"Sugar Blues"
When you are Diabetic it's sometimes quite pathetic
trying to assess exactly what is best.
If your sugar goes too high from a coma you could die
conversely if it's low you may suffer a hypo
and to gauge your ratio it's very hard to know.
If you over-exercise it can affect your eyes
If your sluggish it is true it can build up on you.
There is this trick I know whenever sugars low,
it works quite well it seems if you eat 5 jelly beans.
But if it starts to soar that is what the insulin's for.
When you start it's hit or miss and you must adapt to this.
Eventually you reach a plane where it will settle down again.
But whether active or your resting you are now forever testing.
This test involves a finger prick and it is over very quick
From there a drop of blood is squeezed
onto a test strip if you please.
Then placed into a small Gizmo
which shows a number high or low.
8 is what your looking for and it is low if less than 4.
But either way you now are sure
exactly what your aiming for.
By writing down your count you'll see
you end up confident like me.
So diabetes need not kill when you have attained this skill
and amputations need not be a threat to your longevity.
AJ
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