August 17, 2025 • 21 mins
This week on We Are T1D, things get chaotic — Jack nearly loses his foot to a digger, Mike sticks a dead sensor back on during a hypo, and the lads chat about CGMs, Type 2s, and oats. From dark humour to serious takeaways, it’s one of the wildest episodes yet.
What you’ll hear in this episode:
🚜 Jack’s digger disaster and “Gollum Foot”
📉 Mike’s CGM fail and hypo brain logic
💬 Why more Type 2s are wearing CGMs
📊 Time in range wins & diet tweaks
🥣 The overnight oats vs. “overnight sandwich” debate
Quote of the Week:
“From Gollum Foot to Piggyback Jack” – Mike
👉 Vote in our poll: Should Mike piggyback Jack at the Diabetes UK Wellness Walk? Yes or No!
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00:00 – Welcome & Chaos Incoming01:43 – 🚜 Jack vs. The Digger (Gollum Foot is born)06:15 – 🐝 Wasp Wars: A swarm in the middle of a hypo09:09 – 📉 Mike’s CGM fail & hypo brain logic11:52 – 💬 Type 2s, CGMs & misconceptions17:14 – 📊 Time in Range results (Mike: 77%, Jack: 85%)18:50 – 🥣 Overnight oats vs. “overnight sandwiches”20:07 – 🚶 Diabetes UK Wellness Walk & Piggyback Jack
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(00:00):
Welcome back to the We Are T1D podcast.
Hi everyone. Your favorite place for all the
usual waffle about type 1 diabetes and their escapades?
Me and Jack go on and and Jack having a golem foot What?
Welcome to the We Are T1D podcast.
(00:24):
The Realist Type 1 Diabetes podcast online hosted by myself
Mike diagnosed at the age of 10.And myself, Jack diagnosed at
the age of 30. We are just two mates giving you
an insight into life with this chronic condition.
Yes, we are adults and although we try not to swear, it may
happen occasionally. Yeah, as Jack said, we are
(00:47):
adults, but please take what we say as guidance and not medical
advice. No, trust me, we are not
doctors. We are just here to make sure no
type 1 diabetic ever, ever feelsalone.
So Jack mate, or shall I call your golem foot?
I'm not sure yet. How's your week been mate?
Oh yeah, my week's been fantastic.
(01:11):
Yeah, go on and hop into it. Let us know what happened.
Well, it started off very well, sugar Wires and to be honest
still now touch wood sugar wiresis actually being very behaved.
So I've actually finally I thinkI've got my basil correct.
Well done. Did you change anything or did
it just sort itself out? I I can't remember what I've
(01:33):
done. I put it up 1 unit and I just
sort of persevered for a week and it sort of just all of a
sudden was all right. Decent.
Yeah, so, but yeah, it come to Wednesday, I was at work and I
had a little accident. You wet yourself.
No, no, no, no. It was far worse.
(01:54):
It was my own fault. I yeah, at work we was using a
digger and I don't know if anybody knows what a digger
looks like at the front of the tracks.
There is a hydraulic blade whichis put down onto the floor level
to stabilize when you're digging.
I was standing next to the digger, the man on the digger
(02:17):
scooped the digger picked up, shifted over and sort of pivoted
on the back foot and the blade ended up on my hose.
So yeah, there was a one ton digger just on my foot.
There was very big panic. I've made some very involuntary
noises that were quite high pitched.
(02:40):
I've never ever made a noise like that before and I never
want to make a noise like that again before my life is.
Proper squeal, yeah. Like a like a horror movie
scream, bro. Oh wow.
Like a real real scream. And it won't even because I
don't even think it was because of pain, because the pain didn't
kick in straight away because obviously I was so full of
(03:02):
adrenaline. Yeah.
It was just a sheer oh fuck, there's a digger on my foot.
It's not something you you thinkwould just randomly happen
though, is it? No, no, but just to throw it in
the mix because we are type 1 diabetic and these are the shit
we have to go through. Just before the mate that was
(03:23):
driving a digger called me over just to have a quick look at
something before it all happened, I was standing in the
van and I had injected 10 units to eat my lunch.
Oh. Yeah.
So literally within I'd say 5 minutes of me injecting the
accident had happened. I was then on the floor
(03:44):
screaming my absolute head off. I managed to roll my like, pull
myself over to my van. My boss called an ambulance,
which actually wasn't priority enough for an ambulance.
They wouldn't send an ambulance for me.
So I had to get taken to the hospital in a van.
(04:04):
Luckily I was quite. Close, but it's fine.
The way you squealed when it hityour foot though, you would have
sound like a siren, right? I, I attracted a few of the
neighbors, I'll tell you that. There was quite a few people
come out of their house. What is going on?
But yeah, there's like a underneath my van, there's like
(04:24):
a little like a step, like a yellow step that you used to get
onto the back of the flatbed. So I've pulled my foot up into
that step and I'm just obviouslyjust to keep it elevated so no
bloods go into it or whatever whilst I'm on the phone to the
ambulance before they kindly declined me.
With my foot stuck in this little stirrup of a step on the
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back of my van, I'm laying on myback in absolute agony.
My sugars are dropping very, very quickly because the 10
units are starting to kick in. You'd think the pain would make
it raise a little bit as well. Yeah, it's this.
It did. It did.
It did. It started dropping very, very
fast. So I scrolled to my boss like
give me I, I was like, there's abottle of Coke in my medical
(05:09):
bag. Grab it for me, bro, if I need
it. So he's got that.
And I literally, I think I downed probably out of a 500 mil
bottle, like a normal bottle you'd buy.
I've probably done half of it. So I'd say 250 mil.
Yeah, there's probably about 30 grams because I looked on the
back of the bottle. I think there's about 30 grams
of sugar in 250 mil of Coke. That's all I had levelled me
(05:30):
off. Oh.
I stayed absolutely level. I started to drop off slightly
when I got into the hospital. I think that was when obviously
the adrenaline, sort of. So it's almost like you pre
pain. Wait.
I'm going to try and word this correctly pre.
Bonus for pain. No.
Prebanus prepainus. Prepainus.
Prepainus Prepainus. There you go.
(05:51):
That's what you've done. You prepaid?
Yeah. So in that aspect I was quite
lucky as such because it stoppedthe spike and I actually stayed.
All I had was that bottle of Coke and I had a protein yoghurt
pouch thing while I was sitting in the hospital reception and
that was all I had and it kept me absolutely stable throughout
the whole thing. Oh wow, that was absolutely mad.
(06:13):
But it as I say I was, I had my foot in this little step thing
and whilst I was couldn't move anywhere, my boss moved the
digger. Yeah.
Obviously the bucket was in the Bush because we was digging out
of these bushes. As he's moved it, he's pulled
like a Bush out underneath the Bush was Wasps nest.
(06:35):
So now there's about 300 to 500 Watt and I'm not exaggerating.
There was a lack of swarm of Wasps.
Well, you must have been buzzing.
Swarming around my boss, swarming around me.
I'm on the phone with my foot hanging dry out.
I hadn't even taken my sock off at this point, so I don't know
what my foot looks like. So yeah, I had to crawl myself,
(06:56):
like army crawl, say to the hospital.
I'm like, it's a 999. Like, hold on a second.
I'm just getting the van. There's a what's this?
Oh. My gosh.
Put the phone on the seat. I've had to drag myself up into
my van. Shut the door.
There's Wasps sitting in the fucking windscreen coming in
every. It sounds like a cartoon.
It sounds like a kind of sketch.Was like a cartoon.
(07:16):
Honestly it was like a Laurel and Hardy episode bro.
Oh my God. So yeah, that was, that was fun.
We, my boss managed to get me tothe hospital.
I sat in hospital for my wife and my mum met me up there.
Yeah, my wife and my mum met me up there once.
I had X-rays and saw the doctor.It turns out the only thing that
(07:38):
was wrong with me is I have a very, very subtle fracture in my
toe, but I have very, very severe bruising and muscle and
ligament damage of see where my foot's been crushed.
But I am so, so lucky that I actually still have my toes.
My foot was not completely crushed and none of my bones are
(08:02):
actually. Broken.
But Jack, you know, as Type 1 diabetics, we're supposed to
protect our feet. I know.
So from now on I have learned mylesson the very hard way.
Steel toe caps at work 24/7 because that would have saved
me. I know, but.
It would have just rocked on thesteel toe cap like it wouldn't
have crossed the steel. But one is good for content and
(08:24):
two, you've now got a new nickname which has gone on foot
so. So yeah, I'm I'm pretty sure
that I'll have to have my feet checked once everything's
properly just to make sure I've got no nerve damage and things
like that. I'm still waiting for a phone
call back from the hospital. They said within seven days from
(08:47):
the fracture clinic just to let me know whether they want to
further examine me or do any more X-rays or anything like
that or whether it is just a simple case of just you've just
got to let it heal itself. Yeah, well.
Sorry. Yeah, great fun, great week.
Got to cut the days off work though.
Good. My my week's been.
(09:09):
Do you know what happened to me at work the other day?
Right. I was going.
I was going. I didn't I, you know, when you
start to go low, you have something and you clear your low
alarm, right? I ended up going really low,
right? And then I was like, oh, I don't
feel good. So I just walking around.
I caught my arm on something, mysensor knocked off.
(09:32):
I was like I was just flapping. I was like, hopefully my sensors
come off. I stuck it back on, right.
I'm going low. So I think that's going to work.
So I stuck it back on my arm andit was still working.
I was like, yeah, no, it's working.
I'm giggling to myself and that.I bet it didn't last long, did
it? No, it literally lasted about
two minutes and then said sensorerror, please replace.
(09:54):
Yeah, just just weird, didn't it?
What? How your brain works when you're
low. Yeah, I thought I could stick it
back on, but do you want to knowthe weird thing?
I left it on my arm the whole rest of the day at work just so
I felt normal. If it was off me, I would have
been like, oh, this ain't right.Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know what he's saying. I know what he's saying.
(10:17):
Obviously it's a bit hotter now,so I'm rolling up my T-shirt a
bit so I can let a bit more air into me.
Yeah, so. And my sense is clearly visible
and oh, what's that on your arm?Oh, So I, it tracks my blood
sugars and he's goes, oh, he goes on type 2.
I said I ain't, I said my organ left me mate.
(10:39):
I said look after yours because yours still works.
Yeah, he goes, what? I said, yeah, I was 10 years
old. I was stripped of an organ, but
I made it dramatic. I said, so look after yours, eat
properly. I said you shouldn't really buy
that bakery. Should you if you're type 2?
You turn into. One of those should be.
(11:01):
Yeah, I I've done it to him likethat and.
You hypocrite. Well, I can inject.
He can't. But yeah, someone else was like,
oh, what's that on your? I've had it quite a lot this
week. I think it's where it's hotter
now. What's that on your arm?
(11:22):
That nicotine patch said, mate, I don't even smoke.
He goes, oh, did you quit then? I was like, no, I said no, it's
for my diabetes. I'm type 1 diabetic.
He's like, oh, that's not good, is it?
I said no, not really, but I didn't get much choice.
He comes in every day as well. It's like a regular and he's
(11:43):
never noticed it before. That's just like, what is wrong
with you? But it's good.
They're asking someone else comein with, with a sensor.
I I'll tell you what, most of them, a lot of type twos are now
wearing sensors. I'm starting to see a trend in
it. I, I know there's, I know
(12:05):
there's a girl that works in theyard next to we work and I'm
sure she's type 2, I can't remember but she wears sensors
but she has to self fund becausethe NHS won't give them to her.
Yeah, that's what I mean. I'm seeing so like when I speak
to people they're like, Oh yeah,I'm diabetic.
I'm type 2. It like on the realness of it,
It's good you're tracking your your life because it's your
(12:25):
health at the. End of course.
So it's good you care that much because obviously with a type 2,
your sugar levels still do fluctuate.
It's not like you don't go high,you don't go low.
It happens. No, yeah, of.
Course it does but on a serious note, non binary now so it's
good they're tracking it but I've just I'm spotting it so
much now so I'm actually curious.
(12:46):
How much does a type 2's levels actually fluctuate?
Yeah, I don't know the answer tothat question.
No, nor do I. And if any type 2's listened to
this podcast, I think maybe happen, but please let us know
because I'm actually my dad's type too, but he only does his
finger prick and he's like, yeah, I was 6.
I was like, well done dad. But yeah, no, it's just crossed
(13:13):
my mind. Yeah.
I think it is also because, well, obviously if you talk to
people and they tell you type 2,then, yeah, but you might be
seeing them out in public more like, again, because I said like
a few weeks ago, it's just summertime.
They're becoming so much widely available now for people that
suffer with type 1 diabetes. Yeah.
(13:33):
So you might just be seeing a lot more.
Yeah. Oh, Callum's quite funny at work
as well. He he, he does the T1D in the
wild thing. Obviously he's not, he's not
diabetic, but he's like he's a part of the crew now.
He's a part of the crew. He's like AT1D journalist.
Yeah, yeah, he's actually brilliant and he's he I think he
(13:54):
he was down on holiday and he's he spotted one and he said to
his I think it's his brother or his cousin.
He goes I like T1D in the world.His brother or cousin was like
what? There you go, Callum.
You could be our you're. You're our public relations man
now. Yeah, that's it.
You can be the WE RT-1 DPR. Man, he said.
If like family member thought itwas, I think it was something to
(14:17):
do with fat. Is that's the thing for fat in
it? What?
The sensor, I think he said that.
The thing for fat? Yeah, I think that's what he
said it's for. And definitely aim.
That, obviously, Callum corrected him.
But. I think it was fat.
Callum's going to shout at me. If I've got this wrong, it's
going to tell me. Cholesterol maybe?
I don't know. Some something, I think it was
(14:38):
fat. I think it was fat, but that but
that kind of I'm going to pretend it was fat because it
feels right now that kind of gets the relationship right.
If you're seeing like type twos with the sense, obviously type
twos are bigger boned being political.
My comment maybe? That's why he relates it to
that. Yeah.
(14:59):
I don't know, it's just really weird and I don't know what's
going on with my brain right now, but it's wow.
Moving on, how was my week? Yeah, how was your week I?
Don't know, I'm not at work today.
I had a bad night to, yeah, become a podcast day.
Yeah, I've I've had pretty shit sleeps for the last couple of
(15:20):
nights with his foot just can't get comfy because I've got to
try and sit bolt up right. Usually I lay like to besides
like and I've I've got to try and sit straight so I don't move
my foot left and. And plus, Zoe's there rubbing
it, saying my prayers. Do you know how difficult?
(15:41):
I didn't think it would be, but I don't know how difficult it is
to try and have a frozen bag of like peas or something on your
toes while you're laying down. You just bend your knee, you
know? Give it.
You're supposed to have your foot or hand and everything else
to swell it. That's the whole point of having
it elevated. Well, what I would do, I'd lie
on my belly and then rest my foot on top of it like a.
(16:05):
Like a baby. Yeah, just arch your back in it.
It's like. Zoe comes on just sprawled out
on the floor, watching the telly.
Yeah, exactly. It's like it's, it's reverse
elevated. It's like doing a Superman
isn't? It.
Yeah, I suppose so. That's my logical thinking.
(16:29):
Yeah, that's great fun. As I say I'm I'm definitely
going to have to get my feet checked out properly again
afterwards. Yeah, Albert.
I didn't even think of that until you sort of made that
analogy, bro, to be honest. What like that, that that's sort
of like the the time you're saying about diabetes.
It's got to look after your feet.
I didn't even. It did not even click.
Yeah. Yeah, my, my foot's fucked in
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it. Well shit, he's just realized
it. Oh yeah.
Oh my God, I've got no pancreas and no toe.
Oh, I know. But I'll say surprisingly
enough, and I, I, we're, we're doing time in range this week
because I'm proud of my. All right.
(17:12):
You sure? Yes.
Right, let's go into it then. Time in range time, right as
Jack wants to celebrate. I'm going to go first.
Mine is 77%. That's still good bro.
I know, I know. That's still good.
Yeah, happy with that. Mine has finally sorted itself
(17:35):
out and I am 85% this week in range so I am very happy I'm
back to being what I see as my normal sugar levels.
Yeah, no, that's good. But what have you changed?
Is dieting, isn't it Jack? Pretty much, yeah.
I've just sort of like actually cared about what I've been
(17:56):
eating a bit more instead of just shoveling shit in my mouth
left and right. The difference it makes isn't
mental, isn't it? You see why I was?
Literally, I've I've twinkly basil and I've tweaked my diet
and I've gained probably about an extra 11% on my time and
range over the past two weeks. And has it helped your mindset?
Yeah, I was doing actually pretty good until the digger
(18:19):
went on my foot. Now I'm sort of a bit down in
the dumps. You're not.
You're not. Expecting the dumps, you just
can't walk around. Yes, I'm fed up because I'm
bored. Shit it is.
I'm such an active person that'sI've had to tweak me basil again
because obviously I've gone frombeing so.
Active and. Up in a bar to sitting on me
arse doing nothing all day. So I've upped it another unit.
(18:44):
I was, but while I'm at home, ifit's too much and it sends me a
bit low, I don't mind because I'll just get to snack.
Yeah, that's good. Been eating overnight oats?
You've been eating them during the night, they've just been
eating oats. At 10 AM, yeah, but they're made
overnight, bro. So if I eat a sandwich that I
made for dinner tomorrow, is that a overnight sandwich?
(19:06):
No, why have you got to be? Why have you got to be a
technical little dickhead? Bro, I didn't fucking name them
overnight oats, did I? I didn't say, oh, let's let's
call them overnight oats. No, that's just what they're
fucking called. You see my logic now though,
isn't it? Yeah, I do.
I do get it bro, but that's justwhat they're called.
Don't shoot the messenger. I'm just saying like a Goodman
(19:27):
type 1 diabetes. Try to count my calories and
stick to a decent diet bro, you know what I mean?
Like don't shoot me in the foot bro.
Don't run over my foot in a digger, you know what I mean?
Nah, I make a crawl for a wasp nest.
Scary. You know what?
I might have a breakfast fight for dinner.
I. Like a breakfast for dinner.
(19:48):
Right guys, thank you for listening this week.
Thank you very much for joining us this week everyone.
A little quick catch up just to let you know about my my general
chaos and how Mike's getting on and isn't a normal J to day
life. Yeah, Oh yeah.
And guys, talking of feet and walking, is anyone doing a
(20:10):
Diabetes UK Wellness walk? If you are, I might be doing a
five mile one. That would be good to see you
that. Would be nice.
I'll be there. Well, probably walking or not is
still yet to be determined if Jack.
Can't walk. I'm going to piggyback him.
But for five miles on my heavy lad for. 5 miles, all right.
(20:34):
I'll just get a line bike. Or he'll be on the line bike.
I'll do it on the line bike. But yeah, I will attempt it off
the line if he can't walk. Yes, I need to.
Finish that, brother. You could do the last mile.
Yeah. Half, half a mile or something
(20:55):
you can do, brother, Yeah. I mean, I can.
I'm going to. I'm going to seriously make sure
my foot's not better now until that.
Guys, there's a pole. Do you want to see us at the
Wellness Walk? Yes or no?
Yeah, yeah. Let us know and we will be
there. Guys, if you're on Spotify,
(21:16):
Scroll down. There's a pole vote in it.
Yes or no. I want at least 10 yeses and
then I'll piggyback Jack. Piggyback Jack, that's how.
Sick piggyback Jack. We've gone to Gollum Foot to
piggyback Jack. He's got so many names.
I'll prefer that one to be honest.
All right, Piggyback Jack. Take care everyone.
Welcome back to the We Are T1D podcast.
Hi everyone. Your favorite place for all the
usual waffle about type 1 diabetes and their escapades?
Me and Jack go on and and Jack having a golem foot What?
Welcome to the We Are T1D podcast.
(00:24):
The Realist Type 1 Diabetes podcast online hosted by myself
Mike diagnosed at the age of 10.And myself, Jack diagnosed at
the age of 30. We are just two mates giving you
an insight into life with this chronic condition.
Yes, we are adults and although we try not to swear, it may
happen occasionally. Yeah, as Jack said, we are
(00:47):
adults, but please take what we say as guidance and not medical
advice. No, trust me, we are not
doctors. We are just here to make sure no
type 1 diabetic ever, ever feelsalone.
So Jack mate, or shall I call your golem foot?
I'm not sure yet. How's your week been mate?
Oh yeah, my week's been fantastic.
(01:11):
Yeah, go on and hop into it. Let us know what happened.
Well, it started off very well, sugar Wires and to be honest
still now touch wood sugar wiresis actually being very behaved.
So I've actually finally I thinkI've got my basil correct.
Well done. Did you change anything or did
it just sort itself out? I I can't remember what I've
(01:33):
done. I put it up 1 unit and I just
sort of persevered for a week and it sort of just all of a
sudden was all right. Decent.
Yeah, so, but yeah, it come to Wednesday, I was at work and I
had a little accident. You wet yourself.
No, no, no, no. It was far worse.
(01:54):
It was my own fault. I yeah, at work we was using a
digger and I don't know if anybody knows what a digger
looks like at the front of the tracks.
There is a hydraulic blade whichis put down onto the floor level
to stabilize when you're digging.
I was standing next to the digger, the man on the digger
(02:17):
scooped the digger picked up, shifted over and sort of pivoted
on the back foot and the blade ended up on my hose.
So yeah, there was a one ton digger just on my foot.
There was very big panic. I've made some very involuntary
noises that were quite high pitched.
(02:40):
I've never ever made a noise like that before and I never
want to make a noise like that again before my life is.
Proper squeal, yeah. Like a like a horror movie
scream, bro. Oh wow.
Like a real real scream. And it won't even because I
don't even think it was because of pain, because the pain didn't
kick in straight away because obviously I was so full of
(03:02):
adrenaline. Yeah.
It was just a sheer oh fuck, there's a digger on my foot.
It's not something you you thinkwould just randomly happen
though, is it? No, no, but just to throw it in
the mix because we are type 1 diabetic and these are the shit
we have to go through. Just before the mate that was
(03:23):
driving a digger called me over just to have a quick look at
something before it all happened, I was standing in the
van and I had injected 10 units to eat my lunch.
Oh. Yeah.
So literally within I'd say 5 minutes of me injecting the
accident had happened. I was then on the floor
(03:44):
screaming my absolute head off. I managed to roll my like, pull
myself over to my van. My boss called an ambulance,
which actually wasn't priority enough for an ambulance.
They wouldn't send an ambulance for me.
So I had to get taken to the hospital in a van.
(04:04):
Luckily I was quite. Close, but it's fine.
The way you squealed when it hityour foot though, you would have
sound like a siren, right? I, I attracted a few of the
neighbors, I'll tell you that. There was quite a few people
come out of their house. What is going on?
But yeah, there's like a underneath my van, there's like
(04:24):
a little like a step, like a yellow step that you used to get
onto the back of the flatbed. So I've pulled my foot up into
that step and I'm just obviouslyjust to keep it elevated so no
bloods go into it or whatever whilst I'm on the phone to the
ambulance before they kindly declined me.
With my foot stuck in this little stirrup of a step on the
(04:47):
back of my van, I'm laying on myback in absolute agony.
My sugars are dropping very, very quickly because the 10
units are starting to kick in. You'd think the pain would make
it raise a little bit as well. Yeah, it's this.
It did. It did.
It did. It started dropping very, very
fast. So I scrolled to my boss like
give me I, I was like, there's abottle of Coke in my medical
(05:09):
bag. Grab it for me, bro, if I need
it. So he's got that.
And I literally, I think I downed probably out of a 500 mil
bottle, like a normal bottle you'd buy.
I've probably done half of it. So I'd say 250 mil.
Yeah, there's probably about 30 grams because I looked on the
back of the bottle. I think there's about 30 grams
of sugar in 250 mil of Coke. That's all I had levelled me
(05:30):
off. Oh.
I stayed absolutely level. I started to drop off slightly
when I got into the hospital. I think that was when obviously
the adrenaline, sort of. So it's almost like you pre
pain. Wait.
I'm going to try and word this correctly pre.
Bonus for pain. No.
Prebanus prepainus. Prepainus.
Prepainus Prepainus. There you go.
(05:51):
That's what you've done. You prepaid?
Yeah. So in that aspect I was quite
lucky as such because it stoppedthe spike and I actually stayed.
All I had was that bottle of Coke and I had a protein yoghurt
pouch thing while I was sitting in the hospital reception and
that was all I had and it kept me absolutely stable throughout
the whole thing. Oh wow, that was absolutely mad.
(06:13):
But it as I say I was, I had my foot in this little step thing
and whilst I was couldn't move anywhere, my boss moved the
digger. Yeah.
Obviously the bucket was in the Bush because we was digging out
of these bushes. As he's moved it, he's pulled
like a Bush out underneath the Bush was Wasps nest.
(06:35):
So now there's about 300 to 500 Watt and I'm not exaggerating.
There was a lack of swarm of Wasps.
Well, you must have been buzzing.
Swarming around my boss, swarming around me.
I'm on the phone with my foot hanging dry out.
I hadn't even taken my sock off at this point, so I don't know
what my foot looks like. So yeah, I had to crawl myself,
(06:56):
like army crawl, say to the hospital.
I'm like, it's a 999. Like, hold on a second.
I'm just getting the van. There's a what's this?
Oh. My gosh.
Put the phone on the seat. I've had to drag myself up into
my van. Shut the door.
There's Wasps sitting in the fucking windscreen coming in
every. It sounds like a cartoon.
It sounds like a kind of sketch.Was like a cartoon.
(07:16):
Honestly it was like a Laurel and Hardy episode bro.
Oh my God. So yeah, that was, that was fun.
We, my boss managed to get me tothe hospital.
I sat in hospital for my wife and my mum met me up there.
Yeah, my wife and my mum met me up there once.
I had X-rays and saw the doctor.It turns out the only thing that
(07:38):
was wrong with me is I have a very, very subtle fracture in my
toe, but I have very, very severe bruising and muscle and
ligament damage of see where my foot's been crushed.
But I am so, so lucky that I actually still have my toes.
My foot was not completely crushed and none of my bones are
(08:02):
actually. Broken.
But Jack, you know, as Type 1 diabetics, we're supposed to
protect our feet. I know.
So from now on I have learned mylesson the very hard way.
Steel toe caps at work 24/7 because that would have saved
me. I know, but.
It would have just rocked on thesteel toe cap like it wouldn't
have crossed the steel. But one is good for content and
(08:24):
two, you've now got a new nickname which has gone on foot
so. So yeah, I'm I'm pretty sure
that I'll have to have my feet checked once everything's
properly just to make sure I've got no nerve damage and things
like that. I'm still waiting for a phone
call back from the hospital. They said within seven days from
(08:47):
the fracture clinic just to let me know whether they want to
further examine me or do any more X-rays or anything like
that or whether it is just a simple case of just you've just
got to let it heal itself. Yeah, well.
Sorry. Yeah, great fun, great week.
Got to cut the days off work though.
Good. My my week's been.
(09:09):
Do you know what happened to me at work the other day?
Right. I was going.
I was going. I didn't I, you know, when you
start to go low, you have something and you clear your low
alarm, right? I ended up going really low,
right? And then I was like, oh, I don't
feel good. So I just walking around.
I caught my arm on something, mysensor knocked off.
(09:32):
I was like I was just flapping. I was like, hopefully my sensors
come off. I stuck it back on, right.
I'm going low. So I think that's going to work.
So I stuck it back on my arm andit was still working.
I was like, yeah, no, it's working.
I'm giggling to myself and that.I bet it didn't last long, did
it? No, it literally lasted about
two minutes and then said sensorerror, please replace.
(09:54):
Yeah, just just weird, didn't it?
What? How your brain works when you're
low. Yeah, I thought I could stick it
back on, but do you want to knowthe weird thing?
I left it on my arm the whole rest of the day at work just so
I felt normal. If it was off me, I would have
been like, oh, this ain't right.Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know what he's saying. I know what he's saying.
(10:17):
Obviously it's a bit hotter now,so I'm rolling up my T-shirt a
bit so I can let a bit more air into me.
Yeah, so. And my sense is clearly visible
and oh, what's that on your arm?Oh, So I, it tracks my blood
sugars and he's goes, oh, he goes on type 2.
I said I ain't, I said my organ left me mate.
(10:39):
I said look after yours because yours still works.
Yeah, he goes, what? I said, yeah, I was 10 years
old. I was stripped of an organ, but
I made it dramatic. I said, so look after yours, eat
properly. I said you shouldn't really buy
that bakery. Should you if you're type 2?
You turn into. One of those should be.
(11:01):
Yeah, I I've done it to him likethat and.
You hypocrite. Well, I can inject.
He can't. But yeah, someone else was like,
oh, what's that on your? I've had it quite a lot this
week. I think it's where it's hotter
now. What's that on your arm?
(11:22):
That nicotine patch said, mate, I don't even smoke.
He goes, oh, did you quit then? I was like, no, I said no, it's
for my diabetes. I'm type 1 diabetic.
He's like, oh, that's not good, is it?
I said no, not really, but I didn't get much choice.
He comes in every day as well. It's like a regular and he's
(11:43):
never noticed it before. That's just like, what is wrong
with you? But it's good.
They're asking someone else comein with, with a sensor.
I I'll tell you what, most of them, a lot of type twos are now
wearing sensors. I'm starting to see a trend in
it. I, I know there's, I know
(12:05):
there's a girl that works in theyard next to we work and I'm
sure she's type 2, I can't remember but she wears sensors
but she has to self fund becausethe NHS won't give them to her.
Yeah, that's what I mean. I'm seeing so like when I speak
to people they're like, Oh yeah,I'm diabetic.
I'm type 2. It like on the realness of it,
It's good you're tracking your your life because it's your
(12:25):
health at the. End of course.
So it's good you care that much because obviously with a type 2,
your sugar levels still do fluctuate.
It's not like you don't go high,you don't go low.
It happens. No, yeah, of.
Course it does but on a serious note, non binary now so it's
good they're tracking it but I've just I'm spotting it so
much now so I'm actually curious.
(12:46):
How much does a type 2's levels actually fluctuate?
Yeah, I don't know the answer tothat question.
No, nor do I. And if any type 2's listened to
this podcast, I think maybe happen, but please let us know
because I'm actually my dad's type too, but he only does his
finger prick and he's like, yeah, I was 6.
I was like, well done dad. But yeah, no, it's just crossed
(13:13):
my mind. Yeah.
I think it is also because, well, obviously if you talk to
people and they tell you type 2,then, yeah, but you might be
seeing them out in public more like, again, because I said like
a few weeks ago, it's just summertime.
They're becoming so much widely available now for people that
suffer with type 1 diabetes. Yeah.
(13:33):
So you might just be seeing a lot more.
Yeah. Oh, Callum's quite funny at work
as well. He he, he does the T1D in the
wild thing. Obviously he's not, he's not
diabetic, but he's like he's a part of the crew now.
He's a part of the crew. He's like AT1D journalist.
Yeah, yeah, he's actually brilliant and he's he I think he
(13:54):
he was down on holiday and he's he spotted one and he said to
his I think it's his brother or his cousin.
He goes I like T1D in the world.His brother or cousin was like
what? There you go, Callum.
You could be our you're. You're our public relations man
now. Yeah, that's it.
You can be the WE RT-1 DPR. Man, he said.
If like family member thought itwas, I think it was something to
(14:17):
do with fat. Is that's the thing for fat in
it? What?
The sensor, I think he said that.
The thing for fat? Yeah, I think that's what he
said it's for. And definitely aim.
That, obviously, Callum corrected him.
But. I think it was fat.
Callum's going to shout at me. If I've got this wrong, it's
going to tell me. Cholesterol maybe?
I don't know. Some something, I think it was
(14:38):
fat. I think it was fat, but that but
that kind of I'm going to pretend it was fat because it
feels right now that kind of gets the relationship right.
If you're seeing like type twos with the sense, obviously type
twos are bigger boned being political.
My comment maybe? That's why he relates it to
that. Yeah.
(14:59):
I don't know, it's just really weird and I don't know what's
going on with my brain right now, but it's wow.
Moving on, how was my week? Yeah, how was your week I?
Don't know, I'm not at work today.
I had a bad night to, yeah, become a podcast day.
Yeah, I've I've had pretty shit sleeps for the last couple of
(15:20):
nights with his foot just can't get comfy because I've got to
try and sit bolt up right. Usually I lay like to besides
like and I've I've got to try and sit straight so I don't move
my foot left and. And plus, Zoe's there rubbing
it, saying my prayers. Do you know how difficult?
(15:41):
I didn't think it would be, but I don't know how difficult it is
to try and have a frozen bag of like peas or something on your
toes while you're laying down. You just bend your knee, you
know? Give it.
You're supposed to have your foot or hand and everything else
to swell it. That's the whole point of having
it elevated. Well, what I would do, I'd lie
on my belly and then rest my foot on top of it like a.
(16:05):
Like a baby. Yeah, just arch your back in it.
It's like. Zoe comes on just sprawled out
on the floor, watching the telly.
Yeah, exactly. It's like it's, it's reverse
elevated. It's like doing a Superman
isn't? It.
Yeah, I suppose so. That's my logical thinking.
(16:29):
Yeah, that's great fun. As I say I'm I'm definitely
going to have to get my feet checked out properly again
afterwards. Yeah, Albert.
I didn't even think of that until you sort of made that
analogy, bro, to be honest. What like that, that that's sort
of like the the time you're saying about diabetes.
It's got to look after your feet.
I didn't even. It did not even click.
Yeah. Yeah, my, my foot's fucked in
(16:50):
it. Well shit, he's just realized
it. Oh yeah.
Oh my God, I've got no pancreas and no toe.
Oh, I know. But I'll say surprisingly
enough, and I, I, we're, we're doing time in range this week
because I'm proud of my. All right.
(17:12):
You sure? Yes.
Right, let's go into it then. Time in range time, right as
Jack wants to celebrate. I'm going to go first.
Mine is 77%. That's still good bro.
I know, I know. That's still good.
Yeah, happy with that. Mine has finally sorted itself
(17:35):
out and I am 85% this week in range so I am very happy I'm
back to being what I see as my normal sugar levels.
Yeah, no, that's good. But what have you changed?
Is dieting, isn't it Jack? Pretty much, yeah.
I've just sort of like actually cared about what I've been
(17:56):
eating a bit more instead of just shoveling shit in my mouth
left and right. The difference it makes isn't
mental, isn't it? You see why I was?
Literally, I've I've twinkly basil and I've tweaked my diet
and I've gained probably about an extra 11% on my time and
range over the past two weeks. And has it helped your mindset?
Yeah, I was doing actually pretty good until the digger
(18:19):
went on my foot. Now I'm sort of a bit down in
the dumps. You're not.
You're not. Expecting the dumps, you just
can't walk around. Yes, I'm fed up because I'm
bored. Shit it is.
I'm such an active person that'sI've had to tweak me basil again
because obviously I've gone frombeing so.
Active and. Up in a bar to sitting on me
arse doing nothing all day. So I've upped it another unit.
(18:44):
I was, but while I'm at home, ifit's too much and it sends me a
bit low, I don't mind because I'll just get to snack.
Yeah, that's good. Been eating overnight oats?
You've been eating them during the night, they've just been
eating oats. At 10 AM, yeah, but they're made
overnight, bro. So if I eat a sandwich that I
made for dinner tomorrow, is that a overnight sandwich?
(19:06):
No, why have you got to be? Why have you got to be a
technical little dickhead? Bro, I didn't fucking name them
overnight oats, did I? I didn't say, oh, let's let's
call them overnight oats. No, that's just what they're
fucking called. You see my logic now though,
isn't it? Yeah, I do.
I do get it bro, but that's justwhat they're called.
Don't shoot the messenger. I'm just saying like a Goodman
(19:27):
type 1 diabetes. Try to count my calories and
stick to a decent diet bro, you know what I mean?
Like don't shoot me in the foot bro.
Don't run over my foot in a digger, you know what I mean?
Nah, I make a crawl for a wasp nest.
Scary. You know what?
I might have a breakfast fight for dinner.
I. Like a breakfast for dinner.
(19:48):
Right guys, thank you for listening this week.
Thank you very much for joining us this week everyone.
A little quick catch up just to let you know about my my general
chaos and how Mike's getting on and isn't a normal J to day
life. Yeah, Oh yeah.
And guys, talking of feet and walking, is anyone doing a
(20:10):
Diabetes UK Wellness walk? If you are, I might be doing a
five mile one. That would be good to see you
that. Would be nice.
I'll be there. Well, probably walking or not is
still yet to be determined if Jack.
Can't walk. I'm going to piggyback him.
But for five miles on my heavy lad for. 5 miles, all right.
(20:34):
I'll just get a line bike. Or he'll be on the line bike.
I'll do it on the line bike. But yeah, I will attempt it off
the line if he can't walk. Yes, I need to.
Finish that, brother. You could do the last mile.
Yeah. Half, half a mile or something
(20:55):
you can do, brother, Yeah. I mean, I can.
I'm going to. I'm going to seriously make sure
my foot's not better now until that.
Guys, there's a pole. Do you want to see us at the
Wellness Walk? Yes or no?
Yeah, yeah. Let us know and we will be
there. Guys, if you're on Spotify,
(21:16):
Scroll down. There's a pole vote in it.
Yes or no. I want at least 10 yeses and
then I'll piggyback Jack. Piggyback Jack, that's how.
Sick piggyback Jack. We've gone to Gollum Foot to
piggyback Jack. He's got so many names.
I'll prefer that one to be honest.
All right, Piggyback Jack. Take care everyone.
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