LowHemoglobinA1cNoKetoacidosis

Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious
LowHemoglobinA1cNoKetoaci-doh-dis!

Umdiddlediddlediddle Eight-point-four umdiddlediddlediddle Seven-point-three*...

Summer of 1988 was my first year as a counselor at Clara Barton Camp**. Each year, the staff performed a skit for closing banquet. In '88, the skit was based on "Mary Poppins" and we wrote and performed such musical gems as the above excerpted song and "A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Blood Sugar go UP!". Mary Poppins took a newly diagnosed Jane Banks into a chalk drawing of camp - where they learned a few lessons about diabetes, sang a few songs, and made a few jokes to entertain campers and parents. Jane returned from 'camp' with a new attitude toward her diabetes, just like in real life.

In my seven subsequent summers at camp we also butchered such classics as "Aladin" (when one of our best staff members arrived at camp with a fully written skit, having worked on it over the winter. CBC gets into your brain that way!), "The Wizard of Oz" (think, "If I only Exercised" in place of "If I only had a Brain"), and "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" ("A Book Report on Clara Barton" instead of "A Book Report on Peter Rabbit"... because what girl has been through CBC and not done a book report on the old gal?).

It's amazing what overworked, underpaid, way too tired from checking the bloodsugars of a cabin full of campers at two in the morning young adults can come up with if you dangle free soda in front of them.

*yes, in 1988, an A1c of 8.4 was good and 7.3 was fantastic.
**not to brag, but I count 6 out of 35 T1 OC Blogs as being "Barton Girls". That's a whopping 17% of OC bloggers. And there's a mom of a Barton Girl under the parents section. How cool is that?