Monday, June 7, 2021

Lifelines



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.

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