Photo courtesy of Haidee Soule Merritt from her new book, The Sweet Taste of Misery

Haidee is a friend and fabulous cartoonist who uses her pen scathingly to put diabetes in its place – and us in a better place.

The Sweet Taste of Misery is her third cartoon book and I guarantee you’ll find sweet recognition and a new Soule-mate.

Given the fact that New York City is currently suffering from more than 150 Canadian wildfires, enduring the worst air pollution in decades, this cartoon seemed particularly apt.

On the flip side I offer you an article I wrote several years ago for HuffPost, “Type 1 Diabetes Finally Explained”. Every so often something causes me to re-read something I’ve written some time ago. This morning it was the article above.

At the time, it went viral and people told me it gave them a way to talk to family members about what life is like with type 1 diabetes more than anything they’d ever read. That’s about as good as it gets for me.