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In Growing Up Again: Life, Loves and Oh Yeah, Diabetes, JDRF's International Chairman, Mary Tyler Moore, recounts the years since her diagnosis with type 1 diabetes, discussing both her successes and failures in coping with diabetes, and offering guidance and inspiration by her example. She includes discussions with children and adults with diabetes to give voice to their experiences, and taps into the vast diabetes research network to talk with leading experts who are discovering new ways to improve the lives of people with diabetes and its complications, and pursuing new ways to cure it.
An excerpt from the book, Mary on JDRF's Children's Congress:
Can you imagine the tension these brave young visitors must feel in Washington, D.C.--Capitol Hill, where the laws we live by are made? The houses and offices of our country's history. The huge American flags everywhere you look! Why, it makes you feel that losing the last soccer game wasn't the worst thing ever. This is the worst thing ever: Having to talk to these very important people is the worst thing ever. I'm not smart. Maybe I'll wreck everything.
But I love talking to these kids, answering their questions, hearing their triumphs, their fears, and about Laura's new boyfriend who isn't diabetic. They give me the gift of friendship and support. By sharing their stories with me, I am able to witness the courage of our children with type 1, and I find new strength to face my own day-to-day challenges of life with diabetes.
JDRF thanks Mary for generously donating all of the author's proceeds from the sale of the book directly to JDRF funded research.
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