Patience
Understanding
Mathematical awareness
Analytical.. and fearless
I went to the GP today
and saw the nurse
Did she know anything about my condition? “hell no”
Inpatient and talking about her mum, who has the condition
I said to her, “listen the condition is complex, more than you know”
Yet her knowledge was limited and attention span a little low.
I wouldnt mind, her job isn’t easy to do
Hearing people like me harp about this and that,
A tick box exercise that all it was
I stood my ground and said “it’s ok to have knowledge, but doing is key”
I confess, my condition shall always have its challenges
As I know sometimes things just need to be.
I embrace diabetes knowledge as my temperament works it through
Day at a time, you are the expert patient with a long term focus,
You own the condition, not the condition owns you.
Accepting, learning and moving forward as this is perplexing
Yet as least I have the patience, guile not to give in
It’s your health, you have done nothing wrong...
if others think they know your condition better than you
Just say this: “I have experienced a hypo. So what would you do?”
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