let's be real... life is hard for a type 1 diabetic. For the ten or eleven (I forget which) years I've been diabetic, I've heard you can cure it with lettuce, you can take pills to manage it, you can lose weight to get rid of it, but they don't realize that that is type two. type two is cause by insulin resistance whereas type 1 is an auto-immune disorder. This book will be a peak into my feelings about everyday life with diabetes