Table of Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Sotto Voce

Chapter 2: The Other Shoe Falls… and Falls and Falls

Chapter 3: A Walk on the Avenue

Chapter 4: Testing, Testing

Chapter 5: Step by Step

Chapter 6: Salami, No Rye

Chapter 7: Complications

Chapter 8: Second Sight

Chapter 9: Diabetes and Dignity

Chapter 10: I’m Dancing As Fast As I Can

Chapter 11: The Other Element

Chapter 12: Owning Diabetes

Chapter 13: Searching and Researching

Chapter 14: Pump It Up?

Chapter 15: The Dance Goes On

Chapter 16: It’s a Jungle Out There

Appendices

Resources

With generosity of spirit, ebullience, and sly humor, Mary Tyler Moore presents the intensely private, often funny, and sometimes startling story of her life with diabetes. Growing Up Again is a delightfully candid read for her legion of fans, the more than 20 million Americans with diabetes, and everyone struggling to cope with life's unexpected challenges.
Mary Tyler Moore, actress and activist, relates the highs and lows of living with type 1 diabetes for the past forty years. With inspired, well-crafted prose, she drills down to the most heartfelt, yet universal truths about life-including the lives of those with diabetes. She unflinchingly chronicles her struggle with diabetes, as well as her successful rehabilitation from alcohol dependence, all while deriving gratification from her roles as an actress, mother, businesswoman, campaigner, and fund-raiser. Her revealing tales of both her successes and failures in coping with diabetes offer others with the disease guidance and inspiration through example. In the book, stories include her rebounding from a low-blood-sugar episode during a Mary Tyler Moore Show script reading after the director poured orange juice down her throat, to misadventures caused by diabetes-related vision impairment at a dimly lit party for John Travolta.
She also taps into the vast diabetes research network to talk to diabetic children and adults and with leading experts who are discovering new ways to control diabetes and its complications, and pursuing new ways to cure this disease.
"Her TV alter ego, Mary Richards, may have been perfect, but it's Moore's imperfections that make her the ideal author of this surprisingly frank memoir about living with diabetes." - Publishers Weekly