Health / Personal Narrative · 2024
This Little Piggy Cried Wee Wee Wee,
But Never Ever Made It Home
A deeply personal, unflinchingly honest, and surprisingly humorous account of what it truly means to live with Type 2 diabetes. Using the familiar nursery rhyme as a frame, Albert Putnam takes readers on a journey from denial and confusion to understanding, acceptance, and the daily discipline that keeps him — and countless others — alive. This is not a medical textbook. It is a human story, told with courage and grace.
Excerpt
They say this little piggy went to market. They say another stayed home. No one ever talks about the one who cried wee wee wee — the one who never made it back. I was that piggy. And this is my story.