLean? If so, what did you think of it?

There's not a lot of diabetes in the literary world. I don't know why really when you consider that so many people have it.

What do we get?

  • A biography like 'Metal Jam'.
  • An occasional plug in TV or radio drama but which often shows weird misconceptions about the disease. Anyone remember Walter Gabriel ?
  • Alarmist newspaper articles, ditto line above.
  • 'Celebrity' diabetics are often invited to be role models and interviewees in diabetes UK magazines.
Can anyone add to this (very short) list?
:bookworm:
 
By the way, ' Metal Jam' is a good read. I read it a long time ago and was very surprised by it because it wasn't sanitised into being 'acceptable' . A picture of what diabetes really is for one individual.

I searched for the book (I can't remember where I'd seen a reference to it) and eventually found one and sent off for a used copy. When it arrived I found it labelled as a DISCARD from Lexington Kentucky main public library! :) It's now a treasure, not a discard.
 
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