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Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes

#70 Sharon is Alissa's Mom

Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes

Scott Benner

Type1, Diabetes, Insulin, Medicine, Health, Health & Fitness, Celiac, Cgm, T1d, Nutrition, Parenting, Ardensday, Omnipod, Type1diabetes, Dexcom, Juvenilediabetes

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes my conversations just begin with a hello and I have no idea where they will go... this one went in all kinds of great directions. Sharon and I talked type 1 diabetes parenting, managing at school, diagnosis and a lot more.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode 70 in the Juice Box Podcast.

0:03.0

This episode of The Juice Box Podcast

0:04.8

is sponsored by Insulate,

0:06.3

makers of the Omni Pod, the world's only tubeless insulin pump.

0:10.6

It's only, it's only a lot of insulin pump. Only insulin pump you can jump into a swimming

0:15.8

pool with, a bathtub, a shower, the only insulin pump doesn't have tubes on it, only

0:20.1

in some pump that you don't have to carry a controller for. It's the only

0:23.4

insulin pump that does a lot of things. In this episode I speak with Sharon.

0:45.0

Sharon has been a D-mom for over four years.

0:48.0

Her daughter, Alyssa, was diagnosed around 2012.

0:52.0

And I have to be honest, this was one of these conversations we just started and see, you know, to see where it would go and it went in a lot of cool places.

1:00.0

So, uh, you know, number 70 with Sharon,

1:05.0

Alyssa's mom. Hello?

1:22.0

Yes, hi Scott. Hey, how are you? Fine, how are you?

1:24.0

Our neighbor was watching her at the time.

1:31.0

Our neighbor was watching her at the time. She would pick her up from school and watch her

1:36.2

until we got home from work. Both my husband and I work. And she always made comments that she

1:41.2

wouldn't, you know, she never drank never drank much you know they'd go out

1:43.4

and go the park and do things and then all of a sudden she started drinking a lot I said yeah you know

1:47.9

I'm noticing that too so I called our daughter's pediatrician and I said look I think we have a problem here

1:55.0

something's going on they said oh no no she's fine so after a few weeks I

1:58.8

started researching on the internet and that's what I found I was pretty much hit like a ton of bricks because I was pretty certain she had type one and I never even knew what type one was.

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