October 4, 2025 • 23 mins
Ever wondered what happens when two blokes with Type 1 diabetes turn the mics on without a plan? Welcome to pure, unfiltered chaos. In this week’s episode, Mike and Jack catch up after a few mad weeks of illness, insulin changes, and life just… lifing.
From Dexcom delivery dramas to FA First Aid fails (seriously, no diabetes section?!) — this one’s a raw, real look at life with Type 1 diabetes when nothing quite goes right. Jack opens up about his new ADHD diagnosis, Mike reveals he’s now a qualified football coach, and both admit their blood sugars are on a rollercoaster that refuses to stop.
It’s messy, funny, and painfully relatable. You’ll hear about hypos at football, highs at work, sugary tea diplomacy, and how pizza becomes a tactical insulin mission. Basically — no structure, no script, just the two of them chatting absolute T1D chaos.
💬 Highlights:
Mike’s new insulin switch… and why his nights are a hypo marathon
Jack’s Libra frustrations (and evidence file ready for court 🤣)
ADHD diagnosis & how it affects daily diabetes life
Pizza bolus strategy that actually works (kind of)
Random snacks, sugary tea logic, and a few too many jelly babies
🔥 Quote of the Episode:“If you find a purpose for this episode… we applaud you.” – Mike
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🔗 External Resource:
Learn more about living with T1D: Diabetes UK – Life with Type 1 Diabetes
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(00:00):
Welcome back to the We Are T1D podcast, the Realist Type 1
Diabetes podcast online. You know, it's that podcast
where nothing is sugar coated, nothing is filtered out.
It's literally raw. It's real and it's me and it's
Jack. Welcome back, Jack.
(00:21):
Hello, hello, hello. I am back.
I don't have to go solo this week, so I'm very, very happy.
No. And also I just wanted to add to
the bit that Michael said, but nothing is sugar coated, Nothing
is rah, rah, rah. Well, this week nothing is
planned. Oh good.
(00:42):
No it isn't. It's actually not.
So this is just going to be likea old school episode.
Yeah, so. Do you enjoy it?
So if anyone's expecting the Diabetes Explain series, that
might come next week. We just fancy to catch up.
We actually haven't spoke to each other for a few weeks.
I've been just not on this planet and Mike's been ill.
(01:05):
I've been ill. I changed my insulin.
Yeah. Restarted going back to the gym.
Oh I've been a bit mad. Oh, I'm now officially a coach
for a football team as well. I don't know if I mentioned that
in previous episodes, but got mycertificates.
Well done. Yeah, first time you got a
certificate about printing it yourself.
No, I still have to print it myself.
(01:33):
Yeah, I've got my first aid as well.
I can only deal with cardiac arrest and concussions, but
apart from that I'm pretty good.Oh, you've got type 1 diabetes
covered as well. You just can't.
Can't do that legally I suppose.To be fair, doing the FA like
first aid do you know diabetes didn't even come up in it.
At all. Like, no, not like, say a kids
(01:55):
going low on the pitch or something like how to treat it
and stuff like that. Nothing was on the FA side.
So I did e-mail them after aboutlike giving them feedback on it.
And I said what? Why is this not included?
But I didn't hear nothing back. So yeah.
Look at you trying to make a change.
Oh yes, got to make a change, yeah.
(02:16):
We are too, one day. Exactly says it on the podcast.
What have you been up to? Then you should change your
insulin. Yeah, I changed my insulin.
That was good. But then I got ill.
And now, now my life's just gonekaput.
I was spending every night high,now I'm spending every night
low. And I just don't know what to do
(02:39):
anymore. What?
To be honest, I've been kind of the same this week.
I've I've been ill. I don't know what I've got but
it is I've not felt this chick teeth for a long long time and
my levels have been fucking mental as well.
(02:59):
Growth up, down, left, right. We're not going to do timing
range, but I'm just going to tell you my timing range for 14
days, my timing range is 58% andfor seven days it's 52%.
So just grasp that concept of how much I'm actually struggling
right now. I'm literally just over the
(03:20):
threshold of being over half OK.Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's mad. I thought I was bad at 74.
But for you that is mate, to be fair, you should.
Are you OK? No UK Sally's so patronizing,
(03:43):
no. And to be honest, you know what?
I and I'm going to moan about Labours as well because they're
fucking pissing me off. The false readings is just, it's
a joke. It's got to the extent where I'm
actually building a case of evidence that I can show my
doctor when I've got to next appointment.
Oh my God, Jack's taking Libra to court, guys.
(04:04):
He's coming in with a big file fax of screenshots, blue case
readings. Yep, Yep.
Like, I, I, I get it. I know there's a difference
between them, but sometimes it'sa fucking joke or so something
(04:25):
needs to be done because I know for a fact I'm going to go there
and the first thing they're going to say is that you've had
so many hypos. What's the what's the problem?
The sensors. Yeah, not me.
Trust me. Did you get your Dexcom one
through the post? Because I ordered it for you.
No, it still doesn't come. Did they ring you and you answer
it to accept it? No, I didn't even get a phone
(04:45):
call, Rob. I got an e-mail saying to expect
a phone call within next couple of days and I didn't get no
phone call, not from Dexcom anyway.
I mean, my wife called me a couple of times but she didn't
have any sensors. No, maybe I should phone you
because I have Dexcom. No, no, I'm.
(05:09):
I don't know what to do so I'm just getting on with it now.
Yeah. I don't let it stress me out no
more like I don't care. It's just it's just going to get
to that point where I I know when I go to my appointment,
they're going to moan. So I just wanted to have some
stuff on my phone to say hold onbefore you ever go at me, have a
look at that. Yeah, you just just want to have
(05:29):
an argument, Jack, don't you? No, not even argument.
I just like being right. It's not an argument because I'm
right. Exactly document, I'm stating
facts. Oh my days.
And This is why it takes 14 years to train as a endo all.
(05:59):
Right. Excuse my cough.
I'm not even throwing it out. They can hear it.
It's still lingering. It's horrible, but to be honest
I'm glad I got it out of the waynow.
What the cough? Well, no, I mean illness like
I've got it, I've got it quite, I've got it quite early in the
season so I'm quite happy. It's it's come, I've got it,
(06:19):
that's it. So hopefully, fingers crossed,
I'm good. Have you had your flu jab?
No, they messaged me last week to say I need to book it so.
Yeah, I think I had one last month.
I do need to book it. Last month.
Yeah. I want a text.
I thought you made a jam. So if you know you don't need to
double dose for them bro it's not a monthly thing.
(06:40):
Wait I want the flu on monthly subscription?
Come on guys. So.
So apart from Libra being Doo Doo.
Yeah. What?
How's life? What now?
I feel a lot better but a few weeks ago I was in a bit of a
(07:03):
shit place but I've had a bit ofa time to sort me head out.
But fuck it I'm going to tell him I I I got diagnosed with
ADHDI had an ADHD assessment andI got diagnosed with ADHD.
So that probably explains why Michael has to continuously cut
out all my waffle. I try and speak over him.
(07:23):
I can't sit still in the video which is why he moans at me
because my voice goes backwards and forwards from the microphone
and not do this. I'm just smiling.
Yeah, yeah. But it's, yeah, it's been, it's
been 30 years of thinking I'm a bit of a nut job.
And now I've got an answer as towhy my head is the way it is.
(07:45):
And it's made me feel a bit better because it's like a
weight's been lifted and now I'mlonger have to stress myself out
thinking why am I like this? Now I know it's cool.
I can get on with it. Yeah.
Which is good, yeah. And also it's made me realize
that I need to start setting reminders because in the
evenings quite a lot and at workI used to inject and then I'd
(08:09):
get completely fucking distracted with something else
and just completely forget to eat in time until the alarms are
going off. Yeah, I, I, I do that all the
time. Yeah, I did.
Like pretty much every meal, that's why.
That's why originally I stopped pre bonusing.
Yeah, I just need to. I've got, I have alarms for
everything now. Otherwise I forget.
(08:30):
It's nice. Last night it was nice to get
the answers that I wanted because then now I know what I
can do moving forward. Yeah.
Which is good. Other than that, it's literally
just been sort of easing my footback into things after getting
crushed by a digger. Oh.
Yeah, I actually forgot about that column.
(08:51):
I've still got one black toe. It's Mr. Deeds in the black foot
in it. It is, yeah.
But just literally just one toe.Yeah.
I'm getting myself much better with that, which is good.
Yeah. I've just been genuinely living
(09:12):
life, pretty much. I've got a thing with pizzas at
the moment which I've actually quite mastered with insulin as
well. That's really good.
What's your trick? Sure.
Well, not sure. Like small units of insulin
every two hours for about not every hour, sorry.
For about four hours. OK.
(09:33):
So it's like a top up. Yeah.
So if I were if I have like a whole pizza, it's usually
probably I'd say, I don't know, don't quote me for this, but
certain pizzas, I look at them say roughly they're probably
about, I mean 15 to 20 units. So I'd usually give myself about
10:50 up front, shove the whole thing in me mouth, crack on, and
(09:53):
then let's say like an hour after do 2 units, then an hour
after do another 2 units, then an hour after do another 2 units
and just monitor your blood. If it starts dropping, you know
you don't need to do any more. Units Fairpoint.
If it starts getting up, you need to do another 2.
That is strong medical advice there everyone.
So if your sugar levels are going down, don't inject.
(10:17):
Yes. You know, it was funny,
actually. The other day I went into
Wenzel's in the morning to get myself.
What was I getting? Sausage and bacon roll in a
crusty roll. Yeah.
Anyway, as I thought it's in there, my Libra sensors started
(10:38):
going off like the alarm, so as I'll just pull it out of me
pocket, looks like I was going higher.
So I've opened my phone, put it in me pocket, shut up.
Then I just heard this little voice from behind the counter.
Go high or low. I didn't really, it didn't
really click into my head at 1stand my boss was like because she
was looking at my boss and he went it ain't me, it's him.
(11:01):
He's the one beeping. She's looked at me and went high
or low. I was like, hi, she's she's
holding up 222 like sachets of sugar.
She went. We don't need them then, do ya?
That's brilliant. But I couldn't have said I was
just. I looked at her like all
confused, thinking. I just said how?
(11:22):
How do you know what the noise is?
That my husband's been diabetic for 26 years.
He's like, that noise scares me because it means he's done
something wrong. He's done something wrong.
Such a nice lady. Then then as I say, I'll
continue just talking. And I was like, anyway, I'll
(11:44):
have a double sausage and bacon crusty rolls.
Who looks bitchman? Really.
What's that? Yes, please.
And a Yum Yum. Yeah, I did, they said.
I know. Yummy.
Why didn't she offer that instead of sugar?
That's horrible. In it, give me a couple of
little sachets of sugar. Give me a doughnut.
I've never eaten a sachet of sugar in all the years I've been
(12:06):
tabic. That's not really been a thing
that's crossed my mind. Like I suppose if needs must and
that's all you've got. All the time, bro.
Yeah, I've had a sugary tea before, actually.
I had a sugary tea yesterday at work.
It's usually when the customers offer it to us.
You want a tea And I'm sort of like, hold on, look, have a
look, look on me, Labra. Yeah, go on. 2 sugars with that
(12:28):
one please. Can I have 6 this time?
What? So I had it before a couple of
weeks ago as well at work. It was, was doing work for a
lady, really nice lady. And I had a really bad day of,
you know, when your bloods are just constantly, no matter what
you eat or what you'll do, they're just up, down, up, down,
(12:49):
up, down, up, down, up. Yeah.
So my alarm was just conned every like half an hour or so.
Just be, be, be, be, be, be, be.I've I'm literally just had a
bottle of Coke and a packet of Jelly babies because I couldn't
be bothered to eat anything big.So I was like, fuck it, I'm just
eating, eating. I was just drinking bottles of
Coke, just sipping it and it wasworking.
(13:10):
It just wasn't staying steady. It just kept going out and then
fizzling out. Yeah, but a lady just would not
leave me alone. Bless her.
She kept going. Please let me get you some.
Stop drinking Coke. It's unhealthy.
Stop drinking. Stop.
Stop having this. You need stop having.
Let me go and get you some nuts.Let me go and get you a slice of
bread. Let me go.
And I'm saying to her. And I was like, listen, none of
this stuff works. It's not quick enough.
(13:32):
It's not quick enough. Yeah, but you could have had,
you could have had a bit of toast after the coke.
I had food. I was sort of starting the point
like I had food. I just, I don't know why.
I just didn't want to eat anything substantial because I
was just working. I just wanted to carry on
working. So I was just like, fuck it, I'm
just going to drink a bottle of Coke.
And I was, it was all right. Do you know what I mean?
It's just, as I say, it just kept spiking because it's, it's
(13:54):
quick acting. So yeah, I had to sort of give
her a bit of a schooling at the end of it, like, and was she,
what did she say? She's like, Coke's no good for
you. Let me give you some.
I've got some orange juice in the fridge.
That's no different. Oh, I'd actually rather an
orange juice. Nah, I'm not really an orange
juicey kind of man. Apple.
Apple juice, Yeah. Apple.
(14:15):
Yeah, Apple juice 1010. I'm all for that about Apple.
And even orange juice. I like orange juice.
No, not for me. I missed the days where I didn't
care and I'd have a breakfast and then a big glass of apple
juice or orange juice. I've actually, I've actually
forgot what it's like not being diabetic.
It was only three years ago. Yeah, I don't remember life
(14:37):
before my pancreas died. The other night.
I was, I was going high, but my alarm woke me up.
I looked at it. I was like, oh, 13 diagonal up.
I was like, I'm going to sleep, I'm going back to sleep.
Can't be bothered I couldn't be bothered to get up, get out of
bed and like to inject. I just couldn't be bought.
(14:57):
I don't keep my insulin next to my bed, so I.
Was going to say, do you not keep your needles with you?
No. In my in my work bag, not.
Fair enough. No, I couldn't be bothered do.
You not keep that hypo snack next to you in bed.
Yeah, I've got, I've got a bag of sweets.
Is that is that for hypos or just for the sake of it?
I don't know. Sometimes it's the sour patch.
(15:20):
Strawberries. No, they're blue ones.
They're sour patch. Oh yeah, I like them.
I do like. Them well, nice.
Yeah, I do like them. About four, four or six of them
is perfect. Yeah, well, I had it earlier and
I I've got the, I was hypo from about 11:15 until 3:15 and in
(15:42):
between that time I hadn't, I injected, I think it was about 5
units and I had like 120 grams of carbs for my lunch.
So I was like fuck all. I was expecting it to go woof
like proper because I've just got it yump.
I was like, oh fuck it, I've gotto inject something.
Yeah, but I I don't care if it'sblack.
(16:04):
So I've had the hump, but I didn't do nothing, stayed hypo.
And then, as I say, Jelly babies, the emergency Jelly
babies come out in the front of my bag.
I keep a whole lot, a big bag, share bag.
Yeah, I think I must have eaten about 15 of them.
They are nice though. Yeah, I only tended to eat about
four or five. Well, you don't know why triple
(16:26):
jaws there. Yeah, yeah.
Well, last night I was low from 12:00 AM all the way till half
eight in the morning. No 8:00 in the morning.
Oh wow. Night before that I was low from
12 AM wait till eight in the. Morning.
Oh wow, I'm having. What's that to do with new new
(16:49):
basil, you think? I don't know what is going on.
I like, yeah, I it's during the day.
I ain't too bad that I'm still having hypos.
But yeah, I don't know what's going on with my body.
Maybe it was where he was ill. Yeah, this is what I'm thinking,
but I'm still. You thought you had you thought
you had your basil spot on, but all you was doing was dealing
with your illness. Yeah, that's, Oh yeah.
(17:13):
And now your cold's gone, your sensitivity has gone back down
and gone back up, I mean. Maybe I'll lower it again
tonight. How many?
How many units did you do of theother and you switched over
exactly the same? Did you say 1 for one?
Yeah, I literally done A1 for one ratio.
Maybe just drop it by 1 unit brother and see what happens.
I don't ever feel like one does anything.
(17:35):
It might do if you give it time.It seems to do with me, but I'm
I had, I don't know. We've discovered sort of over
the years that I'm a bit more sensitive to insolent sort of
change and giving it some thingsthan what you are.
Yeah, where I've just had enoughof everything come on and
changed everything. I've changed my, I've changed my
basal and bolus and I. Yeah, you have in your Angie
(17:57):
sensors. Yeah, I've just like I bought.
You're a completely new man. P1D Robot.
You are a new robot. Yeah, shutting down.
No, don't do that. No, we're starting up.
Got any stories? I've realized I'm terrible at
football while I'm hypo, that's.Kind of a given here.
(18:23):
I've realized I'm terrible offensive when I'm hypo.
I'm like trying to control them,pass the ball like in training,
and I'm like just ain't listening.
What, you're not listening? All my body about your
coordination proper goes oh. Exactly the same thing at work
(18:44):
the other day. I was cutting something.
My pal said something. He was like, Jack, what are we
going to do here? It's like the grounds just
discussing the job like this does that this does like, well,
we're going to do it. I looked at her and went, my,
I'm 2.9 bro. I have no fucking clue what's
going on at the moment. Just give me 10 minutes, all
(19:05):
right? All right, bro, No worries.
I'm starting to realise it more now.
I don't know why I. Don't know, maybe you're
thinking about it more. Usually I just soldier through
everything and I can still function perfectly.
But I, I, I guess it's because in football you need your like
cognitive. Is it cognitive?
(19:25):
I have no clue. You're the coach.
Your coordination and like functioning and all that
malarkey, you know, like you need it.
And then other times I realise I'm just waffling.
What am I going on about? Yeah, I've thought halfway
through a sentence you're like, hold on, what am I talking
about? Literally like what I've just
(19:47):
done about 10 minutes ago. I'm not even hypo, I'm just an
idiot. It's so funny.
I love hypo people. Nice, I had a guy up making my
own chicken balls a couple of weeks ago and it was total
failure. Or do you use Turkey?
(20:07):
Forgot the chicken? Proper balls they are.
No, they just they they weren't ones from the Chinese.
Talking to the Chinese, I brought some of them Prawn
cracker crisps mate, they do nottaste like a Chinese.
No, no they don't. I think they're quite nice,
(20:28):
though I do like them. I, I can't get my head around
them. I'm like you're, you're not
real. Yeah, I do like the little prawn
crackers you get from the supermarket.
Yeah, I've got a bag if you wantthem.
Yeah, I'll have them both munch them.
I've got a take away box I'm trying to tell on the other
night. Oh nice, get any food in it?
Yeah, loads. Oh yeah, I'm, I'm really on one
(20:51):
today. I was standing at the thing,
kept looking at the lady. I've got the tongs, putting the
rice and that in and the noodlesand I'm putting, I put 2 bits of
prawn toast on top of the Rasta noodles.
Little spatulas. Squashed it down as hard as I
could. Oh, tell him my pop was like out
(21:13):
of fucking mountain trying to hide it from her and that.
All right, she ain't looking. Let's go.
Thank you. Bye.
Oh, went on a work do as well. I had a Curry that was good.
My ass levels went super high. But yeah, it was nice.
(21:34):
Nice. Worse for them, going to go
watch Arsenal next Tuesday. Everything's coming to my brain
now. We've only got 5 minutes left.
Have we? Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Look, time we're remaining,
Yeah. Yeah, so thanks for listening
everyone. We're really sorry this episode
(21:55):
as I it has no content. No, it don't really does it if
it. Does and you find a purpose for
this episode? We applaud you.
Yeah, because I'm definitely notapplauding myself this week.
No, we'll go back to normal nextweek, don't worry.
So thank you for listening everybody.
I will say we hope you enjoyed it.
(22:16):
Probably ain't. As we say, there's no filter.
We apologise for this whole episode.
Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Next time we'll be a lot more prepared.
Well, I say we've both been ill.It's just just just.
Yeah, just life gets in the way sometimes, all right?
(22:37):
And we're very busy people. Just remember, we do all this
for free out of our own pocket. Mike more than me because he
edits it. Bloody pockets, goals in.
Oh, so yeah, thank you for supporting.
Yeah, yeah. Thank you, guys.
(22:58):
Catch you next week with a better episode.
Yeah. Have you got a sewing kit?
I've got a hole in my pocket. I've got fucking shorts.
You've got shorts. I'm wearing shorts too.
Yeah. No, it's yeah, It sounded bit in
my head. Yeah.
I knew what I meant. Yeah, you've got leg holes.
(23:18):
Yeah, that's, yeah, that's what I was getting at.
That side to trusses Jesus.
Welcome back to the We Are T1D podcast, the Realist Type 1
Diabetes podcast online. You know, it's that podcast
where nothing is sugar coated, nothing is filtered out.
It's literally raw. It's real and it's me and it's
Jack. Welcome back, Jack.
(00:21):
Hello, hello, hello. I am back.
I don't have to go solo this week, so I'm very, very happy.
No. And also I just wanted to add to
the bit that Michael said, but nothing is sugar coated, Nothing
is rah, rah, rah. Well, this week nothing is
planned. Oh good.
(00:42):
No it isn't. It's actually not.
So this is just going to be likea old school episode.
Yeah, so. Do you enjoy it?
So if anyone's expecting the Diabetes Explain series, that
might come next week. We just fancy to catch up.
We actually haven't spoke to each other for a few weeks.
I've been just not on this planet and Mike's been ill.
(01:05):
I've been ill. I changed my insulin.
Yeah. Restarted going back to the gym.
Oh I've been a bit mad. Oh, I'm now officially a coach
for a football team as well. I don't know if I mentioned that
in previous episodes, but got mycertificates.
Well done. Yeah, first time you got a
certificate about printing it yourself.
No, I still have to print it myself.
(01:33):
Yeah, I've got my first aid as well.
I can only deal with cardiac arrest and concussions, but
apart from that I'm pretty good.Oh, you've got type 1 diabetes
covered as well. You just can't.
Can't do that legally I suppose.To be fair, doing the FA like
first aid do you know diabetes didn't even come up in it.
At all. Like, no, not like, say a kids
(01:55):
going low on the pitch or something like how to treat it
and stuff like that. Nothing was on the FA side.
So I did e-mail them after aboutlike giving them feedback on it.
And I said what? Why is this not included?
But I didn't hear nothing back. So yeah.
Look at you trying to make a change.
Oh yes, got to make a change, yeah.
(02:16):
We are too, one day. Exactly says it on the podcast.
What have you been up to? Then you should change your
insulin. Yeah, I changed my insulin.
That was good. But then I got ill.
And now, now my life's just gonekaput.
I was spending every night high,now I'm spending every night
low. And I just don't know what to do
(02:39):
anymore. What?
To be honest, I've been kind of the same this week.
I've I've been ill. I don't know what I've got but
it is I've not felt this chick teeth for a long long time and
my levels have been fucking mental as well.
(02:59):
Growth up, down, left, right. We're not going to do timing
range, but I'm just going to tell you my timing range for 14
days, my timing range is 58% andfor seven days it's 52%.
So just grasp that concept of how much I'm actually struggling
right now. I'm literally just over the
(03:20):
threshold of being over half OK.Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's mad. I thought I was bad at 74.
But for you that is mate, to be fair, you should.
Are you OK? No UK Sally's so patronizing,
(03:43):
no. And to be honest, you know what?
I and I'm going to moan about Labours as well because they're
fucking pissing me off. The false readings is just, it's
a joke. It's got to the extent where I'm
actually building a case of evidence that I can show my
doctor when I've got to next appointment.
Oh my God, Jack's taking Libra to court, guys.
(04:04):
He's coming in with a big file fax of screenshots, blue case
readings. Yep, Yep.
Like, I, I, I get it. I know there's a difference
between them, but sometimes it'sa fucking joke or so something
(04:25):
needs to be done because I know for a fact I'm going to go there
and the first thing they're going to say is that you've had
so many hypos. What's the what's the problem?
The sensors. Yeah, not me.
Trust me. Did you get your Dexcom one
through the post? Because I ordered it for you.
No, it still doesn't come. Did they ring you and you answer
it to accept it? No, I didn't even get a phone
(04:45):
call, Rob. I got an e-mail saying to expect
a phone call within next couple of days and I didn't get no
phone call, not from Dexcom anyway.
I mean, my wife called me a couple of times but she didn't
have any sensors. No, maybe I should phone you
because I have Dexcom. No, no, I'm.
(05:09):
I don't know what to do so I'm just getting on with it now.
Yeah. I don't let it stress me out no
more like I don't care. It's just it's just going to get
to that point where I I know when I go to my appointment,
they're going to moan. So I just wanted to have some
stuff on my phone to say hold onbefore you ever go at me, have a
look at that. Yeah, you just just want to have
(05:29):
an argument, Jack, don't you? No, not even argument.
I just like being right. It's not an argument because I'm
right. Exactly document, I'm stating
facts. Oh my days.
And This is why it takes 14 years to train as a endo all.
(05:59):
Right. Excuse my cough.
I'm not even throwing it out. They can hear it.
It's still lingering. It's horrible, but to be honest
I'm glad I got it out of the waynow.
What the cough? Well, no, I mean illness like
I've got it, I've got it quite, I've got it quite early in the
season so I'm quite happy. It's it's come, I've got it,
(06:19):
that's it. So hopefully, fingers crossed,
I'm good. Have you had your flu jab?
No, they messaged me last week to say I need to book it so.
Yeah, I think I had one last month.
I do need to book it. Last month.
Yeah. I want a text.
I thought you made a jam. So if you know you don't need to
double dose for them bro it's not a monthly thing.
(06:40):
Wait I want the flu on monthly subscription?
Come on guys. So.
So apart from Libra being Doo Doo.
Yeah. What?
How's life? What now?
I feel a lot better but a few weeks ago I was in a bit of a
(07:03):
shit place but I've had a bit ofa time to sort me head out.
But fuck it I'm going to tell him I I I got diagnosed with
ADHDI had an ADHD assessment andI got diagnosed with ADHD.
So that probably explains why Michael has to continuously cut
out all my waffle. I try and speak over him.
(07:23):
I can't sit still in the video which is why he moans at me
because my voice goes backwards and forwards from the microphone
and not do this. I'm just smiling.
Yeah, yeah. But it's, yeah, it's been, it's
been 30 years of thinking I'm a bit of a nut job.
And now I've got an answer as towhy my head is the way it is.
(07:45):
And it's made me feel a bit better because it's like a
weight's been lifted and now I'mlonger have to stress myself out
thinking why am I like this? Now I know it's cool.
I can get on with it. Yeah.
Which is good, yeah. And also it's made me realize
that I need to start setting reminders because in the
evenings quite a lot and at workI used to inject and then I'd
(08:09):
get completely fucking distracted with something else
and just completely forget to eat in time until the alarms are
going off. Yeah, I, I, I do that all the
time. Yeah, I did.
Like pretty much every meal, that's why.
That's why originally I stopped pre bonusing.
Yeah, I just need to. I've got, I have alarms for
everything now. Otherwise I forget.
(08:30):
It's nice. Last night it was nice to get
the answers that I wanted because then now I know what I
can do moving forward. Yeah.
Which is good. Other than that, it's literally
just been sort of easing my footback into things after getting
crushed by a digger. Oh.
Yeah, I actually forgot about that column.
(08:51):
I've still got one black toe. It's Mr. Deeds in the black foot
in it. It is, yeah.
But just literally just one toe.Yeah.
I'm getting myself much better with that, which is good.
Yeah. I've just been genuinely living
(09:12):
life, pretty much. I've got a thing with pizzas at
the moment which I've actually quite mastered with insulin as
well. That's really good.
What's your trick? Sure.
Well, not sure. Like small units of insulin
every two hours for about not every hour, sorry.
For about four hours. OK.
(09:33):
So it's like a top up. Yeah.
So if I were if I have like a whole pizza, it's usually
probably I'd say, I don't know, don't quote me for this, but
certain pizzas, I look at them say roughly they're probably
about, I mean 15 to 20 units. So I'd usually give myself about
10:50 up front, shove the whole thing in me mouth, crack on, and
(09:53):
then let's say like an hour after do 2 units, then an hour
after do another 2 units, then an hour after do another 2 units
and just monitor your blood. If it starts dropping, you know
you don't need to do any more. Units Fairpoint.
If it starts getting up, you need to do another 2.
That is strong medical advice there everyone.
So if your sugar levels are going down, don't inject.
(10:17):
Yes. You know, it was funny,
actually. The other day I went into
Wenzel's in the morning to get myself.
What was I getting? Sausage and bacon roll in a
crusty roll. Yeah.
Anyway, as I thought it's in there, my Libra sensors started
(10:38):
going off like the alarm, so as I'll just pull it out of me
pocket, looks like I was going higher.
So I've opened my phone, put it in me pocket, shut up.
Then I just heard this little voice from behind the counter.
Go high or low. I didn't really, it didn't
really click into my head at 1stand my boss was like because she
was looking at my boss and he went it ain't me, it's him.
(11:01):
He's the one beeping. She's looked at me and went high
or low. I was like, hi, she's she's
holding up 222 like sachets of sugar.
She went. We don't need them then, do ya?
That's brilliant. But I couldn't have said I was
just. I looked at her like all
confused, thinking. I just said how?
(11:22):
How do you know what the noise is?
That my husband's been diabetic for 26 years.
He's like, that noise scares me because it means he's done
something wrong. He's done something wrong.
Such a nice lady. Then then as I say, I'll
continue just talking. And I was like, anyway, I'll
(11:44):
have a double sausage and bacon crusty rolls.
Who looks bitchman? Really.
What's that? Yes, please.
And a Yum Yum. Yeah, I did, they said.
I know. Yummy.
Why didn't she offer that instead of sugar?
That's horrible. In it, give me a couple of
little sachets of sugar. Give me a doughnut.
I've never eaten a sachet of sugar in all the years I've been
(12:06):
tabic. That's not really been a thing
that's crossed my mind. Like I suppose if needs must and
that's all you've got. All the time, bro.
Yeah, I've had a sugary tea before, actually.
I had a sugary tea yesterday at work.
It's usually when the customers offer it to us.
You want a tea And I'm sort of like, hold on, look, have a
look, look on me, Labra. Yeah, go on. 2 sugars with that
(12:28):
one please. Can I have 6 this time?
What? So I had it before a couple of
weeks ago as well at work. It was, was doing work for a
lady, really nice lady. And I had a really bad day of,
you know, when your bloods are just constantly, no matter what
you eat or what you'll do, they're just up, down, up, down,
(12:49):
up, down, up, down, up. Yeah.
So my alarm was just conned every like half an hour or so.
Just be, be, be, be, be, be, be.I've I'm literally just had a
bottle of Coke and a packet of Jelly babies because I couldn't
be bothered to eat anything big.So I was like, fuck it, I'm just
eating, eating. I was just drinking bottles of
Coke, just sipping it and it wasworking.
(13:10):
It just wasn't staying steady. It just kept going out and then
fizzling out. Yeah, but a lady just would not
leave me alone. Bless her.
She kept going. Please let me get you some.
Stop drinking Coke. It's unhealthy.
Stop drinking. Stop.
Stop having this. You need stop having.
Let me go and get you some nuts.Let me go and get you a slice of
bread. Let me go.
And I'm saying to her. And I was like, listen, none of
this stuff works. It's not quick enough.
(13:32):
It's not quick enough. Yeah, but you could have had,
you could have had a bit of toast after the coke.
I had food. I was sort of starting the point
like I had food. I just, I don't know why.
I just didn't want to eat anything substantial because I
was just working. I just wanted to carry on
working. So I was just like, fuck it, I'm
just going to drink a bottle of Coke.
And I was, it was all right. Do you know what I mean?
It's just, as I say, it just kept spiking because it's, it's
(13:54):
quick acting. So yeah, I had to sort of give
her a bit of a schooling at the end of it, like, and was she,
what did she say? She's like, Coke's no good for
you. Let me give you some.
I've got some orange juice in the fridge.
That's no different. Oh, I'd actually rather an
orange juice. Nah, I'm not really an orange
juicey kind of man. Apple.
Apple juice, Yeah. Apple.
(14:15):
Yeah, Apple juice 1010. I'm all for that about Apple.
And even orange juice. I like orange juice.
No, not for me. I missed the days where I didn't
care and I'd have a breakfast and then a big glass of apple
juice or orange juice. I've actually, I've actually
forgot what it's like not being diabetic.
It was only three years ago. Yeah, I don't remember life
(14:37):
before my pancreas died. The other night.
I was, I was going high, but my alarm woke me up.
I looked at it. I was like, oh, 13 diagonal up.
I was like, I'm going to sleep, I'm going back to sleep.
Can't be bothered I couldn't be bothered to get up, get out of
bed and like to inject. I just couldn't be bought.
(14:57):
I don't keep my insulin next to my bed, so I.
Was going to say, do you not keep your needles with you?
No. In my in my work bag, not.
Fair enough. No, I couldn't be bothered do.
You not keep that hypo snack next to you in bed.
Yeah, I've got, I've got a bag of sweets.
Is that is that for hypos or just for the sake of it?
I don't know. Sometimes it's the sour patch.
(15:20):
Strawberries. No, they're blue ones.
They're sour patch. Oh yeah, I like them.
I do like. Them well, nice.
Yeah, I do like them. About four, four or six of them
is perfect. Yeah, well, I had it earlier and
I I've got the, I was hypo from about 11:15 until 3:15 and in
(15:42):
between that time I hadn't, I injected, I think it was about 5
units and I had like 120 grams of carbs for my lunch.
So I was like fuck all. I was expecting it to go woof
like proper because I've just got it yump.
I was like, oh fuck it, I've gotto inject something.
Yeah, but I I don't care if it'sblack.
(16:04):
So I've had the hump, but I didn't do nothing, stayed hypo.
And then, as I say, Jelly babies, the emergency Jelly
babies come out in the front of my bag.
I keep a whole lot, a big bag, share bag.
Yeah, I think I must have eaten about 15 of them.
They are nice though. Yeah, I only tended to eat about
four or five. Well, you don't know why triple
(16:26):
jaws there. Yeah, yeah.
Well, last night I was low from 12:00 AM all the way till half
eight in the morning. No 8:00 in the morning.
Oh wow. Night before that I was low from
12 AM wait till eight in the. Morning.
Oh wow, I'm having. What's that to do with new new
(16:49):
basil, you think? I don't know what is going on.
I like, yeah, I it's during the day.
I ain't too bad that I'm still having hypos.
But yeah, I don't know what's going on with my body.
Maybe it was where he was ill. Yeah, this is what I'm thinking,
but I'm still. You thought you had you thought
you had your basil spot on, but all you was doing was dealing
with your illness. Yeah, that's, Oh yeah.
(17:13):
And now your cold's gone, your sensitivity has gone back down
and gone back up, I mean. Maybe I'll lower it again
tonight. How many?
How many units did you do of theother and you switched over
exactly the same? Did you say 1 for one?
Yeah, I literally done A1 for one ratio.
Maybe just drop it by 1 unit brother and see what happens.
I don't ever feel like one does anything.
(17:35):
It might do if you give it time.It seems to do with me, but I'm
I had, I don't know. We've discovered sort of over
the years that I'm a bit more sensitive to insolent sort of
change and giving it some thingsthan what you are.
Yeah, where I've just had enoughof everything come on and
changed everything. I've changed my, I've changed my
basal and bolus and I. Yeah, you have in your Angie
(17:57):
sensors. Yeah, I've just like I bought.
You're a completely new man. P1D Robot.
You are a new robot. Yeah, shutting down.
No, don't do that. No, we're starting up.
Got any stories? I've realized I'm terrible at
football while I'm hypo, that's.Kind of a given here.
(18:23):
I've realized I'm terrible offensive when I'm hypo.
I'm like trying to control them,pass the ball like in training,
and I'm like just ain't listening.
What, you're not listening? All my body about your
coordination proper goes oh. Exactly the same thing at work
(18:44):
the other day. I was cutting something.
My pal said something. He was like, Jack, what are we
going to do here? It's like the grounds just
discussing the job like this does that this does like, well,
we're going to do it. I looked at her and went, my,
I'm 2.9 bro. I have no fucking clue what's
going on at the moment. Just give me 10 minutes, all
(19:05):
right? All right, bro, No worries.
I'm starting to realise it more now.
I don't know why I. Don't know, maybe you're
thinking about it more. Usually I just soldier through
everything and I can still function perfectly.
But I, I, I guess it's because in football you need your like
cognitive. Is it cognitive?
(19:25):
I have no clue. You're the coach.
Your coordination and like functioning and all that
malarkey, you know, like you need it.
And then other times I realise I'm just waffling.
What am I going on about? Yeah, I've thought halfway
through a sentence you're like, hold on, what am I talking
about? Literally like what I've just
(19:47):
done about 10 minutes ago. I'm not even hypo, I'm just an
idiot. It's so funny.
I love hypo people. Nice, I had a guy up making my
own chicken balls a couple of weeks ago and it was total
failure. Or do you use Turkey?
(20:07):
Forgot the chicken? Proper balls they are.
No, they just they they weren't ones from the Chinese.
Talking to the Chinese, I brought some of them Prawn
cracker crisps mate, they do nottaste like a Chinese.
No, no they don't. I think they're quite nice,
(20:28):
though I do like them. I, I can't get my head around
them. I'm like you're, you're not
real. Yeah, I do like the little prawn
crackers you get from the supermarket.
Yeah, I've got a bag if you wantthem.
Yeah, I'll have them both munch them.
I've got a take away box I'm trying to tell on the other
night. Oh nice, get any food in it?
Yeah, loads. Oh yeah, I'm, I'm really on one
(20:51):
today. I was standing at the thing,
kept looking at the lady. I've got the tongs, putting the
rice and that in and the noodlesand I'm putting, I put 2 bits of
prawn toast on top of the Rasta noodles.
Little spatulas. Squashed it down as hard as I
could. Oh, tell him my pop was like out
(21:13):
of fucking mountain trying to hide it from her and that.
All right, she ain't looking. Let's go.
Thank you. Bye.
Oh, went on a work do as well. I had a Curry that was good.
My ass levels went super high. But yeah, it was nice.
(21:34):
Nice. Worse for them, going to go
watch Arsenal next Tuesday. Everything's coming to my brain
now. We've only got 5 minutes left.
Have we? Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Look, time we're remaining,
Yeah. Yeah, so thanks for listening
everyone. We're really sorry this episode
(21:55):
as I it has no content. No, it don't really does it if
it. Does and you find a purpose for
this episode? We applaud you.
Yeah, because I'm definitely notapplauding myself this week.
No, we'll go back to normal nextweek, don't worry.
So thank you for listening everybody.
I will say we hope you enjoyed it.
(22:16):
Probably ain't. As we say, there's no filter.
We apologise for this whole episode.
Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Next time we'll be a lot more prepared.
Well, I say we've both been ill.It's just just just.
Yeah, just life gets in the way sometimes, all right?
(22:37):
And we're very busy people. Just remember, we do all this
for free out of our own pocket. Mike more than me because he
edits it. Bloody pockets, goals in.
Oh, so yeah, thank you for supporting.
Yeah, yeah. Thank you, guys.
(22:58):
Catch you next week with a better episode.
Yeah. Have you got a sewing kit?
I've got a hole in my pocket. I've got fucking shorts.
You've got shorts. I'm wearing shorts too.
Yeah. No, it's yeah, It sounded bit in
my head. Yeah.
I knew what I meant. Yeah, you've got leg holes.
(23:18):
Yeah, that's, yeah, that's what I was getting at.
That side to trusses Jesus.
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