Some brilliant quotes listed on a fellow Type-1'er's (Scott's Web Log) blog at: http://sstrumello.blogspot.com/
Here they are:
"Living with diabetes is like living with a tiger. If you feed it, groom it, never turn your back on it; you can live with a tiger. If you neglect it; it'll pounce on you and rip you to shreds."
By
Wil "Printcrafter"
"Genetic engineering of the insulin molecule and new methods of delivery have improved insulin therapy, but in essence, the treatment for Type 1 diabetes has changed little since insulin was discovered."
By
Dr. C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., President and Director Joslin Diabetes Center and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (see p. 27)
"Knowing what dose of insulin to take was not then, and is not now, a precise science. It is not a simple analog of food, exercise, and insulin; rather it is a complex and seemingly random theory of chaos with a few discernible known variables."
By
Deb Butterfield, author of "Showdown with Diabetes"
"Insulin therapy, via daily injections or a pump, is a poor substitute for the body's exquisitely precise regulation of blood glucose by insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells."
By
Dr. Allen M. Spiegel, M.D. former Director of the U.S. NIH/NIDDK
"Most chemists believe that the course of a chemical reaction is always predictable. But some catalytic reactions in both inorganic and organic chemistry can behave in bizarre and unruly ways."
From
Stephen Scott, Clocks and Chaos in Chemistry
December 2, 1989, New Scientist magazine, Issue 1693
"The transformation of disease, as exemplified by the case of diabetes, is a valuable and elegant concept that serves to remind us that the tally sheet for medical science must carry a column for debit as well as credit."
From
Book Review of "Bittersweet: Diabetes, Insulin, and the Transformation of Illness" by John Christopher Feudtner from the New England Journal of Medicine, November 27, 2003