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Title: Showdown with Diabetes by Deb Butterfield, David E. R., MD Sutherland ISBN: 0-393-04753-9 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (11 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Honest and courageous account of the TRUE face of diabetes
Comment: The truth about diabetes until now has been smothered in lies and false bravado. The governmental policies and research inititatives have for too long been focused on the management of diabetes. Deb Butterfield tells it like it is. Diabetes is a serious disease that needs to be CURED. Diabetics need to stop hiding and start speaking out otherwise they will be left behind again and again. We can't afford to let history repeat itself for the economic, emotional and physical toll of diabetes is overwhelming. Showdown with Diabetes is a must read for anyone who wants to know the truth about this grossly underestimated disease. This book makes it clear that we need to stop blaming the diabetic and start holding the disease itself, diabetes, accountable for the progressive and unrelenting destruction of human life. Whether you're a parent of a child or yourself a diabetic, you can't afford to choose ignorance over knowledge or convenient platitudes over reality. I wish more people had the courage of Deb Buttefield to simply tell the TRUTH.

Rating: 5
Summary: At last - the truth about life with diabetes!
Comment: I consider myself privileged to have been allowed to read this extraordinary book while still in galley form. Deb Butterfield has written an achingly candid account of her personal journey with diabetes. She begins with her diagnosis at age 10 and ends with her pancreas transplant some 15 years later; covering all the physical and emotional trauma wrecked by diabetes in between. Unfortunately, the toll diabetes took on her life is all too common. She puts to rest, once and for all, the myth that diabetes is a chronic disease which can be managed if one is simply diligent enough. After reading Ms.Butterfield's book, it becomes crystal clear that diabetes is still a fatal disease which can only be managed by curing it. The book ends on a joyous note with the knowledge that alternatives to continuing with diabetes already exist and that the cure will come sooner rather than later

Rating: 5
Summary: I finished this book in one sitting!
Comment: For anyone affected by diabetes, especially those of us with more severe form - type 1 - this book should be a real fast and insightful read. Having personally lived with type 1 for the past 25 years, this is the first book I've seen which doesn't try to perpetuate the prevailing myth that the patient is ultimately responsible for his or her condition, or that this illness is nearly as "manageable" as the medical profession, the media or society in general would have us believe. I suspect that much of the first part of the book, which takes the reader through Deb's own struggle with diabetes, is so familiar that it could have been written by anyone who has lived with this illness. The second part closes on a positive note outlining the breakthoughs that will impact finding a cure. But it also serves as a message to the diabetic community that they must do better in advocating for a cure (including funding and policies) which are required to get there. A really good book.