The Diaries Check In: Things that go insulin pump in the night

It's been a hot minute but Ami Bennett (or should that be Dennett?) is back for a catch up!

My dear friend and fellow type 1 Ami returns to give us the latest on her diabetes escapades.

There's a lot to catch up on, as Ami's quest for a lower HbA1c has given her a few tales. I discuss the brave new world of tangles that come with a tubed insulin pump, Ami's been dealt a dia-fine and we accidentally invent the Diabetes Girl Guides. 

Plus, does anyone name their insulin pump? Asking for two friends...

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This episode of Type one on one is sponsored by Dexcom.
More on that later. Just to say, as with every
episode of Type one on one, nothing you hear within
this podcast episode is intended to be nor should be
taken as medical advice, and you should absolutely seek the
advice and guidance of a healthcare professional before making any
changes to your diabetes management. If you want to come

(00:21):
and say hi, you can do so at Studio type
one on one on Instagram and I'd love to see
you there.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
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 Grieves, and
each week, with the help of some brilliant guests, I'll
be showing that there is no normal when it comes
to handlingk this whopper of a chronic condition, because we're

(00:50):
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.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Hi, friends, welcome back to Type one on one and
we've got a lovely little check in from our friend here,
Amy Bennett today because it's been far too long.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Hello Amy, Hi lovely Jen.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
How are you.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
I'm good? Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
So For those of you unacquainted with this wonderful human,
Amy Bennett is a friend that I found, I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Know down the street. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
We crossed each other's paths through work.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
And at the time I was living with the delightful
type one diabetes. Because I've lived with it forever, Amy
had no idea what was to come.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
She caught it by osmosis a few years later, didn't you.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
I caught it from you, Jen. Yeah, we hung out
too much. We had lots of other things in common.
We worked similar jobs, we had done weirdly very similar
like journeys through education. We both danced. We're peas in a.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Pod, peace in a pod.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
And now we share the busted beta cells too. But
it's been a number of years now for Amy. And
if you do want to hear more Amy, which you
absolutely should, and you will see why very soon as
we get into this, there are thirty at least.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
There's no there was thirty. Then there was the one
episode I did originally of Type one on one, which
is my diagnosis story. Maybe don't listen to that, go
I can't bear to listen to.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
That back now.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
And then there was season two.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
We're in season fifteen.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
I think it was twenty twenty.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, we did that, remember being locked at home.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
It was indoor time, but we hung out quite a
lot outdoors during indoor time, didn't we?

Speaker 1 (02:47):
When we were allowed to do the distance? See even
talking about this is weird, isn't it. The socially distanced walks.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
We did a lot of socially distanced walks, didn't we.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
We did because we were in the same area of
London at the time. And then I ran away to
a different country.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
And then I've followed you there. Jen was only gone
for four months, and I was like, I must see you.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Amy's actually recording this from the bushes outside.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
But no, we're both living with Type one.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
We both kind of have moved through lots of escapades,
as we came to call them, and we have discovered
that they just don't stop. So we're gonna have a
little catch up today and those of you who are
longtime listeners to the podcast will be delighted because.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Amy is a fan favorite. Quite rightly.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
Love that for me and for you, but mostly for me.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Thanks Jen, you're so well good, So tell tell the fans.
How are you?

Speaker 4 (03:47):
Amy? Yeah, I'm quite well, I think, Yeah, all right, Yeah,
I feel all right. I've had some mad escapades of late,
but other than that, I'm doing okay. How are you,
Jen Greeves.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
I'm good.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
I've got a touch of the Mariah Carey wind machine
situation face here, because it's just too hot to do
the professional thing when you're recording a podcast and make
sure that all background noise and such is gone.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
But I've shut the windows, so there has to be something.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
I was a professional in this industry. I was there.
I can't I can't hear the fan. I can just
see your hair blowing like Mariah Carey's or Beyonce, but
Maria Carey always has the fan apparently.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah. Yeah, it's the energy I'm channeling today. I rate it.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
That's really all I've got to tell you. Thanks for listening. Yeah,
but part from that, you know, it's summer in Spain.

Speaker 5 (04:48):
It's pretty hot, and I am just bopping around doing
my thing, trying to figure out the literal tangles that
come with being on a tubed pump, which.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
Was one of our fears, wasn't it. Between us because
we're both quite clumsy gels.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, so we're both we've both been on omnipod. I
had always been on omnipod, and now I'm not, no
shade omnipod. I miss it dearly, but I am now
in the tubed family, and it is very different.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
I didn't like that one tube family. I'm tubular.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
In my head. It was like a whole family who
live in a tiny tube.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
No, just me trying to figure this out. Oh my goodness,
but you know we're getting there. It's just it's like
androids and iPhones sort of.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
If anyone can figure it out, it's you.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Thanks Pubs. Yeah, it's been interesting.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
I will say the algorithm on both of the pumps
I've now used are, while quite different, both really really great.
And I do like everything I said previously about hyper
closely absolutely stands on the IPSO pump which I'm now on.
It's just a practical thing, really having to find clips

(06:09):
or pockets or like my bra is now a critical
piece of my daily equipment, which, as a member of
the small titty committee had never been the case.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
Well, Jen, as a member of the big titty committee,
I hate wearing a bra, so I feel like for
me that would also be.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yeah, I don't love it, but it's that or putting
it in my pocket, which is a world of pain
when you're trying to go to the loo and you
forget that it's there and you know you're trying not
to yank the the canular out.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
Where are where does the canular go in the same
places that it would with an omnipod?

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, and like minds generally across the abdomen yeah, and
like hips as well. So but what I will say
is you can unclip it, which that is quite nice,
So you on clip it for a shower. Sometimes I
just give myself a little half you nit or whatever
and bop around untethered, a little naked treat. Naked treat, yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Sort of. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
So it's just adjustment. It's just different. But I'm healthy
and that's that's what matters.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
Yeah, isn't it. It's like making sure that that you're
doing the best for you with what you've got. I
still see online, you know, the the tech thing. I
feel really lucky to have what I have, and I
think there are a lot of people still in maybe
different parts of the country where the I'm sure the

(07:40):
guidelines are the same, but maybe the what's the word,
the amount of the budget that that particular trust has
is different and they're still struggling to get stuff. So
you know, that was me and so if that is you,
I feel you and you'll get there and I think
you know there will be different options and you'll be

(08:03):
able to make it work because that's what we do, right.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Very resistant means yeah, we make things happen. I think
diabetes has a lot to do with that.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
For me.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
I think growing up with it and I think you
were that person anyway, but potentially diabetes has made it
even more so, do you think.

Speaker 4 (08:19):
Yeah, Like I always say, it made me way less
of a dick and like much more empathetic to other things.
You know. Yeah, I think it's really hard because you'll
never understand it until you're in it.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
Yeah, totally.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
And I was very like base with my dad, like
with people around me, like you, I was just like, Oh,
it's not that big of a deal, and I'm like,
oh no, it's your absolute whole fucking life. You can
never turn it off.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
Ain't that the truth? But that's why we're here.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
I'm kind of.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Poking fun at that because it really is the true.
But we're carrying.

Speaker 4 (08:53):
On, Jen, tell me about the tube, tell me about
your tube family. Can I just caveat? I did say
earlier that I know I don't like wearing a bra
that means like an underwide bra. Do you still support
the ladies before anyone messages me, the ladies are all supported.

(09:13):
There's not much space to put anything else in the bra.
To be quite honest with you.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
In my appointment the other day, we were talking about
changing the cartridges over and stuff, and I was like,
I don't want to change them before the insulin runs out,
and she was like, it's very hot, you know, the
incident's going to get warm. And then I just thought like, yeah,
and it's sat against my sweaty body all day. You're
so right, Like it's a very different feeling carrying this

(09:38):
pump in a bra to having the omnipod patch stuff
on your body, Like yeah, you're yeah, it's a thing,
so sweaty, boober grade.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
But then what are the guys doing.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
I guess the belts, the pockets and I don't know
what what.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
My head My brain went somewhere really bad.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
I can't say it Okay, okay, what if that one there?

Speaker 4 (10:03):
It's such a funny joke.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Shame.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
I'm going to leave that with your imagination, and I
reckon in ten to fifteen minutes you'll go.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Oh no, I think I've got it. I'm going to
verify that after the pod, after we've recorded. I think
I know exactly where you've gone with that.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
But yeah, mammas and pappas who also wear tubed pumps,
I mean the chaos, the chaos.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
Yeah, because the thing is even with omnipod, I'm always
surprised by people because you know, like one of the
approved sites is like your bum, like your bum cheeks,
and I was thinking to myself, how how are you
doing that? But then I also think, well, I wear
mine on my arm or my leg and I sleep
on it like without much, but like sitting down all day.
I mean, I'm not suggesting you put it on your

(10:52):
like lower rear. I think it's like upper butt cheek, right,
but the cheek I actually we did in my ass crack.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
I'm not gonna lie. That is where I thought your
brain went before.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
No, it went to a worst place, and I'm sorry,
but like, yeah, I can't remember where I was going
with that, but yeah, putting things against the body is
I guess I don't think we don't think twice about

(11:29):
it when you've got like an omnipod, I'm malfunctioned.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
We don't think it's foiled.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
She's insulated sent me that on a text the other day,
and I really enjoyed it.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
We'll get into we can get into that one as well.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
I was insulating. Yeah, I think it's like a whole adjustment,
isn't it, because even though the tech is doing sort
of technically the same thing, the whole like lifestyle part
of it is completely different for you.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Now, Yeah, that's exactly it.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
The tech, the outcomes, the health things like I'm really
happy with where that's all at, and as as you say, like,
I'm you know, super super lucky to be in this position.
And if you aren't a pump person, or you're not
there yet or you don't think you'll ever be there,
like completely valid, you do you, But yeah, it's the
lifestyle adjustments. But there would have been lifestyle adjustments when

(12:23):
I went onto the omnipod. I just was prepared for
them because it was my first pump, so I knew
it was going to be changes, but I think the
thing of going from tube blessed too tubed is a
less common way around of doing it, and certainly as
someone who flings themselves around in a in a gym
basement multiple times a week, that has been a big challenge.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
But we're making it work.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
We're making it work, you know work. But yeah, I
still I still love the omnipod.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
But I love you.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
It's pumped too.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
You look really sad when you said that.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
I love you in a different way, like an.

Speaker 4 (13:02):
Ex that you left things really well with.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
Fond memories. We went around the world together. I guess. Yeah,
me and omnipod over ten years. That's that's a lot
of you must.

Speaker 4 (13:15):
Have been one of the first users of an omnipod. Right.
In a separate escapade, I ended up having to go
to Homoton Hospital, which is not my hospital, to pick
somethings up. And in the Homoton Hospital diabetes waiting room,
they've got like a big display case of like all
diabetes tech is amazing. Oh wow, so I've got like
the first omnipods in their like eros is that what

(13:39):
it was called? It was, wasn't it the one that
you had.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah, you told me that. I didn't know that, and
I'd been on it for like six years. You went
to some training and suddenly spoke fluent omnipod.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
I was like, sorry, listen, I got my level three
omnipod bat. Maybe you skipped that one.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Yeah, sounds about right.

Speaker 4 (13:59):
So, yeah, the the I don't think yours was the
first one, but there's one before that. But like, you
were on that one for such a long time, and
it was quite a while before I think, before like
dash came out. So it makes me think that maybe
you you were you must have been an early adopter
or were you how Oh no, you wouldn't have been

(14:20):
a child.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
I was very much an adult. I'm not that old
so young.

Speaker 4 (14:29):
Oh yeah, you'd have made it younger.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
You're welcome, Okay, thanks take that.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
I think I remember when I got it one. I'd
never seen it before, never heard of it. Sorry, we
won move on from pums in just a second. I'd
never seen or heard of a nominipod. I didn't know
tube bliss pumps existed. Like many people, I think I
thought they weren't really something that was available to a
lot of people. I thought they were huge with like
all these things coming out of.

Speaker 4 (14:56):
That picture of the person with the backpack pack.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
Yeah, exactly, that that was.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
That was me when I went onto Yeah, and I remember,
like because I was blogging or whatever at that time,
was in my blogging era, guys or youtubing, maybe a
lot of people just were like, how did you get that?

Speaker 3 (15:14):
And I think my hospital were one of the first.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
Certainly around London there was only a few hospitals that
did it, so a lot. Yeah, I mean, I didn't
realize I was such a innovator in this in this field, a.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
Tech fluencer, diabeat to fluence.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
God help the world. If I'm the tech person that
people are going to.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
I think you do all right, you definitely know more
than me. I still don't understand what a lot of
the things mean inside the pump. I do get it
when someone explains it to me, but you know, like
I think maybe the way it's phrased, I just don't
really understand it. So I actually am on an active

(15:58):
mission to lower my age, which is not offensively high currently,
but I want to just be in like really good health.
So I'm working closely with my team at the hospital
and every few months. We are just making little tweaks,
which I wouldn't think to do myself. I would just
leave it and just keep rolling and be like, oh,

(16:22):
I've been high every afternoon for the last six weeks
and I don't know why. And so sometimes is having
someone to explain that stuff to you. It is really helpful. So, yeah,
I'm learning about all of those things. So while I've
got my level three omnipod, I don't have level five.
Is really where that comes in, by the way, anyone listening,
these are made up levels. It's total thing.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
She's at the omnipod girl guides.

Speaker 4 (16:49):
Oh my god, cute like that idea. Do you know
I've just realized I haven't seen my handset for ages.
I actually don't know where it is.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
You should air tag it like you do your headphones,
which just blew me away.

Speaker 4 (17:02):
Well, they're not air tag That's what I mean, because
they already have one in there. But they're attached to
my keys, so if I lose my keys, I can
always find them. Yeah, I should air tag it, but
normally I keep the two things together like phone, and
so that must be one thing. Sorry, we will stop
talking about pumps soon, but now that you are on
a tubed pump, the tech is different in terms of

(17:24):
what you physically have to carry around, right.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yeah, I only have one device and that device is
my phone.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
It is wild. Now.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
There was an adjustment period where I had to momentarily
find an Android as well as my phone, and we
were not friends. Granted I bought the lowest budget one
I could from that.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
Weird sharp where you buy CeX exchange that sharp.

Speaker 4 (17:48):
I guess from there all the time for.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
Work, I was like, how cheap can I go with this?
That will function? And yeah it was.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
It was a It was a tricky time. But thanks.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
There's an ifsapp now now, I will say, because I
feel a bit conflicted about it and most people probably won't.
But having my life saving medical dosing in the app
next to my WhatsApp stupid chats memes.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (18:17):
No, I hear this, It's like oooh yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
And also I feel a lot more conscious of holding
my phone at the table, whereas before, like certainly in
the era ofstays, people would be like, what on earth
is that? Because it looks so different the controller, whereas
I just look like my phone.

Speaker 4 (18:35):
I have now I think I've talked about this before,
but I have now made a habit of when I
go to a gym class, if it's with the new instructor,
I will be like, hey, this is my phone, this
is my insulim pump. If you see me fiddling around,
I'm not checking my emails because of that time when
twice it's happened where I've been like sort of yelled
at in a gym class, and just easier now just

(18:56):
to explain, whereas before I was like very militant, like
I shouldn't have to do it's my business. I'm paying
to be here. But actually it just makes everything easier.
But I know that feeling of, you know, like at
the dinner table, particularly in like a group setting, where
it looks like you're being antisocial.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
And because I do still meet a lot of new
people quite often, I'm not like where most people our
age are in terms of the routine of seeing the
same people that they've known for years. So it does
feel like something I have to kind of explain away.
But it's okay, like you saying, with the gym carsh
you're kind of taking control of that situation for yourself, yeah,

(19:35):
which I think does help so and I think normally
people see my decks come before anything else, so it's
like a bit of a bridge if I do then say, oh,
I'm on my phone for this reason. But I noticed
the difference in not having the second thing because I've
always had that other controller for like, well, yeah, over
a decade, I've had that extension of my arm. But

(19:57):
when I was running through the airport me, I was like,
I had a train to catch. My flight was delayed
by an hour, and I'd left this massive gap to
catch this specific train. And I obviously could buy another
ticket and get another train, but we like to live
in hope that these things are going to go to plan.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
I was running for this train. I needed some food.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
It had been so long since I eight, because I
try not to like mess too much with variables when
I'm flying, because it just makes the thing a lot
smooth in terms of like trying to figure out carbamounts
and whatever.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
So I was running for the train.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
I always run straight into Marks and Spencers when I
learned in the.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
UK in the airport because I just love it.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
And I picked up some Percy pigs and thought of
you but I picked up some food and I was like, right,
I'm going to take this pre bowlus while I'm running
for this train. And I already had my phone in
my hand and I was, you know, with my backpack,
like back in the travel zone, and I really was like, Wow,
this this is so doable. Whereas I definitely wouldn't have
done that pre bowl list. There's no way, there's no

(20:58):
way I would have gone into my bag to get
a control are out to do a pre bowlus. Yeah,
as I was running for that train, and granted I
could have just waited until I got the train, but
that's not how my brain works.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
And also, you're supposed to pre bowl us, so actually
you did everything right.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
But I could pre bowl us on the train. But
show me the person who's going to pre bowl us
on a train and sit and wait fifty minutes.

Speaker 4 (21:18):
Yeah, I can't wait if the food is there in
front of me. I'm not doing it to myself, Like
I just that's not the right thing I should be
saying as someone who's trying to get their HBO on
seed down. But I did have a couple of occasions
where I pre bowlus when I hadn't eaten and I
was hungry, and then as I'm eating, I have a
hypo and I'm like, well, this isn't enjoyable, is it.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
No? And then you're not enjoying the food, are you,
because you're just like ramming it down to get it in.

Speaker 4 (21:43):
Yeah, So I like started just with the pre bowlers thing.
Like for me, I definitely have to work out what
else I've eaten in that day, what time I ate,
how much I've moved to my body and things like that,
and if it's like not much food and a lot
of movement going on, I'll try not to do it
too early, whereas if I've spent all days. Yeah. Yeah,

(22:05):
Like I find that work lunch is particularly difficult because
we will go out for a walk to get lunch,
or go for a walk before lunch and then have
lunch and then sit down and then I'll like sit
high till I leave and then literally I take one
step out of the office and I plumb it down.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
I was talking about you about that to someone else
who has the same issue, and I definitely notice it
if I am completely locked.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
At the desk. I'm curious with this.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
HbA wants c lowering because I would just be a
bit like, oh my god, this is like where do
you begin?

Speaker 3 (22:39):
Have you found it? Quite?

Speaker 1 (22:40):
Like?

Speaker 3 (22:40):
Step by step helpful? Are you seeing things come good?

Speaker 4 (22:46):
So the hospital team are doing everything for me, like
looking at the graphs and seeing what changes can be
made where because I think if I was doing it
by myself, I would take a punt on something and
do like be trying to change something when really it's
something else that needs to be changed. So because there

(23:08):
are different lots of different variables, isn't there there's like
you know, how long the insulin lives inside your body,
for what your basil is doing at that time, what
your bolus ratios are at that time of day. So
all of those different things are being tweaked mine and
minor tweaks and just seeing how we go. I am

(23:30):
noticing a difference. One big thing I'm noticing is that
the same amount of insulin that I was putting in
my pump before, by the time I get to the
last sort of twelve hours, I think you get a
beap eight hours before the end on omnipolgisa, eight hours
before the end of it, I often have much less

(23:52):
insulin left at that point than what I did before,
So I think before I was not giving myself enough
insulin or the pump calculations were off at certain points
of the day. And then the other thing is I
am way more susceptible to a hyper if I don't
eat when I'm supposed to eat now, but I understand,

(24:16):
like it really should push me to eat better and
more regularly because the problem I have, I think with
my job is when I get busy, I just don't eat,
and that's really not good for me. And that's one
of those things that I need to prioritize because not
only does it like mess with my blood sugar, then
for the rest of the day and it will impact
like how well I can, you know, how strong I

(24:36):
can be in the gym or whatever, and how well
I sleep. It also means I'm hungry and not concentrate,
and yeah, like it just makes me miserable and I'm
really noticing now, Like the difference is different foods will
make on my not just my blood sugar, but also

(24:56):
my mood. And I guess that's sick call as well,
isn't it, Because if your blood sugar is very, very high,
I get quite grumpy. Because I don't feel good and
you know the same, and and like this is I
think another thing that I always like to talk about
is like the emotional side of type one diarbetes and

(25:17):
how that is linked to the physical side. As well
as the emotional baggage, like the weight of managing condition,
there's also the emotional impact that like your body doing
so many other or trying to do so much other stuff,
and the impact that that has on your your mood
and your mental health as well. And that's part of

(25:39):
it that I think a lot of people just don't understand.
I definitely didn't understand it before I was diagnosed. And
also at the beginning, I was just like, oh, I'm medly,
it must be hormones.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
Now, how would you know? PS level five? Hello, you passed?

Speaker 4 (25:55):
Oh, thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
I'm alazy like you that you just spouted all that
out like it was. You know, that's huge to have
kind of made space for that, taken that on board,
and to be seeing like the benefits of that, that's massive.
So many people are out there trying to figure this out.
That's why I asked, because we are just like, well,
why doesn't that make sense? And I feel like I'm

(26:18):
doing everything right, and for me, I've gone the long
way round.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
I didn't go to the school that I should have
gone to.

Speaker 4 (26:24):
I am.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
I went rogue and went down a different path where
I was like, oh, just what's.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
Woman gin?

Speaker 1 (26:34):
I mean, let's not make things hard for ourselves. We
can go and ask our healthcare teams.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
So it's great that you're seeing that.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
Yeah, it might have been so good, like I had,
I had a weird blood result come back. It was
actually urine. Something came back in the weed test where
I didn't piss on myself. Congratulations me.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
I didn't want to describe from the serious topic, but
congratulations that I've actually got really good at that as well.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
So I think I've got that level two piss and
a cuper scout badges?

Speaker 3 (27:09):
Was there that girl?

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Did you have a girl in your class who used
to go to Brownie's and had that sash?

Speaker 3 (27:13):
And there was always one.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
I never went to Brownies, but it was like fully
way down with all the badges. They just had everything.
You're basically that I was that kid.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
No, I'm supposed to have had the same life amy.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
So basically I just got really into this is this
is bad. But I got really into the idea of
the badges, right, and so I would find the easiest
ones in the book. So there was like collector's badge,
and I'd be like, look around my bedroom at home,
what have I got loads of? And I'm a little
collector of things. I love things, so you know, now

(27:51):
i'd have a really impressive collection of like stupid candles.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
You have really nice bits in your house, like trinkets, so.

Speaker 4 (27:59):
Many bits, but lovely bit so much Shit's so much
shit anyway, So I'd look up things like that and
and then I would get the collector's badge because I
just took in a collection of like I don't know,
symbols or something weird that i'd you know, got from somewhere.

(28:20):
And then I was like, right, I want to get
the animal's badge. So I was like, Mum, I'm taking
the dog for a walk. And then she just had
to sign a thing to say that I took the
dog for the walk, and then I got the animal's badge. Like,
I would choose the badges that were easiest to get.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
What I'm Lizzy, I'm just hearing resourceful, which thank you,
works really well for a person with diabetes, also a multitasking,
very busy age seven.

Speaker 4 (28:44):
I was out here collecting nimbles, walking dogs. I was
in the leprecorns. That was my I don't know what
I called tribe. I went to Brownie camp like I
was in my gosh, Oh yeah, that was me.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
I'm busy with ISTD isolation exams as well.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
Well, actually it was it was the quitting of the
brownies that prompted the starting of the dancing I think,
or taking that seriously, I did do them thought of
at the same time. Anyway, A boring story. I am
that kid though, who I was, that kid who loved
all the badges.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
So maybe I'll I'll get you.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
A badge for this journey you're on.

Speaker 4 (29:25):
Tease me a good time.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
Jen twenty five.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Oh my gosh, did I tell you my friend bought
me a literal badge, a dire badge out of nowhere
this weekend.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
Just gave me this like pin badge a non dire friend.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yes, how cute, my god, like you, my well, you
wouldn't expect it, but from a fellow dire friend. Sure,
My friend, who has nothing to do with type one
diabetes at all, bought me a tiny enamel pink.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
Glucose meter pin.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
I find this. That's incredible.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
I have no idea. It is so cute.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
I love that from a non dire friend as well.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
Man, I'm going to find you something.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
Thanks friend, I really appreciate that. Yeah, so don't piss
on your hand badge. So something weird had come back
in my WII result and so then the consultant called
me to like chat through it, and he was like,
I'd like you to repeat the bloods and Urine I
was like, well, actually, I saw that you sent a
letter last week and I had been in with the

(30:27):
dietitian this week, so I've already done it. And he
was like fantastic. And then anyway, the way it turned
out is that they think the sample must have been
contaminated by something. Because it's absolutely fine, there was nothing
to worry about. But how good that they were so
on it. But also while we were on that call,
we were talking about lowering my HbA on C and

(30:47):
he said, oh, when's your next appointment. I said, oh,
it's in January and he said, oh no, let's get
you in in September. So he booked me an appointment
in September, and then since then, I've had another appointment
booked him for November, because I said him on the
phone like it had just turned out this year that
i'd had like January, May, July, and it had been
really useful for me because even though I'd seen different

(31:09):
people at all of those like every single one of
them made like small adjustments on my pump settings which
were helping me and was it was improving. So he
was like, well, let's continue that trajectory, like we can't
leave you till January now without any support. So that
feels really good.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
That's amazing. I'm thrilled for you. There are two thing
to be said there about asking for help, isn't there?

Speaker 4 (31:32):
Yeah? Definitely, And I've been really reluctant to do that
before and actually just been like, ah, well, you know,
it doesn't matter as long as I'm alive sort of thing.
But actually the benefits on my all round health of
what having like a better HBO wan C will be
is going to be really really good for me. So
why would I not, Like I was thinking, you know,

(31:54):
and back to that thing about that kid who wanted
all the badges, I would always strive to be like
success at work or in my friendships or relationships. So
why would I not strive to have the best possible
result with my own body because it's the only thing
I've got.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
And it impacts your work and your friendships and your relationships.
Which is the conclusion I came to when I started
realizing that, like, it could be better and I could
do it differently, And I don't blame myself for that.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
I didn't know what I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
But yeah, then seeing the shifts of that on the
rest of my life and how I spoke to myself
like who I was in my head, that was massive.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
So yeah, I think that gives a lot of hope
to people as well.

Speaker 4 (32:37):
We're really maturing.

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Speaker 4 (33:25):
I do have some other things. So this morning I
had two things through the post. Okay, I've got them here. Oh,
maybe don't. Maybe I don't put that right. Okay, so
Amy's address, here's my address, come a visit. It's actually
that's not on my dress sides, so it's fine. First
thing was had the Disco drops two weeks ago. Eyeballs

(33:46):
are all fine.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
Good news, fantastic.

Speaker 4 (33:49):
This business news evidence shows that if you're not fine
to have diabetic retinopathy after two successive screenings, you can
safely be screened every two years instead of every year.
Now wow, which I'm happy about. But I'm also a
bit sad about because I love the man who puts
the drops in at the clinic. He is so nice
and he always remembers me.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Ah that's interesting, yeah, because I would have thought two
years like you can shift things.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
I don't know, but great, well hopefully not. With my
new improved HBO one see.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
Yeah, yeah, let's admin. We'll take it.

Speaker 4 (34:25):
Yeah, that's what I mean. If people didn't know that,
that's new news to me. I'm just passing on the news.
The next part. Now. Oh, A couple of weeks ago,
I had a letter in the post from No what.
I kept it out because I was so annoyed by it.
It's here. No, that's not it. That's a different one.

(34:47):
It's here.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
I feel like I'm in a lawyer's office or something,
this official business.

Speaker 4 (34:53):
Oh no, it's not. That's my mot certificate. Anyway, whatever,
I don't have it. I should have it because it
would have been better for the story. I got a
letter through the post with a PCN a penalty charge
notice rude. Not from the Driving Standards Authority or whatever
they called. No, No, not from the parking people. No no,

(35:15):
it was from the NHS. I got a PCN from
the NHS for one hundred pounds.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
WHOA?

Speaker 4 (35:21):
Why have I had this? And it's because I was
fraudulently claiming free prescriptions when my medical exemption certificate had expired.
And I was like, what it expires? I had no
idea about this anyway. I checked the certificate, lumberhold it
had expired in December, but nobody told me that this

(35:45):
was going to happen. And when I got the medical
exemption certificate, the GP did all the stuff for me,
and I literally just signed the form because obviously at
diagnosis you've got no bloody idea what's going on. And
then I called this NHS people's The man was really rude,
and he was it's your responsibility to maintain your medical
exemption certificate. And I said, well, I had no idea
that it expired, and also I will always have diabetes

(36:08):
and I will always need this medication, so why does
it expire? That doesn't make any sense to me. Anyway.
He said, well, if you send a letter proving that
you should have had a medical exemption and reapply for
your medical exemption, then you won't have to pay the fine,
but you will have to pay for the prescription. And
I was like what anyway, So I did all the thing,

(36:31):
went to the GP, had to take an afternoon off
to get there at a time that it arrived. I'm
going to show you this because it's funny. Oh it's
really stuck to the page. I think i'll cover up
that bit. So I got the certificate through.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
Yeah, Amy, Amy Donnett.

Speaker 4 (36:52):
Amy Dennett. I was like, you are taking the piss
and I was like, is it? Because me and that
man had a fight on the phone because he basically
hung up on me in the end, because I was like,
I don't understand why this has happened, and I was like,
why should I have two hundred pounds? Like I'm always sick?
So yeah, then it came through for Amy Dennett. So
I called them again and I was like, guys, what

(37:15):
is going on here? And he said, oh, sorry. It
was a different man this time. He was a bit
nicer and he said, oh, it's a scanning machine. Sometimes
it scans it wrong. And I said, but why didn't
it check it against like my NHS number and all
the other information that I had given you on the form.
He's like, it doesn't. He just prints it out. And
I was like, can I still use this? And he
was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, you can still use it.

(37:35):
I said yeah, but am I going to get a
fine for like fudulently claiming prescriptions as Amy Dennett Amy Dennett? Anyway,
the new one arrived this morning and who is she?
She's Amy Bennett and it's proper and anyway, but it
is your responsibility to remember that your medical exemption certificate
will expire on the twenty verse of June twenty thirty.

(37:58):
So I'll just keep that one in in amongst the
other one hundred and eighty decisions I have to make
a day.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
Just pop that in the storage somewhere. Oh wow.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
Anyway, just so boring, isn't it. All these extra phone calls.
It's just one big ongoing eye roll, like diabetes has
not gone away because this thing is.

Speaker 4 (38:20):
I was like, mate, do you not think I have
enough things to think about each day to keep myself
alive without having to remember a date in five years
time where my medical exemption certificate expires And I didn't
even know that it expired. Anyway, they're apparently at Googled,
and they're apparently sent meant to send you a letter

(38:40):
thirty days before it's due to expence. And I said, well,
I didn't get any letter, and he said, well, the
letter's a courtesy. It's still your responsibility. And I was like,
you are a little bitch say that. He was so
sassy and he kept talking over me, and I was like,
you're not letting me finish to explain this, and he's like,
you're not laying me finish, And I was like, all right,

(39:03):
it was he was obviously a sassy man having a
sassy day. Wow it was me mental. So yeah, that
could happen to you, guys, So just be vigilant about
your medical exemptions.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
Add that one to the list. Guys.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
I did know it expired, but only because I kind
of had a similar experience to you. But it was
like two steps before the fine. I remember, I was
like twenty one or twenty two.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
So I just come out of UNI and I was bogue.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
I had absolutely no cash moneies and I went to
Tesco running me errands, went to pick up me insulin.
And you know, also, how often do they ask for
your medical exemption certificate?

Speaker 3 (39:46):
Some days they do, some days they don't.

Speaker 4 (39:48):
I've never been asked for it ever.

Speaker 3 (39:50):
Here you go.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
So I don't think I was prepared or I hadn't
looked at it in a very long time, and a
very we'll call her diligent woman at the Tesco pharmacy.

Speaker 4 (40:02):
Call it what it is. She's a job's worth, she's
a job's worth. I can already tell you what that's going.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
To be she goes into the same box as you'll
chap on the phone. She was just like, I need
to see her medical exemption certificate, which in fairness is valid.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
Fine, that is a valid question.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
And I gave it to her and it had expired
by something like seven days. It was a pathetic amount
of time, and she made me pay for the prescription.
I just remember being so broke that I was like,
I hadn't budgeted for that.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
I don't like, how am I going to pay for this?

Speaker 1 (40:35):
I just remember thinking like I didn't lose my diabetes
seven days ago, like I'm still here trying to deal
with this, and she just would not give it. I
was like, but you can see that that's just expired,
and she was like, I'm sorry, it's just it's just
not my problem.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
I was like, oh it is if I die.

Speaker 6 (40:50):
Love, but also like, count yourself lucky that this isn't
your problem, that these aren't the things you have to
think about. I'm sure she might have had other things
to think about, but like, come on, I think there's
a humor element here.

Speaker 4 (41:01):
Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
Twenty two year old terrified girl who had absolutely no
idea what she was doing in life. Let alone, like
reordering exemption certificates she didn't know she needed.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
But yeah, so that's how I knew.

Speaker 4 (41:14):
Yeah, I'm sorry that happened. On another note, while I'm
talking about my medical exemption certificate privileges, do you know
how much an NHS prescription is? No, there's a lot
of money. I'd say, answer, is that up to like
twelve pounds per No, it's like twenty quid.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
No way.

Speaker 4 (41:33):
The thing that I've had through said that I'll have
to pay nineteen pounds something. And then I spoke to
my mom about it and I said, does Dad have
a medical exemption certificate? She went no. I said, well,
how does he get his prescriptions? She was like, oh, yeah,
he doesn't pay for them, just ticks the box. And
I said, I just got a fine. Dad has had
diabetes for like twenty odd years. How is he doing this?

Speaker 3 (41:59):
He's just rolling through, rolling with the punches.

Speaker 4 (42:02):
Yeah. Anyway, So that's my big old bitch of the
week minute.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
We'll call it a public service announcement.

Speaker 4 (42:10):
It's a public service announcement. Guys, don't forget to check
your the date on your exemption certificate because if the
pharmacy don't and they give you your prescription, the big
NHS police will come after you.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
Do you want to talk about your insulate escapade?

Speaker 4 (42:27):
Oh? Mate?

Speaker 3 (42:29):
Just to keep this.

Speaker 4 (42:30):
God yeah energy going. I'm an idiot. I'm just an idiot.
You know that some days you just you just think, oh,
it'll be fine, and it's always that day when it's
not fine. So I got in the car and I'd
driven like fifteen minutes away from my house and I
got to the petrol station. I was going to see

(42:50):
my friend who lives about three hours away, just for
the day. She's just had a baby. And I got
to the petrol station and I was like, bought some
car snacks, went to pre bolus because I'm really good
at this now, yeah, she dude. And I knew that
i'd be sitting down right so for a long time.
So I was like, right, I'll give the insulin a

(43:11):
bit before and then i'll wait. And then I saw
that there were only twenty units left, and I was like, hmm,
that's a problem. And I was like, you know what,
twenty units. That's fine. I'm only going for the day.
I'll be fine. I'll be fine. And then by the
time I got to her house. I was at twenty
two and I must have had twelve units of that
twenty of insulin. I hadn't eaten that much. I'd only

(43:33):
eaten about forty five grams of cabs. So I was like, oh,
this is a problem. And then I got to her
and she was like, I've been to Sainsbury's. I've got
us all of our favorite things now, me and my
best friend, our favorite things are just chocolate. We just
like to eat chocolate things, chocolate, crispy cakes, We liked
to eat chocolate beriachh. There was donuts, there was a

(43:58):
lot of nice things. We just you know, sometimes you
just do it right. And I was like, oh, this
is a problem. And then as I went to give
myself like I was like, I'm just going to flow
the rest of this insulin and just hope for the best.
And so well not it wasn't the rest. It was
probably like another four or five units. And then I
realized my leg was wet, and I was like, well,

(44:21):
none of this has been going in, has it, So
this is brilliant. So I was like, right, I could
just choose to let this ruin my day, or I
could just carry on and that's what I did, and
I just I drank loads of water. I must have
done about seven or eight wees in the space of
four hours. And then I was like, do you know
what I'm going to do. My mum and dad only

(44:42):
live forty five minutes from here. I'm going to go
home and I'm just going to take a big old
injection of fears from my dad. And that's what I did,
and I survived. Actually I didn't top out at high,
so there was some insulin going in. I got to
like twenty two point one, which is where I sat
for most of the day. Despite being a little bit thirsty,

(45:03):
I didn't feel too awful. I was just drinking those
of water. I was like, I'm just going to flush
it out. I'll be fine. And while it absolutely has
no doubt destroyed my HbA one C and it did
destroy my calculations and everything for that day, Like my

(45:24):
is not happy. Yeah, I still came out at thirty
five percent in range, So do you know what, I'll
take it.

Speaker 1 (45:31):
Better than nothing. I mean, that's a time. Yeah, when
you're three hours away with a leaky incident pump, that's
that's not the one I should stress that this is
not how you should deal with these situations.

Speaker 4 (45:44):
But why I didn't have a spare I'm an.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
Idiot, but I just that's life, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
I think when things get busy, I sort of semi
live out of a bag at the moment anyway, And
like I'm here, there and everywhere at different people, like
staying at different people's houses, going to visit people. I've
got one big bag of insulin and like diabetes things,
and then I've got a little one which normally just
has a spare pump, some dex coom over patches and

(46:12):
a little vile of insulin in and that's just the
thing that I didn't pick up that morning.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
Yeah, and that is everything in one bag because I
do the same.

Speaker 1 (46:18):
I've got this like back up kit which has now
got my lovely enamel pin on it, thanks Katie. But
if you do leave that behind, like when you're switching
out bags and stuff, and I've done that so many times,
and yeah, most of the time, it's fine, isn't it.
But it's obviously that one occasion where you're three hours
up the road eating all your favorite snacks with the
person that you haven't seen in a long time when

(46:38):
things go wrong, but you handled it.

Speaker 4 (46:41):
Yeah, And I like, while I don't recommend like doing that,
in hindsight, I probably should have driven the fifteen minutes
back home when I realized there wasn't that much insulin
left in that pump. But I didn't and I paid
the price. But you know, that high feeling often leaves
you feeling really drowsy, and I knew that it wouldn't
be sense for me to try and drive all the

(47:01):
way back to London having eaten a lot of like
fatty chocolate things. So I swung by, yeah, and just
got some insulin at my mom and dad's house.

Speaker 3 (47:14):
This is found She's resourceful. She's got the badgers to
prove it.

Speaker 4 (47:18):
Obviously. Got onto the driveway at my mum and dad's
house desperate for a week because I've been in the
car for like forty five minutes, like knocking on the door,
and I can see my mom like fluffing around in
the kitchen, Like what is she doing? Mom answers the
door anyway. In the end, I get get the ump
and I go around the back. I'm like, Mum, what
you're doing? I'm desperate for a Wii and she'd like
picked me a beautiful bouquet of flowers from her garden
and she was trying to make an aqua pack to

(47:40):
put the flowers in, and I was like, you know,
like so they wouldn't die in the car on the
way home. And there's me go like, m'm I need
a way, What the hell are you doing?

Speaker 3 (47:48):
And and suddenly everything's okay again? Like that is so pure.

Speaker 4 (47:52):
I can'd of such. She's such a dream babe, very lovely.
Oh yeah, and i'd like kicked off because I had
high blood sugar and needed a we Yeah, I thinking
about going to see your parents makes you revert to
a teenager.

Speaker 3 (48:11):
Yeah, I definitely hear that.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
I was actually thinking about my mom when I was
just telling that story about the woman in the pharmacy,
because I text my mom and I was so upset
about the payment and like having to pay for my
prescription and just the fact that I didn't know and
it felt so unfair and this is my mum to
a tea. She was like, well, you should check that,
shuld't you.

Speaker 4 (48:32):
Not, like I'll stick a tenor in your bank account?

Speaker 1 (48:34):
Oh not, Like, oh honey, I know this is hard
for you. No, that is the difference between ang and Sandra, right.

Speaker 4 (48:40):
Well, but yeah, I think that mom My mom obviously,
like is lives with a man with type one, and
I think a lot of the time maybe she doesn't
understand the ins and outs of how it works. But
the fact that she just knew that I was struggling
and was like, I've picture some flowers from my God,
And I was like, oh my god, Mom, I am
certain an asshole. I'm sorry, but yeah, it's it's wonderful. Yeah,

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when you have family who who understand and they just
want you to feel better, which is nice. And my
friend was so worried about me. She's like, you can
get home all right, and I was like, I'll text
you when I get to my mum's. It'll be fine.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
It's nice, isn't it When you have those little moments
where you think, oh, you can be concerned for someone
and care about what they're going through without fully understanding
what they're going through. And I think that is like
even more powerful sometimes, isn't it. It's like, I know
I don't understand this, but I are you okay?

Speaker 4 (49:38):
Like what do you need? Like, yeah, here's some flowers
to cheer you up. My mum knows I love flowers.
Is so nice. And also because I've been such a
terrible human being, I've basically let my mind high garden
die this year, and she's busy. She's like, oh, it
doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, it's fine. I don't know
about it. I mean, it still looks all right. There's
a very dead looking tree out there, but I don't

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think there's any saving her.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
She'll be okay, she'll come back to life. I'm sure
that's what they do. Know.

Speaker 4 (50:05):
She said it with no garden and it's really dead.
I'll send you a picture of it. It's the most
dead thing you've ever seen.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
But you're thriving, and that's what we really care. Yeah,
we do care about the tree as well, but mostly you.

Speaker 4 (50:19):
Yeah. Yeah, it's nice to feel more engaged with my
body and my health and my care. I think definitely,
not that it wasn't really before, but I think now
it's just like really really fine tuning all of the
details so that I feel a bit more normal and
like not like crucially, I think we will all we

(50:41):
will always get it wrong, sometimes through no fault of
our own. There will always be days where you have
to ride the roller coaster, and it is absolute. It
is a horror show of a day. But to ride
that roller coaster a bit less, I think will be
real nice.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
Oh my love, it's your emotional for you or babes,
it's just really nice to hear you might have to
swear or talk about sweaty boobs just to round out
this podcast in the tone that everyone's used to. But well,
I'm really happy for you.

Speaker 4 (51:13):
I really appreciate that. One thing I tell you how
we can round it out is because we got we
did the classic thing that we always do where we
get so excited and talk about eight million different things
at once that we didn't talk about your tube, your
tube tails.

Speaker 3 (51:28):
My tube tails?

Speaker 4 (51:29):
Which you mean, where have you got the tube caught?

Speaker 3 (51:31):
Like?

Speaker 4 (51:31):
What's your worst enemy? Is it a bag strap? Is
it your brass strap? Is it a door handle? Is it?

Speaker 1 (51:36):
Like the one that keeps getting me is waking up
in the middle of the night and not wearing clothes that.

Speaker 4 (51:44):
She's a naked girls.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
No, I wear pants, but this is the thing I
need to buy, like new pants that have some sort
of pocket in them.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
These pants, I don't know the the penis pouch. That's
where it needs to go.

Speaker 4 (52:01):
I don't think it works like that though, because why
not do you know what? I'm not going to get
into my intricate understanding of a man's pair of pants
because I.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
Don't moving on.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
Oh my god, I shouldn't have gone down this road
because I can't articulate myself probably and now it's just embarrassing.
But going to it's real. So here we are going
to the loop in the middle of the night, and
there's nowhere to put the pump. So the pump, usually
to save myself from literally wetting myself, just gets jammed
in my mouth.

Speaker 3 (52:29):
So I've got two hands.

Speaker 1 (52:32):
Oh my god, where is this orifice that you coming to?

Speaker 4 (52:36):
Well, I was going to suggest, like you will just
have to stick it between your bum cheeks, like at
the top. You know, I thought you were saving before. No,
I was talking about the ball bag. I was going
to make a joke about a ball bag. But I thought, like,
I'm trying to be an adult, and I mean I'll

(52:57):
never be to me or will I let's be honest,
but you could literally, I do think you could put
it between the squeeze it between your bum cheeks because
I know she's been working out. I know she could
do it, and then as long as you're only going
for a WII, you'd be fine.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
That feels like risky business to me because it's then
too close to the water of the toilet bowl. Like
I don't want to go any lower with it, because
if it swings, Now it swings.

Speaker 4 (53:25):
Is in the top of your bum crack, so like
the very bottom of it is just like resting, and
the rest of it rests against your back, and then
if it was going to fall, your bum would be
far enough back where it hit the back of the
toilet seat and not go down the hole.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
I politely disagree. I think that is asking for a
damp pump, which I do not want. But I appreciate
the resourcefulness. I like the solution's focus that we have
here now in the mouth. In the mouth, yeah, sometimes
that's the simultaneous seating of the self and then resting

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the pump at the same time on the leg.

Speaker 3 (54:07):
Yeah, very canopy.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
That's quite difficult to do when you're half awake, but
it does work. M You just don't want it toppling,
because if it topples and falls, that's then like pulling
on the canula.

Speaker 4 (54:21):
Do you keep it in your pants at night then,
or do you just let it roll around in the bed?

Speaker 3 (54:24):
She rolls, She rolls tangle less than you would think.
I sort of one. I'm quite still sleeper, as we've
discussed on this podcast before.

Speaker 4 (54:34):
Oh I forgot about having shared a bed with on
many occasions. It is quite terrifying. So Jen wears an
imask ear plugs, and she sleeps like a corpse with
a pillow over her head, and she sleeps in a
corpse position on her back. And so if you didn't
see it happen, like if you turn the lights out

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and then she assumes the position and you wake up
in the night, for example, and see it for the
first time, which is what happened to me in Mexico.
I was like, Jent, what the hell is going on here?

Speaker 1 (55:05):
Channeling my inner Dracula, arms crossed over the chest.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
Yeah, the restless sleep position that I enjoy.

Speaker 1 (55:14):
So yeah, with that, my my pump doesn't get too tangled.

Speaker 3 (55:17):
I have done a couple of times.

Speaker 4 (55:18):
You don't move, whereas I'm a wiggler. I roll around
a lot like and I will go from my side
to my front. So I know that it would like
get tangled up like between my legs or like just
under my body.

Speaker 3 (55:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
I mean it's basically my my co sleeping partner, like
it sleeps on the other side of the bed with me.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
So I know it's tragic, isn't it? But here we are.

Speaker 4 (55:41):
You put it on the pillow. I'm like a purple
velvet pillow. Good night to my sweet prince.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
Give it a little kiss.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
Oh love that that wonderful slash, very tragic note.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
I think this has been a lovely time.

Speaker 4 (56:05):
It's not tragic that pump is more important to you
than any man ever will be. And I hate to
say it, but it's true.

Speaker 3 (56:16):
You're not wrong.

Speaker 1 (56:17):
It would be nice to enjoy sharing the concerns of
said pump with said man. But you know, I'm thriving.
I'm happy over here. It's not a woe is Me story,
Absolutely not. She's living her best life. Has anyone seen
Jen's Instagram lately? Oh my god, she is hanging out.

Speaker 4 (56:36):
With the sexiest, sweatiest people you have ever seen in
your life. Jen lives sexy Spanish life.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
Sexy Spanish life with a lot of very enthusiastic fitness
people who are just I'm gonna say it ripped, and
they know it and they enjoy it, and they enjoy
showing everyone else, and I'm like.

Speaker 3 (56:53):
Fair play.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
If I look like that, I would probably be naked
all the time as well.

Speaker 4 (56:58):
Uh, I'll tell you who else is it? Jen Greeves.
She's absolutely banging.

Speaker 3 (57:03):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 4 (57:04):
Jen looks fantastic. She's working hard. She has joined slightly occult,
but we're not gonna worry about that for now because
she's having a nice time with the sexy people.

Speaker 1 (57:14):
Well, for the amount of time I'm surrounded by people
who aren't wearing many clothes. As we've discussed, I go
to bed with my insulin pump every night, so we
could leave it there.

Speaker 4 (57:27):
Do you think we should name our insulin pumps? Maybe
we should name them?

Speaker 3 (57:32):
What would you name you? Yeah, but you throw yours
away every three days?

Speaker 4 (57:35):
No, but I'd name like the handset, so then it
still has like a name. I don't know. Answers on
a postcard.

Speaker 1 (57:43):
Yes, that's something you can message in with. We need
one for Amy and one for myself.

Speaker 4 (57:49):
So yeah, be like some sort of like it'd be
like haveavier or like oh yeah, yeah, he'll he'll be sexy.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
Yeah, like.

Speaker 4 (58:02):
Alan. Actually that was med. That was bad because I
know we know someone called Alan, and that feels likely
we know a really lovely Alan. But I was actually
thinking of like an old man, so maybe not Alan. Sorry. Alan.

Speaker 1 (58:22):
You also be like a classic, like a Dave, which
is both of our dad's names.

Speaker 4 (58:26):
Both of our dads. Yeah, Clive, something like that.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
Like a reliable, solid guy who you know would help
you out if you were in a in a pickle.

Speaker 4 (58:36):
If it was eleven PM and you were driving home
from your friend's house with a blood sugar of twenty
two point two.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
You need Dave. That's what you needed. That's what you needed, right,
My DearS. I hope you've enjoyed this episode. Amy, I
hope you've enjoyed this episode. I feel like we've talked
a lot about me being naked, so.

Speaker 4 (58:56):
Mate, yes, we have probably talked. I have probably talked
too much about you being naked. Not you, It's all me. Actually,
we're never really naked. We've got a dex calm and
an insulin pump. We'll never We're never naked unless you do.
They do come off at the same time, and you
get the naked shower, which is a ten out of
ten experience.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
It's a nice time. It's a nice time. Guys.

Speaker 1 (59:18):
I've got a newsletter if you aren't aware. Amy wasn't
aware because she's having some separate time from Instagram at
the moment.

Speaker 4 (59:27):
Separate time. We've consciously uncoupboard.

Speaker 1 (59:30):
Yeah, and I respect it, I really do.

Speaker 3 (59:33):
So.

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Speaker 4 (01:00:02):
Everyone Greeves has a podcast website, and guys. In next
week's newsletter, she's going to update everyone about how she
got on putting an insulin pump between her bum cheeks.

Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
That's so nice to have you back. Amy, love me
so much. I love you. I do think that is where.

Speaker 4 (01:00:26):
I would put it. You know, I'm not even joking.

Speaker 3 (01:00:29):
What do you mean there is no need to put
it there?

Speaker 4 (01:00:32):
Do you want me to get the remote conformed and
demonstrate it for you.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
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.

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Speaker 4 (01:00:54):
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