The Candy In My Pocket

A percentage of the profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the Juvenile Diabetes Research FoundationInternational award-winning, residential designer, John Robert Wiltgen, takes the reader on a roller coaster ride from his traumatic beginning as an 8-year-old, diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, through his numerous--sometimes death-defying--situations in the years to follow. This book is about more than living your best life possible while dealing with the countless challenges of a debilitating illness; it is a testimony to the power of the human spirit to take risks and challenge yourself to doing more than you thought possible.His diagnosis, back in 1967, meant his life would certainly be much shorter than normally expected. Wiltgen has survived many of the most life-changing health issues that as a result of living with a disease that ravages every human body system resulting in blindness, kidney failure, heart disease, peripheral neuropathy, Charcot foot, cellulitis, os