Seven Days, One Shot: Once-Weekly Insulin Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe once-weekly insulin, mostly for type 2 diabetes, with a few voices from type 1, LADA and the people who give the injections. Many came to it through changing shift rotas, long-haul trucking, two weeks on an oil platform, arthritic thumbs, a lifelong fear of needles or years of saying no to insulin altogether. Writers include a ward nurse taking what she had taught, a district nurse on her round, a pharmacist at the counter, a chef tasting all day, a woman with macular degeneration reading her pen by touch, and a daughter whose mother with early dementia has a Thursday nurse. They write from Leeds to Osaka, Jaipur, Shanghai and rural Saskatchewan. The stories cover eleven phone calls to an insurer, a high-deductible month, a clinical trial, planning for Ramadan, crossing time zones, knee surgery, a hospital ward that had never seen the pen, kidney disease, weight gain and power cuts. Grandchildren hold pen night on Sundays. The harder accounts sit alongside the easy ones: a low at three in the morning on the bedroom floor, a missed dose, a lump at the injection site, a woman with type 1 who went back to daily injections, another who returned to a daily pen to plan a pregnancy, and a widow who missed her morning ritual.

Who it's for

For adults with diabetes considering or starting weekly insulin, and for the partners, adult children, nurses and pharmacists who help them keep the day.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 243 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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