#172 John Loses His Wings
Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes
Scott Benner
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
John lost his career as an airline pilot when he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. He hopes that one day he can regain his status and continue flying for a living.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone welcome this is episode 172 of the juice box podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | Today's episode is sponsored by Dexcom makers of the G6 continuous glucose |
| 0:10.5 | monitor and omely pod the tubeless insulin pump that ardent has been continuous glucose |
| 0:13.4 | insulin pump that Arden has been using for a decade. |
| 0:19.0 | In today's episode we're going to be speaking with John. |
| 0:21.6 | John was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as an adult |
| 0:24.4 | when he was an airline pilot. This of course meant that he lost his job and had to find |
| 0:31.0 | different work. We're going to talk to John about living with type 1 diabetes, |
| 0:35.0 | about losing his job, but moreover, |
| 0:38.0 | about what he's trying to do to get that job back. |
| 0:42.0 | When you finish listening to today's episode, back. |
| 0:42.8 | When you finish listening to today's episode, |
| 0:45.3 | if you're moved to try to get a omnipod demo, |
| 0:48.6 | you can go to myomipod.com forward slash juicebox |
| 0:51.8 | or click on the links in your show notes or at juicebox, or at Juice Box Podcast. |
| 0:55.0 | Or maybe you'll be interested in finding out more |
| 0:58.0 | about the Dexcom G6 continuous glucose monitor. |
| 1:00.0 | In that case, you want to go to Dexcom.com |
| 1:03.4 | forward slash juice box or again the links in your show notes or |
| 1:07.4 | at juicebox podcast.com. Hey, it's a little bonus special treat today. I'm going to put a link in the show notes or you can go to |
| 1:20.3 | Ardens Day.com to my blog to see this. But there's a koala bear named Quincy at the |
| 1:26.5 | San Diego Zoo and he's wearing a Dexcom G6 continuous glucose monitor. It's pretty |
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