Hello everyone and welcome to episode 438 of the juice box podcast on today's show.

We're going to hear an adult father who has type one diabetes himself look back on his younger

self, his diagnosis and how we got to where he is right now.

Hey everyone today we're going to talk to Galen, Galen is an adult who has type one diabetes

diagnosed as a teen and things didn't go great in the beginning but they're going better

now and this is a very retrospective look back on that time.

Please remember while you're listening that nothing you hear on the juice box podcast

should be considered advice medical or otherwise please always consult a physician before

making any changes to your health care plan for becoming bold with insulin.

You may have heard about those diabetes pro tip episodes that I have and defining diabetes

episodes if you're looking for them and it's hard to find them in a podcast player sometimes

you can check out diabetes pro tip.com that's my website where they're all sort of collected

together and you can get a good feeling for where they're at now if you want to go back

in your app after that and listen once you know what episode number you're looking for

it's cool that'll definitely work and those defining diabetes episodes I love them

they're shorter episodes that give you a good firm grasp of all the terminology that's

used around diabetes I hear very often from people who are newly diagnosed that it all

just sounds like a foreign language to them.

So those defining diabetes episodes are me and Jenny Smith talking through specific ideas

given some examples and getting me out of there so it doesn't take too long for you to

grasp all the new words that exist in your life.

Before we start I just want to let you know that this episode of the juice box podcast

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