The Insulin Man
Hello Hello to everyone in the biggest country in Africa.
Well your countryman did score the winning goal for Rangers yesterday to take us into the Cup Final, so it is only fitting that my first post this month is for the Hive Naija community!
This is an article written for the #novemberinleo writing prompt series and Day 3 prompt ....
My experience of this prompt could be quite revealing ☑️
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#novemberinleo day 3! Hive Naija invites you yo share a Book you read that had an impact on you!
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What sort of mind writes these Hive Naija prompts!?! A bookworm this prompt!
When you are an old bastard like me then you have been there seen that done that etc etc.
So there are a handful of books that really stick in my memory.
One was this wonderful Indian cookery book that I was given by my first wife and she inscribed in it. So when Mrs T came along, that book was swiftly despatched to the landfill... I did memorise a fair few amount of dishes.
My cauliflower masala is bang on, and I could knock up some cracking veggie dishes...
However this is not the book to be chosen...
The two week coma when I was 8
When I was 8 we were on holiday in Elie staying with my mother's parents. She was unwell and I remember doctors going in and out of her room off the hall whilst I was in the lounge watching.
She was taken to hospital and ended up being in a diabetic coma for 8 days.
Nobody knew she had diabetes and it did not run in her family. Normally you get type 1 diabetes as a child and not an adult.
Thankfully she made a full recovery and whilst I have my fair share of ailments (all from my father I hasten to add) none are from my mother.
The nun's gift
On my father's side we are a Roman Catholic family, well we were until my grandfather had the temerity to marry a protestant and he got excommunicated!
My grandfather had four siblings two boys and two girls. The three boys I never met but I did meet the two girls. They were both nuns.
Back in the day nuns were very private and often you could not see them etc.
So when I was given a book as a birthday present from Aunt Dorothy I was in shock.
They didn't get money to spend, but it turned out this was a book from their library and she was given permission to give it to me because of the importance of it considering my mother had been in a diabetic coma.
Both my aunts well great aunts technically speaking were very academic and taught in schools.
The elder of the two Aunt Veronica was a celebrity childrens' author for the catholic church.
There is no real shock then that I am writing books. The only shock is that so far none have made it to the Publishers table!
The Insulin Man
It just dawned on me as I was writing this, I have not even mentioned the fluffing book!
Ah well here we go ...
The Insulin Man
This is a screenshot from source
Unfortunately my copy is long gone.
It was a hardback book and the full title is
The insulin man: The story of Sir Frederick Banting by John Rowland
ISBN:B0000CMRC1
Release Date:January 1965
Publisher:Lutterworth P
Length:141 Pages
The Insulin Man tells the story of Sir Frederick Banting.
He starts out as struggling medical student and then together with Charles H Best and JJR Macleod at the University of Toronto in 1921 discovers insulin and he ends up with a fluffing Nobel Prize!
It was a case of determination and bravery.
When I realised he was the reason my mum was still alive, he became my first non sporting hero...
The discovery of insulin was a major medical breakthrough that saved millions of lives and led to many other diabetes discoveries. The first patient to receive insulin was Leonard Thompson, a 14-year-old boy who was dying of diabetes in January 1922.
The name "insulin" comes from the Latin word insula, which means "island". This refers to the islets of Langerhans, where insulin is produced.
sourced from Diabetes UK
Thanks for visiting and I hope you enjoyed my response to the prompt.
Sources and Reference documents
This article is an entry for this month's Inleo writing initiative #novemberinleo
You can find all the details in this thread
Today's prompt is Day 3 | a Book you read that had an impact on you!
All ramblings are from me, the mad Scotsman TengoLoTodo unless otherwise stated, note lead image is generated with AI on pixlr.com from a prompt by me. Any other photographs are all orginal and taken by me the author.
