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You can listen anytime and anywhere. The Juicebox Podcast is available online, in your favorite podcast app, and on iTunes. Best of all you decide when to listen. While doing the laundry, grocery shopping, in the car or while you are waiting out that stubborn BG at 3 a.m. The show features conversations about day to day management, interviews with D-parents, D-Celebs and much more. Check out the reviews on iTunes and try an episode today.

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“I am the parent of a newly diagnosed 2 year old girl and I love hearing your calm and rational point of view to treating diabetes. Very refreshing and informative! Thank you.”

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Your questions for Dexcom on the Juicebox Podcast...

Soon I'll be interviewing Mike Mensinger from Dexcom for my podcast. Mike is the Director of Mobile and Cloud Services Software Development at Dexcom - in short, Mike knows all about the apps and software at Dexcom and we are going to get to pick his brain, ask questions and offer suggestions.

At the moment we are in the middle of working out a time that works for us and will be recording this podcast episode either in the next few days or sometime next week. If you have something you'd like to add to the conversation don't hesitate. Leaving your thoughts as a comment on this post will help me to keep everything in one place but if you have something that you feel is private to add, feel free to email me. 

Thanks in advance for participating! I'll do my best to get everyone's questions in during the time that Mike and I have together. In the meantime you may want to listen to my podcast episodes with Dexcom's CEO Kevin Sayer and their EVP Steve Pacelli.

The Juicebox Podcast is available online, at iTunes, with Stitcher and everywhere fine podcasts are heard.

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Diabetes Support on Instagram

Jenna Feely was a recent guest on my podcast where she talked about being diagnosed at thirteen years old, her adolescences with type 1 and her outlook on her life with the disease. About halfway through the conversation I asked Jenna about her advocacy online and she told me about her Instagram page (She has nearly 5,000 followers!), later I asked her if she would write a guest post for Arden's Day about her experience with type 1 advocacy and how she uses her Instagram page to help people. I hope you enjoy her post and take time to listen to her episode, 'Eighteen and Already Amazing'! - Best, Scott

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When I am not feeling my best, I seek support.  When I am feeling positive, I try to give support.

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When I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, I was 13 years old and I had no idea what type 1 diabetes was.  I also didn’t know that social media could have really helped me in that moment. It took me a couple of years to realize that social media could be a huge outlet to connect with others going through the same daily monitoring to take care of themselves.

It can be easy to feel isolated when living with type 1 diabetes.

We have to take care of ourselves, and monitor our health in ways that most will never have to.  Whether you prefer Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, or other sites that provide support, you can voice your concerns, your worries, your progress, or just have a good laugh!

Jenna is in Instagram @DiabetesTips - Search in your app or click on this image to check her out and follow.

Social media has provided an outlet for me that helps me relate to others, and hopefully help others with type 1 diabetes.  I love being able to support others who may be having a tough day, and talking to others who are dealing with the same bumps that I am.  It can be very easy to feel different, or cut off from the world when you are living with a chronic disease.  However, diabetes has actually helped me in many ways that, as a society I feel we tend to ignore.  Yes, I have had sleepless nights, scary lows, scary highs…..but through all that pain I have also learned to move on, and to get on with life.  Diabetes has taught me to be more patient with others as well as myself.  I have also learned to forgive others as well as myself.  As you all probably know, if you don’t forgive yourself for those little mistakes, you will go crazy!

When you know how it feels to have a chronic illness, you can empathize with others who are also going through something similar, even if it is not type 1.

We can learn from each other through social media. 

We can all share tips, and tricks that we may have found over the years whether they relate to physical or emotional wellness in our management.  Social media also helps me stay inspired in my management.  When I am not feeling my best, I seek support.  When I am feeling positive, I try to give support.  We can all give and take from each other.  Through social media, we can help others forgive themselves, support each other through sleepless nights, and also add a little humor to type 1! 

You can find Jenna on Instagram @DiabetesTips and I am on Instagram @ArdensDay. Jenna's episode of the Juicebox Podcast can be found here, listened to below, on iTunes or where ever you get your podcast fix.

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I survived the deadliest day in Everest’s history, and I’m still surviving it

Listeners of my podcast may remember a two part conversation that I had with Elna Narula, mother of Svati Narula. Svati (a person who has type 1 diabetes) was tragically caught in an avalanche on Mount Everest and survived. Most recently Svati has published an article called, "I survived the deadliest day in Everest’s history, and I’m still surviving it" about her ordeal on Everest and I wanted to share with you.

You can read Svati's article here and listen to my conversation with her mother on the Juicebox Podcast - Part 1, Part 2. 

All episodes of the podcast are at JuiceboxPodcast.com, on iTunes or your favorite podcast app.

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Arden's 2015 504 Plan is Available to Download

Back to school...

This is Arden's 2015 504 plan for sixth grade. Please feel free to read, download, use it as your own or make changes so it reflects your child's needs. Written by me in 2006 this document has been modified each year since kindergarten and continues to grow and change. I hope that it helps you in creating your own, I relied heavily on the JDRF and ADA templates that were available online back in 2006 as I created Arden's.

I'm pretty excited that we were able to get Arden's iPhone listed as a medical device this year! #DexcomShare

The text has been redacted in spots, you will need to fill in your information in those places. Look for text that looks like this <TEXT> and one formatting instruction encompassed by asterisks.

Good luck!

Arden's 2015 sixth grade 504 plan for download

While you are in the mindset to think about diabetes and education, I would like to urge you to listen to episode 4 of my podcast that talks about how we manage Arden's type 1 diabetes while she is at school. 

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