Diagnosed with type-2 diabetes in 1996, Gretchen Becker educated herself on every aspect of this chronic condition - by reading medical books, talking with doctors, listening to her own body and using the Internet to communicate daily with other people with diabetes. Now, as a patient-expert, she guides all those newly diagnosed through everything they need to learn and do in the crucial first year after diagnosis. Hers is a step-by-step approach, first a day at a time - each day of the first week - then a week at a time - each week of the first month - and then a month at a time - each month for the 11 months of year one. This guide, a full and in-depth look at all aspects of the condition that untangles and clarifies, simplifies but never patronizes, offers a wider approach than any so far adhered to by doctors. It answers all the myriad questions that assail the newly diagnosed: how best to adjust your social life to cope with daily maintenance? How to make sense of the complicated terminology about measurement of blood-glucose levels? How to build self-knowledge and confidence? How, crucially, best to adjust to life with diabetes.

This reliable, empathetic, up-to-date handbook should be a life-enhancing lifesaver for all type-2 diabetics.

2008-08-04 Fab

I have just been diagnosed a Diabetic and i have to say this is the best book i have ever read. She starts right from the begining, explaining how its not your fault!!! explain how everyone is always waiting for the phone call to be told its a mistaker everything. It's fantastic! it made me cry it made me laugh and it's full of the information you really need to know. what questions to ask your doctor, how to decline dinner invites without casuing offence. It's great. It's defiinatly become my bible to help me deal with this. I would recommend it to anyone who has just been diagnosed and thinks "what do i do now??"