Diabetes and me
Subtitle: an essential guide for kids and parents
By: text by Kim Chaloner, illustrated by Nick Bertozzi
Contributors: Bertozzi, Nick
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9780809028191; 9780809038718; 9781466848481
Subjects: HEALTH & FITNESS; Diseases; Caricatures and cartoons; COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS; Cartoons and comics; Nonfiction; Comic books, strips; Juvenile literature; Diabetes in children; Diabetes
Description: "An illustrated guidebook for young people with diabetes"--
Notes: "A novel graphic from Hill and Wang."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part 1; title: What is Diabetes? -- 3; title: Warm Up! -- 8; title: What Is Diabetes? -- 13; title: Who Has Diabetes? -- 17; title: How Does Diabetes Work? -- 24 -- Part 2; title: Your Team -- 38; title: From Dr. Doom to the Dream Team -- 38; title: Your Pediatrician or Internist -- 41; title: Your Endocrinologist -- 43; title: Your Certified Diabetes Nurse Educator (CDE) -- 46; title: Your Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS) -- 49; title: Your Ophthalmologist -- 52; title: Caring for Your Feet -- 54; title: Your Exercise Physiologist -- 56 -- Part 3; title: How to Get in the Game -- 60; title: Equipment #1: Keeping Score -- 60; title: Hypoglycemia -- 64; title: Hyperglycemia -- 65; title: Lows and Highs -- 66; title: Equipment #2: What Is Insulin, and What Are Oral Meds? -- 78; title: The Pancreas Playbook -- 82 -- Part 4; title: Fuel -- 90; title: What Is a Carbohydrate? -- 92; title: What Are Fats? -- 97; title: Carb Counting -- 99; title: Beware! Don't Judge a Team by the Color of Its Uniform! -- 100; title: New Ways to Fuel Up -- 101; title: Food Makeover #1: The Burrito Comeback Kid -- 106; title: Food Makeover #2: Real Pizza, Real Tasty -- 108; title: Time-Out: Dealing with Emergencies and Food -- 115; title: Lows -- 117; title: Severe Lows -- 118 -- Part 5; title: On the Field -- 120; title: Why Exercise Is Essential to Living a Healthy Life with Diabetes -- 120; title: Starting Out -- 122; title: Taking It to the Next Level -- 125; title: Running Interference -- 129; title: What Will You Try? -- 133 -- Part 6; title: Huddle! Team Support -- 134; title: Fans -- 134; title: Sick Days -- 139; title: Keeping Up Your Routine -- 140; title: Making a Pump Armband/Leg Band -- 146; title: Wrap-Up-- 149.