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With generosity of spirit, ebullience, and sly humor, Mary Tyler Moore presents the intensely private, often funny, and sometimes startling story of her life with diabetes. Growing Up Again is a delightfully candid read for her legion of fans, the more than 20 million Americans with diabetes, and everyone struggling to cope with life’s unexpected challenges.
Mary Tyler Moore, actress and activist, relates the highs and lows of living with type 1 diabetes for the past forty years. With inspired, well-crafted prose, she drills down to the most heartfelt, yet universal truths about life—including the lives of those with diabetes. She unflinchingly chronicles her struggle with diabetes, as well as her successful rehabilitation from alcohol dependence, all while deriving gratification from her roles as an actress, mother, businesswoman, campaigner, and fund-raiser. Her revealing tales of both her successes and failures in coping with diabetes offer others with the disease guidance and inspiration through example. In the book, stories include her rebounding from a low-blood-sugar episode during a Mary Tyler Moore Show script reading after the director poured orange juice down her throat, to misadventures caused by diabetes-related vision impairment at a dimly lit party for John Travolta.
She also taps into the vast diabetes research network to talk to diabetic children and adults and with leading experts who are discovering new ways to control diabetes and its complications, and pursuing new ways to cure this disease.
Her TV alter ego, Mary Richards, may have been perfect, but it's Moore's imperfections that make her the ideal author of this surprisingly frank memoir about living with diabetes. Diagnosed with Type 1 (juvenile) diabetes at age 33 in 1969, Moore rebelled with anger and frustration at the restrictions of moderation the disease imposed and she ignored. Belatedly, she stopped drinking (after a trip to the Betty Ford Clinic in 1984) and quit her three-pack-a-day smoking habit in 1988, but she admits that she's no poster child for diabetes. With admirable honesty and sardonic humor, Moore exposes her failings with technology and inability to always stay on top of her disease, and reveals how diabetes has permanently affected her vision, balance and stamina. This helpful and illuminating guide is a winning mixture of personal stories with occasional visits to experts who take her step-by-step through surgical procedures or offer more detailed explanations of new technology and stem cell research. It's a credit to the book's bouncy tone that even the detailed appendix is readable. Since 1984, Moore has been the international chair of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, which raises more than $200 million every year. (Apr.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.While working on The Dick Van Dyke Show, award-winning actress Moore (After All) was diagnosed with juvenile (Type 1) diabetes and quickly discovered that managing the disease is a full-time job. With the help of a diabetes specialist, Moore learned to control her blood sugar with a rigorous routine of diet, exercise, insulin injections, and frequent blood glucose monitoring-a regimen that made it possible for her to maintain her demanding personal and professional lives. After 32 years of living with diabetes, Moore, now 72, developed retinopathy and poor circulation in her legs-common complications of long-standing diabetes. Moore details the daily challenges she faces to maintain healthy blood sugar levels. She emphasizes the importance of building a good support system composed of health-care professionals, friends, and family members. Her book also includes a "short course on the world of diabetes" for the newly diagnosed and a list of useful web sites. Moore's humor, authoritative information, and honest evaluation of her own experiences with diabetes make this work essential for diabetes and consumer health collections. Highly recommended.
—Karen McNally Bensing
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Sotto Voce
Chapter 2: The Other Shoe Falls… and Falls and Falls
Chapter 3: A Walk on the Avenue
Chapter 4: Testing, Testing
Chapter 5: Step by Step
Chapter 6: Salami, No Rye
Chapter 7: Complications
Chapter 8: Second Sight
Chapter 9: Diabetes and Dignity
Chapter 10: I’m Dancing As Fast As I Can
Chapter 11: The Other Element
Chapter 12: Owning Diabetes
Chapter 13: Searching and Researching
Chapter 14: Pump It Up?
Chapter 15: The Dance Goes On
Chapter 16: It’s a Jungle Out There
Appendices
Resources
Anonymous
Posted May 10, 2009
First, I will admit that I have not finished this book yet, got about 2/3 through and just couldn't waste any more time on it. As a Type 1 diabetic of almost 30 years I had really expected a lot more out of it. Many, many times while reading, I felt as though I were reading a 150 page booklet at the doctor's office - "Diabetes and You", that kind of corny writing etc. She wastes a lot of time discussing how many times a year to get blood tests, A1C, how often to test blood sugar. I mean, UGH, I'm not 8 years old and just diagnosed. What I had hoped for was a more personal perspective on dealing with a chronic illness, how she really feels about it. Instead, she lightly covers the negatives and then goes on to optimistic rants and thanks-givings to research and science advances. It came up very short in my opinion.
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Posted January 26, 2012
Just so others know what they're getting...there's VERY little of the "Life, Loves" part. This book is almost entirely about her struggle with diabetes (and most of that struggle was simply denial). Not what I was expecting.
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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.This is a great book by Miss Moore. She has provided both biographic information as well as a lot of information regarding diabetes. It is not the most entertaining of writings, but I feel it is the kind of book that one who has any relationship at all to diabetes and its effect on one's life, as well as those around him/her (relative, caretaker, other diabetics, etc.) would like to have among the books of their individual libaries. It contains a plethora of information, while not usurping the relationship that a patient has with his/her medical care provider.
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Posted May 23, 2009
The Vivacious and Lovable personality of The Dick Van Dyke Show has now finally left us with another incredible reminder of how precious Life is, through triumphs, but also through the obstacles which are suddenly placed as hindrances to our pie in the sky attitudes which cloud our ability to factor in life's difficulties as vehicles to drive us into the levels of accomplishments which would otherwise not be attainable. MTM Illustrates how she developed her attitude of rational thinking, and developing abilities to make the best available choices no matter how insurmountable they may seem at the time. Her anecdotes are very timely and placed succintly into her story to accentuate the points of encouragement, from examples she has experienced, and strongly feels that others could benefit from her examples. Her story is never dull, her ability to capture an audience is easily transfered from the Television camera, into this autobiography. She has been forced to"grow up again", but MTM illustrates it with all the Charm that we have come to love in the Character roles she played so well, for us. This is a book well-worth the investment, either for the pure injoyment of discovering a deeper look into the life of MTM, Or for those who, like me were first just a bit curious, then compelled to follow her story along with a hidden expectation of gleaning some of her wisdom, developed over the years, both during good times and bad, in order for me to perhaps see an develope strategy to move past some of life's hurdles, and continue on in our race.
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Posted May 23, 2009
I bought this book thinking it was going to be more of a biography, (after all, I purchased it from the bio section), mixed with a little information regarding Mary's fight with Juvenile Diabetes. In fact, it was almost entirely the later. While it wasn't uninteresting, (due to the fact that I have a niece with JD), I read through it and gleaned what info I could, before gifting it to my niece and her parents as a resource.
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Posted June 20, 2009
I enjoyed this book very much. It was also very educational. I have recommended to several friends.
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With generosity of spirit, ebullience, and sly humor, Mary Tyler Moore presents the intensely private, often funny, and sometimes startling story of her life with diabetes. Growing Up Again is a delightfully candid read for her legion of fans, the more than 20 million Americans with diabetes, and everyone struggling to cope with life’s unexpected challenges.
Mary Tyler Moore, actress and activist, relates the highs and lows of living with type 1 diabetes for the past forty years. With inspired, well-crafted prose, she drills down to the most heartfelt, yet universal truths about ...