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Post by sotypical42483 on Feb 15, 2008 15:14:30 GMT -5
I feel bad saying this (kinda) but books about Stacey moving and/or getting sick are sooo dull to me. I could never get into this book
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Post by aln1982 on Feb 15, 2008 16:19:59 GMT -5
I felt bad for Stacey in this book. Poor girl is feeling the pressure all around and isn't feeling well on top of it. I can imagine at such a young age how hard it would be to deal with diabetes and not be able to eat sweets, especially when all your friends are scarfing them down in front of you. No wonder poor Stacey started sneaking junk food - all the stress and the pressure seemed to drive her to do it! I would actually guess it was more her body craving the sugar because she was already getting sick but then she kind of blamed herself and convinced herself that she had done it to herself (not that this makes any sense ;D) Not that she didn't want it because of the pressure but from my experiences with people with diabetes, they usually eat the sugar because they crave it physically but assume that it was emotional. I don't want to get into a debate about this subject, though, since it is sensitive for me with everything my aunt is dealing with right now.... This is just my take on it. Anyway.... AMM might have gotten some of her experience from being a candy striper but she seemed to have more personal experience of being a patient. This would be an interesting question to ask her. I wish they would have done more books later in the series that focused on Stacey's health problems (especially judging by how many people on here liked this one ;D) It seems like they kind of forgot about her diabetes.
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Post by fluffycakes on Feb 15, 2008 17:14:02 GMT -5
I felt bad for Stacey in this book. Poor girl is feeling the pressure all around and isn't feeling well on top of it. I can imagine at such a young age how hard it would be to deal with diabetes and not be able to eat sweets, especially when all your friends are scarfing them down in front of you. No wonder poor Stacey started sneaking junk food - all the stress and the pressure seemed to drive her to do it! I can totally relate to this. I don't have diabetes, but I can't have too much refined sugar because it gives me migraines. Like, crazy-bad migraines - I spend the day in bed throwing up, even if there's nothing left in my stomach, with the worst headache ever (Sorry, I know that's gross). Anyway, my doctor recommended I stop eating refined sugar when I was 13, and that was incredibly difficult. It's really hard to be around people eating delicious desserts and other good stuff and know that you can't have any of it. It still is, but it was much harder when I was younger. I was definitely sneaking junk food a few times at that age. I can completely understand how tempting it is and why Stacey, knowing how sick it would make, would do it anyway. I love this book, it's one of my favourites in the series for all the reasons people have already said. It has a different feel to it, though I can't quite put my finger on it. But I love it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2008 19:43:07 GMT -5
This was the first book in the series that I read! I liked it, even though it kind of gave me a different impression of the series that I would have gotten if I'd started with the first book or something. It made me sad for Stacey, even though I liked her more in this book than in many of her others.
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Post by aln1982 on Feb 19, 2008 20:21:50 GMT -5
^ I can see this book giving you a different impression. ;D I wish they had done more like it, though. I also liked Stacey more in this one.
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Post by songheim on Feb 19, 2008 20:59:51 GMT -5
I'm wondering now, was she able to eat certain kinds of sugar free treats, or was there even much widely available back then? Or could a brittle diabetic like her not even be able to eat fake sugar? If she could, it seems odd that Claudia couldn't have come up with something besides pretzels to give Stacey during the meetings:P I mean, there's sugar free Jelly Bellies for crying out loud! But if she isn't able to have the fake stuff then I guess that's a moot point, I'm just curious.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2008 21:06:37 GMT -5
I don't know, I mean I know quite a few diabetics and they all eat fake sugar. In fact, they can sometimes have real sugar too, just not often and not in large quantities.
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Post by greer on Feb 19, 2008 21:09:02 GMT -5
i think for stacey it had more to do with not upsetting the balance of her diet, plus when dawn was there it was easier just to have one healthy snack and one unhealthy, rather than having healthy, unhealthy but sugar free and then unhealthy with sugar. plus, i think sugar-free products have become more commonplace now than they were in the past. i remember stacey getting a cake from a diabetic bakery though.
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Post by songheim on Feb 19, 2008 22:09:26 GMT -5
That makes sense. Still, I remember my mom eating only sugar free candy (not for any specific health reasons like Stacey though) when I was a kid so it seemed like there was a lot of options back then. And oh it was a big huge childhood trauma when she got the sugar free ice cream instead of the regular kind! But that was before Splenda, when sugar free=icky chemical aftertaste.
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Post by Penny Lane on Feb 19, 2008 22:10:48 GMT -5
Splenda has an icky aftertaste too.
I ate a lot of sugar free candy because half of my family went to dental school.
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Post by greer on Feb 19, 2008 22:17:34 GMT -5
all fake sugar is gross to me. it takes forever to get that taste out of your mouth.
i just don't see how it's better for you than regular sugar, unless you have a disease like diabetes.
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Post by Amalia on Feb 20, 2008 1:13:40 GMT -5
^ I heard on the news that it really isn't better.
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Post by Rie on Feb 20, 2008 3:47:23 GMT -5
I really liked this book,and I really liked Stacey in this book.
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Post by supernatural babe on Feb 20, 2008 16:31:02 GMT -5
It's hard to believe that Laine turns into such a snob in less than ten books!Not really. Boys have strange effects on us at times, The thing is diabetics can eat sweets. My mate ate diabetic sweets as well as the 'normal' sweets/chocolate (Naughty).
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Post by aln1982 on Feb 20, 2008 16:54:02 GMT -5
^ There are different kinds of diabetics, though. I don't think that boys had anything to do with Laine but I also don't see her turning into a snob - I see it more of reverting to a snob since she seemed pretty bad when she found out about Stacey's diabetes. I always took her nice attitude in this book as a temporary thing. I did like it, though. ;D
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