Hello friends, and welcome to episode 827 of the Juice Box podcast.

Today we're going to be speaking with Patti. She's the mother of some children,

one of them is adopted, that adopted child happens to get type 1 diabetes. We start talking about that.

And then something comes up, and Patti caught me on a strange day, so the conversation

took a pretty wild left turn. While you're listening, please remember that nothing you hear on

the Juice Box podcast should be considered advice medical or otherwise. Always consult a physician

before making any changes to your healthcare plan or becoming bold with insulin.

If you have type 1 diabetes or are the caregiver of someone with type 1 and live in the

United States, you can take a survey that will take you less than 10 minutes, and this survey

is going to help people living with diabetes. You can find it at t1dxchange.org

forward slash juice box. This is a great organization. I've done a couple of episodes with them.

If you want to know what they do, head back and find their episode. But this survey is easy.

It's HIPAA compliant, it's anonymous, and it's really going to help.

t1dxchange.org forward slash juice box.

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My name is Patty and I am a mom of two kids. I have an eight year old and a three year old

and the eight year old is my type one. She is eight years old going to be nine and she is my

adopted child. Okay, so Patty, I've made it an error here. I have not put my whiteboard onto the

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