Who Says Diabetic’s Don’t Have A Sense Of Humor?
Take a look at the Internet and you’ll find diabetics have a sense of humor about their condition, despite the everyday inconveniences and problems.
Go to Amazon.com and you’ll find a bunch of books that remind us not to take ourselves too seriously:
- Diabetes for Dummies, gets the thumbs up from a reader who says “when it comes to diabetes almost everyone is a dummy – including a number of health care professionals.”
- The Complete Idiots Guide to Type 2 Diabetes
- Think Like A Pancreas
Diabetes blogs, like diabetesmine.com, poke fun at themselves, publishing their own excerpts from the Dr. Suess book “Fun with Diabetes” with these memorable lines:
- Out with the insulin, out with the needle
Out with the afternoon snack-n-feedle - Corrections, ouch. Corrections ooch.
Injections 10 times a day hurt my hooch. - Down with the glucose readings! Down, down, down! I’ll have the best numbers in town.
- Funny, now I cannot think… Think what I thunk and my heart begins to sink.
- Oops! Up with the sugar level – up, up, up!
Glucose Tablets, gummi drops, and orange juice in a big, Big cup.
Go to Cafepress.com and you’ll be able to buy apparel that puts a smile on your face:
- A cap that reads “My child shoots up!”, available in adjustable brushed cotton
- A t-shirt that says “I’m with stupid” with an arrow pointing to a pancreas, which according to the site, ‘looks cool without breaking the bank’
Holisticonline.com explains why humor is important for the diabetic condition. “One of the reasons laughter is such an effective diabetes therapy is that it’s a great stress reducer. When you laugh, you briefly lose muscle tone.
All the tense muscles of the body are relaxed and you have a ‘discharge’ of nervous excitement… an internal jogging that can be even more health restorating than the external kind.
Humor lets you see the good things in life that will have a profound influence on your diabetes.”
Kids understand intuitively, that humor does help.
The childrenwithdiabetes.com site posts funny stories involving child diabetics.
One story relates how a 5 year old sitting in a hot tub, saw her aunt put a test strip into the tub to check the chlorine level. The young girl’s response was ‘Hey, does this hot tub have diabetes, too?”
If a 5 year old can laugh at her health condition, why can’t you?