Picking up the Pieces: A Mother's Story of How Juvenile Diabetes Affected Her Life - Paperback

by Lori Dotson (Author)

This is the story of a mother's experiences and struggles the three years following her daughter's diagnosis with type 1 (or juvenile) diabetes. Written in a narrative format, this book retells actual events and reveals the author's personal feelings of guilt and helplessness and how it affected, and ultimately changed, her life. If you know nothing about juvenile diabetes, you will learn something from reading this. If you have been personally touched by diabetes, hopefully you will no longer feel like you are alone. Either way, there is something to be gained from reading this short piece, which could quite possibly open your eyes to a world you never knew existed.

Author Biography

Lori Dotson is a freelance writer living in Edgewood, New Mexico, with her husband and two teenage children. She is President and Founder of DotsoFit, LLC, which is devoted to training, educating and motivating people to achieve their personal best in all of their athletic pursuits. She holds a BA Degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an MS Degree from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and is certified by the National Academy of Sports Medicine and the American Council on Exercise as a personal trainer.