2019-09-01 Reader\'s Digest

Family Secret

I could identify with

how editor-in-chief

Bruce Kelley discovered

that he had type 1

diabetes. When I was

36 years old, I began

losing weight, drinking

water excessively, and

urinating profusely.

My doctor had me get

a blood test. A short

time later, he called

and said that I had

diabetes. I was in the

hospital for five days

as they tried to regulate

my blood sugar with in-

sulin shots. I thought I

was going to die. That

Your Amazing Body!

When I read that the body gets an

almost entirely new skeleton every ten

years as old bone cells get replaced by

new ones, I said to my friend, “Can I

have your old skeleton?”

—Cheryl Murphy Commerce City, Colorado

Laughter, the

Best Medicine

We loved the fictional

knight TV-show credits,

and we came up with

quite a few of our own:

✦ The knight who

kept telling everyone

what to do: Sir Mon

✦ The knight who

kept mapping out the

land: Sir Vey

✦ The knight who

kept winning: Sir Pass

✦ The knight who

kept getting in trouble:

Sir Cumstances

✦ The knight who

helped his country:

Sir Vice

✦ The knight who

was very fat:

Sir Cumference

✦ The knight who was

rescued: Sir Vive

✦ The knight who kept

trying to get around

stuff: Sir Cumvent

✦ The knight we

couldn’t trust: Sir Pent

✦ The knight who kept

cutting people open:

Sir Geon

—Jodi Meyers

Parker, Colorado

Rescue Dog

Being a dog lover, I

loved the story of the

LETTERS

Notes on the

June issue

was 43 years ago.

Thanks for sharing

your story. I think it

helps people to know

that they can survive.

—Pastor Robert A.

Rosenberg

Oshkosh, Wisconsin

The Baby Who Was

Meant to Be Ours

The young mother

who adopted the baby

boy is my hero. She

is blessed beyond all

measure. I wish there

were more women

like her.

—Olivia stone

Thomas, West Virginia ma

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Reader’s Digest

6 september 2019