‘The World is Ours Today’ by Poet Lorraine Brooks
the world gives us a day
but for us it’s every day.
Diabetes affects us all in each and every way.
The world assesses you.
Diabetes makes our world feel sad and lonely too.
The world tells us we’re fat
We know they don’t know exactly what they’re looking at.
The needs and the demands
The pains and stress that diabetics often do withstand.
We keep our numbers tight.
And in our world we stay prepared in case we have to fight.
So listen to how we feel.
We aren’t trying to be perfect or ideal.
A lot of smiles and frowns.
We do have setbacks, big and small, but we do rebound.
Our worlds are bight and gay.
We thank the world for taking time to help us be OK.
A help to us for sure.
And stick by us not just one day, but ‘till there is a cure.
Enjoy Divabetic’s special World Diabetes Day celebration with musical inspiration from Aretha Franklin on Diabetes Late Nite.
The Queen of Soul’s own health journey is sparking a discussion about the uncertain connection between pancreatic cancer and diabetes. Long-standing diabetes can be considered a risk factor for pancreatic cancer. It causes a modest increase in risk of 1.5- to two-fold. Some of the other risk factors for pancreatic cancer include smoking, chronic pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas), family history of pancreatic cancer, obesity and certain genetic syndromes.
Guests include Poet Lorraine Brooks, Dr. Wendy Satin Rapaport, Diabetes Strong’s owner Christel Oerum, Beautyphonics CEO and “Beneath The Makeup”Author Suzanne Perez, Jessica Clark, Coach the Cure Trisha Artman, and the Charlie’s Angels of Outreach.
Throughout the podcast we will be playing music from Aretha Franklin’s ‘Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics’courtesy of SONY Music.
Diabetes Late Nite is a fast-paced, full-filled hour of diabetes education and wellness advice that encourages listeners to “laugh a little, learn a lot.”