Flopsy and Mopsy
had a condition,
a condition besides
being twins, I mean.
Yes, the twin rabbit
siblings of dear Peter
Rabbit had (and no
one knew this until
just now) diabetes,
you see; adult onset,
type 2, etc. Yes,
Flopsy and Mopsy
grew up, matured,
adulted, so to say,
and stopped being
just the two younger
sibs of the rascally
Peter. And, believe
it or not, this is
what happens to
children worldwide
when they have the
slightest opportunity.
But, alas, this story
shall focus, and with
out morality, on one
tiny yet blown-up de
tail of our now grown-
up rabbits, Flopsy and
Mopsy, and that is,
poor things, that
thanks to the one
poor condition that
we call diabetes,
they developed an
other that was quite
disturbing to our sis
ter twins, and that is,
my dears, the dropsy:
edema or excess fluid
built up in the cavities
or tissues of the body,
often a diabetic symp
tom, which causes such
swellings. So now that
our rabbits are all grown
up they have blown
up and out like two
rabbit balloons. But,
oh, that is not to say
Flopsy and Dropsy do
not take much better
care of themselves
to this day, for they
do. For that is pre
cisely what careful
diabetic rabbits (and
humans) should do.
And that is the brunt
of the Flopsy and
Mopsy story that
I had planned
to tell you on
this fine day.
