May 24, 2025 • 34 mins
This week on We Are T1D, Mike and Jack hit pause on the heavy diabetes topics and bring you something refreshingly real — a light-hearted catch-up filled with relatable Type 1 diabetes moments, everyday life chaos, and plenty of laughs.
In this episode, we chat about:
🍔 Family birthdays, BBQ overloads, and blood sugar aftermaths
🧼 Turning housework into sneaky steps and unexpected exercise wins
🍕 Anniversary celebrations fuelled by pizza, curry... and a couple of cheeky beers
📉 Sensor fails and funny T1D moments that’ll make you nod in recognition
Whether you're managing your blood sugars after a night out or just trying to keep up with everyday life with Type 1 diabetes, this episode is your reminder that you’re not alone — and it’s okay to embrace the chaos.
Expect raw honesty, real-life laughs, and the kind of banter only two T1D mates can deliver.
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(00:00):
Welcome back to the We Are T1D podcast, and you will be
believed everyone because it's going to be a pretty normal
episode. Yeah, we are back just having
our normal catch up of the week.We are well we had enough of
doing the subjects. I thought you probably do not
would as well. So we thought we'd bring back a
(00:21):
bit of normality. Yeah, but we might bring them
back. Who knows?
Who knows? Who knows?
If there's a subject you want tohear about, let us know, message
us and we'll do a whole episode on it.
So the We are T1D podcast. The Realist Type 1 Diabetes
podcast online hosted by myself Mike diagnosed at the age of 10.
(00:44):
And myself, Jack diagnosed at the age of 30.
We are just two mates giving youan 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 adults, but please take what we
say as guidance and not medical advice.
(01:05):
No, trust me, we are not doctors.
We are just here to make sure notype 1 diabetic ever, ever feels
alone. So let's kick it off Mike.
How has your week been mate? Because we haven't actually
spoke that much, have we? No, my weight, my week.
This week has been it's been nice because it was my mum's
(01:27):
birthday. Oh decent, do anything special.
Yeah, a nice family BBQ, lots ofpeople, lots of food and I've
been on a diet of a nice my little worm.
Well, not diet, it's more. I'm eating healthy now, but I
managed to consume about 4000 calories in one scene.
Get in my belly. I suck.
(01:52):
I've easily done at a BBQ dough.Yeah, but to be fair, I also had
alcohol next day. I didn't have much resistance.
That's good. It's.
Kind of hit me two days later ifthat makes sense.
What the resistance? Yeah, like it weren't even
resistance. It's the first time I had
morning glory in a while. You haven't had that for quite a
(02:14):
while, have you? So it's actually that that's the
only thing I can put it down to,is the only change in my in
activity whatsoever. So it's definitely down to that.
Basil's still the same for my evening.
And apart from that I've just been working.
I've got a hospital appointment coming up next week, I'll say
(02:35):
next week as well. It's coming up this week, but
this episode goes out on Sunday,so it's actually still this
week. So yeah, I've got a hospital
appointment with a little reviewon fears and I'll just say yeah,
the stuff's amazing and apart from that just been work and
(02:57):
family. How's your week been mate?
Not too bad, week was pretty just normal week, just generally
working. I had a day off on possibly
Thursday, can't remember. I think it was Thursday.
So I spent that absolutely blitzing my ass doing loads of
(03:18):
housework, which was great because I, I think I pretty much
spent about 3 hours of the day just cleaning like a little maid
and eating snacks. I was just walking around the
house. I was like, oh fucking I'll have
a biscuit, I'll do the Hoover and what I'm going to have a
packet of crisps. It's wicked.
(03:41):
That's. All right, isn't it?
Maybe I should try that. It's the activity.
It's good, I've started doing push ups again.
Nice. In the mornings, which is
helping me out a lot, it's stillnot getting rid of my morning
glory because that obviously that is that happens before I
even get out of bed. Some days I get lucky.
(04:02):
I'm glad. Control yourself.
Sorry, you just said before I get out of bed and then you go.
Some days I get lucky, so congratulations.
Yeah, nice. Some, yeah, I'll say some days I
do get, I don't know, I think the hot weather like we said a
(04:23):
couple of weeks ago is helping me out quite a lot and a lot of
activity as well. This weekend I think I've done
about 40 odd 1000 steps. That's good for you.
Yeah, it was Saturday we spent in London because it was it was
my wedding anniversary. Congratulations.
Thank you. Six years, six years married.
(04:43):
And then the day after was our anniversary where we had been
together for 10 years. Yeah.
So yeah, it's been a nice weekend.
Did. You go out for a meal or take
away or. No, we did plan to go out for a
meal, so we went Uptown and justhad a little walk around.
We went to South Bank Food Market and we shared a pizza and
(05:06):
some chicken topped like dirty fries things.
Oh, that sound good? Yeah.
Oh, they was it was just like a like chicken Donna meat, but
cooked properly, not shit you get out of a shop.
Do you know? Do you know what's?
The thing is, though, like people go like, Oh yeah, it's
our anniversary. We went to this posh restaurant.
(05:27):
We had this, we had that. But if you see a mate, you come
along, just munch in some loadedfries, right?
You can be like, oh, they look nice.
Yeah, yeah. Well, that's that's what I said.
Look, we go to London, we'll have no plans, we just treat you
like any other day and we're doing exactly what we both
enjoy. We're just spending time with
each other, eating good food, having a walk around.
(05:47):
If you want to do something, youcan't do it.
Just spur at the moment, no plans, just crack on and have a
laugh. So it was a really nice day.
You being spontaneous. Yeah, I was.
I was. Yeah, The blood sugars weren't
too bad after the pizza, but we as I say, we was going to go to
a restaurant, but once we had walked around we was like I
(06:09):
can't bothers. We just go home.
Yeah, we was going to go home and get a take away, go home,
get changed and go out for a Curry.
I mean. Sorry.
OK, Yeah. So we've got the train all the
way home. Come in.
I sat down and had a cup of tea.He's always like rushed.
I'm going to get changed. I looked at her and I went, can
you be bothered? She went.
To be honest, no, not really. You get a take away, Shrinty.
(06:32):
Yeah, it's like, sweet, let's go.
So we've got a Curry delivered so we didn't have to leave the
house again. Yeah.
I shared a picture of it on the group chat.
It was rather a large Curry. I had done 17 units upfront for
it. Yeah, 17 I saw. 17, yeah, it was
off. I did calculate it as well.
(06:52):
I weighed everything out and I calculated it roughly.
So I've done 17 units upfront. Yeah.
I think it was about 200 grams of carbs.
OK, Yeah. So I thought well I'll leave the
little, I'll leave three out so then but stay steady stayed
absolutely sweet. But I started getting peckish
again like 3 hours later. Like I'm thinking, oh, I'll
(07:13):
fancy like a little chocolate bar or something.
How? That's because I've got a sweet
tooth, you know, just like something sweet, not like a like
a big meal or something, just like a like a little chocolate
bar or a couple of biscuits witha cup of tea or something just
before I go to sleep. So I was digging out the picture
while you're speaking. Yeah, it's Curry.
I told you in it, it's massive. It's massive.
(07:35):
It was the naan bread that done it.
I think that naan bread was about 6070 grams of carbs on its
side. Yes, see when I have Curry now,
I try and avoid the naan bread. Yeah, I, I did.
I did, but it just didn't work. We was going to get one, that's
what. That's one that's had a bit
ripped off of it. Yeah.
So I was going to have the bit that was ripped off.
(07:58):
OK. But Zoe only wanted the small 1,
so instead of just having a little bit, I had to eat the
whole thing. Do you like?
Yes, that's the way it goes. I've paid for it, it's not going
to waste. I'm eating it.
What Curry was it? Well, I had a mixed grill.
Yeah, I was going to say becauseit looks, it don't look like a
Curry. No.
(08:19):
Well Zoe had a Corma so I literally I had my normal
tandoori mixed grill with special fried rice and some
Bombay potatoes, 2 onion bhajis and that massive naan bread and
obviously little cut the poppadoms.
And then because Zombie had a Curry, I had to have a Curry.
What's the long thing, Jack? It's I think it's called a sea
(08:41):
kebab. It's like a like a lamb kofta.
Like a Indian. Version.
Yeah, yeah. Very nice.
Yeah, I just wanted to buy it. Yes, but it's very good.
It's very good. So about 3 hours after, as I
say, I fancied a little snack. So I thought well I'm going to
do 6 units that covers me for a few biscuits.
(09:03):
Nothing happened to my blood. I just stayed steady.
I did not drop at all. Sitting there and watching it
with the biscuits like next to me, like I was watching the
telly and I'm like it's going togo soon and it didn't.
So I went to sleep and thought if it if it's going to drop,
it's going to drop. I'm going to my alarm will wake
me up anyway, it's fun. So anyway, I've didn't even hear
(09:26):
no alarms felt must have been about two 3:00 in the morning.
Could you see it? Jack, Jack, open my eyes.
Zoe's sitting there shaking me with me needle in her hand.
I'm like, whoa, how high am I? I knew straight away it's that
you're 25 going up. Oh wow.
(09:46):
What? Yeah, look like I looked at my
phone like, Oh my fucking God, that's long.
So she was just like, how many? How many should I load up?
So I don't even know. Just do 10.
I'd say 10. I'd say I'd tell him I just.
Just do 10 if it drops I've got biscuits there still from the
previous. It's.
(10:07):
Fine, so I put in 10 units, wentback to sleep.
I woke up I think must have beenabout half 6, like it's I woke
up and I'm like, you know that higher feeling where you've just
got a sore throat? It feels like you just slept in
a desert all night. Yeah, it's horrible.
So I was just like what level Because I haven't heard no
(10:28):
alarm, I don't feel hype. So I've opened my phone.
I was 14, just flat lining. So 10 units from 25 only set me
down to 14 and absolutely flat line for the rest of the
evening. Was it a 25 like diagonal arrow,
up arrow or just 25 straight up?OK, so that that tells you how
(10:48):
high it would have gone. It was going to go higher.
Wow. So yeah, so and then obviously
I've woke up and it was 14 still, so I put in like another
7 or 8 units I think when I wokeup, because obviously Morning
Glory is going to fucking send it loopy as well.
So I put like another seven or eight.
I think it was 8. Then I put more.
(11:09):
It didn't come back into range till about 10:30 on Sunday
morning. Was that in range or low?
In range, it levelled out. Wow.
It levelled out so that whole Curry from start to finish and I
didn't eat anything else at all whatsoever was about 32 units.
(11:29):
And how many hours of hell? Well, I think it first went out
of range at about one 2:00 in the morning, half one maybe, and
it didn't come back into range till I'd say about 940, five,
10:00-ish. So it's a good 910 hours.
Yeah, wow. And then when I got back into
(11:51):
range, I thought it was a great idea because it was actually our
anniversary on Sunday to celebrate being back in range by
going to the Toby Carvery, having a massive roast dinner, a
beer and then on the way home I got to Mcflurry.
Yes, Jack. Come on.
Come on, fuck diabetes in the asshole, right?
(12:14):
How did that go? To be fair, it actually wasn't
that bad. Bro.
It wasn't that. Bad.
It wasn't that bad. I think I picked up a little
bit, but I'll call it. Oh, that's good.
I ain't had, I ain't had no naughty foods.
Oh, I've had too much naughty foods.
I need to stop. I ain't had nothing naughty, all
(12:35):
right? The BBQ weren't even that
naughty either, because it's just me.
It's just chicken, lamb, beef. What what carbs did you have
with it? Was it like a potato or?
It was pure protein or no? Carbs at all?
So where did the fucking galleries come?
From I had these chorizo sausages as well, which aren't
(12:58):
too high, but I decided to put them in hot Dog Row obviously,
so I had two of them. Then I had a burger because you
gotta have a burger at a BBQ. Oh.
So there's your carb, then in ityou roll because that's it.
And the rest of the carb was alcohol.
Yeah. I went up to 18 mainly because I
switched to Strongbow dark fruits because I run out of
(13:19):
beer. Oh, I bet that's dangerous.
It's basically fruit juice, isn't it?
It's just going up and up and up.
I was like. That's yeah, cider spot.
Just any cider as one of my mates calls it.
Adult apple juice. It is.
It is fruit juice. It's bloody lovely.
Actually. I went too far.
I like old moots more than Strongbow, but.
(13:41):
Now the weather's coming out, I'm actually quite I'm finding
myself being quite partial to a bottle of Corona with a little
lime in it. Oh, tropical.
It's very refreshing. OK, I'm, I'm saying really like
Corona. I was going to say we're going
for a corona but I don't like. Absolutely dead in that
conversation, didn't it? You don't have to drink the same
(14:03):
beer brother to go for a beer. No, she knows.
Cheers mate. We've got the same no pancreas
and a corona and a lime you. Probably.
Just tell me you don't like lime.
Well, no, I do. Now the only reason I've been
(14:23):
drinking bottles of Corona because I have worked it out.
There are only 10 grams of carbsbut I can gauge it by like how
many bottles? So yeah, cores is I think it was
88 a bottle. So and with this, whatever else
is in it, it works out about 10.Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
(14:44):
So because obviously, you know, some things have a higher ratio,
blah, blah blah blah. So I worked out it's one unit of
beer. I don't really go low from
drinking anymore, maybe because I don't drink like a absolute
twatted anymore, but. No, see, I don't.
Well I never have. I've just been like going out
for well, like instance going out for a Sunday lunch and I'll,
(15:07):
I'll have a beer with me lunch. Or when we was walking around
London, I went into I actually really fancied a cold beer.
So we went to a shop when I got a cup of beers.
I think Zoe got like a Malibu and Coke in the can ready mixed
thing. And we went and sat in the
sunshine in Hyde Park for an hour and just had a cup of
beers. That's lovely.
Yeah. It sounds sarcastic when I'm
(15:29):
saying that, but it's, it's justnice, you know?
No, it's, it is. I was to say it was just a nice,
relaxing, wholesome day just enjoying each other's company.
My levels weren't too bad, whichis always a plus side because it
takes away the stress of having diabetes for a few hours.
And to be honest, it was nice. Like I said, I had a pizza chip
(15:51):
beers. It was nice to just say, do you
know what? I'm fucking switching off for a
day. Bollocks.
No, it would be. They'll get quite jealous
sometimes because obviously I'vegot kids and a fucking horse.
I wouldn't change it for the world, but I'd just like to go.
Come on now. But let's just go.
Let's just go out. Go sit in Hyde Park, have a few
(16:12):
drinks. Do you know how many people say
that to me as well? Like when Like they say, oh,
what'd you get up to this weekend?
I'm like, oh, me and Zoe went uptown.
We've done this. We've done that.
What would you do? And they were like, so I own
with the kids. Yeah, and I wish I could do
that. I'm so just fucking doing it.
Take your kids with you. Yeah, but that, no, because
they're opinionated, they'll be like, oh, I don't want to come,
(16:34):
don't want to go. It's like just picking a dinner.
Yes, yeah, but yeah, but your kids are teenagers.
Broth. They're at that age.
Like you think when we was that age and your mum and dad asked
you if you wanted to come up London for the day with them,
you're like, no, I have a laugh.I said yes every time.
No, if I was like 1516, I'll be like, oh cool, I'll wait till
you go out. And I'm having some pals around
here. I nearly ripped me Spencer off
(16:59):
this week. Well, I just.
Clicked in the head, I've got I've got diabetes, Tourette's,
it just comes out. That's fine.
It was so previous week you tried to disarm one.
No, you're trying to RIP them out.
What's going on? Yeah, well, I didn't try to.
I was actually trying to get into my bedroom without letting
the cat in. And I think if you remember a
couple of weeks when I actually when I changed me said, oh, it
(17:22):
was the, IT was the time I disarmed it.
Yeah. I had to change my arms, didn't
I? I put it on my right arm.
Change your arms. What?
What are you fucking GI Joe? Yeah, I just popped it off and
put it on the other one. No, I'm, I'm, I'm a lefty, you
know, I'm always, I've, I've always got my sensor on my left
arm, but it, it was getting a bit irritated the skin.
(17:43):
So I thought I'd give it a couple of weeks break.
So obviously I forgot that it was on my right.
So as I've gone in my bedroom without letting the cat in,
there's a light switch just there on the wall.
And as I've scraped my shoulder into it's just I, I felt it bang
and I, I was like, no. And I looked and it was just
(18:03):
sort of like half flapping off. Yeah, but it stayed in and I
checked my phone like nothing tocut out.
And then I remembered because it's got the red lines at the
bottom. It says sense their ends in five
hours. It's like, fuck, it's changed
anyway that. Was all right talking to
changing arms. Obviously I'll switch to Libra
(18:24):
to plus now and I had no errors,it was so nice.
Just that's good. Put it on and it works in an
hour. How it should be?
My well to be fair, my sense hasbeen pretty apart from like
disarming them. Yeah, nearly nearly stabbing
myself. They've actually been pretty
spot on to be honest. And I've been finger pricking as
(18:45):
well because my DVLA thing's been coming up and the small
enough finger pricked I was 6.3 on my sensor and on my blood
glucose monitor I tested at 6.2.Yeah, I've noticed whenever I do
the test, like you know the justto see if it's right, it usually
is. It'd be like 0.5 out say.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so if you like 6.9, you
(19:09):
really like 6.4. It's very close.
Yeah, as I was saying, sorry Jack with his Tourette's.
I'm sorry. I'll put it on a different arm
and you know, when I was sittingin a car the other day and it
went sensor 2 up, I'm sitting there today and I was like fuck,
fuck my sensor, it's going to burn right now.
(19:30):
I realise it's on the other arm.So yeah, that's my little story.
I don't know. Why did I even tell that story?
I don't know. I don't know either how are you
getting on with the? Is there any difference between
the Libra 2 and the Libra 2 Plusor is it just an extra day?
The main difference I've noticedis one has plus after it.
(19:55):
Is it the? Is it the same size?
I think it's a bit smaller. I don't know if it's just me but
I feel like. The same sort of applicator.
Yeah, no, it it clicks better. It actually clicks better.
Actually, you're making me thinkabout it now.
So if it clicks better, it's much smoother.
You know, the other one was likequite this one.
(20:17):
That's why I always used to makemyself bleed because I used to
have put so much force behind itand then the knack would go and
it was bang straight in me. It's like a one inch punch.
Well, I'm a professional now. I've got, I know the knack.
Exactly. He stopped wearing it on his
elbow. But yeah, I, I think it's a tiny
bit smaller. Not much.
(20:40):
But that might just be me being me telling myself it's
different. That probably is just you being
you and me. But the applicator was much
smoother and it's supposed to last 15 days.
I guess it does, I don't know. It's my first week so.
So what do you mean? You guessed, but what does it
say 15 days down the bottom? No, it says 12.
(21:03):
Well, did it say 15? I don't know, I didn't check.
Watch a Dick. Right.
So how's your time in range, Jack?
Last curveball. My time in range this week has
been let me just get it up 75%. OK, quite similar to mine.
(21:29):
Yeah, it's not great, but it's not bad, so I'm happy with it.
Yeah, no, it should be. It's above 70.
Yeah, I'm happy either ways. Yeah, I'm 76.
Oh, nearly twinning. And look at my lows.
My lows have gone right down. Yeah, my lows are only 3%.
This is the highest that you're getting me now.
Right top to bottom. Should we do it?
(21:50):
Yeah, go on, go. For it.
So I'm 4% / 13 and then 16 percent, 76% and 4%.
Nice, nice. I am over 13, starting off with
it is 7%, then 15 percent, 75% and 3%.
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That's very good, Jack. When you go to the average
glucose for the week, everythingelse is pretty much between 7:00
and 8:00 apart from 3:00 in the morning and 6:00 in the morning
and it is 11.3. That is what I keep telling
everyone. That is my spike from on the dot
(22:32):
of 3:00 AM every fucking day. Change your long lasting.
No, I haven't yet. No, I mean just change it.
Yeah. To what?
I don't know what else is available.
I'll have to speak to you. No, I've got the same day.
You've got an appointment. I've got an appointment.
It's just mine's not face to face.
I'll get a phone call, so I'm not.
That's because Bob likes my face.
You probably won't even see Bob.I will.
(22:55):
I'll say no. I've seen you.
I've seen Bob. I don't know who's going to
bring me. I'll find out when I.
What's your average Bob? Sorry, go on.
You're just talking about your right thing.
Let's throw it up on the. Average.
Yeah. It is 8.
Mine 7.5. Nice spot on both.
Yeah, they were both really, really good.
(23:17):
Yo, let me begin, because it's time for the lesson.
I win. You and them bloody jingles.
I just want to hear the winds and it's nice to bring it back.
It is actually nice to bring it back.
And 1st on the comeback is who is it Jack?
It's Maria, of course. Great, Maria.
(23:39):
Maria. Oh, you.
Want me to read it? Yeah, you still remember how to
do that, right? Yes, yeah, sort of.
So yeah, kicking it off this week we have Maria and she says
survived A7 day all inclusive holiday in Turkey and bought
back a heat rash, a unique take away from a country, not a skin
(24:01):
infection from a tattoo last time.
Hey. Yes, Maria, I love that.
I'm so jealous you went to Turkey as well.
So did you have to put the heat rash in your bag or did it just
like come? Yeah, did.
Like what did it get through customs all right?
I'm sorry, right next. I'm sorry.
How did you get a heat rash? When's the wall?
(24:22):
You get too hot and you get a rash from it.
Oh, fair enough. What else you want me to?
Say, ain't that sunburn, though?No, it's a heat rash.
So Next up we have Anna. I've had two funerals in the
last week and no alarms went off.
I was so worried about it but I stayed in range the whole time.
(24:45):
Yes I can totally vouch for thatbecause I had a funeral last
week and I actually silenced my alarms and I made sure I did but
they didn't go off and I I was expecting to be levels going
fucking haywire all day. But the only time they went out
of range is when we went back tothe wake and I started drinking
and ate loads of buffet food. Decent.
(25:09):
Did you take him off silent and remember that?
Yes. Oh.
Yeah, yeah, I was just so good. I would have left it on silent.
Night off, guys, night off. Next up we've got Ellie and he
says tried Fias for the first time.
I managed to keep my post pasta spark under control.
(25:29):
Never thought I'd win the pasta battle.
Yes, Ellie, Yeah, that's the tricky one.
It always is. I think there's a bitch.
All all of it. Pasta, rice, potato, just pretty
much anything that ain't a saladis hard work.
Or a bit of bacon. Even that can go wrong sometimes
(25:53):
and I don't know how. It's type 1 diabetes next.
We got Becky, went on holiday abroad, guesstimated with the
carbs for the first time and stayed pretty much in range.
Well done. Well done.
If it was a hot country, I reckon that's the cheat code.
(26:16):
Yeah, well, that's exactly the same as what happened to me last
year when it I was so nervous about not being able to weigh
out my portions and how I'm going to deal with the food and
I win the whole holiday and I was more in range than I was at
home. What I mean people that live
abroad, I'll tell you what, you're you're on a cheat code.
Yeah, but they have to pay for their insulin.
(26:37):
But there's pros and cons. Yeah, it costs you to have the
benefit of feeling like you havea pancreas a little bit.
Next that we have got Susie and she said we've got access to the
Tslim app in Australia that allows us to remote bolus from
(26:59):
our phone. I created a widget shortcut on
my phone lock screen. It's so easy now.
The Face ID must be used for allbonuses, though for the For
those concerned, that's a good. Wow, that's well, good.
Yeah, that is really good. It's the widget, the only one
I'm looking for. Just click.
There you go, crack on. The T Slim's the one that works
for Libra as well, isn't it? It works for both now I think.
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I have no idea bro. I don't know.
I should do as a podcast host, but I don't.
No, no, neither. Do I?
But yeah, I like the added bit with the faces ID.
Maybe someone got hold of your phone and just went, oh, what's
that? 100.
Oh wow. Next we've got Leon finally
(27:44):
nailed my pre footy match insulin timing, no mid game hypo
and I even scored a goal. Celebrated with an apple juice
obviously. Congratulations.
Yes, Leon, I love that. I can relate a lot to that
because I always needed like a Mars bar and oranges at half
time because I felt that shit. And that just goes to show, like
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I say, the best thing if you're not sure about something is
literally trial and error, because I guarantee how many
times have you failed that before?
You've got it right. Well, that's their first time
so. No, but it says finally nailed
my pre footy match insulin timing so that means he's
finally got it right. So obviously that means he's
tried it before. Yeah, do.
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You know what I mean? So that's the prime example of.
You will always get there in theend.
He will. Oh, is he on about?
Oh, OK, so is that for brick food before the game?
I'm really deep in this now because obviously.
No, I don't know bro. Because obviously you need to
eat for energy. Yeah, yeah, maybe he's having
like a pre workout or a pre likea pregame snack.
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They recommend like pasta beforefootball and stuff like that
because it's slow. So it might be that actually.
Yeah, yeah. Oh, mid game high post
obviously. Yeah, he's just injecting like
normal. 30 minutes and then it'sall hitting at once.
Boom boom boom, he's gone low. Well done mate.
You're a better diabetic than me, right?
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And Next up we have got Haley and she says my 6 year old niece
asked if my Libra was a magic sticker.
I told her it helps me fire invisible monsters.
Now she wants one too. It made me smile.
That's nice, that's lovely. That's.
That's definitely really nice. I'm going to have to use that.
Yeah, it fights off the invisible monsters, but.
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The glucose monsters. You say it's a Ghostbusters
proton pack. Just extra small.
Yeah, a tiny one. Yeah, next we've got money, they
go. My new workmates didn't even
flinch when I injected at lunch.Just a quick you good mate and
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carried on. Felt seen, not judged.
That's a big fucking win. That is a major win.
Well said and well done to them.Yeah, yeah, it's nice to hear
that other people are not assholes.
Yeah. Basically it's.
Quite funny because today at work I had someone that don't
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usually be on shift with me and obviously I jabbed for my food
mate. His head fucking twitching
everywhere, he didn't know whereto look.
It's so funny to watch. To be fair, the first time I see
you stick a needle in your ass in the staff room at card
factory brother that was I didn't like.
What? What's going on bruv?
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Only come in here to get something out of the safe.
Got a bit more than that. You saw what, mate?
Just so you know guys, I just pulled it down a little bit to
inject it on my old fucking ass.Yeah 1 is full on bum cheat.
When the friendship became a bitmore than yeah, the ass came.
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Oh, you're getting talking, Jack.
I just heard how that sounded and it's not good.
No. That's not good.
We're both married. Yes, we are both married to
women guys so don't be scared. We're just good friends.
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And Next up we have Tara, she said Fierce doing its thing. 98%
tit is my win of the week. Come on.
Oh. That's amazing.
It is. I can't remember the last time I
had 90s. Oh, it does.
It goes above that. Yeah, goes above 90.
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It goes above. It goes above 80.
Goes above 70. Now check.
And last up this week, we have Katie and they said my win is
starting a new sensor today and ending the last one on 85%.
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Well, happy with that. It's been a while.
Wicked. That's wicked.
Well done Katie smashed it. That is wicked.
And that is all we have time forthis week on the We Are T1D
podcast. Thank you for tuning in
everybody. It has been lovely experience
having you here listening with us.
How was that new sign off? Cheers guys to.
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Shuffle your papers and. I'm just like the music, I don't
know what it is. Well, yeah, as we say, every
week people join us. Same time, same place, back
again next week. And next week, we have a bit of
A twist because we have a special guest joining us.
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And a little Now who's joining us?
He'll turn up on his bike. Not anymore.
So, yeah, make sure you join in next week to hear our special
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Please remember to keep liking. Just keep doing what you're
doing, everyone, because it's amazing.
Thank you very much. See you later.
Bye guys. You kind of just said it all in.
Yeah, soldier Tourettes just. Diabetes.
Oh my God, not that type more ADHD.
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It's just go on needle in my ass.
Libra sensor and there are otherbrands of GGCGMS.
Charles can say GGM. SGGM.
That sounds so much better. Rebrand Good glucose monitor.
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But you tell it when it's behaving.
Good glucose monitor. Well done.
Pain in my arm and. Then when it goes up, you're
like, no, no get. Down.
Welcome back to the We Are T1D podcast, and you will be
believed everyone because it's going to be a pretty normal
episode. Yeah, we are back just having
our normal catch up of the week.We are well we had enough of
doing the subjects. I thought you probably do not
would as well. So we thought we'd bring back a
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bit of normality. Yeah, but we might bring them
back. Who knows?
Who knows? Who knows?
If there's a subject you want tohear about, let us know, message
us and we'll do a whole episode on it.
So the We are T1D podcast. The Realist Type 1 Diabetes
podcast online hosted by myself Mike diagnosed at the age of 10.
(00:44):
And myself, Jack diagnosed at the age of 30.
We are just two mates giving youan 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 adults, but please take what we
say as guidance and not medical advice.
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No, trust me, we are not doctors.
We are just here to make sure notype 1 diabetic ever, ever feels
alone. So let's kick it off Mike.
How has your week been mate? Because we haven't actually
spoke that much, have we? No, my weight, my week.
This week has been it's been nice because it was my mum's
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birthday. Oh decent, do anything special.
Yeah, a nice family BBQ, lots ofpeople, lots of food and I've
been on a diet of a nice my little worm.
Well, not diet, it's more. I'm eating healthy now, but I
managed to consume about 4000 calories in one scene.
Get in my belly. I suck.
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I've easily done at a BBQ dough.Yeah, but to be fair, I also had
alcohol next day. I didn't have much resistance.
That's good. It's.
Kind of hit me two days later ifthat makes sense.
What the resistance? Yeah, like it weren't even
resistance. It's the first time I had
morning glory in a while. You haven't had that for quite a
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while, have you? So it's actually that that's the
only thing I can put it down to,is the only change in my in
activity whatsoever. So it's definitely down to that.
Basil's still the same for my evening.
And apart from that I've just been working.
I've got a hospital appointment coming up next week, I'll say
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next week as well. It's coming up this week, but
this episode goes out on Sunday,so it's actually still this
week. So yeah, I've got a hospital
appointment with a little reviewon fears and I'll just say yeah,
the stuff's amazing and apart from that just been work and
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family. How's your week been mate?
Not too bad, week was pretty just normal week, just generally
working. I had a day off on possibly
Thursday, can't remember. I think it was Thursday.
So I spent that absolutely blitzing my ass doing loads of
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housework, which was great because I, I think I pretty much
spent about 3 hours of the day just cleaning like a little maid
and eating snacks. I was just walking around the
house. I was like, oh fucking I'll have
a biscuit, I'll do the Hoover and what I'm going to have a
packet of crisps. It's wicked.
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That's. All right, isn't it?
Maybe I should try that. It's the activity.
It's good, I've started doing push ups again.
Nice. In the mornings, which is
helping me out a lot, it's stillnot getting rid of my morning
glory because that obviously that is that happens before I
even get out of bed. Some days I get lucky.
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I'm glad. Control yourself.
Sorry, you just said before I get out of bed and then you go.
Some days I get lucky, so congratulations.
Yeah, nice. Some, yeah, I'll say some days I
do get, I don't know, I think the hot weather like we said a
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couple of weeks ago is helping me out quite a lot and a lot of
activity as well. This weekend I think I've done
about 40 odd 1000 steps. That's good for you.
Yeah, it was Saturday we spent in London because it was it was
my wedding anniversary. Congratulations.
Thank you. Six years, six years married.
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And then the day after was our anniversary where we had been
together for 10 years. Yeah.
So yeah, it's been a nice weekend.
Did. You go out for a meal or take
away or. No, we did plan to go out for a
meal, so we went Uptown and justhad a little walk around.
We went to South Bank Food Market and we shared a pizza and
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some chicken topped like dirty fries things.
Oh, that sound good? Yeah.
Oh, they was it was just like a like chicken Donna meat, but
cooked properly, not shit you get out of a shop.
Do you know? Do you know what's?
The thing is, though, like people go like, Oh yeah, it's
our anniversary. We went to this posh restaurant.
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We had this, we had that. But if you see a mate, you come
along, just munch in some loadedfries, right?
You can be like, oh, they look nice.
Yeah, yeah. Well, that's that's what I said.
Look, we go to London, we'll have no plans, we just treat you
like any other day and we're doing exactly what we both
enjoy. We're just spending time with
each other, eating good food, having a walk around.
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If you want to do something, youcan't do it.
Just spur at the moment, no plans, just crack on and have a
laugh. So it was a really nice day.
You being spontaneous. Yeah, I was.
I was. Yeah, The blood sugars weren't
too bad after the pizza, but we as I say, we was going to go to
a restaurant, but once we had walked around we was like I
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can't bothers. We just go home.
Yeah, we was going to go home and get a take away, go home,
get changed and go out for a Curry.
I mean. Sorry.
OK, Yeah. So we've got the train all the
way home. Come in.
I sat down and had a cup of tea.He's always like rushed.
I'm going to get changed. I looked at her and I went, can
you be bothered? She went.
To be honest, no, not really. You get a take away, Shrinty.
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Yeah, it's like, sweet, let's go.
So we've got a Curry delivered so we didn't have to leave the
house again. Yeah.
I shared a picture of it on the group chat.
It was rather a large Curry. I had done 17 units upfront for
it. Yeah, 17 I saw. 17, yeah, it was
off. I did calculate it as well.
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I weighed everything out and I calculated it roughly.
So I've done 17 units upfront. Yeah.
I think it was about 200 grams of carbs.
OK, Yeah. So I thought well I'll leave the
little, I'll leave three out so then but stay steady stayed
absolutely sweet. But I started getting peckish
again like 3 hours later. Like I'm thinking, oh, I'll
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fancy like a little chocolate bar or something.
How? That's because I've got a sweet
tooth, you know, just like something sweet, not like a like
a big meal or something, just like a like a little chocolate
bar or a couple of biscuits witha cup of tea or something just
before I go to sleep. So I was digging out the picture
while you're speaking. Yeah, it's Curry.
I told you in it, it's massive. It's massive.
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It was the naan bread that done it.
I think that naan bread was about 6070 grams of carbs on its
side. Yes, see when I have Curry now,
I try and avoid the naan bread. Yeah, I, I did.
I did, but it just didn't work. We was going to get one, that's
what. That's one that's had a bit
ripped off of it. Yeah.
So I was going to have the bit that was ripped off.
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OK. But Zoe only wanted the small 1,
so instead of just having a little bit, I had to eat the
whole thing. Do you like?
Yes, that's the way it goes. I've paid for it, it's not going
to waste. I'm eating it.
What Curry was it? Well, I had a mixed grill.
Yeah, I was going to say becauseit looks, it don't look like a
Curry. No.
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Well Zoe had a Corma so I literally I had my normal
tandoori mixed grill with special fried rice and some
Bombay potatoes, 2 onion bhajis and that massive naan bread and
obviously little cut the poppadoms.
And then because Zombie had a Curry, I had to have a Curry.
What's the long thing, Jack? It's I think it's called a sea
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kebab. It's like a like a lamb kofta.
Like a Indian. Version.
Yeah, yeah. Very nice.
Yeah, I just wanted to buy it. Yes, but it's very good.
It's very good. So about 3 hours after, as I
say, I fancied a little snack. So I thought well I'm going to
do 6 units that covers me for a few biscuits.
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Nothing happened to my blood. I just stayed steady.
I did not drop at all. Sitting there and watching it
with the biscuits like next to me, like I was watching the
telly and I'm like it's going togo soon and it didn't.
So I went to sleep and thought if it if it's going to drop,
it's going to drop. I'm going to my alarm will wake
me up anyway, it's fun. So anyway, I've didn't even hear
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no alarms felt must have been about two 3:00 in the morning.
Could you see it? Jack, Jack, open my eyes.
Zoe's sitting there shaking me with me needle in her hand.
I'm like, whoa, how high am I? I knew straight away it's that
you're 25 going up. Oh wow.
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What? Yeah, look like I looked at my
phone like, Oh my fucking God, that's long.
So she was just like, how many? How many should I load up?
So I don't even know. Just do 10.
I'd say 10. I'd say I'd tell him I just.
Just do 10 if it drops I've got biscuits there still from the
previous. It's.
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Fine, so I put in 10 units, wentback to sleep.
I woke up I think must have beenabout half 6, like it's I woke
up and I'm like, you know that higher feeling where you've just
got a sore throat? It feels like you just slept in
a desert all night. Yeah, it's horrible.
So I was just like what level Because I haven't heard no
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alarm, I don't feel hype. So I've opened my phone.
I was 14, just flat lining. So 10 units from 25 only set me
down to 14 and absolutely flat line for the rest of the
evening. Was it a 25 like diagonal arrow,
up arrow or just 25 straight up?OK, so that that tells you how
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high it would have gone. It was going to go higher.
Wow. So yeah, so and then obviously
I've woke up and it was 14 still, so I put in like another
7 or 8 units I think when I wokeup, because obviously Morning
Glory is going to fucking send it loopy as well.
So I put like another seven or eight.
I think it was 8. Then I put more.
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It didn't come back into range till about 10:30 on Sunday
morning. Was that in range or low?
In range, it levelled out. Wow.
It levelled out so that whole Curry from start to finish and I
didn't eat anything else at all whatsoever was about 32 units.
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And how many hours of hell? Well, I think it first went out
of range at about one 2:00 in the morning, half one maybe, and
it didn't come back into range till I'd say about 940, five,
10:00-ish. So it's a good 910 hours.
Yeah, wow. And then when I got back into
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range, I thought it was a great idea because it was actually our
anniversary on Sunday to celebrate being back in range by
going to the Toby Carvery, having a massive roast dinner, a
beer and then on the way home I got to Mcflurry.
Yes, Jack. Come on.
Come on, fuck diabetes in the asshole, right?
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How did that go? To be fair, it actually wasn't
that bad. Bro.
It wasn't that. Bad.
It wasn't that bad. I think I picked up a little
bit, but I'll call it. Oh, that's good.
I ain't had, I ain't had no naughty foods.
Oh, I've had too much naughty foods.
I need to stop. I ain't had nothing naughty, all
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right? The BBQ weren't even that
naughty either, because it's just me.
It's just chicken, lamb, beef. What what carbs did you have
with it? Was it like a potato or?
It was pure protein or no? Carbs at all?
So where did the fucking galleries come?
From I had these chorizo sausages as well, which aren't
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too high, but I decided to put them in hot Dog Row obviously,
so I had two of them. Then I had a burger because you
gotta have a burger at a BBQ. Oh.
So there's your carb, then in ityou roll because that's it.
And the rest of the carb was alcohol.
Yeah. I went up to 18 mainly because I
switched to Strongbow dark fruits because I run out of
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beer. Oh, I bet that's dangerous.
It's basically fruit juice, isn't it?
It's just going up and up and up.
I was like. That's yeah, cider spot.
Just any cider as one of my mates calls it.
Adult apple juice. It is.
It is fruit juice. It's bloody lovely.
Actually. I went too far.
I like old moots more than Strongbow, but.
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Now the weather's coming out, I'm actually quite I'm finding
myself being quite partial to a bottle of Corona with a little
lime in it. Oh, tropical.
It's very refreshing. OK, I'm, I'm saying really like
Corona. I was going to say we're going
for a corona but I don't like. Absolutely dead in that
conversation, didn't it? You don't have to drink the same
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beer brother to go for a beer. No, she knows.
Cheers mate. We've got the same no pancreas
and a corona and a lime you. Probably.
Just tell me you don't like lime.
Well, no, I do. Now the only reason I've been
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drinking bottles of Corona because I have worked it out.
There are only 10 grams of carbsbut I can gauge it by like how
many bottles? So yeah, cores is I think it was
88 a bottle. So and with this, whatever else
is in it, it works out about 10.Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So because obviously, you know, some things have a higher ratio,
blah, blah blah blah. So I worked out it's one unit of
beer. I don't really go low from
drinking anymore, maybe because I don't drink like a absolute
twatted anymore, but. No, see, I don't.
Well I never have. I've just been like going out
for well, like instance going out for a Sunday lunch and I'll,
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I'll have a beer with me lunch. Or when we was walking around
London, I went into I actually really fancied a cold beer.
So we went to a shop when I got a cup of beers.
I think Zoe got like a Malibu and Coke in the can ready mixed
thing. And we went and sat in the
sunshine in Hyde Park for an hour and just had a cup of
beers. That's lovely.
Yeah. It sounds sarcastic when I'm
(15:29):
saying that, but it's, it's justnice, you know?
No, it's, it is. I was to say it was just a nice,
relaxing, wholesome day just enjoying each other's company.
My levels weren't too bad, whichis always a plus side because it
takes away the stress of having diabetes for a few hours.
And to be honest, it was nice. Like I said, I had a pizza chip
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beers. It was nice to just say, do you
know what? I'm fucking switching off for a
day. Bollocks.
No, it would be. They'll get quite jealous
sometimes because obviously I'vegot kids and a fucking horse.
I wouldn't change it for the world, but I'd just like to go.
Come on now. But let's just go.
Let's just go out. Go sit in Hyde Park, have a few
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drinks. Do you know how many people say
that to me as well? Like when Like they say, oh,
what'd you get up to this weekend?
I'm like, oh, me and Zoe went uptown.
We've done this. We've done that.
What would you do? And they were like, so I own
with the kids. Yeah, and I wish I could do
that. I'm so just fucking doing it.
Take your kids with you. Yeah, but that, no, because
they're opinionated, they'll be like, oh, I don't want to come,
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don't want to go. It's like just picking a dinner.
Yes, yeah, but yeah, but your kids are teenagers.
Broth. They're at that age.
Like you think when we was that age and your mum and dad asked
you if you wanted to come up London for the day with them,
you're like, no, I have a laugh.I said yes every time.
No, if I was like 1516, I'll be like, oh cool, I'll wait till
you go out. And I'm having some pals around
here. I nearly ripped me Spencer off
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this week. Well, I just.
Clicked in the head, I've got I've got diabetes, Tourette's,
it just comes out. That's fine.
It was so previous week you tried to disarm one.
No, you're trying to RIP them out.
What's going on? Yeah, well, I didn't try to.
I was actually trying to get into my bedroom without letting
the cat in. And I think if you remember a
couple of weeks when I actually when I changed me said, oh, it
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was the, IT was the time I disarmed it.
Yeah. I had to change my arms, didn't
I? I put it on my right arm.
Change your arms. What?
What are you fucking GI Joe? Yeah, I just popped it off and
put it on the other one. No, I'm, I'm, I'm a lefty, you
know, I'm always, I've, I've always got my sensor on my left
arm, but it, it was getting a bit irritated the skin.
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So I thought I'd give it a couple of weeks break.
So obviously I forgot that it was on my right.
So as I've gone in my bedroom without letting the cat in,
there's a light switch just there on the wall.
And as I've scraped my shoulder into it's just I, I felt it bang
and I, I was like, no. And I looked and it was just
(18:03):
sort of like half flapping off. Yeah, but it stayed in and I
checked my phone like nothing tocut out.
And then I remembered because it's got the red lines at the
bottom. It says sense their ends in five
hours. It's like, fuck, it's changed
anyway that. Was all right talking to
changing arms. Obviously I'll switch to Libra
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to plus now and I had no errors,it was so nice.
Just that's good. Put it on and it works in an
hour. How it should be?
My well to be fair, my sense hasbeen pretty apart from like
disarming them. Yeah, nearly nearly stabbing
myself. They've actually been pretty
spot on to be honest. And I've been finger pricking as
(18:45):
well because my DVLA thing's been coming up and the small
enough finger pricked I was 6.3 on my sensor and on my blood
glucose monitor I tested at 6.2.Yeah, I've noticed whenever I do
the test, like you know the justto see if it's right, it usually
is. It'd be like 0.5 out say.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so if you like 6.9, you
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really like 6.4. It's very close.
Yeah, as I was saying, sorry Jack with his Tourette's.
I'm sorry. I'll put it on a different arm
and you know, when I was sittingin a car the other day and it
went sensor 2 up, I'm sitting there today and I was like fuck,
fuck my sensor, it's going to burn right now.
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I realise it's on the other arm.So yeah, that's my little story.
I don't know. Why did I even tell that story?
I don't know. I don't know either how are you
getting on with the? Is there any difference between
the Libra 2 and the Libra 2 Plusor is it just an extra day?
The main difference I've noticedis one has plus after it.
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Is it the? Is it the same size?
I think it's a bit smaller. I don't know if it's just me but
I feel like. The same sort of applicator.
Yeah, no, it it clicks better. It actually clicks better.
Actually, you're making me thinkabout it now.
So if it clicks better, it's much smoother.
You know, the other one was likequite this one.
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That's why I always used to makemyself bleed because I used to
have put so much force behind itand then the knack would go and
it was bang straight in me. It's like a one inch punch.
Well, I'm a professional now. I've got, I know the knack.
Exactly. He stopped wearing it on his
elbow. But yeah, I, I think it's a tiny
bit smaller. Not much.
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But that might just be me being me telling myself it's
different. That probably is just you being
you and me. But the applicator was much
smoother and it's supposed to last 15 days.
I guess it does, I don't know. It's my first week so.
So what do you mean? You guessed, but what does it
say 15 days down the bottom? No, it says 12.
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Well, did it say 15? I don't know, I didn't check.
Watch a Dick. Right.
So how's your time in range, Jack?
Last curveball. My time in range this week has
been let me just get it up 75%. OK, quite similar to mine.
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Yeah, it's not great, but it's not bad, so I'm happy with it.
Yeah, no, it should be. It's above 70.
Yeah, I'm happy either ways. Yeah, I'm 76.
Oh, nearly twinning. And look at my lows.
My lows have gone right down. Yeah, my lows are only 3%.
This is the highest that you're getting me now.
Right top to bottom. Should we do it?
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Yeah, go on, go. For it.
So I'm 4% / 13 and then 16 percent, 76% and 4%.
Nice, nice. I am over 13, starting off with
it is 7%, then 15 percent, 75% and 3%.
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That's very good, Jack. When you go to the average
glucose for the week, everythingelse is pretty much between 7:00
and 8:00 apart from 3:00 in the morning and 6:00 in the morning
and it is 11.3. That is what I keep telling
everyone. That is my spike from on the dot
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of 3:00 AM every fucking day. Change your long lasting.
No, I haven't yet. No, I mean just change it.
Yeah. To what?
I don't know what else is available.
I'll have to speak to you. No, I've got the same day.
You've got an appointment. I've got an appointment.
It's just mine's not face to face.
I'll get a phone call, so I'm not.
That's because Bob likes my face.
You probably won't even see Bob.I will.
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I'll say no. I've seen you.
I've seen Bob. I don't know who's going to
bring me. I'll find out when I.
What's your average Bob? Sorry, go on.
You're just talking about your right thing.
Let's throw it up on the. Average.
Yeah. It is 8.
Mine 7.5. Nice spot on both.
Yeah, they were both really, really good.
(23:17):
Yo, let me begin, because it's time for the lesson.
I win. You and them bloody jingles.
I just want to hear the winds and it's nice to bring it back.
It is actually nice to bring it back.
And 1st on the comeback is who is it Jack?
It's Maria, of course. Great, Maria.
(23:39):
Maria. Oh, you.
Want me to read it? Yeah, you still remember how to
do that, right? Yes, yeah, sort of.
So yeah, kicking it off this week we have Maria and she says
survived A7 day all inclusive holiday in Turkey and bought
back a heat rash, a unique take away from a country, not a skin
(24:01):
infection from a tattoo last time.
Hey. Yes, Maria, I love that.
I'm so jealous you went to Turkey as well.
So did you have to put the heat rash in your bag or did it just
like come? Yeah, did.
Like what did it get through customs all right?
I'm sorry, right next. I'm sorry.
How did you get a heat rash? When's the wall?
(24:22):
You get too hot and you get a rash from it.
Oh, fair enough. What else you want me to?
Say, ain't that sunburn, though?No, it's a heat rash.
So Next up we have Anna. I've had two funerals in the
last week and no alarms went off.
I was so worried about it but I stayed in range the whole time.
(24:45):
Yes I can totally vouch for thatbecause I had a funeral last
week and I actually silenced my alarms and I made sure I did but
they didn't go off and I I was expecting to be levels going
fucking haywire all day. But the only time they went out
of range is when we went back tothe wake and I started drinking
and ate loads of buffet food. Decent.
(25:09):
Did you take him off silent and remember that?
Yes. Oh.
Yeah, yeah, I was just so good. I would have left it on silent.
Night off, guys, night off. Next up we've got Ellie and he
says tried Fias for the first time.
I managed to keep my post pasta spark under control.
(25:29):
Never thought I'd win the pasta battle.
Yes, Ellie, Yeah, that's the tricky one.
It always is. I think there's a bitch.
All all of it. Pasta, rice, potato, just pretty
much anything that ain't a saladis hard work.
Or a bit of bacon. Even that can go wrong sometimes
(25:53):
and I don't know how. It's type 1 diabetes next.
We got Becky, went on holiday abroad, guesstimated with the
carbs for the first time and stayed pretty much in range.
Well done. Well done.
If it was a hot country, I reckon that's the cheat code.
(26:16):
Yeah, well, that's exactly the same as what happened to me last
year when it I was so nervous about not being able to weigh
out my portions and how I'm going to deal with the food and
I win the whole holiday and I was more in range than I was at
home. What I mean people that live
abroad, I'll tell you what, you're you're on a cheat code.
Yeah, but they have to pay for their insulin.
(26:37):
But there's pros and cons. Yeah, it costs you to have the
benefit of feeling like you havea pancreas a little bit.
Next that we have got Susie and she said we've got access to the
Tslim app in Australia that allows us to remote bolus from
(26:59):
our phone. I created a widget shortcut on
my phone lock screen. It's so easy now.
The Face ID must be used for allbonuses, though for the For
those concerned, that's a good. Wow, that's well, good.
Yeah, that is really good. It's the widget, the only one
I'm looking for. Just click.
There you go, crack on. The T Slim's the one that works
for Libra as well, isn't it? It works for both now I think.
(27:22):
I have no idea bro. I don't know.
I should do as a podcast host, but I don't.
No, no, neither. Do I?
But yeah, I like the added bit with the faces ID.
Maybe someone got hold of your phone and just went, oh, what's
that? 100.
Oh wow. Next we've got Leon finally
(27:44):
nailed my pre footy match insulin timing, no mid game hypo
and I even scored a goal. Celebrated with an apple juice
obviously. Congratulations.
Yes, Leon, I love that. I can relate a lot to that
because I always needed like a Mars bar and oranges at half
time because I felt that shit. And that just goes to show, like
(28:09):
I say, the best thing if you're not sure about something is
literally trial and error, because I guarantee how many
times have you failed that before?
You've got it right. Well, that's their first time
so. No, but it says finally nailed
my pre footy match insulin timing so that means he's
finally got it right. So obviously that means he's
tried it before. Yeah, do.
(28:31):
You know what I mean? So that's the prime example of.
You will always get there in theend.
He will. Oh, is he on about?
Oh, OK, so is that for brick food before the game?
I'm really deep in this now because obviously.
No, I don't know bro. Because obviously you need to
eat for energy. Yeah, yeah, maybe he's having
like a pre workout or a pre likea pregame snack.
(28:52):
They recommend like pasta beforefootball and stuff like that
because it's slow. So it might be that actually.
Yeah, yeah. Oh, mid game high post
obviously. Yeah, he's just injecting like
normal. 30 minutes and then it'sall hitting at once.
Boom boom boom, he's gone low. Well done mate.
You're a better diabetic than me, right?
(29:13):
And Next up we have got Haley and she says my 6 year old niece
asked if my Libra was a magic sticker.
I told her it helps me fire invisible monsters.
Now she wants one too. It made me smile.
That's nice, that's lovely. That's.
That's definitely really nice. I'm going to have to use that.
Yeah, it fights off the invisible monsters, but.
(29:36):
The glucose monsters. You say it's a Ghostbusters
proton pack. Just extra small.
Yeah, a tiny one. Yeah, next we've got money, they
go. My new workmates didn't even
flinch when I injected at lunch.Just a quick you good mate and
(29:57):
carried on. Felt seen, not judged.
That's a big fucking win. That is a major win.
Well said and well done to them.Yeah, yeah, it's nice to hear
that other people are not assholes.
Yeah. Basically it's.
Quite funny because today at work I had someone that don't
(30:20):
usually be on shift with me and obviously I jabbed for my food
mate. His head fucking twitching
everywhere, he didn't know whereto look.
It's so funny to watch. To be fair, the first time I see
you stick a needle in your ass in the staff room at card
factory brother that was I didn't like.
What? What's going on bruv?
(30:43):
Only come in here to get something out of the safe.
Got a bit more than that. You saw what, mate?
Just so you know guys, I just pulled it down a little bit to
inject it on my old fucking ass.Yeah 1 is full on bum cheat.
When the friendship became a bitmore than yeah, the ass came.
(31:10):
Oh, you're getting talking, Jack.
I just heard how that sounded and it's not good.
No. That's not good.
We're both married. Yes, we are both married to
women guys so don't be scared. We're just good friends.
(31:34):
And Next up we have Tara, she said Fierce doing its thing. 98%
tit is my win of the week. Come on.
Oh. That's amazing.
It is. I can't remember the last time I
had 90s. Oh, it does.
It goes above that. Yeah, goes above 90.
(31:55):
It goes above. It goes above 80.
Goes above 70. Now check.
And last up this week, we have Katie and they said my win is
starting a new sensor today and ending the last one on 85%.
(32:17):
Well, happy with that. It's been a while.
Wicked. That's wicked.
Well done Katie smashed it. That is wicked.
And that is all we have time forthis week on the We Are T1D
podcast. Thank you for tuning in
everybody. It has been lovely experience
having you here listening with us.
How was that new sign off? Cheers guys to.
(32:42):
Shuffle your papers and. I'm just like the music, I don't
know what it is. Well, yeah, as we say, every
week people join us. Same time, same place, back
again next week. And next week, we have a bit of
A twist because we have a special guest joining us.
(33:03):
And a little Now who's joining us?
He'll turn up on his bike. Not anymore.
So, yeah, make sure you join in next week to hear our special
guest episode. And thanks for joining us this
week. Please remember to follow us on
(33:23):
all the socials. Please remember to keep sharing.
Please remember to keep liking. Just keep doing what you're
doing, everyone, because it's amazing.
Thank you very much. See you later.
Bye guys. You kind of just said it all in.
Yeah, soldier Tourettes just. Diabetes.
Oh my God, not that type more ADHD.
(33:44):
It's just go on needle in my ass.
Libra sensor and there are otherbrands of GGCGMS.
Charles can say GGM. SGGM.
That sounds so much better. Rebrand Good glucose monitor.
(34:05):
But you tell it when it's behaving.
Good glucose monitor. Well done.
Pain in my arm and. Then when it goes up, you're
like, no, no get. Down.
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