#1685 Blind Electrician
Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes
Scott Benner
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
A blind Florida electrician shares his remarkable journey through diabetes, vision loss, and a lifesaving kidney transplant—delivering hope, humor, and hard-won wisdom.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, friends, to another episode of the Juice Box podcast. |
| 0:13.5 | Hello, my name's John Wells Lager, and I'm from Cluiston, Florida, And I've been a diabetic since 1988 or 89. |
| 0:23.9 | I'm starting to lose a little bit of track on that. |
| 0:26.1 | Glad to be here on the juice box and talking with Scott this morning. |
| 0:30.8 | When I created the Defining Diabetes series, I pictured a dictionary in my mind to help you understand key terms that shape type 1 diabetes |
| 0:39.5 | management. Along with Jenny Smith, who of course is an experienced diabetes educator, we |
| 0:44.5 | break down concepts like basil, time and range, insulin on board, and much more. This series must |
| 0:49.5 | have 70 short episodes in it. We have to take the jargon out of the jargon so that you can focus on |
| 0:55.5 | what really matters, living confidently and staying healthy. You can't do these things if you don't |
| 1:00.7 | know what they mean. Go get your diabetes to find. Juiceboxpodcast.com go up in the menu and |
| 1:05.9 | click on series. While you're listening, please remember that nothing you hear on the Juice Box podcast should be considered advice, medical, or otherwise. |
| 1:17.4 | Always consult a physician before making any changes to your health care plan or becoming bold with insulin. |
| 1:29.4 | The episode you're about to listen to was sponsored by Touched by Type 1. |
| 1:34.4 | Go check them out right now on Facebook, Instagram, and of course, at |
| 1:38.4 | touched by type 1.org. Check out that programs tab when you get to the website to see all |
| 1:44.1 | the great things that they're doing for people living with type 1 diabetes. |
| 1:47.9 | Touched by type 1.org. |
| 1:50.6 | I'm having an on-body vibe alert. |
| 1:53.3 | This episode of the Juice Box podcast is sponsored by Ever Since 365, the only one-year-wear CGM. |
| 2:01.3 | That's one insertion and one CGM a year. |
| 2:05.1 | One CGM, one year. |
| 2:07.4 | Not every 10 or 14 days. |
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