Hey everyone, welcome back to America's Momma's podcast. I'm your host Elizabeth Joy and we believe in empowering people through storytelling and education.

Today we're going to talk about something that we've never talked about before and that is Diabetes. November is Diabetes Awareness Month and we have one of our mom listeners who's going to come on and share her journey and struggle and information with us.

When her daughter got diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, we have on Megan Hustead today and I'm super excited for her just to educate us. I know that I didn't really know much about it.

I'm really happy that she reached out to me and then was able to come on to the podcast to speak about this topic. Before we dive into the interview, if you are listening, make sure that you are subscribed to the podcast so you can stay up to date on everything and that you're following us on Instagram and a part of our Miraculous Momma's Facebook group.

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Alright, everyone. I'm here with Megan Hustead and November is Diabetic Awareness Month. So she is coming on to share her story.

We've never really talked about diabetes on the episode or on the podcast before so I'm super excited to talk with her because it's not only something that adults deal with but it's something that children deal with as well.

And when your child deals with it, then your whole family does and she's going to share her story of having a daughter with type one diabetes. So thank you so much for coming on the podcast.

Thank you for having me. Yeah, I'm excited to learn because I honestly don't really know that much about it at all. So I'm excited for you to share your story and just to learn from you today.

We're very new into this process. My daughter Campbell, who will be 13 in a couple of weeks, was diagnosed over spring break of this past year, some March 16th. So we are just six months into our diagnosis.

So I am by no means an expert and my husband and I are making a lot of mistakes and we're learning a lot and so I'm just I'm very excited to be able to to share and to spread awareness because you know it's not something that a lot of people know about or it's not something that's talked about a lot.

I have a little previous experience with it, mostly because I'm an elementary teacher and so I've had a couple of students with type one.

But it's very different when you're experiencing it yourself when it's your own child and when you're living it every day.

Yeah, I can imagine.

Can you tell us what type one diabetes is? Absolutely. So type one diabetes is an autoimmune condition. It is not something that Campbell was born with.

It is not something that she got by eating too much sugar or by doing the wrong things. Basically, her body started attacking its own pancreas and they still don't know exactly why they still don't have this.

Hey, this is the reason why she has diabetes and sorry about that there's there's no rhyme or reason for who it chooses and why it chooses. It occurs suddenly.

There is currently no cure for diabetes insulin is not a cure insulin is what sustains her life and keeps her alive, but it's not a cure.

It's life threatening. She must have insulin in order to survive. She must have insulin in order every time she eats and currently the latest research that I've read it says that approximately 40 kids per day are diagnosed and developed it in the United States.

It can be diagnosed at any time, but they do see a lot of it in children and adolescents, typically some of like the older numbers, you know, 20s, 30s, 40s as you get up type two is going to be more prevalent, but they still, I mean, they still find that you get a diagnosis, even 20s, 30s, 40s, you know, but.

So basically that's, you know, that's it her, her body started attacking its pancreas, pancreas makes insulin. And if you're pancreas isn't making insulin, then you can't survive.

And so we do what we call MDI, which is multiple daily injections. And so essentially any time that Campbell eats, she has to counteract that with insulin.

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