Peter and Mary Ann Brickfield split their time between Washington, D.C., and Islesboro, an affluent island community off the coast of Maine. By their late 60s, they had given up high-powered careers as a lawyer and the chief of the Neurocytology.
Norman Fisher’s enemy lived within him. If he didn’t properly mix two medications each day, his diabetes would attack his body and mind. Once, his out-of-control blood sugar left him so delirious that he drove his car into a ditch. For two decades,.