7A Moment of Truth
Janice was fixing dinner when Larry walked through the door. “Hey,” was all he could manage.
“What’s the matter with you?” she asked. “You look like you’ve seen a ghost. Is everything okay?”
“Not really,” Larry replied. “I just got a call from my doctor’s office. I have diabetes.”
“You have what?” she asked.
“Diabetes. This is serious, Janice. The doctor said that left untreated, a diabetes patient can go blind or lose a limb—or a kidney, even.”
Now Janice was the one looking shell-shocked. “Just like that, out of the blue, you have diabetes?”
Larry shook his head. “I knew I’d been more tired than usual, and I’d been hitting ...
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