I’ve been a fan of Pump Peelz for several years, impressed by both their products and their back story. The company, founded in 2011 by high school sweethearts turned married couple Scott and Emily, aims to “help people with diabetes live with more confidence by turning insecurities associated with diabetic accessories into a form of individual self-expression.”
Can’t argue with that, as the team at Pump Peelz is helping shift our one-size fits all, sometime very drab diabetes devices into personalized and fashionable conversation pieces. (Because wouldn’t you rather be asked where you got your Dexcom sticker than “Hey, what’s your blood sugar?”)
The Pump Peelz team has offered some skinz as a giveaway here on Six Until Me, which I am very excited about because the cost to enter is minimal, but fun. Here are the details:
To enter this giveaway, you need to create a diabetes-related haiku (a poem with three lines, the first containing five syllables, the second line containing seven syllables, and the third line back to five syllables) and share it in the comments section or on Twitter (make sure you tag me with @sixuntilme in your Tweet). Winners will be chosen from a hat by my kid (because I’m low-tech, but trust me, we have a cool hat) and will receive a prize pack from the kind people at Pump Peelz.
I love adding a little flair to the sometimes mind-numbing plainness of diabetes technology. Here are a few examples of the work they do at Pump Peelz:
For the Dexcom G4 receiver
A skin for your Omnipod
And if you’re a Pebble watch user, they’ll throw in one a decorative skin for your Pebble, too!
Once the three winners are selected, I’ll announce those here on SUM on Thursday morning. The contest is open starting today and will close tomorrow night at midnight EST. The winners will connect with Scott for their peelz, and for anyone who doesn’t happen to win, 15% off is available to readers using the coupon code “SixUntilMe”.
For more information on the company, you can check out their website or “like” them on Facebook. (Is it required to put like into quotation marks?”) And if you’re interested in winning some peelz of your own, be sure to enter the giveaway. Huge thanks to Pump Peelz for making this giveaway possible, and I am excited to meet them in person at Friends for Life in a few weeks.
Poems don’t have to rhyme.
But if you count syllables,
You might win fun shit.
Diabetes is
the bane of my existence.
Kiss my ass disease
Thelma and Louise
My diabetes sidekicks
Girls could use some bling
Metamorphosis
Shedding insecurities
My pump goes meta
Katy to diabetes:
Ima put stickers
on you, you annoying turd.
Beep! Again, again
Beep! Dexcom is not quiet
Diabetes doesn’t rest
Why, diabetes?
Hogging haiku syllables!
Why, you greedy bitch?
this one is by me….
A diabetic
For life I live with shots
Till a cure is found
by Charlize Zimbelman
They may believe they
are all alone in this world
But there is an army
by Sean Zimbelman age 11
A man had a dog
He took the dogs insulin
He saved many lives
written by Charlize age 14 – diabetic
They may believe they
Are all alone in this world
But they have an army
Yes my sugar moves
Up high down low, disco groove
Dex, my BG louvre
There is a bright side:
So aware of my body
And so sweet am I.
If life’s sugar-free
It is not without sweetness
Just more to savor.
i’m new to type 1.
if this is a “honeymoon”,
i’d like a divorce.
Diamond has a pod
Diamond’s pod gives insulin
Diamond’s pod gives life
Written by my t1 son.
Ugh I need Skittles
Crap, now I need insulin
Up and down, please stop.
Human pincushion
Arms, back, stomach, fingertips
Ready for needles
type one diabetes;
you really know how to be a real tease.
More often than not I control you.
Every so often you do what you do.
When you do that I want to tell you boo!
Type one diabetes; you make me stronger.
Type one diabetes I can’t wait for a cure much longer
Type one diabetes camps are better than the others.
Type one diabetes let’s give a shout out to all our hard working mothers.
Type one diabetes has me writing poems, oh snap.
Diabetes is
It is is a hard knock life for us
But we’ll overcome
Coolest people in the world
Brought together by
Misbehaving beta cells
My numbers are high
Say goodbye to honeymoon
Now comes the hard part
Sever Insulin
Resistance Type 2 or 1
We May Never Know
Made a mistake on my first one added any extra is so the one below is correct!
Diabetes is
It is a hard knock life for us
But we’ll overcome
Jude gets his first pump
The month of his fifth birthday
Please make it awesome 🙂
Focus, pride and strength
Forty eight years and counting
With diabetes
My pretty daughter
Eight years old and so strong
T1D won’t win
Revision;
My pretty daughter
Eight years old and so much strength
T1D won’t win
It’s midnight again
Sugar monsters sucking life
Double-stuffs for win!
Did you check, my dear?
When dinner’s on the table
Words she hates to hear
Six Until Me is…
The best blog on the webby
Kerri is the queen.
Well now I feel like I have to send you money. 🙂
Stick, poke, inject, eat
Dream a day I skip all these
Eat. Drink. Without thought
Cursed? Blessed? We can’t say…
Courage, strength, to overcome
New friends ev’rywhere
Diagnosed last year
The only thing he can’t do
Is make insulin
Prick on the finger.
Ow, Blood drop, wait, number shows.
Drink all the juice box.
Diabuddy twins
Have a partner in pokes
Double the sweetness
I am T 1 D
Not that it matters at all
I do anything
It is my birthday
Woke up with low blood sugar
Had cake for breakfast
🙂
So many choices
No more boring black screen, YAY!
Pump Peelz is a boss
I never said I was a master of poetry, but I do love pump peelz.
Constantly trying
Too many variables
Laugh, trust, and live life
Test day Test night Test
Diabetes I will beat
Style with Pump Peelz
HA! …ok.
It was all I could come up with at 6:30 this morning….
(ok this is my real submission..)
Technology wins,
after the beta cells fail.
peelz keeps it pretty.
Revised made a mistake on my first one thanks
Test day Test night Test
Diabetes I will beat
Stylin’ with Pump Peelz
Are you low? I know
That’s how the D mom lingo
Goes. And: are you high?
Remember back when
you wanted autocorrect
to change it to blouse?
Diabetes meh
Counting syllables before
Coffee is so hard
A secret raincloud
Diabetes rains on her
Love is her raincoat
(It’s so hard to just write one poem! Words are fun!)
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