The team of scientists from the State Cancer Institute,
the Cleveland Clinic and the Whittemore Peterson Research Center,
Nevada, became the authors of the scientific sensation.
She was hailed by some as a great new poet: Reed Whittemore, a former poetry consultant to the Library of Congress,
praised her as"a musician-poet, wholly in love with rhythm and sound"; the late Malcolm Bowie of Queen Mary, University of London, called her"an important writer.
In a recent research review, Whittemore and her colleagues found that a third of parents of children
with type 1 diabetes reported psychological distress at the time of diagnosis, and those emotions persisted for one to four years after diagnosis in nearly 20 percent of moms and dads.