#102 Insulin Pump to the Rescue
Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes
Scott Benner
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Brittany Diggs is a 25 year old nursing student who has type 1 diabetes. A few shorts days before this episode was recorded Brittany was taken at gunpoint and locked in the trunk of her own car. This is the story of how she escaped... using her insulin pump.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The one hundred and second episode of the Juice Box Podcast is sponsored by OmniPod and Dexcom. |
| 0:05.2 | Would you like your insulin pump to be small, lightweight, tubless, and waterproof? |
| 0:08.9 | Of course you would. |
| 0:10.3 | And what about the speed and direction of your blood sugar? |
| 0:12.6 | Wouldn't you like to know? |
| 0:13.6 | Is it going up? |
| 0:14.6 | How fast is it going up? |
| 0:15.6 | Is it dropping? |
| 0:16.6 | How fast is it dropping? |
| 0:17.6 | Dexcom can help you with that and a lot more. |
| 0:20.0 | So, uh, basically, what we got here are two really great pieces of technology and two really great sponsors of the |
| 0:26.2 | Juice Box Podcast. Later in the show, they tell you a little more and give you some links to go to. |
| 0:39.4 | This episode of the Juice Box Podcast is hopefully one of a kind. You'll never hear anything like it again. I am speaking today with Brittany Diggs. Now you may know Brittany because for the |
| 0:44.8 | last few days her story has been fairly huge national news. You may have seen her on |
| 0:49.3 | the today's show talking about being abducted by a man at gunpoint, |
| 0:53.5 | and then at some point being thrown into the trunk of her car, |
| 0:56.5 | where she was trapped and fearing for her life. |
| 1:00.0 | But she was able to find the latch to open the trunk and escape. |
| 1:05.0 | How did she find that latch in the pitch black dark? |
| 1:08.0 | She used the light from her insulin pump screen. |
| 1:13.0 | Please remember that nothing you hear on the juice box podcast should be considered |
| 1:24.3 | advice, medical or otherwise. |
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