Diabetes and Me: Living a Healthy and Empowered Life in the Face of Diabetes

Children with diabetes can lead full, happy, and productive lives, as demonstrated by Wendy Louise Novak, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age seven and has since achieved success in her career and marriage. Novak is the face of the Wendy Novak Diabetes Institute, which supports clinical services, education, and research to ensure young people with diabetes can thrive.

Format: Hardback
Length: 160 pages
Publication date: 14 November 2023
Publisher: Disruption Books

Children with diabetes can lead full, joyful, and productive lives. I hope my story can serve as evidence of that fact, as the author writes in this important book. Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of seven, Wendy Louise Novak had to forge her own path in a world defined by stigma, struggle, and hope. Her sole role model was her fiercely independent but secretive father, who grew up in an era when diabetes meant a difficult and often short life. He taught her to follow the rules but also to pursue her goals. That sense of self-reliance carried Wendy through college to a successful career and a loving marriage as she navigated the highs and lows of a condition that was still gaining acceptance. I never wanted to be the kind of person who stayed home and worried about whether or not I could handle it, and so I didn't, she writes. A world traveler and advocate, Wendy is now the face of the Wendy Novak Diabetes Institute, which supports groundbreaking clinical services, education, and research to ensure young people with diabetes can thrive. In this honest but uplifting account of a life well lived, Wendy shows patients and families that a diagnosis does not define their life.

Weight: 326g
Dimension: 148 x 224 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781633310803