Ode to my fasting blood glucose level

[desidiabulum]

Ode to my fasting blood glucose level

Behold my fasting BG score

(High Court Judge of the night before):

I’ve woken up with 8.1

And wonder what on earth I’ve done.

What pleasures did I eat and sup

To send my BGs so far up?

No evil deeds my mind recalled

To make my meter so appalled.

How cruel – to bear the mark of greed

Without the pleasures that precede!

‘It’s just the Dawn Phenomenon’

(I know the argument will run):

The diabetic’s favourite ruse

When morning blood sugars accuse.

The answer (if one reads and looks)

Is this: my diabetes sucks.

The rules it simply won’t obey,

No matter how I fast and pray.

My dysfunctional pancreas

Just likes to bite me in the ass.

I know today will be a blast:

I’ll exercise, low-carb and fast

And skimp on everything I crave

To make my blood sugars behave.

And should next morning’s fasting score

Display an 8 or even more,

It’s clearer what this must betoken:

My monitor is surely broken.

 

[Arab Horse]

Your monitor does not lie
When low numbers pass you by
Be good and eat just veg
Even graze upon the hedge
See that pile of lovely fruit
Sorry that I am a brute
Not for you I cry
Just you pass it by
Chicken, meat and fish
These may be within your dish
But not the things you would wish
A year of more of boring food
Just might see your numbers good.

 

[Oldvatr]

Your monitor does not lie
When low numbers pass you by
Be good and eat just veg
Even graze upon the hedge
See that pile of lovely fruit
Sorry that I am a brute
Not for you I cry
Just you pass it by
Chicken, meat and fish
These may be within your dish
But not the things you would wish
A year of more of boring food
Just might see your numbers good.

If only I had listened to my mum
When I was taught to fill my tum
Eat yer greens I heard her say
as on my eatwell plate they lay.
But woe is me it was a lie,
Those lovely carbs I must decry
high fat, low fat? which is right?
This dilemma is my plight
My trigs are waiting, which way is best
to keep my life so full of zest!

 

[desidiabulum]

Though you may well suspect I cheat,

It’s not just down to what I eat.

Stress, medication, alcohol,

Contribute to the overall

Behaviour of my odd BGs.

But it’s my MODY more than these

Which makes my pancreas (you see)

Behave so unpredictably,

With sudden shocks of high and low.

At least I’m not a T1 though.