#331 Shirley's Birthday Wish
Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes
Scott Benner
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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A long time type advocate, Shirley has two grandchildren living with type 1 diabetes and she has a birthday wish!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. Welcome to episode 331 of the Juice Box Podcast. Today's show is as unique as I can make them. |
| 0:16.2 | Today I'm gonna be speaking with a grandmother |
| 0:18.7 | of two children who have type one diabetes. |
| 0:20.8 | Now you might think that doesn't sound that unique Scott. Well, it's because |
| 0:24.2 | you don't know all the details. Shirley is the grandmother and I spoke with her only |
| 0:30.3 | a few days removed from her 100th birthday. |
| 0:34.8 | That's right, the grandchildren that she's been trying to help, |
| 0:38.4 | those grandchildren are adults with children of their own. |
| 0:41.5 | But Shirley is still out there banging the drum for |
| 0:45.1 | type 1 diabetes awareness. Shirley will share with you why she's so passionate |
| 0:52.1 | about type 1 diabetes, what she thinks of this lockdown for the |
| 0:56.5 | coronavirus, she'll actually talk about a lot of different things. |
| 1:01.3 | Want to find out how refrigerators worked before electricity? |
| 1:05.2 | Or what it was like to hear a radio for the first time? |
| 1:08.9 | Shirley knows, and we chatted about it. |
| 1:12.3 | When this is all over, if you're so inclined, |
| 1:14.0 | please take a look at the fundraiser Shirley's doing |
| 1:17.0 | for her 100th birthday celebration. |
| 1:19.0 | It benefits the JDRF. ADRF. |
| 1:35.9 | This episode of the Juice Box Podcast is sponsored by Omni Podcast, the Contour Next One, Blood Glucose Meter, and touched by type one. |
| 1:36.9 | To get a free no obligation demo of the omnipod sent directly to your home, your home, that was weird, directly to your home, please go to my |
| 1:46.2 | omopod.com forward slash juicebox. |
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