Needles: Memoir Of Growing Up With Diabetes

Needles: a memoir of growing up with diabetes is a detailed autobiography about Andie growing up with juvenile diabetes alongside her older sister, Denise. Denise was Andie’s role model for just about everything and Andie wanted to be just like her. Andie knew a lot about diabetes and what it meant to live with the chronic illness prior to her diagnosis at the age of nine, since Denise had diabetes ever since Andie could remember. As a child, Andie played with her sisters insulin needles, giving shots to her stuffed animals after she used them, but never knew what role those same needles would have later in both of their lives. After Andie’s diagnosis, the two of them were able to manage their diseases together. They truly bonded in their experiences