Twenty-five days of Christmas: Day #12

Diabetic’s Christmas

In honour of my popular Christmas chocolate blog, I would like to post a song my friend Cecile Butt and I wrote about the angst of having type one diabetes during the holidays (she has it, not me). If anyone is baffled at the arrangement I dreamt up one chilly night in a Garageband haze, it is made to sound like I’m accompanying Cecile on my childhood Yamaha Electone Organ.

Here are the lyrics:

Christmastime is just around the bend

Time for gathering with family and friends

They stop by with candies and cakes

With hopes that everyone will partake

But there’s one thing they should know for my sake

Candy canes and Christmas puddings are fun

But not when your glycemic index is 12.1

Stockings really lose their appeal

When the candy inside isn’t real

I’d watch my sister eating Ferrero Rochers

And I’d get the Planters Peanuts and a bag of Lays

Give sugar plum faeries and gingerbread men

Made with Splenda, you’ll lose all your friends

I had a dream that I was just like any other girl

I ate some chocolate cake and washed it down with chocolate milk

And polished off a candy apple

Then I ate a box of Fudgee Os

Then I downed a pint of Häagen-Dazs

It was caramel cone explosion.

Candy. Sugar. Chocolate. I want candy

I get up it’s almost three I realize I have to pee

I’m cranky and I’m so thirsty

The night light’s on, what do I see?

It’s old St. Nick in front of me saying, 

“Watch your sugars, my dear Cece!”

Sixteen years have passed since that fateful night

I’m beginning to think that something wasn’t right

That man I saw wasn’t Mr. Claus

It was just my dad pointing out all my flaws

If you are a guest this Christmas Eve.

Take my advice and save yourself lots of grief

Before you pack all those sugary treat

Please check if your hostess has diabetes

Ahh, now we can all sit down and eat in peace