This is episode 75 of the Juice Box Podcast.

Today the podcast is sponsored by Omnipod.

You know Omnipod, come on.

Tubless Insulum Pump.

Works like a charm.

Hardin wears it.

You guys know. We'll talk about it more later.

Hey, listen, nothing you hear on the Juice Box Podcast should be considered advice, medical or otherwise.

Especially later when we start talking about ignoring what your doctor says.

That's horrible. Who would do that?

Don't listen to me personally looking

for some advice about how to speak with her doctor about

wanting an insulin pump when she had been told she could not have one. This

episode is really about advocating for yourself and how to do that, how to speak to people, the language to use,

when to stick up for yourself, how to be confident, this is what this conversation's about.

I think you're gonna love it. This episode I think I'm going to call it Endo around. I don't know. Maybe I will.

Anyway, Errin Rocks. I love this episode. I think you might too.

My name is Aaron Foster.

I will be 25 on Saturday and I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. It'll be three years

in about two weeks. Okay. And how did we meet Aaron tell the nice people? So we met. I was trying to get an insulin pump. I had just

switched insurances, started with the new endow and all that, and when I first

went to my appointment, I mentioned I wanted an insulin pump and a CGM and he kind of brushed me off and said he had a high threshold for patients to get that kind of equipment and I kind of just let him, you know, do what he said.

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