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Breakthrough
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Published December 1, 2011
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Thea Cooper
4 books7 followersCo-author of BREAKTHROUGH:
Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
Thea Cooper is a writer, editor, and teacher. She wrote her first poem in second grade and has been writing ever since.
Throughout her professional career Thea has applied her love of language and narrative structure to a range of environments, from higher education to corporate communications, creating effective, audience-centric communications and strategies in both the profit and nonprofit sectors. Her specialty is synthesizing complex or esoteric content and identifying an organic narrative structure within bodies of information. She has worked in print, spoken word presentation, and online.
Thea has a B.A. in English from Bard College and an M.F.A. in playwriting from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her plays have been produced in theaters and festivals across the country.
She lives in Seattle.
Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
Thea Cooper is a writer, editor, and teacher. She wrote her first poem in second grade and has been writing ever since.
Throughout her professional career Thea has applied her love of language and narrative structure to a range of environments, from higher education to corporate communications, creating effective, audience-centric communications and strategies in both the profit and nonprofit sectors. Her specialty is synthesizing complex or esoteric content and identifying an organic narrative structure within bodies of information. She has worked in print, spoken word presentation, and online.
Thea has a B.A. in English from Bard College and an M.F.A. in playwriting from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her plays have been produced in theaters and festivals across the country.
She lives in Seattle.
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February 16, 2025
This is a book every diabetic should read or listen to. If I had been diagnosed with diabetes just 75 years earlier than I was, I would have been dead within a matter of months. While it's a dry read at times, it's important to know how many people made saving lives like mine their life's work in spite of the hardships that caused for them personally and professionally. Couple that with Elizabeth Hughes' refusal to be considered a victim of diabetes, and you have inspiration to keep logging foods, counting carbs, changing pump sites, and silencing CGM alarms.
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