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Chit Chat on BS (blood sugar) is an illustrated pocket-guide of practical information about living with diabetes.
The book is the educational alternative to the dense medical text I found when I was first diagnosed at age 12.
Despite around 12% (roughly 40 million in 2021 CDC statistics) of Americans living with and managing this chronic disease, most people you talk to don't know much about the condition.
I wrote this in 2011 as a way to learn more about my condition in hopes to someday get non-intimidating literature out to the masses - the newly diagnosed as well as the people in their lives.
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