Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
I found out what caused my fast-dropping hypo the other day...or at least I think I did...
If you?ve got diabetes then there?s one thing you should know,
That one of two things happens if you feel yourself go low:
Number one is gradual, like surfing on molasses,
It creeps down slow in tiny steps, inexorably as time passes.
The other plummets like a stone ? not dropped, but thrown with force,
And speeding ever deeper down, you cannot change its course?
Or so it seems, when remedies that once worked seem to fail,
With planning and with luck, you will, and live to tell the tale.
?How can this be??, I hear you say, ?How can there be two sorts??
This question too had troubled me, in my dreams and waking thoughts,
Until I met a wise old man who knew about them both,
?It?s because of Glycoraptors, and the lazy Sugar Sloths.?
?Now, rarely does a Glycoraptor get inside your blood,
But given all the sugar there, he?d live there if he could!
He?s not like other dinosaurs, those massive frightening beasts ?
He?s tiny, and there?s nothing more he likes than sugar feasts.?
?So, if you spot a toadstool whilst you?re walking through the wood,
Be careful not to pick your nose, for it is understood
They jump from toadstools up your snout and burrow their way in,
And make you shake and shiver as they crawl beneath your skin!?
?And once inside your bloodstream, with voracious appetites,
They?ll gobble up the glucose till there?s nothing left in sight!
You?ve got to fill their bellies up, and then their hunger fades ?
But quickly, and the best thing is some lemon lucozade!?
?And Sugar Sloths??, I then enquired, ?Why, you should always keep
Some Jelly Babies in your bag ? it sends them straight to sleep!?
So now you know, if you go low, the reason for the fall ?
If it?s fast, it?s Glycoraptors, if it?s slow, a sloth that?s small!?
(c) Northerner 2009 - please do not reproduce without permission
If you?ve got diabetes then there?s one thing you should know,
That one of two things happens if you feel yourself go low:
Number one is gradual, like surfing on molasses,
It creeps down slow in tiny steps, inexorably as time passes.
The other plummets like a stone ? not dropped, but thrown with force,
And speeding ever deeper down, you cannot change its course?
Or so it seems, when remedies that once worked seem to fail,
With planning and with luck, you will, and live to tell the tale.
?How can this be??, I hear you say, ?How can there be two sorts??
This question too had troubled me, in my dreams and waking thoughts,
Until I met a wise old man who knew about them both,
?It?s because of Glycoraptors, and the lazy Sugar Sloths.?
?Now, rarely does a Glycoraptor get inside your blood,
But given all the sugar there, he?d live there if he could!
He?s not like other dinosaurs, those massive frightening beasts ?
He?s tiny, and there?s nothing more he likes than sugar feasts.?
?So, if you spot a toadstool whilst you?re walking through the wood,
Be careful not to pick your nose, for it is understood
They jump from toadstools up your snout and burrow their way in,
And make you shake and shiver as they crawl beneath your skin!?
?And once inside your bloodstream, with voracious appetites,
They?ll gobble up the glucose till there?s nothing left in sight!
You?ve got to fill their bellies up, and then their hunger fades ?
But quickly, and the best thing is some lemon lucozade!?
?And Sugar Sloths??, I then enquired, ?Why, you should always keep
Some Jelly Babies in your bag ? it sends them straight to sleep!?
So now you know, if you go low, the reason for the fall ?
If it?s fast, it?s Glycoraptors, if it?s slow, a sloth that?s small!?
(c) Northerner 2009 - please do not reproduce without permission
