Picking up the Pieces: A Mother’s Story of How Juvenile Diabetes Affected Her Life

This is the story of a mother’s experiences and struggles the three years following her daughter’s diagnosis with type 1 (or juvenile) diabetes. Written in a narrative format, this book retells actual events and reveals the author’s personal feelings of guilt and helplessness and how it affected, and ultimately changed, her life. If you know nothing about juvenile diabetes, you will learn something from reading this. If you have been personally touched by diabetes, hopefully you will no longer feel like you are alone. Either way, there is something to be gained from reading this short piece, which could quite possibly open your eyes to a world you never knew existed.