#34 Jenna is Eighteen and Already Amazing!
Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes
Scott Benner
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2015
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Jenna is an eighteen year old college student who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of thirteen. To say that Jenna has 'it' together is, well, the understatement of all understatements. Seriously, I hope my kids turn out half as well. Heck, I wish her parents raised me....
"The interesting thing about (having) diabetes is that you start to understand other people's problems more clearly..."
Jenna talks about her diagnosis and how her mom handled the life change. Find out about decisions that she's made on her own to help her blood glucose levels and much more. Listening to Jenna will leave you comforted if you're the parent of a child with type 1 and perhaps inspired if you are living with it yourself.
Check Jenna out on Instagram, she's at diabetestips and look for a guest blog post from her soon on Arden's Day. I need a kid to explain this Instagram thing to me, I'm apparently not doing it well.
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Show Notes
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Disclaimer - Nothing you hear on the Juicebox Podcast or read on Arden's Day is intended as medical advice. You should always consult a physician before making changes to your health plan.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Andy, please, I'm doing something here. |
| 0:02.8 | What are you doing? |
| 0:03.6 | You usually not the one that makes the noise. |
| 0:06.2 | Oh, hello, Basil, how are you? |
| 0:09.6 | Basil, tell the people that this episode of the Juice Box Podcast is sponsored by Insulate, |
| 0:15.7 | makers of the OmniPOD system, the world's only tubeless insulin pump. |
| 0:19.5 | Go at Basel, come on over here and tell him. |
| 0:21.8 | Come here, buddy. What are you doing? Come on up here. Go I tell the nice people. |
| 0:25.2 | And now the phone's ringing, Basil. If you can answer the phone, look, then I'd have a dog. |
| 0:30.2 | Everybody, this is episode 34 of the Juice Box podcast. |
| 0:33.9 | Welcome, prepare to be, and please I'm sorry if you're listening Jenna and don't be embarrassed, |
| 0:38.8 | prepare to be impressed by an 18 year old girl named Jenna who has had type 1 diabetes since she's 13 |
| 0:46.0 | and might be the most responsible, reasonable, and articulate young woman that I've |
| 0:51.9 | ever spoken to. |
| 0:52.7 | I hope my children grow up to be half the person |
| 0:55.9 | that she appears to be. |
| 0:57.5 | You know, you're not going to find a lot of 18-year-olds |
| 1:02.3 | who realize that grains are not good for their blood sugars and then just completely ignore them and want to be psychologist and our dancers and have such really |
| 1:12.3 | my God I I want Jenna's mom to, I want to go back in time and let |
| 1:16.4 | Jenna's mom raise me. |
| 1:17.8 | Okay, here we go. |
| 1:19.8 | I am getting ready to call Jenna Fely. |
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