LifeAfterDx--Diabetes Uncensored

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Hi! I’m William “Lee” Dubois (called either Wil or Lee, depending what part of the internet you’re on). I’m a diabetes columnist and the author of four books about diabetes that have collectively won 16 national and international book awards. (Hey, if you can’t brag about yourself on your own blog, where can you??) I have the great good fortune to pen the edgy Dear Abby-style advice column every Saturday at Diabetes Mine; write the Diabetes Simplified column for dLife; and am one of the ShareCare diabetes experts. My work also appears in Diabetic Living and Diabetes Self-Management magazines. In addition to writing, I’ve spent the last half-dozen years running the diabetes education program for a rural non-profit clinic in the mountains of New Mexico. Don’t worry, I’ll get some rest after the cure. LifeAfterDx is my personal home base, where I get to say what and how I feel about diabetes and… you know… life, free from the red pens of editors (all of whom I adore, of course!).

Thursday, August 30, 2012

I made my Mom cry…


No, it wasn’t something that I said. It wasn’t something that I did. It was something that I wrote.

My assignment was type 2 in kids. You know, for back to school. The problem is the subject is grimmer than you can imagine. When kids get type 2 the disease is faster, more aggressive, and harder to treat than it is in adults. And the not-so-long-term outcomes will leave you reaching for Kleenex, or stiff drink. Or both.

In fact, the last line of the article sent me into a day-long depression. And I’m the one who wrote it.

Go figure.


Read it for yourself here.

2 Comments:

Blogger George said...

You can add, "And George" to your title.

What can we do? I mean, I feel so helpless right now about this.

8:49 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh God.

9:11 AM  

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