Plastic tubing inserted in your body
attached to a device to deliver life
Pointed needle puncturing the skin
and pushing liquid life in
Just a droplet
in an ocean of years
BeepBeepBeepBeep
Urgent low at 3A.M.
Juice in hand
Got to be at work @ 4
Wipe Wait Click Snap Squeeze
Blood
Beep
Number
It's too low
Did you check?
Did you dose?
What's your number?
Wake up
Drink some juice
Get some carbs
Please wake up
Drink. A. Juice.
I love you
Third time this week
I'm going to be late for work
I NEED you to wake up
Drink This Juice
Coffee Shower Dressed
No time
Coffee Dressed
Walk out the door
Check my phone
Level
Maybe it'll go up
Please
I can't be late
Breathe
Focus
Work
Work
Breathe
Check
Focus
Breathe
Walk in the door
Beeeeep Beeeep
Honey, what's your number?
Did you check your ketones?
You need to drink some water
And give a correction
Wake up
I need to pick up your scripts on Friday
When I get paid
Do you have enough til then?
What's that ringing
He's sleeping
Hands over his ears
Sweetie, your pod's dead
Do you want my help or do you got this?
Okay?
Okay
Wake up
Make a meal
Timing it right
Go ahead and prebolus
Oh I don't know
I don't know
How many carbs
I don't know
Careful
Cleaning
Careful
Water for boiling, bathing
Disconnect while connecting
Wash your head
Rinse
Your back, shoulders, and belly
avoiding the devices
Wake up
This is Love
Steady, constant
I really want to read a book,
take a bath
just get away for a few days
instead
I'll get some flowers
and take them to my
sister-in-laws' grave
The more profits projected
the more flatlines on the graph
I have 5 years to make it right
I'm out of time
Out of time
We are the lifelines
Wake up
--Mindi Patterson
I'm a Mom to 2 T1 sons
Wife to a T1 POWER wheelchair user
Grieving sister-in-law to Meaghan Patterson Carter who died with Christmas presents unopened on December 25th 2018 from insulin rationing.
