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Diabetes by Marriage Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US

Mike's type 1 diabetes changes his bride's life forever ... as well as his own.

It is 1963, two months after the wedding. The apartment door bursts open one dark evening and Mike stumbles in - flailing arms, imbalanced gait, raucous prattle exploding from his mouth. He hurls himself onto the bed and passes out.

Terrified and confused, Helen assumes it is something to do with diabetes, but doesn't know what. Or how to help him. This is the first of similar episodes she will experience in the years to come. Her urgent need is a telephone, and she springs into action to find one - no matter the safety risks to herself.

Thus begin the life-threatening intrusions that frequent her marriage with serious challenges. Will she choose cope over quit? She does. But when coping finally pushes her to the breaking point, Helen all but gives in to the calming appeal of suicide.


- "A powerful memoir ... reads like a novel,"
- Heidi M. Thomas, author, AZ
- "By page three you won't set this book down - you will hang on for a ride you never imagined."
- Mike Dolan, early reader, ID
- "[This story] is ... an ode to the caregivers who carry such vital and unrecognized burdens." - Judith Kirscht, author, WA