As one reviewer noted, the book has no facile happy ending. That's taking responsibility for yourself.Īndie writes in Needles that she had a tubal ligation rather than take the risk of having children who might inherit a diabetes gene. The medic asks his partner, "Is 29 low?"Īt the hospital she insists that her husband, Doug, drive her to another hospital after not only the ambulance drivers but also nurses and doctors don't listen when she tells them her blood sugar is low and they aren't treating her. My favorite part of the book is the chapter "Anger." In an ambulance on the way to a hospital one medic tests Andie and gets a reading of 29. Denise, even more defiant, paid for her freedom with her life. A rebellious teenage, Andie skipped her shots to lose weight and subsequently needed several operations on her eyes. This book is the story of her sister, herself, her family, and how they struggled with diabetes. Andie was diagnosed in 1980 at the age of nine. Denise had been diagnosed with diabetes in 1961 at the age of 2. She secretly played with them and even gave her dolls shots before meals, just like Denise had to do.Īll too soon Andie had her own syringes. When Andie was a girl, the syringes that her sister Denise used to inject herself with insulin fascinated her. This book is a highly moving memoir of growing up with diabetes. This book would have to be the selection as the book of the year. For a book this powerful, this well written, and this interesting, that would be faint praise indeed. A diabetes book club, Andie Dominick's new memoir Needles would not be my selection as the book of the month.
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