Murphy gets real about living with diabetes.

"You can't cure it, but you can control it"

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
You know. We had an email earlier in the producer's
mailbag from Nicole about her A one C, which is
not steak sauce, but.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
She is, but it should be.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
She's also a type one diabetic as you are, Murphy,
and she was saying she had a really good A
one C, which is the three month average of blood sugar.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Three month blood sugar averages, simple blood test, and that's
used to know if you're maintaining good control over diabetes.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
You can't cure it, but you can control it.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Okay, well, I'm gonna get to that word control. But first,
what do you really go? I know, every time you
go to the doctor and you tell me you're you'll
call me and text me your A one C.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
And I know what that is.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Now finally after all these years together, and I'm like,
oh good or ooh.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
We need to watch it. Do you covery three months?

Speaker 3 (00:45):
No, I'll go every six months. It's a three month
blood sugar average, but I go every six months.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
Okay, got it?

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Huh, there's no reason for me to get that. The
test reveals what you've what your blood sugar averages are
over a three month period, but that doesn't mean I
have to go every three months. Okay, Look that may
vary by person. Fight doctor. My doctor only wants to
do every six months.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, let me just say this as the spouse of
someone who has Type one diabetes. I just want to say, yes,
it is the most misunderstood condition.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
Or don't know if you call it a disease or
a condition. I don't know what you want to call it, but.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
It is so misunderstood because how my grandmother used to
bring you sugar free pies.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
Remember that I got a sugar free pie for Murphy.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
She'd say, and we would just go, oh, thank you, mama.
And then on the way home, when we were like,
you know, dating, Murphy'd be like, you know, I might
as well, you know I should what I want? Just
watch how much I eat and dose that amount of insulin.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Well, there are a lot of foods that would you
give up in sugar. They add fat to and so forth.
So it's the total calorie overall that turns into And
that's what nobody has time to explain that to somebody,
and you don't want to seem ungrateful, So yes, I
hear what you're saying.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Let me just say this as a spectator. We watched
him deal with this since he was diagnosed, right, and
you see him almost as much as I do.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
Sam.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Just a little scary. When you say the word control,
it's not something you can control. It's something you have
to manage, Yes, And I think that is probably one
of the biggest lessons for you to learn and for
anybody who has a condition like this. You can't control
it because your body does not produce insulin anymore. You

(02:20):
have to give it to yourself, and that's something you manage.
So the moment that you think you're controlling it, that's
when you drive yourself crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well that's the reason they teach that word.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
They actually teach twelve step, the same thing they use
for alcoholics with type one diabetics, So they got a.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Two for me that's say healthy, But they teach.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
That, you know, just for the cause you have to
understand what you can and can't control. To write, but
I really and I appreciate Nicole that, thank you so
much for the for the email.