Truth Be Told: A Prayer

Malaria is a parasite
Hannah is a palindrome
Imperfection is ectopic
and my immune cells screwed me over.
There are worse things.

Amen.

Karmel Allison

Karmel was born in Southern California, diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at the age of nine, and educated at UC Berkeley. Karmel now lives in San Diego with her husband, where she is loving the sunshine, working in computational biology at the University of California, San Diego, and learning to use the active voice when talking about her diabetes.