Now you are perfect, Sir Larry...

This is ironically sad :/

i know how it's hard to cope with it!

the sense of bitter-humor was magnificent!

Yes, Diabetes is not to be taken lightly, as I have found out.

I don't have diabetes, but my pro-insulin is in large amounts :s

Diabetes - my mother has it and it is difficult to keep her in control!

She likes all the foods that she should not be eating and that is the problem!

My father is diabetic and so was my mother... it's a horrible disease. It's something you have to be very careful with. My fathers is out of control at times, one hour it could be fine, the next it's 500, and the next it's down to 40. I pray that yours will not be that hard to handle, it really makes him feel bad with it bouncing so much.

Rockin' along, lost 40 pounds,
cut the fat - cholesterol lowered;
so proud of this new lifestyle
'til the nurse calls with blood results.

^^It gives you a wonderful feeling for you have achieved something which was impossible to achieve and when that is completed the happiness swells. This is what this opening verse is all about...make you feel good.

Call the spouse about options,
"yes, the exact phrase she said was
'out of control' . . . no, I don't know,
I meet with him on Monday."

^^This just flattens that happiness because when you have worked hard to achieve something it seems all to have been a waste who more to share this news then your spouse!

Lots of questions starts to bombard our mind clouding our heart making us look to a future which is bleak, which is filled with fear too. That feel good we achieved seems to have gone wasted but in fact its a way to tell us to keep at it. Like they say health is wealth and my parents have diabetes...have seen how people choose to deal with it. Either you control it rather then it controls you!

I liked the way you have penned this. A conversational poem with images just coming at you.

Totally dig this being insulin dependant and struggling at the moment.