Needles : a memoir of growing up with diabetes / Andie Dominick.
By: Dominick, Andie
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TextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2000Edition: 1st Touchstone ed.General Notes: "A Touchstone book.".Description: 220 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0684856549 (pbk.); 9780684856544 (pbk.); 0684842327; 9780684842325.Subject(s): Dominick, Andie -- Health | Diabetes in children -- Patients -- United States -- BiographyDDC classification: 616.462 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 616.462 D713 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003362860 |
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| 616.4 Sa85 The Johns Hopkins guide to diabetes : for today and tomorrow / | 616.462 B261 Action plan for diabetes / | 616.462 C738 2009 Complete nurse's guide to diabetes care / | 616.462 D713 2000 Needles : a memoir of growing up with diabetes / | 616.462 Ed35 1999 Diagnosis and management of type 2 diabetes / | 616.462 G984 2008 Management of diabetes mellitus : a guide to the pattern approach / | 616.462 M454 2006 Mayo Clinic on managing diabetes / |
"A Touchstone book."
Needles -- Mittens for the diabetics -- getting tagged -- Circle -- Attendance -- Rejecting the needle -- Old enough -- Roommates -- Three days -- Numb -- Morgue -- Decreased visibility -- Pamphlets -- Alone -- Opening my eyes -- Healing touch -- To be a woman -- Anger -- Satin slippers -- Forming lines with the snow.
The story of how diabetes affected the life of one family, as told by one of the victims. This exquisitely rendered memoir of a girl whose older sister dies from complications associated with diabetes -- a disease from which she also suffers -- is an intensely moving story of sisterhood, illness, & loss.
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