Seeing Stars: A Novel by Diane Hammond

Author:Diane Hammond [Hammond, Diane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780061986260
Google: Rkyjjvlap98C
Amazon: B003C2SP1Y
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2010-03-13T00:00:00+00:00

THE CREEPY THING ABOUT HIS LIFE NOW WAS THAT HUGH was navigating a grotesque and never-ending obstacle course. Test himself too infrequently or fail to keep his numbers in the acceptable range and he would find himself bucketing down the road toward maiming, organ failure, and death. Keep it under control—if he could keep it under control, which Manny had told him could be extremely challenging—and he got to stick around. What kind of purgatory was that?

Not that he had any intention of revealing these musings to Ruth. After they’d left Helene’s condo they’d gone to see Manny together and had had nearly an hour’s orientation about Hugh’s new diet and exercise regimen, as well as a practicum for Hugh on how to test himself with a meter and what to make of the results. The finger-stick hurt, the meter was unnerving, and its results were tyrannical: bad numbers, bad man.

Ruth insisted on buying an expensive digital bathroom scale at the Sharper Image, and then loaded the cupboards with entire product lines of sugar-free foods, all of which tasted like crap. She was worried about him, he knew, but she was also fretting about Bethany down in LA. He was horrified that Ruth had left her down there with Mimi Roberts, but on the ride home from the airport she’d made it very clear that the decision was not up for discussion. “I’m not going to talk about it,” she’d said. “Bethy has some important auditions coming up, and she needs to be there for them. So leave it and let’s deal with this.” This, of course, being his diabetes, which, she implied, he had obviously brought upon himself.

He missed his wife. This woman was no one he knew, and certainly no one he would have married if he’d met her today for the first time.

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