Cookie Monster

When I got home Christmas cookies overflowed from a platter on the kitchen table. I didn’t want a cookie, not the way I might want one with my coffee in the morning, or after dinner watching TV.

I wanted to roll in cookies. I wanted to scatter them across the floor and make cookie angels. I wanted to eat cookies until my bloated stomach, sugar-drenched brain, and battered pancreas formed a union to fight unfair working conditions.

My blood sugar had been a little high at my last checkup. Diabetes ran in my family. I wanted a working pancreas. I didn’t want to regain the weight I’d lost because of my blood test results.  I wanted to live as healthy a life as possible.  I trudged upstairs, away from the demon pastries.

Today I will choose what I want over what I want right now.

Dogged Determination ©2018 by Ken Montrose

Dogged Determination is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you might know is purely coincidental.

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