Scrabbled.
Diabetes management is a delicate balance between "I'm fine" and "How sick am I?" Between feeling awesome and feeling like garbage. Between being knocked down by a low blood sugar to finding your footing again a few minutes later. A balance of insulin and exercise, food choices and blood sugars, rinse and repeat.
A balance of try, fail, try, succeed, and try again, damn it!
On some days, it can be exhausting. And if someone leaves you alone with a Scrabble board and too much coffee for too long, you might take your aggressions out on the tiles.
Hope is on there twice because it needs to be. (Also, I couldn't find another C for "community." And every time I added a blank, it just looked like I Photoshopped it and/or forgot how to spell. And adding "mgdl" just looked sloppy, yo.)
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You've got some extra "hope" there, which I'd say is an excellent word to repeat.
Posted by: Rachel | January 30, 2013 12:32 PM
VERY COOL, VERY TRUE. Also, if you scatter some used test strips on/around the board and those empty insulin bottles you've been saving, me thinks you've got your 2013 Diabetes Art Day Project !
Posted by: k2 | January 30, 2013 12:33 PM
I couldn't find another C for "community." And every time I added a blank, it just looked like I Photoshopped it and/or forgot how to spell.
See this is how not being able to spell in the first place helps. Ya get to a point where ya just don't care anymore. Kommunity is fin by me.
Posted by: Bennet | January 30, 2013 12:55 PM
Funny. I never thought of "strength" as a long word before. One little syllable. So much inside it. Telling.
Posted by: MelissaBL | January 30, 2013 01:03 PM
Love this post!
Posted by: Nikki | January 30, 2013 01:06 PM
Very cool, but in my house some one would argue that yeehaw is not a real word. Then someone would complain that you were wasting all the triple word squares.
Posted by: Lisa | January 30, 2013 03:18 PM
And here I thought you added HOPE because you WANTED to get the Triple Word Score!
You could have put KERRI against the second I in INSULIN, then put SIXUNTILME down to that E in your name. It may break the rules, but it's a boatload of points!
Posted by: Scott E | January 30, 2013 05:24 PM
Love this!
Posted by: Scott K. Johnson | January 30, 2013 08:42 PM
Guilt, love, try.
Posted by: katy | January 30, 2013 09:19 PM
Good one Kerri...you win!!!
Posted by: Amy Lilley | January 30, 2013 09:25 PM
Dear God Kerri..this is brilliant!
Got t-shirts in the works?
Posted by: Scott Strange (@Strangely_T1) | January 31, 2013 03:22 AM