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.