June 22, 2025 • 9 mins
This week on We Are T1D, Mike and Jack are back with a fan-favourite segment: listener stories! After numerous requests, the lads dive into a hilarious and relatable tale from Sienna that will have you both laughing and cringing in recognition.
Why listen:In this episode, we explore:
- 😂 Sienna's mortifying mix-up with her insulin pens and the chaos that ensued
- 🍏 The unexpected adventures of a night filled with juice and panic
- 🐢 A boyfriend with a love for sloths and his heroic efforts to save the day
- 💪 The importance of labelling insulin pens and learning from our blunders
- 🧊 The sweaty reality of a hypo and the strange things that come with it
Want to be featured in a future episode?Send your story to 📧 wearet1dpodcast@gmail.com or visit 🌐 www.wearet1d.com and use our story submission form.
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(00:02):
Welcome back to the We Are T1D podcast and under a lot of
requests, listener stories are back.
Run that Jingle whack. It's time for a giggle.
What's? The story, right?
(00:23):
So yeah. Yeah, Go on, Jack.
I'm sorry. Jack wants to do it.
Do it. Go on then, Jack.
I. Was just going to say so welcome
back to the listener stories as,as I say, by popular demand.
Yeah, you ask and we shall deliver.
So the first story this week is from a listener called Sienna,
(00:47):
and it goes a little bit like this.
And guys, you're going to get a blessing because I'm going to be
quite quiet. Jack's reading it.
Yeah, right, sharing this story is a little mortifying, but hey,
if it helps someone else feel less alone in their diabetic
fumbles then it's worth it. Totally agree.
Yeah, it's a Tuesday night. I'm tired from a brutal day at
(01:09):
work. I do bar work and I finished
around 10. My boyfriend Mark is already
sprawled on the couch watching some nature documentary,
probably about sloths. I love him but his taste in
shows can be totally shit. Whatever floats your boat.
(01:29):
I'm running on empty and I'm in that pre bedtime zombie mode
where I'm just going through themotions.
You know, brush your teeth, washyour face, check your blood
sugars, inject your long acting insulin.
The usual routine. Except this is where the routine
went wrong. As I keep my fast acting and my
long acting insulin pens in the same pouch as I carry them
(01:51):
everywhere, I do exactly the same thing.
Yeah, me too. They look almost identical and
wouldn't you know it, I grabbed the wrong 1.
So there I am, injecting what I think is my long acting.
A good 24 units worth getting ready to crawl into bed. 10
minutes later, I'm snuggled under the covers.
(02:11):
Mark is snoring softly next to me, probably dreaming of sloths.
Actually got a thing for sloths or something?
Then the shaking starts, not like a little shiver, like I'm a
human vibrator. My heart is pounding.
I accidentally left my phone on silent so I didn't hear no
(02:33):
alarms. Then I checked it and I was
ello. Oh.
Yeah, wow, I managed to croak out.
Mark. Mark, wake up.
He groans, rolls over, Mumbles something probably about slobs.
Honestly I can't remember much but I yell loud as I can to make
(02:55):
him jump while nudging him. Mark, I messed up my insulin, I
need sugar. He finally woke up.
His face is a picture of what the and looks at me shivering
under the duvet and says are youcold?
Bless his heart, he didn't really understand the urgency.
(03:17):
I had to practically spell it out for him.
Insulin. Wrong sugar.
Now I can't walk. Finally the penny dropped.
He scrambled out of bed looking like a startled meerkat.
No sloth. Sloth.
Sloths don't move that quick, dothey?
No, they don't. He runs to the kitchen,
(03:39):
thankfully not like a sloth. What kind of sugar?
He shouts. I shout back.
The juice. Anything sugary.
Just find me something. I'm trying not to laugh because,
you know, I'm pending. Hypoglycemia is not exactly a
(04:01):
laughing matter, but the sheer stupidness of the situation was
getting to me. He finally brings me a Big Apple
juice. I down as much as I could.
The bed was so wet from sweat you could have thought I spilled
all the juice in it. Yuck.
Yeah, I was like that the other week.
Yeah, I know. Them ones.
(04:21):
Then the waiting game begin, checking my phone every 5
minutes on the app, chugging more juice, trying to keep
myself from passing out. Mark, to his credit, stayed up
with me the entire night, alternating between fetching me
snacks and Googling type 1 diabetes emergency.
I could practically see the sweat beading on his forehead.
(04:44):
It was a long, terrifying, and weirdly hilarious night.
Eventually my blood sugar stabilised and I managed to fall
into a fitful sleep. Nice.
The next morning I woke up feeling like I've been hit by a
truck and Mark, well, he spent the rest of the day obviously
labeling my insulin pens with bright red and blue stickers.
(05:11):
Oh wow. Well, firstly, I'm glad you're
OK and still alive and well to be able to send this story in
for us, and secondly, that was brilliant.
I see why you named the e-mail the sloth that saved me.
Yeah, that honestly, that crap me up, that crap me up.
(05:31):
Does he like Ice Age I? Bet he does.
I've I've never done it myself or I've actually I've had the
needle in my leg about to injectand my wife has clocked the
colour difference in the pens. I'm assuming your long acting
and fast acting pens must be similar colour?
(05:53):
They say they look pretty much identical but obviously I'm on
Lantus and Nova Rapids so my pens one of them's orange and
one of them's grey. Trying.
To think, unless you've got a smart pen for both of them
because they're the same, didn'tthey?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm trying to think what ones
are identical, but I only reallyknow Leatherman.
Yeah, see, I only know Lantis and Nova Rapid.
(06:15):
I don't know anything else to say, but yeah, label them's
definitely a good idea. Yeah. 24 units as well.
That's a hell of a lot of apple juice to be drinking.
Yeah, and snacks. He's he was getting snacks.
Yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah.
All the snacks as well, obviously.
You think like a little like a normal carton of apple juice
(06:35):
that you have is like, I don't know, like I could fit it in a
palm of my hand. That's about 10, isn't?
It usually about usually about 10 to 15g, isn't it?
So you'd have to drink what, 24 units?
You'd have to drink like 20 of them.
Jesus. That's a lot of juice.
Yeah, as far as you didn't wet the bed.
(06:55):
Well, that that I can definitelyvouch for and I'm sure everybody
can like you said you'd agree with that.
And as well, like when I had an ello the other week, the sweat
it was, I didn't know someone could physically possibly sweat
that much. Like where is it coming from?
It's so weird. A few times Amber was like oh
you was hyper last night as I'd like myself off the bed.
(07:19):
He just wet the bed, Amber. He didn't tell you.
I was hypo. No, that is a brilliant story,
very relatable as well. Yeah, it is.
I'm, well, we've heard about it quite a few times on the
podcast. So I'm it's I, I don't think
it's an uncommon thing. No, I've done it before.
(07:41):
I have done it before. I just I realized though, I
didn't go to bed not realizing. OK.
So I just ate. Yes, see, that's the scary
thing. 24 units and you've actually give it time to settle.
Jack, I was on 30 when I messed up.
Wow. Yeah.
Wow, wow, that's a lot of insulin.
(08:01):
Yeah. That is a lot of insulin.
But yeah, as I say, thank you very much.
I'm glad you're OK to obviously live and tell the tale.
Yeah, and well done to mark the sloth.
Yeah, very well done to Mark thesloth.
We're going to get cancelled. He called him the Slough.
(08:22):
No, she didn't. Well, kind of.
Yeah, Yeah, she did. No, she didn't.
Sorry. Sorry.
Sorry, Mark. Thanks, Sienna.
Thanks. We hope you enjoyed that one
this week everyone. As I say, that is something very
relatable that I'm sure quite a lot of you have done.
If you have done it, get in touch and let us know your
stories of what happened and howyou got yourself out of it.
(08:45):
Yeah, love to know. And also as we're bringing back
listening stories, guys, don't forget the e-mail you can e-mail
us straight is in the description of the podcast.
So you just literally click on it and type away.
Or you can go to the website to submit your listening stories
that we are T1 d.com Eva or we'dlove to hear it and read them
(09:06):
out. Yeah, please keep them coming
in. And for now, short episode.
See you later guys. Yeah, hope you've enjoyed it.
We'll be back. Same time, same place.
Welcome back to the We Are T1D podcast and under a lot of
requests, listener stories are back.
Run that Jingle whack. It's time for a giggle.
What's? The story, right?
(00:23):
So yeah. Yeah, Go on, Jack.
I'm sorry. Jack wants to do it.
Do it. Go on then, Jack.
I. Was just going to say so welcome
back to the listener stories as,as I say, by popular demand.
Yeah, you ask and we shall deliver.
So the first story this week is from a listener called Sienna,
(00:47):
and it goes a little bit like this.
And guys, you're going to get a blessing because I'm going to be
quite quiet. Jack's reading it.
Yeah, right, sharing this story is a little mortifying, but hey,
if it helps someone else feel less alone in their diabetic
fumbles then it's worth it. Totally agree.
Yeah, it's a Tuesday night. I'm tired from a brutal day at
(01:09):
work. I do bar work and I finished
around 10. My boyfriend Mark is already
sprawled on the couch watching some nature documentary,
probably about sloths. I love him but his taste in
shows can be totally shit. Whatever floats your boat.
(01:29):
I'm running on empty and I'm in that pre bedtime zombie mode
where I'm just going through themotions.
You know, brush your teeth, washyour face, check your blood
sugars, inject your long acting insulin.
The usual routine. Except this is where the routine
went wrong. As I keep my fast acting and my
long acting insulin pens in the same pouch as I carry them
(01:51):
everywhere, I do exactly the same thing.
Yeah, me too. They look almost identical and
wouldn't you know it, I grabbed the wrong 1.
So there I am, injecting what I think is my long acting.
A good 24 units worth getting ready to crawl into bed. 10
minutes later, I'm snuggled under the covers.
(02:11):
Mark is snoring softly next to me, probably dreaming of sloths.
Actually got a thing for sloths or something?
Then the shaking starts, not like a little shiver, like I'm a
human vibrator. My heart is pounding.
I accidentally left my phone on silent so I didn't hear no
(02:33):
alarms. Then I checked it and I was
ello. Oh.
Yeah, wow, I managed to croak out.
Mark. Mark, wake up.
He groans, rolls over, Mumbles something probably about slobs.
Honestly I can't remember much but I yell loud as I can to make
(02:55):
him jump while nudging him. Mark, I messed up my insulin, I
need sugar. He finally woke up.
His face is a picture of what the and looks at me shivering
under the duvet and says are youcold?
Bless his heart, he didn't really understand the urgency.
(03:17):
I had to practically spell it out for him.
Insulin. Wrong sugar.
Now I can't walk. Finally the penny dropped.
He scrambled out of bed looking like a startled meerkat.
No sloth. Sloth.
Sloths don't move that quick, dothey?
No, they don't. He runs to the kitchen,
(03:39):
thankfully not like a sloth. What kind of sugar?
He shouts. I shout back.
The juice. Anything sugary.
Just find me something. I'm trying not to laugh because,
you know, I'm pending. Hypoglycemia is not exactly a
(04:01):
laughing matter, but the sheer stupidness of the situation was
getting to me. He finally brings me a Big Apple
juice. I down as much as I could.
The bed was so wet from sweat you could have thought I spilled
all the juice in it. Yuck.
Yeah, I was like that the other week.
Yeah, I know. Them ones.
(04:21):
Then the waiting game begin, checking my phone every 5
minutes on the app, chugging more juice, trying to keep
myself from passing out. Mark, to his credit, stayed up
with me the entire night, alternating between fetching me
snacks and Googling type 1 diabetes emergency.
I could practically see the sweat beading on his forehead.
(04:44):
It was a long, terrifying, and weirdly hilarious night.
Eventually my blood sugar stabilised and I managed to fall
into a fitful sleep. Nice.
The next morning I woke up feeling like I've been hit by a
truck and Mark, well, he spent the rest of the day obviously
labeling my insulin pens with bright red and blue stickers.
(05:11):
Oh wow. Well, firstly, I'm glad you're
OK and still alive and well to be able to send this story in
for us, and secondly, that was brilliant.
I see why you named the e-mail the sloth that saved me.
Yeah, that honestly, that crap me up, that crap me up.
(05:31):
Does he like Ice Age I? Bet he does.
I've I've never done it myself or I've actually I've had the
needle in my leg about to injectand my wife has clocked the
colour difference in the pens. I'm assuming your long acting
and fast acting pens must be similar colour?
(05:53):
They say they look pretty much identical but obviously I'm on
Lantus and Nova Rapids so my pens one of them's orange and
one of them's grey. Trying.
To think, unless you've got a smart pen for both of them
because they're the same, didn'tthey?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm trying to think what ones
are identical, but I only reallyknow Leatherman.
Yeah, see, I only know Lantis and Nova Rapid.
(06:15):
I don't know anything else to say, but yeah, label them's
definitely a good idea. Yeah. 24 units as well.
That's a hell of a lot of apple juice to be drinking.
Yeah, and snacks. He's he was getting snacks.
Yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah.
All the snacks as well, obviously.
You think like a little like a normal carton of apple juice
(06:35):
that you have is like, I don't know, like I could fit it in a
palm of my hand. That's about 10, isn't?
It usually about usually about 10 to 15g, isn't it?
So you'd have to drink what, 24 units?
You'd have to drink like 20 of them.
Jesus. That's a lot of juice.
Yeah, as far as you didn't wet the bed.
(06:55):
Well, that that I can definitelyvouch for and I'm sure everybody
can like you said you'd agree with that.
And as well, like when I had an ello the other week, the sweat
it was, I didn't know someone could physically possibly sweat
that much. Like where is it coming from?
It's so weird. A few times Amber was like oh
you was hyper last night as I'd like myself off the bed.
(07:19):
He just wet the bed, Amber. He didn't tell you.
I was hypo. No, that is a brilliant story,
very relatable as well. Yeah, it is.
I'm, well, we've heard about it quite a few times on the
podcast. So I'm it's I, I don't think
it's an uncommon thing. No, I've done it before.
(07:41):
I have done it before. I just I realized though, I
didn't go to bed not realizing. OK.
So I just ate. Yes, see, that's the scary
thing. 24 units and you've actually give it time to settle.
Jack, I was on 30 when I messed up.
Wow. Yeah.
Wow, wow, that's a lot of insulin.
(08:01):
Yeah. That is a lot of insulin.
But yeah, as I say, thank you very much.
I'm glad you're OK to obviously live and tell the tale.
Yeah, and well done to mark the sloth.
Yeah, very well done to Mark thesloth.
We're going to get cancelled. He called him the Slough.
(08:22):
No, she didn't. Well, kind of.
Yeah, Yeah, she did. No, she didn't.
Sorry. Sorry.
Sorry, Mark. Thanks, Sienna.
Thanks. We hope you enjoyed that one
this week everyone. As I say, that is something very
relatable that I'm sure quite a lot of you have done.
If you have done it, get in touch and let us know your
stories of what happened and howyou got yourself out of it.
(08:45):
Yeah, love to know. And also as we're bringing back
listening stories, guys, don't forget the e-mail you can e-mail
us straight is in the description of the podcast.
So you just literally click on it and type away.
Or you can go to the website to submit your listening stories
that we are T1 d.com Eva or we'dlove to hear it and read them
(09:06):
out. Yeah, please keep them coming
in. And for now, short episode.
See you later guys. Yeah, hope you've enjoyed it.
We'll be back. Same time, same place.
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