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Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes

#106 Diagnosed with Type 1 on Christmas Eve

Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes

Scott Benner

Type1, Diabetes, Insulin, Medicine, Health, Health & Fitness, Celiac, Cgm, T1d, Nutrition, Parenting, Ardensday, Omnipod, Type1diabetes, Dexcom, Juvenilediabetes

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2017

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Six year old Andrew was diagnosed on Christmas Eve, his twin sister Zoey has the genetic markers for type 1 diabetes as well. This is a great conversation with their mom Kari.

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Transcript

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You are listening to episode 106 of the Juice Box Podcast.

0:04.0

This episode of the podcast is sponsored by OmniPOD.

0:06.8

Now you can go to my omnipod.com

0:09.5

forward slash juicebox to find out more, but trust me, OmniPOD is the tubless insulin pump of choice.

0:17.0

Podcast is also sponsored by DexCom, makers of the DexCom G5 continuous glucose monitoring system.

0:24.0

This again, something you definitely want to look into.

0:27.0

You can find out more about them at Dexcom.

0:30.0

com forward slash juicebox.

0:31.0

And now on to the show.

0:35.0

This episode's with Kari.

0:38.0

Her son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes on Christmas Eve. That is not a festive gift.

0:46.3

This is one of these episodes that when I went back to edit it to put it out for you, I just

0:49.5

remembered how much I enjoyed the conversation with Kari. you know, you have to hang on through the whole thing,

0:55.4

but you're going to find out how her son's twin sister also found out that she has genetic

1:01.0

markers for type one.

1:02.0

It's a, it's just a really great

1:04.6

conversation. I just really enjoyed it. I hope you do too. Okay, remember nothing

1:09.4

you hear on the Juice Box podcast should be considered advice, medical or

1:12.2

otherwise and hey by the way we're looking for more people Juice Box Podcast should be considered advice, medical or otherwise.

1:13.2

And hey, by the way, we're looking for more people to be on the podcast.

1:16.0

So if you want to come on, send me a note.

1:21.6

My name is Kari Brooke and my family and I live in Portland, Oregon and we have three kids.

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