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A solid week of
20-hour days would tend to make a guy cranky, he knew, certainly a
little dopey. But it wouldn’t account for the sudden weight loss,
and the numbness in his legs.
A doctor’s son,
Michael Friday deduced the diagnosis even before it was confirmed to
him: Diabetes. But he had no way of predicting how difficult it
would be to reach the point where he would be managing the disease —
instead of the other way around.
Diabetes,
Michael has learned, is a very idiosyncratic thing. And because it
affects different people differently, it takes a great deal of
fine-tuning to dial in a treatment plan that enables each individual
patient to live reasonably symptom-free. His father advised Michael
to learn all he could — to become his own expert in diabetes. |
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