#35 Dee is 60 and Recently Diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes
Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes
Scott Benner
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2015
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Dee's brother was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was twelve years - fifty years ago. Dee was just diagnosed two years ago when she was in her late fifties. Today she has embraced insulin pumping, continuous glucose monitors and her new life with diabetes. Her's is a perspective on type 1 that you don't often hear, hope you enjoy it!
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Show Notes
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, before we get started with the show, I just want to let you know all you Android users. |
| 0:04.4 | There's some really exciting news. |
| 0:06.0 | It's not yet at least. |
| 0:07.9 | It's not software for your Dexcom for your Android. |
| 0:10.7 | But Google has embraced finally podcasts. |
| 0:16.1 | And so very soon to the Google Play Store will they be adding, that was completely |
| 0:21.6 | backwards English, but very, the Google Play Store will soon |
| 0:25.0 | be adding podcasts that you'll be able to, you know, listen to. |
| 0:30.9 | And the Juice Box Podcasts will be one of them. |
| 0:33.0 | I have already submitted for approval and I'm just waiting. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm hearing this could happen at any moment. |
| 0:38.0 | This should make it much easier for Android users to listen to the Juice Box box podcast that I am very excited about. |
| 0:44.0 | Okay let's get to the show proper. |
| 0:47.0 | I want to thank OmniPOD for sponsoring this episode. |
| 0:50.0 | That's first, it's foremost. |
| 0:52.0 | Then I want to tell you that this is going to be |
| 0:53.8 | episode 35 with D. D's story is redonculus. D is in her 60s and was just diagnosed with type 1 diabetes two years ago. |
| 1:07.0 | If that is not crazy enough, and that is pretty crazy. |
| 1:11.0 | If that's not crazy enough, Dee very quickly figured out that she wanted to take |
| 1:17.0 | better control, she wanted to affect her A1C, she began to look into insulin pumps and glucose |
| 1:22.2 | monitors, and she is diabetes teched up in a great way. |
| 1:26.8 | This is an amazing, amazing thing for a woman who downloaded Skype only to be on the Juice Box |
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