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Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes

#88 College with Type 1 on Day One

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

🗓️ 22 November 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Try a free demo of the world's only tubeless insulin pump - OmniPod

Amanda has only been at college for a few days and she's on the podcast to tell us about her initial experience.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This the 88th episode of the Juice Box Podcast is sponsored by Omnipod.

0:05.2

You know Amipod.

0:06.3

It's an insulin pump that doesn't have any tubing.

0:09.0

Let that sink in for a second.

0:10.7

No tubing on your insulin pump. Oh, boy that sounds nice, doesn't it?

0:15.0

This one's really unique.

0:17.0

Amanda contacted me by email saying she was off to college,

0:21.0

19 years old, wanted to talk about it on the podcast.

0:24.6

Three hours later, we recorded the podcast.

0:27.6

Huh?

0:28.6

That's crazy, isn't it?

0:30.6

Met, set it up, told her story, and now here it is to help other people like Amanda, and you

0:38.1

know, maybe give some of you moms and dads some insight. This is it.

0:42.4

Amanda Willis, 19 years old, just left for college.

0:46.7

So this is the quickest I've ever turned something like this around ever.

0:57.0

Oh wow.

0:58.0

I'm sorry if it was so it felt rushed up. I didn't mean for it to but I'm I normally record during the week and when you said the weekend seemed really easy for you

1:07.5

I was like okay, you know, maybe it'll work out and then I took my son to a dental appointment and when when I came back, my wife and my daughter were like,

1:14.0

we're going out for a little while.

1:15.0

I was like, right now?

1:16.0

Are you going out right now?

1:18.0

I said, I think I could do a podcast really quick.

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