I don't know whether Helen being diagnosed as diabetic (in Helen and Sharon) was a putoff, but I had been diagnosed as a mild diabetic just then, and I just couldn't help going that route in the story.
The Galactic Voyager story features diabetes more centrally. But, since my own diabetes was being managed just medically (which means with only pills, in this case), that's how I had Helen's condition also managed, because I didn't know any better. After a few years, though, any diabetic (as far as I know now) has to go on to Insulin injections. This didn't happen for Helen, so Helen's further diabetic adventures are a little implausible for anyone who is a diabetic, or who knows one! Voyager is worth rewriting for that reason, but I'm not going to do it.
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