Diabetes: The Acrostic Poem Version.
The crew at WEGO Health is hosting a Health Activist Writer's Month Challenge (HAWMC), similar to the NaBloPoMo of November. Can we do 30 health posts in 30 days (and plan a first birthday party!)? I'm trying to complete this challenge, and thankfully, I've got a pile of prompts to keep my brain on shuffle. Today's prompt is "Write an acrostic poem for your condition." Don't mind if I do!
An acrostic poem. Boo yeah.
Diabetes is my disease-ee. I live with this mess every day.
I don't always know how blood sugars will go, but try to make things go my way.
A big misconception about type 1 conception is that to sweets I must be addicted.
But it's luck, a full moon - this thing's autoimmune, and its cause can't be simply predicted.
Either way that you slice it, type 1 is not nice, it's a serious health condition.
There isn't a cure, and it's chronic, for sure, with no hope for a break or remission.
Each day and each night, we continue the fight, for our health and our rights and our lives.
So today, when you see a PWD, be sure to give them a high five.
Comments
I was really hoping you would rhyme "pump" with "exploding fist bump", but this works.
;)
Posted by: Kim | April 1, 2011 09:01 AM
This is awesome!
Posted by: Lindsay R | April 1, 2011 09:07 AM
K, now I feel the need to go write my own...... *wanders off, pen in hand*
Posted by: Cara | April 1, 2011 09:18 AM
High five!!
Posted by: Jeff | April 1, 2011 10:33 AM
And it even rhymes! You are good, girl! :-)
Posted by: Natalie Sera | April 1, 2011 10:54 AM
Good job Kerri! Thanks for sharing about HAWMC. I might've missed it otherwise.
Posted by: Martin Wood | April 1, 2011 11:05 AM
Love it !
You inspired me to get involved in this writing prompt, and I have never done 30 posts in 30 days. I am very scared very very scared
Hold me.
http://diabetestalkfest.com/blog/?p=313
Posted by: gina | April 1, 2011 11:29 AM
Much more creative than me today LOL.
Posted by: Rachel | April 1, 2011 12:05 PM
Haha! I should have contracted you to write mine! Very nicely done :)
Posted by: Sysy Morales | April 1, 2011 01:01 PM
Considering I just had to google "acrostic poem", I am pretty sure I won't be participating in this challenge. Definitely wasn't an English major.... these things need to be dumbed down for some of us! (I majored in French Lit - and where has it gotten me?? nowhere - unless I start blogging in French, maybe then my degree will actually be used)
Posted by: Meghan | April 1, 2011 01:40 PM
Meghan,
If I can do it anyone can haha
Posted by: gina | April 1, 2011 03:43 PM
Here's mine.
http://sweetlyvoiced.blogspot.com/2011/04/sweet-acrostics-batman.html
Like Gina, this committing to posting frequently thing is going to kick my butt...
Posted by: MelissaBL | April 1, 2011 03:54 PM
That was excellent! Thanks so much!
Posted by: June S. | April 1, 2011 04:07 PM
ROCK ON! and a high five!
Posted by: @stales | April 1, 2011 05:49 PM
very nice, Kerri...A+
we'll hang it on the diabetes classroom wall...
Posted by: Nan | April 1, 2011 06:30 PM
Kerri, that was so awesome you deserve a high ten!!! Hmm, wonder if I can do it. I think work might have killed the last remaining brain cells I had, but I might give it a shot.
And again, well done!
Posted by: PrincessLadyBug | April 1, 2011 07:58 PM
Came over from WEGO to see what you came up with for today's post. I have to say, you did an awesome job!
Posted by: Melissa Shell | April 1, 2011 09:01 PM
Where's the Like button on this thing?
Posted by: Suki | April 2, 2011 10:05 PM
Love this. I started the WEGO blogging challenge a little late so I missed acrostic day, but I feel like giving you a high five for various reasons now.
Also I was rapping it in my head. ;)
*Kerri high five*
Posted by: kerri | April 10, 2011 06:11 PM