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Spring means that the butterflies will return as the flowers continue to bloom
Photo by Kelly Kunik

Springalicious: The awesome feeling that anything is possible that occurs when Spring has finally sprung!
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Spring is in, which means all types of wonderful things!

Things like pretty flowers popping up from the earth and spectacular blue skies!

Spring means dusting off your bicycle and making sure your tires have air.

Spring means long sunny days and crisp cool nights sleeping with the windows open.

Spring means participating in the Second Annual Diabetes Blog Week, May 9th through May 15th, and I say: LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

Spring means celebrating the triumphant return of your favorite soft-serve stand reopening after a long winters nap and the sudden urge to eat more salads to balance out the carbs of said soft-serve stands ;)

Spring means breaking out your Capri's, open-toed shoes and short skirt and embracing you're inner Ru Paul- And honey, you know I work it!

Spring means re-embracing outdoor exercise and feeling the sun on your face.

I HEART Spring - And not just because I'm a May baby and I celebrate my birth month, not just my birthday!!

It's so much more than that folks. Spring reminds me that hopes and dreams have no age limits and anything is possible!

Spring also is a wakeup call to just how much work I have to do in the exercise department.

And with spring, comes all sorts of insulin issues. And not just the potential for insulin to get "Skunky," and not in the animalistic sense of the word.

Spring means more activity, which = adapting my basal settings to said increased activity.
Side Bar: I use the word said, a lot when I blog - But I digress.

But here's the thing: Hope floats and I can figure it out - It's just takes some work.

Look, we all know that diabetes takes work, so no shocker there! We can do this my friends!

So Chicklets, what does Spring mean to you regarding your life & and your diabetes?

Diabetically Speaking

Diabetically Speaking
Platonically friendly, unless I'm not.
Ironically sardonic - like it or not.

Chronically OCD when it comes to checking
justfully compliant when it comes to testing.

Moretically speaking, yes indeed I've had my share.
Nirvanically speaking, damn straight I've been there!

Ancestrally I hale from a line who are quite alchemically challenged,
Whose Islets of Langerhans have become abysmally barren.

Technologically savvy because it's a must,
Yet longitudinally clueless- reading map directions a bust!

Anthropologically speaking, I'm part of clan
who are chronically diabetic,
Altruistically true.
Justifiably eccentric
Lyrically vocal;
Emphatic, and quite fantastical too!

Passionate Diabetes Advocates
Chronic protectors, bloggers and friends~

Many see us as litmus tests for diabetes patient type trends.

We are catalysts for acceptance, progress and change.

All of us are friends and know one another by name.

Our voices are strong,
We speak from the heart.

So listen up close and hear what we say.
Because until there's a cure,
We're not going away.