What the Publisher says:
In snapshots and episodes Grit Ott
describes her life as a diabetic. She takes
the reader with her on her journey from a
childhood of utter dependency - as a girl
teased by other children and pitied by
grown-ups - to an adulthood as a self-
confident woman who accepts her diabetes
and deals with it responsibly. Instead of
finding a moralizing approach, the readers
of this book will profit from Grit Ott's
experience, her courage and her
unquenchable hope.
Grit Ott, born in 1948, is married and, after living
for 15 years in Wiesbaden, where she worked as
an occupational therapist for physically
handicapped people, has moved back to Berlin.
For 18 years she was youth coordinator of the
German Diabetic Association for the Berlin area.
She is also co-founder and an active member of
the "Insuliner" self-help groups which now have
chapters across Germany. The first chapters of
"My Sweet Life" were adapted for a television
documentary about Grit's stormy childhood with
diabetes, which was featured on German National
Television (ARD).
Grit now has the rights to her book. The English e-book
project can now move forward.