The Diaries Check In: 2024 reflections, urine samples, achy kidneys and diabetes wins

My dear friend and fellow type 1 Ami Bennett returns to the podcast to look back at what 2024 has served us from a diabetes perspective.

As always, Ami keeps it very real and regales us with one of her most memorable escapades involving a particularly disastrous urine sample… but to balance it out, she’s elevated her game by entering the world of homemade granola.

Meanwhile I talk about being haunted by a rogue Pod, we discuss ill-timed alarms, drinking out of date hypo juice, attempt to establish what exactly insulin smells like, and we hear some of your diabetes wins of the year!

Thank you so much for coming on this journey with me through 40 episodes in 2024. This podcast wouldn’t exist without you.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This episode of Type one on one is kindly sponsored
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(00:20):
episode description. Ah Hi everyone, and welcome to Type one
on one, a podcast that delves into the obscure, complex
and challenging world of life with Type one diabetes. I'm
Jen Greeves, and each week, with the help of some
brilliant guests, I'll be showing that there is no normal

(00:41):
when it comes to handlink this whopper of a chronic condition,
because we're all pretty much figuring out the messiness of
day to day life with diabetes as we go. And
most of all, even though it doesn't always feel like it,
we are absolutely not alone. Hello everyone, welcome to this
end of year little look back special episode of Type

(01:05):
one on one. And to do such a thing, I
obviously had to bring in the big guns. So please
welcome back my lovely friend Amy Bettett. It's like one
and one, Hi, do angree Hi, Amy, we're recording video
for the first time because I've dialed up a notch.
So we've put on our best slash worst rush makeup ever,

(01:28):
but we I mean, you're looking stunning, my love. She
had her hair done.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
I had it done specially just for the podcast record,
because when you moved it to video, I said, oh,
I'm actually gonna have to brush my hair and get
out of my pajamas.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, we normally record looking like slugs. And I speak myself.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
I've got some really funny.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
When you were in I think you were of somewhere
cold in South America, and you had a blanket wrapped
all the way around your head and loads of pictures
of me with my hair and like a top not
like all greasy.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Look at us now, I think that's now. I've got
a sparkly festive jumper on, and yeah, we're we're here.
We're here. And so for those of you that have
not had the pleasure of meeting Amy, either audibly or otherwise,
you can go right to YouTube and take like a
beautiful face love plug there for the YouTube. And myself
and Amy are friends, historic friends, real.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Life friends, real life just dire friends.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
And Amy went and got diagnosed. Didn't she an empathy diagnosis?
We like to say, I felt really left out. It
was a pomo diagnosis. I felt really left out. All
I did was bang on about my diabetes. So it's
my whole personality, and now you're here with me, so
thanks you.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
It's not because actually, actually what I will say is
we speak probably twice a week, and the majority of
the time we're not talking about diabetes.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
The majority of the time we're just talking about how
tired we are.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, I always say in my head, I was like,
there's a few places that end of that sentence is
going to go, and that is definitely the most accurate. Hello,
have you started saying late thirty Yeah, because I still haven't.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
But you're not there yet, so I think after May
you can say it, but I don't want to. But yeah,
I've I'm just I have I started saying, I think
in my head. But the thing is, I'm one of
those people that by the time, like when I turned
thirty seven, I was already telling people I was nearly

(03:33):
thirty eight.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Okay, Yeah, I mean I don't think it's a bad thing.
I think aging is amazing, but there's something about shifting
into late thirties. Oh yeah, where I'm like okay, And
probably because I lived the life of a twenty five
year old at this point, I've gone backwards. I've regressed.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
I also realized that.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Next to you old timed, Oh, well timed.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Which way is she going?

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Oh, she'll be down, She's no, I'm just eating.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
Normally down for you.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
I realized that we sit here in December twenty twenty four,
soon to be January twenty twenty five, and in January
twenty twenty five, which is like less than a month away,
I will be able to say next year, I'm going
to be forty.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
How do you feel about that?

Speaker 2 (04:20):
That's quite fun though, if you come all right with it. Yeah,
is it fun?

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah? It must be.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
But the thirties were so much better than the twenties,
despite the sympathy diagnosis.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Despite that whacking great chronic condition you got lamped with.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, so I feel like the forties are going to
be better than the thirties. Anyway, it's still got a
whole year and nine months. I need to just chill out.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, we're good, We're I think we're doing good. This
is going out at the very end of twenty twenty four,
and I was having a little thing today knowing that
we were doing this podcast, and I was like, we've
done okay. I think we're doing all right, So yay
for that?

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeay for that.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
I mean, apart from being real, they're tired and telling
each other all the time.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
I've put so much concealer on under my eyes because
I did a call before this and I said to Jen,
I couldn't tell whether it was the lighting or just
my face, but I couldn't concentrate on the call because
all I could think was how much I look like
Uncle Fessta. And so I've put so much, so much
concealer on my face. I feel like I now look
like a cartoon character, you know, like really surprised.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Just very stunned to be here, aren't we all? Yeah? Man,
oh wow. I was thinking about you today, actually talking
of your diagnosis, because I pulled out a skirt that
I haven't worn in literally years, and it will be years,
because you're coming up to like what four or five
years of diagnosis. Now.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
I've had my five year diversary.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
She's five, which is absolutely wild to think about. But
the scout I pulled out today. I don't think I've
worn it since the day. And you will remember this
day that you put your first glucose sensor on.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Yeah, because it's documented.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, we have the We have the receipts, which I
will maybe post as part of posting this episode so
that people can see, not that you'll care, but just
to think about how far you've come then, because that
was a moment and it took you a long time
to get that censor in, right to the point that
we took photos because you know, all fun and games,
treasured memories.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
It was so weird as well because we did it
in the office at work.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, we were both working at the same office at
the time. It was pre COVID. I mean, lots has
happened since then.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Also, remember that at the time, there was a shortage
of Librace and so I they weren't taking like new
customers because they were still so new. And I think
you were using a dex combat. You had a registration
for a Libra account. So I gave you the money

(06:50):
and you bought them for me.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
That's true. Yeah, yeah, because you couldn't get they went
accept new people.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, and I it's funny because none of what we've
done is like illicit or to like extort money out
of anyone. But we've both like done stuff for each other.
But it feels alaty, like the time I took insulin
to Mexico.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Thank goodness. I was talking to someone today about FIESP
and I was really missing that fiesp. So thank you
so much for that.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
It does make a real difference.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
You've got to make it work. Can you need to
rely on your peeps?

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, And also, like you see it all the time now,
and I think it's still mad to think that there
was a world where there was a libra shortage because
they didn't like no one could buy them for ages.
But you know, you always see things on Instagram accounts
like does anyone have a spared dex Colm?

Speaker 1 (07:47):
You know.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
I remember talking to our friend Heather once, whose son
uses a dex com. She was in Hertfordshire somewhere and
she's like, the one spare. I've just used the one
spare and then that one's failed.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
What am I going to do?

Speaker 2 (07:58):
And I was like, well, I can meet you and
well with one, and you know, you do what you
do to get by. And I think if anybody questioned it, then.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
You don't understand. You don't get it, guys, But I'm sorry,
do your fans know your news? Speaking of tech? When
was the last time we spoke, oh, pre pre it
was when you had just got your closed loop, so
we've given away the punchline. But Amy, oh yeah, shit, sorry,
that's okay, I did it. We've got news. Tell us,

(08:30):
how are you doing?

Speaker 3 (08:31):
She's closed looping, she's looping. Yeah. I feel so lucky.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Basically, my hospital did a group of people who were
already on an Omnipod Dash and a dex COMG six,
so everyone in my training group was on the same
we already had, we were coming in it from the
same place, and I was just really lucky. I got
an email, I think, and I immediately screenshotted it and

(08:59):
sent it to you because I was like, is this real?

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Because it feels like it's not real, because I think
prior to that, you've been told they were long waiting lists,
they weren't approving any more training, and like it was
all there waiting to go, but there was no one
to implement it. Yeah. I actually think that's the last
time we spoke on the podcast, because I was sat
there like this thing is amazing, but it's really hard
because we have these issues around the world, not let

(09:24):
you know, not just the UK, but and then out
of nowhere that message was like.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Ha, And then do you know what the mad thing
about it was is I think I'd said on the
podcast where I'd said to you like, I'm really content,
like I'm really happy that I have an omnipod anyway,
like i'd you know, it was very well documented on
the podcast how much i'd sort of fought to get
a pump in the first place, and I still felt
very grateful that I had a pump and it had

(09:50):
made just the difference from injection to pump had made
such a vast improvement to my sort of headspace and
my life in general that I was like, do you
know what it'll come when it and I can survive?
And then literally I think we did that podcast and
then a few weeks later I must have got the
email because I got that was it. I just got
a random email being like, can you make this training

(10:11):
day for omnipod five?

Speaker 1 (10:12):
And I was like, ah, And it was really soon,
wasn't it.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
It was within two weeks it was two weeks later
and then yeah, it's just again like just another step.
It feels like ascending, ascending a staircase of like like to.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
A space where your brain is almost what.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
It was before. Yeah, there's so much to be said
for that, honestly, because that's exactly the main takeaway that
I've had, and I've done episodes on Hyperclosed Loop, both
the logistics and the device side of things, and then
the emotional side of things, and that is the main
thing for me is that I've said, as someone who
was diagnosed as a child, this is a part of

(10:55):
me unlocked that I almost had forgotten existed. Whereas for you,
you really knew who that person was that you were
pre diagnosis because it was five years ago. So it
was really quite sharp and stark for you, wasn't it
so to like get well, I'm putting words in your mouth.
But from what you've told me about this, it has
been like, like you say, moving back towards that person.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah, I think it's almost like and I was in
my mind, I always thinking shapes and like the shape
of it is almost like your graph when you're having
a long day.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
And then you eat something, it like dipped down, and.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
I think upon diagnosis, I was super optimistic and I
remember being.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Like, it's going to be fine, It'll be great. I
can handle this.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
And then in like twenty twenty, like we were locked down.
It was difficult, and all of a sudden I realized
the mental load that this had and then yeah, you know,
there was a bit of a dip and then you know,
just doing all of the things that I could to,
you know, pushing to get a sensor, and that was
a struggle as well at the time. And it's so

(11:57):
nice that these things are much less of a struggle now.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Now I have a little story for you, if you
don't mind the interjection. Oh, I wouldn't say that's an introjection.
I would say that's a stunning segue. It's a true professional.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
I work with a lovely lady called Louis and she
is Type one and we first started working together at
the end of last year and I had my DASH
then and she was asking me about it and she
was like, oh, I've never really thought about it, and
I said, honestly, it's just made the biggest change to
my life.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
And by that point i'd had it for a year
and then, which feels.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
That the whole time I've had a pump has been
two years, and that feels gone so quickly. It's like
part of my body that I don't even think about.
And so then we work on a show together and
we started the show again in It started in September,
and she messaged me and said, can you tell me
more about the pump and the clothes. I told her

(12:52):
I was on a clothed loop and she was like,
can you tell me more about it? And I said, well,
what hospital are you at? And she said, it's the
same She told me what hospital. It's the same one
that I'm at, And I said, we let your consultant
know that you're interested in it and they'll add you
to the list. So this was September and by the
beginning of November she was on like had done the
training and she went from injections to that wow, and

(13:12):
she went from a libre as well, and she now
does the same as us.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
She's dex colm Omnipod five loop.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
And it just you know, to see how quickly things
are coming along, how quickly that training is being rolled
out now. And I know that you know there will
be places in the country that are not as quick
and it might feel like a struggle, but things are changing.
And you know, as someone who was diagnosed five years ago,
where I wasn't you know, I didn't have access to

(13:39):
a glucose sensor. I had to really fight for that.
And to now be using a glucose sensor with a
pump in a closed loop that has moved so quickly
in five years that you know where what's going to
happen in the next five years.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
It's incredible.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, I'm pril for you. This is like, what a year.
That's a big year of diabetes. And I know from
the messages, I get that more and more people are
getting on this stuff and it seems to be doing
great things, and increasingly there's body of evidence that says so.
But I just I was thinking back this year and

(14:17):
we are both busy people. We always talk about that
we don't have kids and other stresses that other people have,
but our lifestyles are different, but they're busy, and I
was just thinking, my I really have thought about diabetes
less this year. Yeah, and isn't that amazing. That's kind
of my take I think that's my biggest takeaway. I
just feel like it's in the way less. Yeah, and

(14:41):
despite us moaning about sleep, the change in the number
of alarms, I.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Would argue the sleep thing is seventy percent down to
our lifestyles and nothing to do with diabetes a lot
of the time. Not because we're out partying, because we're
too old for that. But I think it's more that
we work mad jobs. We're both not ours as such,
but we can both be productive quite late into the evening. Yes,
and sometimes I won't finish work till eight or nine

(15:06):
o'clock and then I'm like, I owe myself three hours
to do nothing.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
And then I'll go to bed at one am. I
thought you were gonna say, I owe myself three hours
to do nothing and a packet of biscuits, which is
me something.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
I mean, I mean that's basically what I've eaten today.
Two sizes of toast and about seventeen digestives.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Oh, happy Christmas. But yeah, the lack of the change
in the sleep I think that I've said. I think
I said this last time, I don't.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Have to yeah, and I was so jealous, so I
remember thinking, oh my.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
God, no, But like it's made me more tired because
my body is relaxing that this year I've actually done
less because I feel like my body is decompressing twenty
eight years worth of like tension. Sorry this wasn't a.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
Big tech chat, but I think the point is there
that if the tech, the access to the tech is,
what's the word more available than what it was before.
And you know, if you want to ask the questions,
talk to your team because you don't know what options

(16:14):
might be there for you. And I know that I
didn't realize how much headspace diabetes was taking up until
I went and I think it was that adjustment of
coming out of lockdown and going back into the workplace
and all of a sudden, I was like.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
Oh, I have to go out and about with this thing.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
And like, you know, I was having a time where
I kept having high pos every time I went home
because I would have my lunch, sit sedentary at my desk.
After lunch, go really really high, ramp up the insulin,
get on the tube home, and even the walk just
to the tube station would just sink my glucose levels.
And you know, that's a mental load because it's thinking
about what's going to happen every night on literally on

(16:54):
my way home from work, and I don't think I
had considered what that might mean for me.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yeah, when I was diagnosed.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
And so sometimes you're so wrapped up in the doing
it that you forget that actually you can there are
ways to help you do less, which is where.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
We find ourselves now.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
And I feel like coming at it from a really
privileged perspective here, which I realize I am, but it's
just nice to think. I just I'm old. I need
to use my brain a minimum amount at this point.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
Please. Oh, absolutely couldn't agree more. Just that's close those tabs, please,
thanks very much. There's plenty going on in here. It's
exciting because I do think the messages I've had as well,
like other people are getting this vibe as well from
their experiences. It's like, this is still shit, but it's
getting a little bit less shit. So thanks guys for
making it less shit.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
That's thank you Pathakr for de shitting the shitness for
us so delicately. Pert ah, But I think like it's
really important to keep it real. And you know, I
feel so grateful and lucky with the tech.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
You know, I felt grateful and lucky.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
I think I've made that clear before when I got
the pump host like, I feel so lucky to be
in this position, but now even more so because yeah,
when things are busy at work or you know, it's
doing less and the biggest part of the admin is
literally changing the pump every three days.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
How good is that? Oh? My god? Speaking of I
have just come out of a quite intense work period,
which I do less of now for sure. But I
knew it was coming as a squeeze, and I was
working on a really fun TV show about but as
a solo flyer. I was talking to you about this
as someone who knows it well. Like everything else in

(18:40):
your life, you still have to take the bins out.
If you leave the washing up, you wake up, the
washing up is still there. By, parents are dying away.
There's just not an extra pair of hands to lift
anything else, which is fine. That's how I operate. That's
what happens. And there are certain things I've just let go.
But I always changed my pods at night time, and
I know you're probably not supposed to do that in

(19:02):
case you get a kinked one and it doesn't deliver.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
I didn't know that I always do mine.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
So I just don't want the alarm going off in
the morning. If I'm getting the opportunity to not wake
up at seven am, like, I'm going to take it,
and I do not want an alarm going off in
the morning telling me I need to change a pod,
or when I'm out and about just doing my life
at least at night, I kind of know I'm at
home or I'm in a situation where I've got a

(19:29):
bit more time and space because I'm not in the
middle of a meeting to change the pod. So as
a general rule, POD's changed nighttime. Now came off a
shift very very late slash early in the morning for work,
and naturally, the last thing you want to do is
change a pod. But because I leave them until the nighttime,
that is what had happened. So I was like, oh,

(19:50):
I can't go to bed. Yeah, I'm a gremlin at
this point in my eyes are completely cross from being
screen all day, Like my whole body is contorted into
the shape of a person who lives cha and all
I want to do is go to bed. By Like,
I got to change this back. So I changed the pod.
For whatever reason, it didn't connect, It didn't prime, it
couldn't speak to my controller, and I was like, not tonight,

(20:11):
not tonight, not tonight. I got it working whatever, but
the one i'd had to discard, which by the way,
has actually never happened. It just couldn't find it.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
I don't know why this happened to me.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
I've never ever had did I tell you?

Speaker 3 (20:24):
And they were like, oh, you have to move ten
mets away from me. I was like, my flat isn't
ten minutes week.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
I had to do it.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
I had to go to the top of the garden.
I had to go to the top of the garden.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
So what I should have done is hang out of
my window with this thing. Because I got like just
laying down and I cannot tell you, like i'd aged
about tail years. I just had fested in the flat
all day. I hadn't been outside, and that is so unhealthy.
And it goes again, no one like you, so like you.
So I was laying down so late. I'm thinking, oh
my god, I'm going to get up again so soon.

(20:56):
And I hear this, I'm like, surely not. Other one
hasn't worked. I was like, what's wrong. So I was
checking my controller that all looked fine. It's in automated mode.
Everything's cute the dex comes reading. I was like, what,
who is what is beeping? And I put all my
pods together in a box and I suddenly realized that

(21:16):
that false starter had woken up and decided that it
was actually in fact resurrected and was ready to work.
But I didn't know which pod it was there. I
am scranging find the one that doesn't look like it's
been used, and I found one that I thought it
was and I pierced it. You know, did the emergency like,

(21:38):
do not resuscitate. I was like, cool, go to bed.
Ten minutes later, and this is like a horror film.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
This is awful.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
It was the ghost of pods past, very festive, and
I was just like, you have got to be kidding me.
I felt like I was being bullied by this part
has been trolled. It's like that episode of Friends where
with the firelight. So I ended up taking this box
of pods, taking them to the back of my windowless,

(22:07):
tiny box spare room, putting them under the bed in
there and shutting the door and just being like, I
will deal with you tomorrow. And I'm not kidding. I've
been working away at my death the next day and
I heard this little me and she's still in there.
She's still in there haunting me. That sound haunts my dreams.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
That is nightmarish, like I I've had, you know, like
the screeches in the night and yeah, but even that
thing of like I've had a few times where I've
like fallen asleep on the sofa and you know that
thing where you like wake up at like midnight or
one am.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
You're like you can like barely peel yourself into bed.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
You're basically fused into the same.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
Yeah, and then as you just look.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
At the screen before you go to bed, and it's
like pump EXPI pod expired, and you're like, oh, I don't,
I can't I just and then you're like, can I
push it to the eight hours? And you do the
mass and you're like, no, it's already been four So
it's gonna wake me up at five am if I don't.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
Do this now.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah, with that horrible screech, that is the worst day
that you. Yeah, didn't you tell me the other day
that you'd left one overnight And I was like, honestly,
that makes that gives me heart palpitations thinking about leaving
it to the eight hour shut off.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yeah, yeah, I think I'd just forgotten because I again
I was tired, and no, that was it.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
I hid.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
I think it was going to expire at like one
or two am, so I knew that if I was
getting up at eight, I would have enough time to
change it.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
And then I got up.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
And was pottering about and knew it was going to
go soon and just then forgotten. Then it was like
and then not only does the pod go, but the
handset go.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yes, that handset was so loud. Yeah, thankfully I was
at home because my old Nokia, the old handset, it
never used to do that thing. I'm still like, whoa,
you're a lot, You're a lot. Chill out, chill out.

Speaker 3 (24:03):
That beat that it makes.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
Have you ever walked past what's it called, like a
traffic like crossing.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
I don't know what they're called. I'd fail, I would
fail my theory testing. Yeah, like basically pedestrian crossing. So
there's one that I walk past when I come out
of the station every night, and every single time it's going,
I'm like, oh, it must be me.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
It's me.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
It's not me. It's not always about you.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
Amy I feel like you're more attuned, aren't you, to
those high pitched beats, Like I definitely have it in
cafes with coffee machines, so I'm like, what, oh, no,
it's just coffee. It's just coffee.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
My dishwasher does one as well, and I'm always like
at the end of the cycle.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
My coffee machine, this is absolutely nothing to do with diabetes.
But I think you'll personally enjoy it. Sorry audience if
you don't. But my coffee machine, I've noticed when I
press it on, it doesn't like grind whatever through. I've
noticed that it is the exact noise at the start
of a Britney Spears song. And now I can't unhear it.

(25:03):
What a song. It's someone that goes hirsh just stopped.
What's yeah? What's song? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Stronger you can yeah, yeah, Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
It's so cool women of a certain age. I'm genuinely
going to send you a video of it, because every
day I just break into this song and I'm like,
what the hell, It's seven thirty in the morning and
my coffee machine is singing Britney Spits.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
But you get long term earworms because I remember coming
to see you in Mexico and there was a.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
Song that you listen to every morning.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
But I also think that it's impossible when a noise
happens that makes the song in your brain like that
will be the beginning of the song, and it starts
you off and then you're like, oh, we're here.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Here we are again every morning, every morning, well four
times a day. I make that many coffees. I tell you,
what's worse, though, maybe than the beeps at night, is
when you've just cleaned your teeth and you get into
bed and you've the alarm goes off because you've got
a hypo.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
And it's the one that's like, it's not even the
one that you think the pump will catch and you
can annoy. It's the one that says three point one
but within ten minutes or whatever, and it's double arrows
down and you're like.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Ah, let's have some minty orange juice. Is there anything worse?
Is there anything worse than minty orange juice?

Speaker 3 (26:22):
There is?

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Tell me, so, I've been going through a phase and
it must be hormonal. I think I spoke to you
about this where I just kept having like catastrophic hypos
out of nowhere like double arrows down. I'm hitting two
point seven and I can't feel it, but like fingerprick
confirms that it is.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Indeed the case. So much fun, oh, so much fun.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
And in the moment, like I've destroyed all the sweets,
I've eaten all the dried fruit, like at this I'm
at the point where I'm eating bananas to try and.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
Get the glucose up.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
And then I found like an orange juice in the
fridge and it was one that had like been in
it was like a cart and that had been in
my bad and I'd obviously emptied out the bag and
popped it back in the fridge so it didn't have
a straw. So I stabbed the top with the fork
and started like squeezing it into my mouth, and I
was like, hmm hmm, bit fuzzy fits sharp. Wait, no,
Fibruury twenty twenty three, it went out of date.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
It was absolutely ramcid.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
It must have been knocking around in the bottom of
that bag for about three years because they normally had
a really long date on them because they're not real
orange us like fake orange juice, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
So yeah, that was disgusting.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
Oh, Grim, do you know I have now because I'm
having this hypo certainly at night, and juice would always
be the thing at night because I don't want to
be chewing anything up four in the morning when I'm
half asleep. That is terrifying, although I do do it,
but juice is preferable and so now and I never
need a whole carton of juice to bring me out
of a hypo, whereas I think we've talked about this before.
You need a lot more sugar than I do. Yeah,

(27:54):
And so I would drink maybe half a cat and
if I woke up in time to realize that I
needed to stop drinking the whole and of apple juice,
so I'd have these cartons half cotton at the bottom
of my bed, which would be fine because it would
only be a matter of like a night or two
before I would need it again. Yeah, And now that's
not the case, so I'd be very careful about taking
half open cartons. In fact, they just got straight, which

(28:17):
is a waste. But nobody needs that phizzy juice in
their life.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
Grim, No, Yeah, juice is my go to.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
It's the first thing I go to as well, and
then I normally have to follow it up with something
a little bit like more of a.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
A carby card, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, like a
like a rice.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
Cake or or something.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Crumbs in the bed, crumbs in the bed. You put
me onto the chocolate rice cakes. And I have not
looked back, hyper or not. They are going in.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
They are absolutely banging. They're so good.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
They do good ones here as well.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yeah, oh yeah, there was good.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
I went to this really great supermarket actually, and I
can't direct from yours to there because I went.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
From my friend who lives near Gen. I went and Jen.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Actually my friend and Jen live on the same road
and they'd never met one another, which was incredible. That
really blew my mind. Yeah, so you walk from my
friend's house down the hill to get to Gen's. But
we walked up one and over and there was a
lovely supermarket and it was like a sort of Whole
Foods vibe.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
But it's like still like you do your big shop
there and it's still.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Cheaper than testing at home. I need to go really
really good, and so I bought this like big.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
Don't you know that?

Speaker 2 (29:37):
That's my favorite place is yeah, on the earth. It's
my favorite place on Earth, Like a big part of
like dried papaya.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Oh stop, oh my god.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
And I love that, you know, like in with your
fresh fruit and your yogurt. And also did I tell
you I've started making granola. That's my big news of
the year.

Speaker 4 (29:55):
Sorry, sorry, hybrid closely step aside, and I put it
in a giant in fact, in fact, Oh, I'm.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Getting the done for the viewers. If this doesn't make
you hop onto YouTube, I don't know what will. I'm
imagining a really gorgeous hipster, aesthetically pleasing TikTok type jar.
There she is, Oh my god, wow, thank you. She
looks very fulfilling, like there's lots of elements going on there,

(30:28):
which is my kind of granola.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
There's lots of elements and she doesn't really spike my glucose.
Wow that high she's made of oats, nuts, coconut oil.
I buy that fake maple syrup, which is like a
low sugar. It's like a fake. It's not taste of
maple syrup, but it's not real maple syrup. And chocolate chips,
flax seed, chear seeds.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
I feel like you need to market this. Oh it's
someone else's recipe, so I can't, but I will send
you the recipe. Please do, because I don't know portion
control when it comes to granola, and it does get
me in trouble with my blood sugar.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
The reason, oh yeah, because you love granola as well.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
I forgot.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
So this is where I have the little protein powder
scoop in there. Oh so I know exactly how much
I'm having.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
Then I would just take sixteen scoops. My god, it
smells so good. I love that.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
How inventive. Look at you, absolutely peaking in your thirties. Honestly, honestly,
I feel like Martha Stewart.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
No more hypogremlins caught my hair in the jar. So
if anyone comes around for granola, it's delicious. Martha Stewart
could never just mind that bit of hair. Don't worry
about guys me. And also with my color hair, there's
no way of me ever being like, oh no, it's
not mine.

Speaker 3 (31:53):
It must have come from somewhere else.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
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(32:15):
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(32:38):
been a little while.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
Do you know what it's been quiet in the DMS.
I've not been in it for a while.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
Go and say, Amy, some festive cheer in the DMS
and that is not a euphemission. What do you read?
Just nice words?

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Nothing else, nice words of encouragement. I'm happy if you
want to DM me, I'll send you the granola recipe.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
It's from actually a really great I feel like this
is good things to share. We're not gatekeepers, are we?
I feel like this account so it's not necessarily like healthy,
but it's healthier and a lot of the options are
lower carb, lower sugar, or like low refined sugar or
no refined sugar. She's called Doctor Bowl, like yeah, and

(33:26):
so she's a doctor and she also does like really
great recipes. So there's like banana bread that is literally
made from oat flour, which is like literally you put
oats in the blender and blends them up to like
a flower consistency. And it's made with like oat flour, bananas, eggs,
maple syrup. And have I missed something crucial out of

(33:50):
what because bana bread because of eggs?

Speaker 1 (33:53):
Did you say eggs? Yeah? And that's it.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
Basically, it's all things that are made with.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Like bananas or there are some like banana free al
turn it is, but they don't have like refined sugar
in they don't. A lot of them don't use flour.
They use like an oak flower or an almond flower
or a flower. Sub substitute, alternative, substitute. I think I
was trying to say substitute, but my brain was going subsidiary, subsidiary.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
And I was like, I don't even know what that means.
We'll take it, We'll take it. What I'm hearing here
is and I think this is ant well, maybe it is.
Maybe it's a really boring point. But here we are
because obviously we can eat everything, and as people living,
try and tell me that I can't. Yeah, watch me
take down those biscuits. But sometimes you want to pick

(34:38):
your battles. And I know, for example, that certain types
of flour are going to be more troublesome on the
admin front than others. So I think it's sometimes for
me about like where do I want an easy ride today? Yes?
So I'm hearing I like this. It's like this stuff's good.
I know, I'm putting good things in my body. Yeah,

(35:00):
and taste alish and.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
Taste a dish.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
And so sometimes I find that conversation difficult to navigate
with other people.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
It's like, oh, well, you said you couldn't You didn't
you weren't going to eat that.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
Like if you say no thank you to something and
then you say yes please to something, it's like, yeah,
but I said no thank you to that, so I
could have that and actually just also have like an
easy ride rather than I don't want to be on
the roller coaster and have my kidneys hurt tomorrow, right, which.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
Is a thing achy kidneys?

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Yeah, man, And it is complicated to explain that to
people and I just think.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
That chat has reminded me to drink my water. Thanks. Yeah, actually,
my my sweet kidneys.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
I did really dark wee this morning.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
Oh no, I had to do the wa in the
part the other The other week, I had my hospital
appointment and they didn't give me the thing that you Oh,
I've got loads.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
I steal them every time.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
Amy really revolutionized my let's talk about why you're ensample
for those of you that weren't here. When the the
weekly check in with diary with diaries, it was called
type one on one the Diaries. It was a weekly
episode with Amy documenting our diabetes escapades as they came

(36:11):
to be known, week on week, and I really think
this was peak escapade was the beginning as well.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
It was first appointment I got transferred to a different hospital,
and it was my first appointment at that hospital because
the hospital I was at they just said, look, we
don't have the funding to get you any of the
good tech that you want, so we're going to send
you elsewhere, which was great and.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
My first.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
It's so ridiculous, my first appointment at that hospital, I
had to go and do the your example, which is
very normal done.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
It those times before.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
I'll be honest, I'm not great at the tube is small,
and the hospital toilets are not.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
Like you're not great for like the maneuvering.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
There is no world in which aiming are we into
a tiny test tube is in any way easy, do able, delicate, graceful,
not mindful, not demure. It's horrific unless you.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
Have a penis, in which case obviously it was built
for you like the rest of the world.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
But that's a whole other story.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
So anyway, I'd started and I was like, oh god,
this is not going in anywhere, and I was having
a bit of a nightmare.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
And then so I like, I just did my position slightly.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
Sorry, I realized it's quite graphic and there's like probably
a bit of a mental picture that people might be
drawing up.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
Sorry, it's gress.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
Anyways, Then I was like, oh my god, it's going
in the tube. This is great. There's a bit on
my hand, but I can deal with that. It's fine.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
And then so I did up the tube, got off
the toilet, looked down and I realized I had pissed
in the entirety of the crotch of my jeans, which
had been around my ankles, and I'd also not just
like in the crotch all up what would be like
the back seam, like between the two pockets on the back.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
Of okay, the visible bit for public consumption.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
Yeah, like if I'd just done the crotch, I probably
could have crossed my legs and up and shuttered it.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
I've been uncomfortable for the appointment, but it was like anyway, I'd.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
Done it up the back of my jeans and so
then yeah, I think I had a but I had
a spare jumper. I had a sweatshirt on and a coat.
So I took my sweatshirt off and tied it round
my waist and then put my coat back on.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
Like a music video from the two thousands. That is awful,
But do you know what? It is so real and
that is what this is about, because there are so
many people that have definitely done that.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Well, So let me tell you when you go to
the doctor. I went to the doctor and they gave
me what is like a It was actually like the protein.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
The protein. It's like they give you like a.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
Scoop thing with a handle and it's got like a
spout on it. So then you wean into that and
then you pour it into the jug.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
Yeah, not the jug, the tube. The tube. Actually, I oh,
this is really bad, but you know, you have to
have your.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
Doctor's The GP does a different set of diabetes checks
to your hospital and they.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Yeah, it's honestly one of the biggest bug bears.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
For some magical reason, they don't talk to each other.
So I went for an appointment for my smear test
and while I was there, the lady said to me, oh,
you're diabetic as well. Do you want to do your
foot check and your blood pressure and stuff while you're here?

Speaker 3 (39:11):
And I was like great.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
She said, we don't do the blood and urine here.
You have to go somewhere else for that. But I'll
give you all the stuff and you can go and
do it anyway.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
That was two months ago. I still haven't done the
blood and urine. Doesn't have time, Yeah, because you've already
done it once.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
I've already done it three times and shit, hun.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
And it's sitting in the hallway. But the urine thing
that gave me did come with like a an implement
to help you WI into the tube, aid an aid, Yeah,
and why does that not exist.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
All the time?

Speaker 1 (39:39):
Why? Yeah? Why are they not given out?

Speaker 3 (39:41):
Yeah, I shouldn't have to piss my jeans.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
No one should have to do that. Ever, regardless of
the number of appointments, Well, thank you for making everyone
feel better.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
Oh God. And also what was worse, there was a
really fit man in the waiting room as well.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Ah, you could have been a little dire couple. Yeah,
I know.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
But then that was also the day when I'd gone
there and there was like three people that had no feet.
That is hard, and I was like, oh, this is
you know, like you see potentially what could be your
future yeah, and then your potential future dire husband.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
And it's just a lot going on. The damp genes
don't help.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
The pissy genes didn't help, and it made me want
to I've definitely taken what's the word this year, I've
taken better responsibility for my health rather than the attitude
of relying on the once. You know, I knew that
the tech would make things better, but actually I would
argue that probably better on a mental side than it.

(40:52):
I Mean, there's the obvious, obvious physical, you know, but
a lot of the physical stuff is down to me,
and like lifestyle change and actually one to live longer
and you know.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
Yeah, you have to get there though, don't you. And
now she makes granola on a weekend. Guys, babe, I'm
doing this in the weekdays before I go to work.
I'll stop. Okay, now you're shown off. I'm there with
Britney spearsing in me coffee.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
I will I will treat you to some granola. I'll
post you say, yeah, I don't know if you're Can
you post.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
Granola in the internet and the internet's.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
Wrong with me? The screen? Well, that sounds like a win.
And speaking of another stunning segue for you all, I
she's an audience this morning posted a little story on
Instagram asking for your diabetes wins of the year. Now.
I specifically said especially if they're not marathons or mountains.

(41:50):
But the person I was calling out there was obviously myself, yourself.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
But actually, Jen, you've not been that not not mental,
but you've not been doing like super extreme things. I
feel like you're doing like lots of measured stuff. You
go to the gym, you've been doing some nice hikes
with the sticks and the boots.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
Is yeah, it's more lifestyle than extreme style. Hey, you're
making cranella I'm just taking must Felt for a little walk.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
We're just doing, We're just doing.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
There's real whispers of wellness here, Jane are.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
I also want to take this opportunity to say that
I've taken up crochet and I've been making my own clothes.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
What I mean, I just I don't really know what
I like. When we first met, when we were ripe
little spring chickens. How old were we? I was twenty
four when I started at radio one. Yeah, and I
think I started a year later, so I was Oh, no,
maybe I was twenty five.

Speaker 3 (42:54):
No, I was twenty six.

Speaker 1 (42:56):
I think I probably. I probably met you when I
was twenty five, though away. So to look at us now,
over a decade later, I mean here we are joined
at the Diabetes non working pancreasas you know, the sexy
little bankris any who.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
Yeah, sorry, we digress, We.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Do digress, but hopefully people are enjoying this. Oh we've
got a new message. Oh she's live. Oh it's your
friend Matt Smith who lives with type one diabetes. Oh
we love Matt Smith. He does live with type one diabetes. Yeah. Sorry,
that's the only reason I said it. Yeah, it was relevant.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
He's also a very good DJ and a really good
audio producer.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
He's sent me something about Type one community who you
put me onto, who I've since had on the podcast.
So this is very full circle. Lovely little community we've
got going on here. Yeah, right, so keeping it on
trend wins of the year. So Kimberly says, finally getting
a pump. We love that.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
We love that.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Yeah, we hope it's going well. Blair, who I met
this year in gorgeous Edinburgh, maintain a good HBO and
C despite my work related stress going off the scale.
Well that is relatable.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
Hard, Yeah, hard, hard relate, Blair.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
I I'll be honest. People ask me what my HBO
and C is all the time and I never know.
I've sort of I've sort of just take things day
by day. Now, well, I think because we have the data,
don't we we have more of a gauge, whereas before
it was like that one number every three months. Yeah,
it felt like an example, completely terrifying. PASSI fail, PASSI fail,

(44:36):
passle fail.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
Yeah it is.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
I think it's really easy to put yourself under pressure
for numbers like HBO and C. But if it's if
it's not great. Then you know that you need to
do a bit of you need to put a bit
of work in to make it better. But it's not
the end of the world, because you can change it.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
I think that's the thing when you get these numbers
that you're a bit disappointed by and it's all personal,
sort of what that number would be, it's all temporary,
and you do sort of have sometimes it Like for me,
it sometimes made me realize that I have been a
bit complacent when it comes to paying attention, and I'm like, Okay,
there's only a few tweaks I need to make it
because I've got a good basis for what i need

(45:15):
to do. And I always kind of understand where that's
come from. Whether it's been a high stress work period,
or i haven't been paying attention, or I've been eating
too much granola without carb counting.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
Probably all of those things are sort of Okay, yeah's life.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
It is life, and this is long. And I think
that's what you realize, isn't it. Like if you do
have that one number, that that one week, or that
one result every three months that you don't love, it's like, okay, well,
life is long. So as long as I'm gonna try
and do a few little tweaks here and there. We're
going to be all right, it's going to be fine.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
I'm sure you'll smash it. But I'm sorry to hear
about your stressful job, Blair, because that's not fun. I
hope that's temporary, and I hope you get a lovely,
lovely festive break.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
I was just thinking that you're nearly there.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
We're nearly there.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
And Mary Anne, who also appeared on This This Here
podcast this year, managed to go the whole year without
getting my tube inc caught on a door handle, absolutely
smashed it. The exact reason I have a tube LUs
pump because I am such a clutz. So yeah, I
mean that is incredible because I think I would if

(46:27):
I had a pump with a tube, I think it
would be.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
Probably a three times a week occurrence for me.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
Oh at least I would have lost so many to
the canula graveyard like I whacked my My limbs are
eight feet long, like I whacked them all the time,
mister Tiddle. Literally so, and I love that one because
it isn't mountains on marathons. It's like this is real
life with tapewe is getting your pump tubink caught in

(46:55):
a door handle.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
Speak to me not to be that guy. I don't
want to be negative.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
But mary Anne, we haven't reached the end of the
year yet. We knew year is Eve eleven PM, and
you'll be like.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
Oh my god, mary Anne, please write to us on
the first of January twenty twenty five, just to let
me know.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
Tape that thing to your body, every part of that tubing.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
Take it down. Yeah, yeah, the tubing and the Christmas lights.
That could be a dangerous time. Oh gosh, there's lots
of opportunities for some tangling there. There's someone in the
world somewhere decorating their tree with their old tubing, isn't
there for sure?

Speaker 3 (47:36):
For sure?

Speaker 2 (47:36):
Like they've made a dietree. I want to see it.
If you've made a dietary, please send it. I would
love to see that.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
What else could you make?

Speaker 3 (47:42):
You can make like little ball.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
Balls out of your pods.

Speaker 3 (47:46):
They'd sting like it must be really bacony. Oh god.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
Actually, you know when you were saying earlier about the
one that was bleeping at you, and so you're trying
to find the one that you hadn't worn. Mine are
so obvious worn because they are so covered in fluff
and faked hand, they are disgusting, and because I send
them for recycling, I think to myself every time I
put them in, like if they're not covered in faked hand,
there's like a little blood around them, where like a
canyon is wiggled around, or they're like just grubby from

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like a jumper or a black black T shirt.

Speaker 3 (48:19):
A black T shirt.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
The day after a dex colm is a is a
nightmare because the dex comb is then like this one
I've got on. Now it's covered in fluff, and I
just think they must look at it and be like,
this girl is absolutely disgusting.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
I am disgusting, but it's true because the body bits
they're not cute, but here we are. We're making it cute.
When you said stink, I really thought you meant skin
and I was like, oh no, sorry, that wasn't like
a slight.

Speaker 2 (48:43):
It was more just that my pumps always like I
can smell the insulin, like when I take the pump off.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
Yeah, it's quite I saw someone who was it. I
think my mom was meeting an old friend that had
been god words, gen Wow, she met an old friend
who They were friends when I was a kid. So
our Oh my god, yeah, oh my god, I get it.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
So you grew up with their kids.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
Their daughter. Yeah, so two daughters, and my mum and
this girl's mom and oh my god.

Speaker 3 (49:18):
My mom has a friend with a daughter the same
age as me. So we grew up together. We continue.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
Someone i'd known from yester year. Yester year. Wow. Oh no,
we bumped into her. That was it. It was completely random.
We bumped into her. And I can't remember if I
just collected a prescription or I'd just taken some insulin
or something. She was like, oh my god, that smell
is so nostalgic. I was just like, god, I smell

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like a hospital brilliant or or a pick or bacon.
I don't know, were.

Speaker 3 (49:59):
Hospital babion.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
Are you sorry anyway? Before I pick myself in any
better light, you did with yourself.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
So I mean, I can't.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
I've literally got no defense. And it actually we myself.

Speaker 3 (50:15):
I didn't know. I didn't.

Speaker 2 (50:17):
I could have held it, but I was being forced
to wei. Arguably I was I forcibly wet myself under duress,
under duress.

Speaker 1 (50:28):
This is from Ela, who I also met and lovely Edinburgh,
the people with diabetes in Edinburgh. Can I just say
absolutely delightful. We were talking about this is why I
was talking about FIAS, but earlier, because we were messaging.
I'd switched previously from Nova Rapper because it wasn't working.
It was so slow. I was taking forty five minutes
or so to work for me personally. And I think

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we've spoken about this in a previous podcast, where you
don't realize, like the advocating that you can do for yourself,
and it's exhausting and it's tiring, and you've kind of
always done this, you were diagnosed that you've seen that
if you keep asking, eventually people listen. But hey, it's worked,

(51:10):
And I think I've spoken previously. I used to go
into my husband points and just be like yes, no, yes,
I'm the same weight, No I'm not pregnant. No I
don't smoke, see you do you know? And we were
having a chat and Eila was also diagnosed as an
adult and she's on Overrapid and we were talking about
how it maybe wasn't working for her, and I said,
have you asked to change? Have you asked about any
other options? She messaged me saying her win was the

(51:33):
fact that she's now on FIAS and it's so much
better because she asked and they listened.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
Is that amazing?

Speaker 1 (51:39):
That's so good.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
And I also think what you were saying about advocating
for yourself number one, I wouldn't do if it wasn't
for you, because I wouldn't know about Again, it's this
thing of like having someone else being like, you know
you can ask the question, and also seeing the things
that you had, and then you being like, you know
you could get this as well. But I do think
it's that thing of the doctor or your consultant or

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whoever doesn't live your life. You live your life, and
if you can make you can make the suggestion. They
might say to you, oh, it's not available, or I
don't think that'd be quite right for you, because but
if you don't make the suggestion, they're not psychic. They can't,
you know, predict what might work for you or what
you might want. So I think it's always worth asking,

(52:23):
even if you think it's not a possibility.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
Yeah, no, I agree, And I think if you think
of it in the context of you go into that
one appointment remembering your last appointment, but since that appointment,
they've had hundreds of other people walk through that door. Yeah,
they're not going to remember that or not. They're not
even going to be aware necessarily that what you're currently
taking and using isn't the best fit for you. They

(52:47):
you know, and maybe you didn't think it wasn't the
best fit for you until you found out that there
was an alternative.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
Or it might have been the best fit for you
at a certain point in your life and that can change. Yeah,
Like you know, you've had you had an over rapid
for years, didn't like years and years, and they.

Speaker 1 (53:01):
Didn't know that there was another one.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
Yeah, so, and there are lots of others.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Now.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
I remember talking to someone I can't remember who it
was now, Oh, it was our friend Marina, and we
had talked to her about She had asked me about
what insulin I was on. She was still taking over rapid,
I believe, and she got moved to a different one
which wasn't FIASP, but a similar thing which was I
think even quicker than fiasas. Oh wow, yeah, so you know,

(53:29):
you never know, just have the chat, and that's what
the doctors are there for. They're working with you, not
against you. They want to see your levels improve and
your life improve and your general overall happiness and well
being and all of that sort of stuff.

Speaker 3 (53:41):
So have that combat.

Speaker 1 (53:43):
I was like, hichat love that. And I've just realized
I've been talking for an hour and I can't believe it.
So it's like the end of the podcast. So all
we've got time for, my dear, is a quick resolution
Jen hit Me twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
Do you remember at the begin beginning we got obsessed
with I wanted to go to the insulin factory.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, let's put it. Let's put it on
the vision board. I mean, I wouldn't say it's my vision,
but I'm happy to share this vision with you. I
just think it'll be a fun day out. We could
wear the lab coats, do it for the content. It
would smell really good. Would smell like bacon, smell like
hospital bacon.

Speaker 3 (54:25):
Also, I just.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
It's interesting saying this because we were all teenagers and
in our twenties once and we drank loads. I drank
w KD Blues for the best part of like five years,
so I never ever questioned what I was putting in
my body. And now I've been putting insulin in my
body for five years, and again I've only questioned it
very fleetingly once or twice, like what even is it

(54:51):
made of?

Speaker 1 (54:51):
And how? You know?

Speaker 2 (54:54):
I think about that discovery and that meme that you
always see of like all of the quito acidon this
children in the hospital bed and in nineteen twenty two, yeah,
because it was one hundred years two years ago. Yeah,
and thinking of you know, they went in and they

(55:15):
injected the children slowly, one by one, these children woke.

Speaker 1 (55:18):
Up like flowers. What did you put in it? Guys?
Like obviously that was pig insulin, pincerlin, pincerlin.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
But then you know, like what science was involved in,
like looking at the pinsulin, being like, right, we're going
to recreate this, Like where were they Like? Oh, actually,
if we pick this tree from the garden and crush
this down and mix it with this, it makes the same.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
How I don't understand science. I don't understand science, And
I like to just leave it there, because when you
say that, then I start thinking, okay, but who then well,
famously we know, but who that light that's shining bright
right there in front of me, Like who put that
filament next? To that blah blah blah, but my head
just starts pinging and I can't the.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
Worst one, the worst one. Have you ever thought about
vinyl records.

Speaker 1 (56:06):
Or like someone accidentally was scratching?

Speaker 2 (56:09):
No, but have you thought about like the process of
like they press vinyl and then you put a needle
on it and it plays out the song perfectly? What
is on it? Yes, we have this conversation a lot
at work and we're like, isn't it mental? Blows my mind?

Speaker 1 (56:21):
But thank goodness thereah people that think like that, because
now we're sat here alive and kicking, making granola, celebrating
our wins. And I hope you are celebrating your wins
as a little as they may seem for you, they
are actually huge because we're all out here doing this
all by ourselves and it's not easy. So you got

(56:42):
three twenty twenty four. You're amazing for doing so. Randaplause, Yeah,
well done, us go.

Speaker 3 (56:50):
We're thriving.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
And even if you feel like you're not thriving, it's fine.
Everything is ups and downs. It's the rollercoaster of life
with the added uh. It's another metaphor for this for diabetes,
Like is my seatbelt.

Speaker 3 (57:03):
Gonna work today? Who knows what?

Speaker 1 (57:07):
On the roller coaster, God, Jen ruined it.

Speaker 3 (57:13):
I really tried hard. I could probably come up with
a better one.

Speaker 1 (57:16):
Yeah, just that one's a bit threatening. I don't like it.

Speaker 3 (57:19):
Well, you might fall off the roller coaster. You won't die.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
There's a trampoline underneath it. Oh great, okay, well then
we'll find I'm like, get me on the trampoline. That
sounds way more fun as an out.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
Wait, you would want to fall off the top of
a roller coaster on a trampoline, You're probably gonna like
break an ankle or something.

Speaker 5 (57:36):
Triple somersault and present, God the Dancer and us will
never ever leave.

Speaker 1 (57:46):
Will it never? Never? Well with that, my love, It's
been a gorgeous check in. Obviously, as always, we'll see
you very soon. This has been the year of This
is the most podcast I think I've produced in a year.

Speaker 3 (58:00):
She's been non start.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
I think everyone needs to give Jenna a big hand
because she's really doing the most for the diabetes community,
and actually I think for me. When I was in
a very lonely place at the start of my diabetes journey,
actually five years ago, I went on holiday on Boxing Day,
and I remember it was the first time I decided
to engage in any sort of diabetic content. And I

(58:25):
listened to a few of your podcasts and it just
I was like nodding along. I remember being on like
a flight and like nodding along, being like, oh my god,
yeah yeah, yeah yeah, and just you know, just doing
that is you know, there is Your back catalog of
podcasts is incredible, and there will be more than one
story that if you are a Type one best Type

(58:47):
one diabetic, or you know someone who is that's close
to you, you will listen to that podcast and you
will find something to relate to. And I think that's
the important thing here, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (58:55):
Because I.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
Definitely felt really lonely, and I not every one has
a physical gen in their lives, like I'm very lucky
to have you. I'm aware of that, and not everybody
has that. And so it's like the online friend, Oh,
she's really put in the work.

Speaker 3 (59:12):
No, she's nearly broken herself in.

Speaker 1 (59:15):
I mean, that's not why I teed that up. I
was gonna actually say thank you to everyone for getting
us here, because without any listeners, there would be no podcast.
And it is exactly for that reason. Thank you so much. Amy.
That is gonna make me cry. So we're gonna have
to stop here. But do you hope if you have
enjoyed listening this year, then it has helped you feel

(59:36):
like you've got a little dire friend out there somewhere
because we are out here. Oh my god, Well, Amy,
right back at you, because as I always say, you
taught me more than I taught you, and not at
least getting off those three meter long needles. Yeah, she
pulled one out and I was like, I cannot believe

(59:57):
what is this.

Speaker 3 (59:58):
I was like, have you got loads of skin?

Speaker 1 (59:59):
Why have you got this? It was like Mary Poppins
pulling it out of my hambag. Just need or it
just never.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
Ended and you were covered in bruce in your lif
I'm so bruised. And I was like, well I think
I know why.

Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
Yeah. So I'll be eternally in your debt for that.
But hey, Merry Christmas. Depending on when you're listening to this,
let's go twenty twenty five. We've got this, so have
a good one. Thanks baby, thanks for coming back.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
Thank you so much for having me. That was a
thorough and joy. As always, we came on with no
plan and could well have. I mean, I talked about
pissing myself, So listen guys.

Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
If you think you've a shit here and can't get
worse than that, what.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
A way to end and good night. I hope you
enjoyed this episode of Type one on one. Please remember
that nothing you hear on this podcast should be taken
as medical advice. I'm definitely not a healthcare professional. If
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really helps to spread the word about type one diabetes,
and thank you so much for listening.