Elise's Poetry Slam

Tuesday - Poetry Tuesday
Write a poem, rhyme, ballad, haiku, or any other form of poetry about diabetes.  After you've posted it on your blog, share it on the No Sugar Added Poetry page on TuDiabetes, and read what others have shared there as well.

I used to love writing poetry... not only because I lacked the attention span to write anything longer, but poetry was the perfect outlet for my first-world angst.  But I knew this topic would be perfect one for Elise to make her blogging debut; right now they're studying poetry at school, and she can pen some pretty epic quatrains.

The following is an Elise original.  I love the non-sequitur ending.

My Diabetes

Diabetes is hard to beat

But I can eat it like meat

Diabetes is strong,

But I am stronger

My CGM reads the numbers

Or else it will be a bummer

My monitor tells us the number

Pods are like turtle shells.

Here's my contribution:

Roses are red

Christmas trees are sappy

Diabetes + Strep throat + antibiotics + strep rash + hives

Are all really, really, really crappy

Dia-ku

What do you do when it's 4:00 am, you have yet to fall asleep, the prospect of sleep is very, very dim due to having been up all night fighting a high BG and ketones, and you've corrected via pump, syringe AND done a pump change with an extra bolus AND temp basal just to move that BG out of the upper 400s?

Why, you write haiku in your head, with a diabetes twist. And rename it dia-ku, all the while laughing maniacally at yourself in your very sleep-deprived state.

(I won't mention that this was the second night in a row that we had high BGs because of blood in the cannula - oops, I just did).

So that's what I found myself doing last night instead of sleeping. Fred is out of town and I was afraid with all that insulin coursing through her body, Elise would drop dangerously low. So I wrote some haiku and thought I'd share some of my craziness. Join me, won't you?

High, then low, then high
Who needs to sleep anyway?
Stupid growth hormones

Darkness surrounds us
489? WTF!
Time to change your pump

High BG, ketones
Why won't these corrections work?
Diabetes sucks