I was looking through a list of writer prompts for Blogabetes post ideas, and one of them was this: "Open up a dictionary and flip to a random page, then select a random word. Use that word to write a post, and see if you can find a diabetes connection!"

Easy enough.

So I cracked open the big, unabridged Webster's Dictionary and selected the word "Bermuda."

Bermuda ... like triangle? Okay, I'll try it.

I used to be obsessed with unexplained mystery shows on television - ones that explored haunted houses and searched for explanations as to why the wallpaper wept lemonade at night. Or people who examined giant foot imprints in the middle of the jungle and claimed that a Yeti was on the loose. Or those planes who flew into the Bermuda fog and were never heard from again.

Unexplained. Mysterious. Without justifiable reason.

Sounds like diabetes, doesn't it?

Diabetes is a bit of a Bermuda Triangle, itself. You can follow "the rules" and still end up with numbers that are way off the map. My insulin doses correlate with my carbohydrate intake in accordance with the fancy-schmancy ratios calculated by my medical team, but things still go haywire sometimes. Some foods make me 50 points higher one day, but 10 points lower the next. Everything depends on ... well, everything. Unexplained. Mysterious. Without justifiable reason. Some days it works out fine and then there are days when it feels like I'm flying in that fog, my instrument panel spinning and the map upside down.

I'd prefer diabetes be a little less Bermuda Triangle and a little more Bermuda shorts. Breezy, comfortable, and with a jazzy pattern. :)