#22 pt2 Surviving Everest with Type 1 Diabetes
Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes
Scott Benner
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2015
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
This two part episode is a conversation with the mother of Svati Narula a 23 year old writer who lives with type 1 diabetes. In the spring of 2015 Svati traveled to Mount Everest where she was caught in an avalance when an earthquake shook the magastic mountain. Her story, told here from her mother's perspective, is one that should not be missed. Episode #22 is part 2 of 2.
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| 0:00.0 | Your 23-year-old daughter, who's a really great writer, comes home one day, or calls you up and tells you, |
| 0:05.5 | this is what I'm going to do. You go through all the processes of thinking through that, and you've prepped her for it. She's ready to go. |
| 0:14.8 | Tell me about the second part of a two-part podcast episode. The first part was in |
| 0:36.8 | episode 21. So if you have not heard episode 21, pause it right here. Go back |
| 0:42.4 | and listen to episode 21, and then come back and pick up right |
| 0:45.6 | here where the story leaves off. |
| 0:48.0 | I don't want to ruin this one by giving you too many details, but let me just say that you are about to hear a firsthand account |
| 0:55.2 | from the mother of a child with type 1 diabetes. She is going to start by telling you |
| 1:00.5 | how she was awoken in the middle of the night by a text from a friend, telling |
| 1:04.4 | her to go turn on CNN, and that is when she will learn that her daughter who is at |
| 1:11.6 | base camp on Everest has just been caught in an avalanche. The So then it was so then you know I had, you know, it was hard to keep finding out that, well, he had to go before her. |
| 1:47.6 | So I said, well, then I've definitely got to go walk, you know, go with you, or do something. |
| 1:51.6 | How in the world are you going to do a 10 day |
| 1:52.9 | track limit or what if you the thing that complicates all this for her one of the |
| 1:57.2 | things I was most concerned about is she has something called cyclic |
| 1:59.8 | vomiting syndrome that's what makes one what makes one of the, this one of the hardest things. |
| 2:04.8 | When Sati starts throwing up, she can throw up every half hour for 12 hours. |
| 2:10.2 | She's had this since she was a child. |
| 2:11.4 | This is one of the hardest things about diabetes. We've spent many, many, many times in emergency rooms just to get those IVs and get an anti-medic. Something stopped the vomiting. Over the years, she's used different things. Is that something related? Not really, but I've known |
| 2:24.4 | only two other type ones who have it. But that was actually one of my biggest |
| 2:28.2 | concerns. I forgot to bring that up because that when you're out somewhere, you know, the only time I've ever we've ever used |
| 2:35.1 | glucagon on her was when we were up at a relative cabin in Maine. The |
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