#1267 I Only Cry on Mondays

July 31, 2024Scott Benner

Ally is 33 and the mother of a small child with T1D. She has an incredibly handsome husband.

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Scott Benner 0:11
Today I've got ally for you. She is the mother of a small child with type one. She also has another child, and she was pregnant with her third when we recorded this, her son was diagnosed right before his second birthday. Ali felt like she gets so much out of the Facebook group in the podcast that she wanted to add her voice, so someone else might be helped. Please don't forget that nothing you hear on the Juicebox Podcast should be considered advice, medical or otherwise, always consult a physician before making any changes to your healthcare plan or becoming bold with insulin. If you have type one diabetes, or are the caregiver of someone with type one, and you're a US resident, please go to T one D exchange.org/juicebox. complete the survey. That's it. You'll be helping people with type one diabetes, you'll be helping yourself and you'll be helping me t one D exchange.org/juicebox. Go complete the survey takes about 10 minutes. My cozy Earth offer code goes back to 40% off in August. Go to cozy earth.com use the offer code juice box at checkout after August 1 to save 40% off of your entire order. Let's keep it 40% cozier What do you say? Today's episode of The Juicebox Podcast is sponsored by Omni pod and the Omni pod five. Learn more and get started today at Omni pod.com/juice box. This episode of The Juicebox Podcast is sponsored by Dexcom dexcom.com/juice. Box get the brand new Dexcom G seven with my link and get started today. This episode of The Juicebox Podcast is sponsored by ever since the ever since CGM is more convenient requiring only one sensor every six months. It offers more flexibility with its easy on Easy Off smart transmitter and allows you to take a break when needed. Ever since cgm.com/juice box.

Ally 2:10
My name is Ali and I am the mom of two kids. One of them is a three and a half year old with type one diabetes. And I'm actually pregnant with my third or so are very busy and yeah,

Scott Benner 2:25
Bolus is three and a half. Yes. You're like one of those people that gets a kitten and then keeps buying more kittens. What's the next one?

Ally 2:33
Funny story that was like kind of part of our diagnosis story. But she is eight months old now. Eight months and so yeah, this third one is definitely a surprise.

Scott Benner 2:43
Are you how pregnant are you?

Ally 2:46
I am eight weeks right? Or no? Nine weeks. Oh, really? Yeah.

Scott Benner 2:52
Those are called Irish twins. Are they not?

Ally 2:54
Yeah, they are.

Scott Benner 2:56
Are you Catholic?

Ally 2:57
I grew up Catholic actually. But no, not anymore.

Scott Benner 3:00
You know why they call them Irish twins, right? Yeah. I want to hear you say it but it's okay. Don't worry about it. My

Ally 3:07
husband and I was like we are having Irish twins did not ever think this was gonna be part of our plan. But here we are.

Scott Benner 3:14
Congratulations, or I'm sorry. I don't know where you fall on this. Thank you. Can you afford three children? Yeah, we're

Ally 3:22
gonna have to.

Scott Benner 3:23
That's not an answer to that question. Wow,

Ally 3:28
definitely a big shock.

Scott Benner 3:30
How old are you?

Ally 3:31
I am 33.

Scott Benner 3:32
Okay. Oh, I see what's so you're you're trying to get them in? Where was it your intention to make three babies?

Ally 3:38
We never were like, I guess we were kind of like maybe you know, one day if we have a third grade but we weren't like yes or no either way.

Scott Benner 3:48
Seven months from now, right? Yeah, definitely not.

Ally 3:51
This close together.

Scott Benner 3:52
How old your husband 34 C stable. He isn't leaving you or anything like that. yearns okay. Oh, is that oh yeah. Hard worker comes home late a little bit because he's working because he's at a bar stuff like that. We're all good.

Ally 4:09
We're all good there.

Scott Benner 4:11
Because I mean, I don't I'm doing the rough math here. This is I don't know unless there's major laws enacted I'm looking at $1.3 million to send three kids. So I know Yeah, and feeding them. I mean, what is the cheese gonna be at five gonna be two grand a week for two grand a month for food?

Ally 4:30
Oh my god. Yeah, consider juicer expensive. Yeah, it's all the fruit. It's all the wide. The fruit. Fruit is so much fruit and it's like, it just Yeah, it's expensive. All of its expensive. Especially like, you know, we do like some special foods for my son and then some, you know, just regular foods and yeah, it adds up.

Scott Benner 4:49
What's your favorite fruit?

Ally 4:51
Right now? Like any kind of fruit but I tell you what, my son eats all the fruit. He's the type one he eats fruit and like Got you every meal. When he was diagnosed? It was two weeks, three weeks before his second birthday.

Scott Benner 5:05
Okay for my money around Christmas or New Year's a mandarin, you can't go wrong. Oh, yeah, perfect timing. A few weeks before his second birthday. Yes, I see Arden was a few weeks after her second birthday. This is not a race. I'm just bringing it up. Wow. Any autoimmune in the family at all.

Ally 5:26
The only thing we have discovered is my mother in law has Hashimotos. But other than that, we haven't no type one. And then that's the only autoimmune that we've come across. We've you know, after talking to everyone in our families and stuff, just the Hashimotos Oh, well

Scott Benner 5:42
blame her then that's fine. Celiac. Nobody runs to the potty after they eat got a bipolar uncle somewhere?

Ally 5:50
Not that we know of.

Scott Benner 5:52
Okay. What else? How about psoriasis?

Ally 5:57
I think actually, my brother in law has psoriasis. I want to say

Scott Benner 6:04
that's all on me. Yeah,

Ally 6:05
I do think he does. I guess I'd have to double check that for sure. Thank

Scott Benner 6:08
you pick through this for a couple more minutes. Ali. I'll find six people on your husband's side of the family who have something going on. I guarantee one of them's got a bit a Lago but it's little you can't see it. And I know I'm just I'm like, You ever see that show house? No, I don't think you're young and you're really busy having sex. So you might not have seen it. But the he's just like a diagnosis. Way to diagnose Are you not a die agnostic doctor, but what's the how do you say that diagnose?

Ally 6:42
Yes, I know what you're talking about. Yes. I've seen like commercials for I've never watched it though.

Scott Benner 6:46
Okay, well, you should. I know. I mean, now I'm not telling you what to do. But you should. And I feel like that sometimes listening to the podcast, like because I'm making it I'm like, Oh, I wonder if this is happening like I get very it actually helps me my own life. Do you know I diagnose my brother while he was in the emergency room the other day was something that the hospital couldn't figure out. Oh my gosh, what was it over text messages? Hold on one second. I just need to text my wife something. Because the dog is barking. I'm just gonna say kill. There we go. So my brother goes into the hospital. And he has pain. Right side. You know could be gallbladder space like that spot there. Whatever. He's got type two diabetes say once. He's pretty good. He's on we go V. He goes in first day in a massive amount of pain. I should mention my brothers had gall stones, kidney stones. He knows pain he once had. Oh, I don't think he'd want me to tell people this. Oh, well. He once had a fissure. And he said if you want to know pain, you know, have a hole pop open near your butt. So he's been through pain. He knows real pain. He said this was terrible. This episode of The Juicebox Podcast is sponsored by the only six month were implantable CGM on the market. And it's very unique. So you go into an office, it's I've actually seen an insertion done online like a live one like, well, they recorded the entire videos less than eight minutes long. And they're talking most of the time the insertion took no time at all right? So you go into the office, they insert the sensor, now it's in there and working for six months, you go back six months later, they pop out that one put in another one, so two office visits a year to get really accurate and consistent CGM data that's neither here nor there for what I'm trying to say. So this thing's under your skin, right? And you then wear a transmitter overtop of it. 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Omni pod is easy to use, easy to fill, easy to wear. And I know that because my daughter has been wearing one every day since she was four years old. And she will be 20 this year. There is not enough time in an ad for me to tell you everything that I know about Omni pod. But please take a look. Omni pod.com/juice box. I think Omni pod could be a good friend to you. Just like it has been to my daughter and my family. They medicate him for the pain, which you know, is nice. And then they go about doing their scans and they're this is the NATs and then tell him of course there's nothing wrong with you. We can't figure anything out. And they sent him home. Yeah. And the next day, he's back in that emergency room with even worsening pain. So now I'm texting with him. Hold on, I'm going back and forth. I'm asking my questions. It feels like he's on the podcast, but we're texting because I'm like, how about this? What about that, like, you know, that kind of stuff. And I figured out he had a slightly elevated white count the day before that they ignored. So I told him had them rerun the white count. Now the funny thing is, is he's sitting there and they're not doing anything for him. But if he says hey, run my bloodwork, again, to see if my white blood cells went back up, they go, Okay, it's like you're running. It's ridiculous. If he doesn't say anything, they'll medicate him again and treat him. But, you know, he says, you know, do this, please. white blood cell counts up again. Well, but we don't see anything wrong. So I said, I text him back and I said, here's what you do. Grab the nurse, say to the nurse, Hey, would it hurt anything if I got like an IV antibiotic just to address this high white blood cell count? And I said you'll put that in her head. And then she'll go back and mentioned it to the doctor, then he'll think it's his idea and give you the a&e biotics. That is exactly what happened. So now my brother is on the way to something and we start picking through it a little more. I go through some family history and I say to myself, I think he's got diverticulitis. So I say close that you think this could be diverticulitis because your mom's had it and ended up in the hospital in the similar pain floated to the nurse. The nurse goes back disappears for a while. An hour later, the doctor comes in as if on a white horse. And he says, I really think you have diverticulitis and I thought you motherfuckers don't know what you're doing. Medical School stole this man's money. Okay. So should nevertheless they get them all set up. You know, we think you have died. We think you have diverticulitis? No, I think he has diverticulitis. I told him to say it off handedly to the nurse so she could go back and tell him so him and his ego and his she diagnostics diagnosing him what's that word? skills come in and try to save the day. So it's three days later, my brother feels much better now.

Ally 13:30
Well, that's good. Yeah, like send me the bill for that diagnosis,

Scott Benner 13:33
put them on a nice diet for the diverticulitis and by the way while he was there on day one. This pissed me off more than anything. I almost said these motherfuckers and that I said it anyway, so I should have said it. These motherfuckers ally tell him to go off as soon as Empik The only thing keeping is a one c out of the sevens and in the fives. Yeah, cuz we heard it might give you pancreatitis. We heard what would you hear that on Joe Rogan? Could ya can you do your job? You know what I mean? Oh, Ali, look how upset I am. Let's get past that. Okay, so you're a little sweet child is is diagnosed before two years old. Can you walk me through that a bit?

Ally 14:13
Yeah, so it was like three weeks before his second birthday and we had it my husband took a trip to Vegas and I was like well that is part of the story. So I was like when we get back I think I'm going to try to start potty training him he just seemed ready it was a little bit early from just like you know other mom friends that I know and stuff and but I was like he just seems really ready for it. So I started potty training him and as I'm potty training, he is paying like I would started setting a timer and it was every 15 minutes like on the dot like sometimes even before the timer went off he would be had like a little potty setup for him and he would go pee and it was Like, it was a lot every single time and I was like, Wow, I'm never gonna be able to leave the house. This is, this is a lot like how are we ever gonna I can't even be live for more than 15 minutes from anything. So we're not even gonna be able to get out of that the neighborhood.

Scott Benner 15:13
Like where your mind Wait, you're like that will never leave the house again.

Ally 15:18
So I'm like, Okay, well maybe he just doesn't know how to hold it. We live in Texas. It was summer that was June. And we were outside like, I mean, he's a boy. So a lot of his potty training was outside. Like, we're just outside. He has no pants on just pee whenever

Scott Benner 15:33
I tell you something. The enormous amount of men who own their own property and maybe some who don't. I think if you polled them privately would tell you they pee in the backyard of their house. Oh, yeah. I would never do that alley. Except, you know, if I was in my backyard, I had to bake. Yeah.

Ally 15:53
And he still does it. So I was like, well, he's drinking a ton of water. It's Texas. It's June. It's 115 degrees out all the time. So he's probably thirsty and just paying a lot. So I gave it like, almost two weeks. I was texting my aunt, which I don't talk to her often. But she was I had posted something on Instagram. And she had responded and she was like, Oh, you're potty training him. And I texted her. And I was like, when you were potty training my cousin. He's a boy. Did he pee like every 15 minutes. And she immediately called me. And she was like, No, he didn't do that. Are you taking them to the pediatrician? And I was like, I actually had his like, checkups, even actually, it was ironically, like in a couple of days. And she was like, well, you should ask her about diabetes. And I was like, What do you mean, diabetes? He doesn't have diabetes? Like I had. I had no, like, I didn't know anything about diabetes.

Scott Benner 16:47
Where does Dr. House get all this information?

Ally 16:50
She works at a hospital. And yeah, so I think she just just No, no, I,

Scott Benner 16:56
I'm thankful for that. But by the way, does she work in medicine? Or does she work in the cafeteria?

Ally 17:00
I think she works at the front. She's not like she's not a nurse or a doctor or anything. I was gonna

Scott Benner 17:06
say if she was she wouldn't have been able to figure it out. Yeah. I

Ally 17:10
think it was just she thought it was weird that he was paying so much. And I did too. I was like, well, we have an appointment in a couple of days. I'll just ask her, the our pediatrician about it when we get there. And I thought I literally like texted my mom, I'm like, hey, we'll be home around this time. We're gonna like garden. I'm like, you meet me at the house when we're done with a pediatrician. So we get to the pediatricians office. And I told her that he you know, you're seeing a lot of drinking a lot of water. And luckily, our pediatrician at the time was she actually worked in the diabetes like community. She did like several camps. And so she knew a lot about type one diabetes. That was the first thing she did when we got there. She had him pee in a cup. And yeah, I could, as soon as she came back in the room, I could tell something was wrong. She was like, yeah, he has type one diabetes, you guys are going to need to go to the hospital right now. And I was like, like, right now. Like, can I go home and get my, like, get stuff first. Like, we don't have anything. I thought we I thought we were gonna go to the hospital and like, they were just gonna like check his vitals and tell us what to do and send us home. Like I still was very naive. I did not know that we would be be

Scott Benner 18:15
there. Did you think he had diabetes? And that's what they were gonna tell you. Oh, no, no, no, no, I

Ally 18:21
thought I thought her pediatrician. He's such a goofy kid too. And like how he was drinking water was so funny. He would like go bait, like, really loudly and just funny. He was just he just goofy and I was like, I thought she was just gonna say like, He's just funny drinking water, like making funny noises. He's it's summertime like you guys are? Yeah, you guys are good. He had lost two pounds. And that's when she was like, yeah, he lost two pounds, you know, let's have him take. She didn't even say anything about diabetes at all until she came back in and told me so it was not even like other than my aunt mentioning it. It was not even like a thought in my head. I thought I didn't think like my kid would have diabetes. There's I didn't have any history of it. Like I knew one girl in high school that had it. But other than that, I had no like, no idea what diabetes really was about. Yeah, yeah. So we drive to the hospital. And my husband was at work. And luckily he works like he works at downtown Austin. And so he was really close to the hospital and was able to meet us there. And I like on the way there there's this like children's museum that we go to a lot and I was like, Oh, cool. Like it's right next to this hospital. We'll stop there when we're done here. Like I just thought it was gonna be this like, rolling

Scott Benner 19:35
thing. Yeah. Turns out the lady at the front desk is the only one who knows what's going on. Yeah. Which by the way, makes sense. If you think about it, she's like the podcast or at the hospital. She has all these conversations with all these people. And you know, seems to remember them. Hey, hold on one second. Do this with me. I'm turning up the volume on my other computer. Hold on second. Okay. Today's episode of the podcast is sponsored by Dexcom. And I'd like to take this opportunity to tell you a little bit about the continuous glucose monitor that my daughter wears the Dexcom G seven, the Dexcom G seven is small, it is accurate and it is easy to use and where Arden has been wearing a Dexcom g7 Since almost day one of when they came out and she's having a fantastic experience with it. We love the G six but man is the G seven small the profile so much closer to your body, the weight, you can't really feel it and that's coming from me and I've worn one I've worn a G six I've worn a G seven I found both of the experiences to be lovely. But my gosh is that g7 Tiny and the accuracy has been fantastic Arden's Awan C's are right where we expect them to be. And we actually use the Dexcom clarity app to keep track of those things. That app is built right in to Arden's Dexcom G seven app on her iPhone. Oh, did you not know about that? You can use an iPhone or an Android device to see your Dexcom data. If you have a compatible phone, your Dexcom goes right to the Dexcom app. You don't have to carry the receiver but if you don't want to use the phone, that's fine. Use the Dexcom receiver. It's up to you. Choice is yours with Dexcom dexcom.com/juicebox. Podcast agnostic diagnostician have a little voice wants to say it again. Hola diagnostician. So I was saying it right? It's just a stupid word. Okay. Sorry, the little voice continued. Just Did you know you can YouTube basically the pronunciation of any word? Yes.

Ally 21:38
Very helpful.

Scott Benner 21:40
If you've ever heard my G voc ads, and you've heard me say, so finally, you'll Rio, which I don't know if I just said correctly just now. But I want you to imagine me sitting here listening over and over and over again to something going so final urea. So final urea. So final urea, and then I hit record and I went, if you have diabetes, or So finally, you're like I blurted it out as fast as like,

Ally 22:04
I'm always gonna imagine that now. You're

Scott Benner 22:05
gonna have to I sat here for 45 minutes trying to say that right. Then I sent it off to GE voc who sent it back to me and said, You're not pronouncing it correctly. And I was like, you've got to be kidding me. So I did it again. Anyway. Okay, so not funny drinking. Funny. He said, Goofy. You should have said, Yeah, you should see what his dad thinks it's funny. You're now in the hospital, you have this diagnosis. Does the weight of what it is hit you then? Or how long does it take for you to really, like, come to grips with what they're telling you?

Ally 22:38
They hit us like when we got in our room, like we when we got there. It was crazy. Because they like, met us at the door. They had like a stretcher and everything like that, because his blood sugar was like nine. It was like 900 something. And I mean, he was in DKA. Like for sure. But he never acted like it. Like he definitely was tired sometimes. But I mean, he's he was a toddler too. So I just thought he was tired. But he was never like, so lethargic, that I was like, Oh my gosh, something's wrong with him, you know? Yeah, they like medicine at the door with a stretcher and he just like comes bolting running in the door and they're like, oh, okay, I guess we don't need this. Like, he's like running

Scott Benner 23:17
all they saw that number I thought that kid can't walk probably Yeah, they thought he was like

Ally 23:21
in a coma almost. But no, he's running down the halls like I think when it really hit us is when we got to our room. And they started like going over everything with us and you know, telling us he was gonna wear a device forever and you know, all those just everything that came with it and we had some great nurses and doctors but we kind of had like a rocky we definitely had a rocky start with his diagnosis, just like from the support that we had. I think when it like really hit us was when we had one just she was not a great nurse. And I was panicking because His birthday was in three weeks. And I was like well do I need to like contact our cake baker and see if they can make like a sugar free cake. I had no idea you know, like what to do at this point. And the nurse was like, oh definitely he'll never be able to eat sugar or sucker or cake ever again. And that's when I like I just like lost it at that point. And I was like emailing the cake baker and like can you make a cake and sugar free like it was just like devastating because I was like I had you know, in my head I was like he's never going to be able to do these things again like and obviously she was just not very educated and he eats cake and he does all that stuff now but at the time that's when for me I was like wow, this is really life changing like he's things are really going to change and then of course like putting on we we actually left the hospital like with a CGM and we got to where that I think that's when it really stuck. Sunken. We're there for three days just because we were like, I'm not ready to leave. Like I wasn't confident in everything.

Scott Benner 24:54
We stay another couple of months maybe Yeah, I know. I felt like that. I was like we're going where home Yeah, yeah, I don't know that I know what I'm doing. Can I ask? What was more impactful to you that his diet you thought was going to change? Or that he was gonna have to wear a device? Well, both

Ally 25:12
for sure. But I think I think more his diet, I guess, that's what I heard while you were talking. Yeah. It's funny story because like, two days before he was diagnosed, my husband was watching him and sent me a picture of them at Target. And he had an apple juice in one hand and a cake pop in the other. And I text all I sent back was, why is he drinking an apple juice? I had never given him juice. Like he never really had sugar other than like, you know, his birthday cake or, you know, special occasions. Yeah. And I was like, why is he drinking an apple juice? That was like, two days before he was diagnosed. That was his first time ever drinking apple juice. And I was so mad at him. I was like, There's no, like, why is he drinking that? And then ironically, we get to the hospital. And they're like, yeah, and the best way to treat his Lowe's is with apple juice.

Scott Benner 26:00
We know where to get that, actually. And I can get a decent cake pop, too. Yeah. I want to say something before we move forward. I want to I want to, like take up for you here. I realized that you were in my Facebook group. And I just went and looked and I want to say and I mean this with a lot of respect. I am very straight. And your husband is so handsome. Like really? Seriously. Like what did you like? Oh, my God. He's an attractive guy. No kidding. Look at his eyes. Yeah, I mean, if he sauntered up to me, I'd be like, handsome. Okay, all right. That's that. I'm just saying you've got a really good defense. No. This is not to denigrate your looks. I am just saying the man is really attractive. What? You know this about him? I imagined. Well, yeah, yeah. Geez. Talking about a facial structure. Oh, look how pretty your kid is. What the heck?

Ally 26:58
You people are making? I'm never gonna hear the end of this one up.

Scott Benner 27:01
Is he gonna take credit for it? You're attractive. I just don't want to tell you I did people say I sound creepy. No, but seriously, you have a really attractive family. Oh, I think you seriously look at your son's eyes. They're so almondy but still pretty. Like your husband's who does not? Does not have almondy eyes. But really?

Ally 27:21
Thank you.

Scott Benner 27:22
Holy Christ. What did you people do? Did you meet him at a magazine shoot or something like that?

Ally 27:28
No, we actually met at like a restaurant and bar at this place in Austin. And yeah, that was I mean, I was attracted to him. Obviously.

Scott Benner 27:39
I would have slept with this guy to date. So I'm just saying was a lady. I'd be like the first ones. For me. The second one is for me to get an Amen. All right, it's enough for this. Your kids got diabetes. We shouldn't be mesmerized. I wish I was handsome like that. That's amazing. Okay, I'm warm. Do you think that's because I've admitted to something. All right. Oh, my gosh. You get home, wearing a CGM shooting with a pen or needles?

Ally 28:08
Yeah, we were MDI. Yeah, like whenever I was leaving the hospital, like the last night we were there. They were like, Okay, you guys can leave if you want it, like, we're able to discharge you. Do you want to stay one more night? And I was like, No, I want to say one more night for sure. Just to like, get the hang of everything. And the minute we left the hospital, I call my mom. And I'm just like, bawling. And I'm like, we have to find a nurse. I can't do this by myself. Like he's gonna die. He's gonna die tonight. Like, I have no idea what I'm doing. We need to have a nurse that just like, is with us for at least a few hours a day or something. Like, let's see if insurance covers that. We're like, trying to like, look into having a nurse and we didn't end up doing that. But I was just like, so freaked out. We got home and we were MDI for we got on a pump in October of that year. So about four months. Yeah, we had, it was we have a new doctor now which he is amazing. He's like, we are so lucky that we have him but at first we had it was just a rough start, like our team was just he was assigned to us at the hospital and that's just who we like kept seeing after he was diagnosed. And they were very what was that?

Scott Benner 29:16
They socked is what you're trying to say. Seems like you're trying to be nice, but they were.

Ally 29:21
They're terrible. They were like, so confused. And I'm very like Type A I had, I would like write down exactly what he ate at what his blood sugar was before we started how long we waited to Bolus him when he was at an hour after what he was at two hours after like I wrote down everything on like an Excel sheet and I would like bring it into them. And they're like, Ah, I don't know. I don't know. I just don't know they were always like, I don't know confused Yeah, they could never figure out what to do. At one point the doctor was like, well you know he's gonna be getting on it. This was in like June or July still there like he's gonna be getting on a pump here in like October we had our appointment set up for the train And she's like, it's okay, if he just runs high until then. And I was like, what that's like three months away, I'm not gonna just let him run high for three months, like, and at that point, I had been listening to the podcast. So I was basically like, I was like, being a pump. For him, like, I would go in and give him like, point two, five, with a needle. Like, we were giving him like 15 to 16 shots a day sometimes just to like, yeah, slowly get him to come down. But and we got his we got his agency down from 9.9 to six, just being in MDI, and like, constantly was giving him shots.

Scott Benner 30:36
Oh, you know, I here lately, the last six months, the feedback I get sometimes is, you know, the pro tips are great. But you know, there's more algorithms now. And you should update the algorithm information. I think what people might not realize is that I was acting as an algorithm before they existed. And I didn't know that, but I was right. And, you know, if you learn it that way, then you know it, you just know it then and making the small adjustments bumping and nudging blood sugars, taking away insulin, giving extra that kind of stuff, like learning how to meet the need, that all those things I talked about in that Pro Tip series. And in the podcast, I think are just, they're very foundational. Yeah, for

Ally 31:20
sure. Yeah. That's what I was doing. I was like, basically, just I listen, I remember that episode. And that's when I was like, Alright, I'm just gonna stop. They actually told me one time I was calling, like, every day, and they were like, You can't call every day. Like, that's not what we're here for. And I was like, he was just diagnosed, like, I have no idea what I'm doing. And this was like, even with a low or high blood sugar, we don't have like the staff to support every day. And this was like a very well known, like, Children's Hospital here in Austin. And they're just like, Nope, you can't call every day. I'm like, What do you mean, I can't call every day?

Scott Benner 31:50
Well, you saw it, though, because you charted everything so well. Yeah. And they couldn't help you. Yeah, they were so confused. What they mean, when they say you can't call every day as we don't know how to help you stop reminding us how bad we are at this place.

Ally 32:02
Yeah, just let it run high. And when you get on the pump, the pump will do our job for you. Basically,

Scott Benner 32:07
can we just let the kid be sick for three months? And then we'll put the magic box on him and this will all be over? Yeah,

Ally 32:14
yeah. And at that point, I was like, alright, well, I'm going to find a new doctor because this is crazy. I was like, I will fly to like, I just want the best doctor and we found he wrote a book actually the sugar surfing Doctor ponder, ponder.

Scott Benner 32:26
Yeah, on the very first meter of the podcast, I think,

Ally 32:30
really, he's like, incredible. So we we drive to him now. But yeah, I didn't mean it was like night and day difference. Like it was it was great moving to him. I

Scott Benner 32:40
can't imagine otherwise, honestly, like, I don't. I mean, it's been 10 years since I talked to him. But I remember I didn't know who he was like listener. The show was like, Hey, you have to have my doctor on. He's really good. He wrote this book. And I was like, whatever. So he comes on now. First of all, I don't read so I didn't read the book. And and I'm talking to him. I don't read I just said, it's so proudly, like your husband is like I get pregnant every time. That's what people don't know. Well, you've only had sex three times in the last five. It's just very accurate. But But I had Dr. Ponder on. And I remember, I think I said it out loud. During the episode. I remember saying or thinking, Oh, you do what I do. But you call it something. Like that's what I remember feeling when he was on the show. I'm like, Oh, you do what I do. And he was just like, ahead of the curve on understanding where to put insulin. Yeah. and where not to put it. Yeah, that's

Ally 33:31
what I noticed, too, when I read some of his book, but I was like, this is this reminds me of the podcast. And yeah, I was like, this definitely aligns more with what we're looking for. For sure.

Scott Benner 33:40
Yeah. Oh, no. Wonderful. And I want to be clear, like, I don't imagine that Dr. Potter ever heard this podcast, and I'd never read his book. If you really think about diabetes. Like if you step back and see the whole picture, it's the only understanding you can come to is that insulin needs to be where it needs to be. And you know, and that that's going to change. It's not static. It's not just like, oh, I use seven units of Basal insulin every day. And that's always going to work. That's a ridiculous idea. My Basal rate at 2am is always point five. That's ridiculous. Why would it always be point five? You know, so, once you can see the, like, I used to say in the podcasts all the time, it's like, it's like the movie, The Matrix, when Keanu Reeves slows the bullets down and it just wanders in between them. Like at one point, that's how I felt with diabetes. I'm like, Oh, my God, I see everything now. Like, I know, I know where to step. And, and he very much has the same vibe. So very cool. Yeah. And you're lucky to be in Texas where you can get to him. Yeah, okay, so what about you? Like I what I hear you made me is so funny. I said a lot of stupid stuff. And then I got really warm. I think I was like, Oh, I probably shouldn't have said that about her husband, but whatever. And then I got like, I got like, warm and then you said I wanted to have a nurse the day we came home. I thought he was gonna die. And then I got this horrible chill that all sent my warmth in a really weird way. I got humid for a second, which is not something you want to know. But that's how fast my body changed. Because I remember leaving the hospital thinking, Oh God, I'm gonna kill her. Yeah, that's, yeah,

Ally 35:13
that's very much how we felt I was like, There's no way I can do this. Without them. It was more like, it was like a lot of the math behind it. Like, I've never been great at math and just like all the numbers that they gave us, and it just took me a while to like, wrap my head around all of that. And I'm like, I don't know if I'm doing it right. Like, what if I gave them too much, and he was definitely still honeymooning. So sometimes we would give them insulin. And here we get low. And yeah, I mean, it was just, we're definitely in a much better place now. But

Scott Benner 35:42
I have to tell you, if you promise not to have any more kids, I'm going to call this episode one plus one equals five.

Ally 35:49
No, we're, we're done. Okay.

Scott Benner 35:51
Totally the title then. Because you're like, I'm not good at math, but you're pretty good at some adding. So I'm gonna that's what I'm calling. It has nothing to do with what we're talking about. I really don't care. somebody the other day said, Hey, we just listened to this episode. And it's called this this this? What does that have to do with anything? And I was like, I don't know. It's like, there's 1100 episodes. There's an episode coming up in a couple days. It's called reheated Happy Meal. You would think I'd know why that is. But I'm staring at it. I have no idea whatsoever. I'm gonna have to listen to wow. Yeah, it's just it's this. The math got me at first too, which was funny, because it's not complicated math. It's like, it was like fractions. You know, math. I knew. And yet I left I thought, Oh, I'm gonna do the math wrong. And I'll pick an amount of insulin. That's wrong. And then I'll kill her. That's what's gonna happen. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. No juice. Well, anyway, I feel for you. I've been there. But that didn't happen. And as a matter of fact, the irony is, is that that feeling you had that day? Like, I can't leave these people. I have to bring one of them home with me. These are the people who no, it took you very, not very long at all to find out are not the people I should be talking to at all

Ally 37:03
about rice. Yeah, I was like, No, we're definitely moving on here.

Scott Benner 37:06
How quickly do you think you became the master in that situation? How long did it take you to get it? Like, put it all together?

Ally 37:14
It was when they said you can't call every day and just let him run? Hi. And that was probably I don't even think I was listening to the podcast at that point. Because I was like, I just knew that was not right. I was like, that's insane. Why are you telling me that? I would say that was probably one to two months in. And that's when I started looking for another doctor. And Dr. Ponder was booked until it was October that he was booked out till and I literally called they probably got me in because they were like, she's never gonna stop calling if we just don't get her an appointment that called every single day. And I was like, Hi, have you guys had any cancellations? And eventually, they were like,

Scott Benner 37:51
Jesus, let me come at lunchtime on Thursday. For God's sake, let's get this done.

Ally 37:55
Eventually, they were like, Yes, we had a cancellation. And so we switched over right away, but

Scott Benner 38:01
they probably kicked them out of the practice that they could take, you

Ally 38:05
know, I was like, the person who answers the phone. She was like, Oh, hi,

Scott Benner 38:09
Ali. I know you're embarrassed. You don't want to say but you emailed the lady on the phone a picture of your husband and said, I'll bring him if you let me in. Right? Yeah, that was it. You're like, Oh, God, he's really gonna think he's handsome. By the way. He aged? Well, you don't mind me saying that. Right? No, you know, they mean, like, he got better looking as he got older.

Ally 38:29
No, it's just funny because I know my husband and he is never ever gonna let this go.

Scott Benner 38:34
Oh, if this was me, I'd have a T shirt said that. There's a podcast somewhere that says I'm handsome. One man said he'd be gay for me and he striped. That's what my T shirt would go on the back. There'd be a whole explanation about it. I'd be in public explaining it the people. Good for him. I wish I would have met him when I was in Austin. I might be married to him now. And you wouldn't. Yeah,

Ally 38:53
we met you. We went we went to the he was there. We were at the Capitol.

Scott Benner 38:57
Oh, okay. Well, then I don't know what happened that day must not have been his best day or you wouldn't be pregnant a third time and I'd have a new man. So it's lovely. But what a nice event by the way, huh? Yeah, no, it was great. Yeah. Yeah. Gave me a lot of thoughts about how to do things in the future. Actually, that's neither here nor there. What What kind of pump does your son use now?

Ally 39:17
He's Lundy Omni pod five.

Scott Benner 39:19
Okay. How do you find this to be? How's it going?

Ally 39:21
It's good. We, I mean, we definitely have our ups and downs with it. But I think that's just his settings needing to be changed. Yeah, like recently we were we were having a really hard time with His blood sugars. And I just reach out to our doctor and they're really good about like, looking at his history from like, the last two weeks to a month and they'll just send me over what they think I need to change and we made some changes to it. And he's, it's been great now. We definitely really liked it a lot.

Scott Benner 39:48
Oh, that's excellent. Why did you want to be on the show? Well,

Ally 39:50
when I first started listening to the podcast, I was well I guess part of my story too was so I yeah, I guess it didn't mention this one. When my son was diagnosed, I thought I was pregnant too, because we had been trying for a while to get pregnant with my now my daughter at the hospital, I was like, I think I'm pregnant. Wait until I got home and I ended up not being pregnant. And we took a little bit of a break. Our plan was, we wanted them kind of close together, like two to three years apart. Sorry. When we got home, I was like, I don't think I ever want to have another baby. Like, I'm glad I'm not pregnant because I I cannot imagine having another kid. I thought that we were just done. Like, I was like, I don't want another kid. i This is too much to handle. And then we started trying again, because I was like, That's ridiculous. Like, you know, one day if he's like, how come I never had a sibling? Are we just gonna say well, because you got diabetes? Like

Scott Benner 40:44
he was thinking of jumping out a window, so we didn't do it. Yeah.

Ally 40:47
We're like, That's ridiculous. So we ended up getting pregnant. And I struggled with that for a while because it was I was grieving, obviously, like, the diagnosis of my son. And then I was also kind of grieving, like, maybe never having another baby. That's something that I really wanted. And I was just like, really going through a hard time. And I listened to the podcast, and I think I didn't like post it on there, if anyone had, like a toddler, and then also had another baby, like, right after just to see if anyone else, like went through something similar. So and you know, now here I am, we're having a third and like, you know, I just a really helped me a lot like listening to other people and their experiences, like other people's stories, I guess. And yeah, I just wanted to be an inspiration to someone, like if someone listens to this, and they're going through something similar to what we went through, and they're in that phase where they're like, I'm just stuck here. Like, I don't want to grow my family or, you know, gonna kill my child. Like, I just want it to be an inspiration that Not gonna happen.

Scott Benner 41:50
That's wonderful. When you reached out to other people. Did you find other people with super handsome husbands? That said, No, I felt like that at one point. But I got over it or like, what was the response back that you got from when you asked that question?

Ally 42:02
A lot of people said that they had other kids. I remember like showing my husband, I was like, Okay, other people have kids that begin with type one or like, have a baby, like, you know, a second baby after. So my daughter ended up there. It was a year after he was diagnosed almost of the day, her birthday was is June 17. And his diagnosis date was June 23. So almost exactly a year later, we had another baby, so and I do feel like that year was like, I mean, a whole year, we learned so much about his diabetes, like his a one CEU is like, I think at the time, it was like 5.4. So I mean, we were we're in a good place. And like, for sure, I felt I was like, I'm so glad we decided to have another kid because that would just be ridiculous to let this stop us from anything. But definitely from growing a family.

Scott Benner 42:52
I'm reminded all the time of I don't know if anybody remembers this. But Sam fold who is now like the general manager of the Philadelphia Phillies was a professional baseball player. I had him on the show years ago. And I asked him if like something about, you know, did you ever think of having your kids tested to see if they might get type one at some point? And his answer was somewhere around? Well, no, because that doesn't matter. And when I dug into it a little bit, he his answer was I have diabetes, and I'm okay. And I thought, oh, it's like such a simple little moment. But it really is stuck with me all these years. Like, yeah, like, why would he be scared of a thing he is that he's, it's not causing him any trouble? You know, and I was like, Oh, that's really something like, I think it's so much about understanding it. Understanding the insulin, understanding how to make your life run, not normally. smoothly, you know, and there are going to be issues, you know, like, you are gonna get low, sometimes you're gonna have problems, like, you're always gonna have concerns that other people don't have. But if day to day, you get what you expect. And you start doing things kind of like almost unconsciously, because you just know the right things to do, then why would you think that? Like? It seemed like such a normal question to ask. But I would never ask my daughter present day. Hey, do you ever think about not having children because you think they'll have diabetes? Now? She might have that thought, but I would never ask it over anymore. Yeah, yeah. So anyway, he gave me that great answer years ago. And it stuck with me this whole time.

Ally 44:20
Yeah, we've definitely talked about that. Like, if we want to do the testing for either of our kids. And part of me is like, I mean, yeah, it'd be nice to know if they carry the gene. But like, then on the other hand, I'm like, Are we just going to if they do, are we going to sit there every day wondering like us today? The day? Like, I almost don't want to live like that.

Scott Benner 44:40
It's a hard question. Yeah, it really is, especially now that these drugs are coming out like tz old and things that can, you know, keep you from getting diagnosed, you know, for longer and stuff like that. You think, Well, maybe if I could do something to keep it away for a year or two. I would, you know, yeah. But no, no, it's just I think it's a bigger point. I think it's a philosophical point. and not so much a question about management and, and medicine. But anyway, so you found the podcast podcast was helpful. I don't want you to like, say that again. Like, I hear you. I'm terrific, whatever. And, and but but isn't it odd that I can vacillate between stupid and really thoughtful about diabetes the same 35 minutes? It's a skill of I mean, I don't know what other people think. Definitely. Yeah. So one kids got it. One kid is eight months old. You're nine weeks pregnant? What are your plans for your family? Like, you're 33 years old? You have a very young family. You're a young person, like, how do you see your life going? Do you ever think about that?

Ally 45:39
Yeah, definitely. Yeah, I mean, I guess like diabetes related. I remember, like, at the very first appointment with our art doc, Dr. Ponder that we have now he made a comment that was like, I was still like, not in a great place when we went to see him like I cried at our first appointment, because I was just, I was very emotional about it for a long time. And one of the first things he said was the way that you perceive this disease and the way you handle it, and like, how you carry this is how he's going to perceive it. And that really stuck with me, because I feel like I was letting it consume me. And like we had, for example, we had a Disney trip planned, like before he was diagnosed. And I was like, we have to cancel it. And then after we had that appointment, I was like, why? We can't cancel it. What is that teaching him like, he has to cancel things because of diabetes. Like, we have to just live our lives the way that we normally would and just continue on the same way that we do in it. It's fine. Like everything went well, like we went to Disney, and it was great. And that's one thing with diabetes that I'm like, I really tried hard to just not let us let it stop us from anything.

Scott Benner 46:49
I'm gonna write down perception is reality, and do an episode about that. That's really good idea.

Ally 46:57
Yeah, it just the way that we like, handle it, I guess we just don't ever want him to feel like he can't do anything. Or we can't take a trip or he can't We can't have a sibling and because of diabetes, like in every time we've been scared to do something, we we go, you know, we do it. We went to Disney when he was still on shots, like we were MDI and we look back and I'm like, Oh, my gosh, I can't believe we did that. That was intense. Doing that at Disney. But we did it. And yeah, and you can went fine. I

Scott Benner 47:27
think they are I think he is right. First of all, if management was difficult for you, if you didn't know what you were doing, and you were having wild blood sugars all over the place, they were up and down, up and down. I don't know how much your perception of it would be changed for him. If you were just always like, super happy or like, everything's fine. Because you'd be like, Yeah, everything's not fine. Yeah. But you know, if you're doing well, and you don't let it burden you psychologically, then I see that. I mean, by the way, there'd be value the other way to at least, you know, things are going badly. But we have a good attitude, I think would be a good way to live. Yeah. But better yet, you know, we've got a handle on this. We know what we're doing. And we don't

Ally 48:05
act like we're burdened by it. Yeah, like it's not ruining our lives. You know, some

Scott Benner 48:09
people would say, I wasn't acting burdened, I was burdened, but you were burdened, but then stopped being so so how do you make that transition? That makes sense?

Ally 48:18
Well, it's definitely a really, it was hard at first for sure. Like, I definitely, it took me a while to, like, get out of that. That like hole that I was in, like, I was constantly just mad, and like, I was grieving. I mean, I grieved I feel like for a pretty long time, like I, I mean, I work. I'm a hairstylist, so I work one day a week. Luckily, I'm at home all the other days with the kids. And every single Monday I would go in to work and I would just start crying. Like as soon as I got there, and I'm close with my co workers and even with some of my clients, like I would go out and as soon as I received them, I would just like start bawling. They're

Scott Benner 48:53
like how are you ally? And

Ally 48:57
it was just like, like, Okay, I have to pull it together. But I started thinking to myself, I'm like, why? Every Monday, like, that's the only time I cry, like I get to work and I just like let it all out. I was like, I'm holding it in all the other days when I'm at home with them. And like, I mean, it's okay to like, let them let him see me upset about it too. Because that's not realistic. I don't want him to just live his life like holding in his feelings about diabetes either like it's okay to cry about it and it's okay to be mad and upset about it, but just don't let it consume your life. And I started seeing a therapist actually and she is the one who was like it's okay to let him see you cry. Like it's okay. And that really like stuck with me and I was like, Okay, I don't always have to cry on Mondays that work. It's okay to like for him to see it.

Scott Benner 49:44
Well, now you might have called the podcast like I cry on Mondays. That's such a nice title. I'm writing that down too. I think that's well first of all, I think it's good advice. Think if you're gonna cry, it's okay for people to see you be emotional. I also think that if you're crying constantly should pull yourself together because you know, it is going to hurt your kids at some point to see you, you know a disaster. But there's that's not what she said good

Ally 50:06
balance. Yeah, no definitely like, don't want him to feel like he has to hold it in and just act like everything's fine because that's not healthy either. But

Scott Benner 50:14
especially when people can tell you're upset, but you don't let it out. Like, then that becomes exactly right. You learn to hold in your emotions. That's not good. Yeah. So you found this balance. So you you worked your way through it. My question was, how do you go from genuinely being upset to not being? And the end? The answer is slowly?

Ally 50:31
Yeah, I think I mean, it definitely took some time. Yeah, I mean, it took it took a while for sure. For me to like, stop grieving over it, I guess. And I think just like living my life the same way that we would have, yeah, as much as we could without, you know, before we before he got diagnosed. And yeah, I mean, seeing started, I started seeing a therapist that I guess it was about six months after he was diagnosed, because I was just like, just still just not in a great place. I feel like I was just grieving it for so long. And that helped a lot. Like, I think, and she actually has type one diabetes. So finding a therapist that has type one diabetes, and understands like what I go through is very helpful.

Scott Benner 51:11
Thank you. Yeah, I genuinely believe that. Doctors with type one helping people with type one, there's a pretty big value add there. Yeah, it's not to say that a doctor who doesn't couldn't manage well, or a therapist couldn't manage well, but it sort of gives them a head start. Yeah, definitely understanding what's going on. Do you go more than 15 minutes from your house? Now? I just want to make sure you're getting

Ally 51:38
yes, we definitely do. We're able to get out.

Scott Benner 51:43
I like the way your brain works. You were like we can we can never drive more than 15 minutes away from the house now. Which by the way, you can actually put the potty in the car. It's only seven and a half minutes because you have to be able to get back. So I also did not occur to you there are toilets, other places. Yeah,

Ally 51:59
well, we have like a little port like his potty can like go in my car. So I guess I'll just bring that and we'll just have to pull over like, let him use his little potty all the time.

Scott Benner 52:09
I'm married to my wife for a few years when she says out loud, but you think they should install toilets and seats and cars and I went wow. I actually thought I wish you would have said that sooner. I may not have married you. So funny. I remember being able to travel with like a potty. What you were doing potty training for kids. Yeah, that's a low point your life as an adult. What do you got back there? It's a bowl of pee.

Ally 52:39
Yeah, it's funny when like other people get in the car and like my sister, she's much younger than me. And she's like, Why do you have a potty in here? Like,

Scott Benner 52:46
because look how handsome this guy is. I don't mean to say that if a person is very handsome, you have no agency over whether or not they have sex with you and make you pregnant. But for me personally, I wouldn't have any conscious. I'd be like, sure you want to that'd be great. By the way, this is gonna backfire on him. Because if he brings this up, you're gonna go the other way on it. So I'm just telling him right now if he's listening, dude, don't do it. Because she'll she'll run in the other direction. That's so funny. All right. What have we not talked about that we should have?

Ally 53:21
I think that's pretty much everything. We

Scott Benner 53:23
did it. See ya had everything written down. So yeah. Did we really are you at suffered now? Yeah, like notes. Oh, my God. That's amazing. I should try planning this out once in a while.

Ally 53:35
Yeah, I think that was everything. Oh, that's

Scott Benner 53:37
so cool. I appreciate you doing this. I really do appreciate you coming on sharing your experiences on the show, sharing your vulnerability of being willing to be funny and loose. Like all that was really nice. This is one of these weird episodes where we're not even quite up on an hour yet. But I feel like we've been talking for two hours. Yeah. I love that link. I really did. Yeah, no, I think that's fantastic. Sometimes when I get into those like hour and 20 minutes, that's sometimes me going I feel like I didn't get it at all. Yeah. And I feel like I'm digging around. Like, I know, there's something I left here. I don't know what it is. But for you, I feel like Wow, we got the story out like really well, it's fun. It moves quickly. And it tells it made me cry. Like I really did cry. Oh, when you said like you felt like you couldn't leave the hospital. It made me it made me well up. It was like bawling. Like, like if your husband would have left me but like I just welled up a little bit. You know what I mean? And, and it was just, I just remember feeling like that so clearly. You know, so I thought it was really nice to share that. It's a lot. Well, thank

Ally 54:37
you and thanks for having me on. I appreciate having me on and just all the help that you've given us really, I mean, we would not have been able to do any of this without the podcast. I'm

Scott Benner 54:48
so it's so nice. I have to you want to know what I'm gonna do after I get off with you? What's that? Please? So sure you're gonna go not really Scott. I don't really give a fuck what you're gonna do

Ally 54:59
it Hey, you're gonna message my husband? No, no, I see

Scott Benner 55:03
where you're at. Your pause was a little too long. I was like, what I'm about to do. I was gonna go have an egg. Probably gonna have to. And I was thinking to put a little protein with it. But instead first I have to go to my private Facebook group where someone is being silly. And I have to now like go answer and silly to me. I'm sure not silly to them. And would you like me to share it with you want to talk about? Yes. Okay. Yeah, definitely. So there's a person, I'm not going to say their name, obviously, but has made a post it says GLP or T one D? Hello, Scott, I guess you're transitioning the podcast to weight loss over type one. What is your intention? I am very sympathetic about those who desire to lose weight. However, I began listening to your podcast for information about type one, and to learn from the experience of others with type one. Now a couple of things to this person. First of all, podcast is one word. It's not a big deal. And I'm not shaming you over. But it's not pod cast. Its podcast, one word. So taking it away from this. I've never understood this before. And not about me specifically. But about anything. I've been making this podcast for 10 years. Yeah. I mean, he's talking about the same exact thing every day. Yeah. Also, you get five new episodes a week, if one of them once in a while talks about GLP. The podcast is transitioning to weight loss. Yeah. I don't understand the there is a specific mind that sees things that way. I'm not saying it's a good or a bad thing. But there's a specific mind that sees things that way. Like you're the person who wears red T shirts. Why would you wear an orange t shirt? Like, well, what, like, that's weird, you will need to do the same thing over and over again. I've seen it through history with, like entertainers who have like long careers. I don't think I'm an entertainer. But you know what I mean? Like somebody who's been in like a medium for such a long time. And as they mature and grow. They change kind of what they think and how they talk about it sometimes. And then yeah, people will come in and yell at them. That's not what you do.

Ally 57:12
Yeah, just don't listen to that episode. I don't even know what she's talking about.

Scott Benner 57:16
Oh, I like that. You thought it was a woman? That's nice. Oh, yeah. I mean, I'm not saying it is you're saying it is or it isn't. But you know, if that happens to me, I'm sexist. When you don't, it's nice is a mistake. It's interesting, because my to go I'm gonna go back and explain to them, but I don't know where to start. Like part of me wants to say, currently, there are 1138 episodes of the podcast. There are countless series about different management ideas. Like go listen to those. Yeah, you want me to say the same exact thing over and over again. Day after day, the podcast will implode it'll die like it won't. Yeah, I can't get on every day and be like, hey, Alec, would you like me to explain to you how to Bolus for food?

Ally 57:58
Cuz there's something for everybody. Gift episodes you don't want to give.

Scott Benner 58:04
were more like what is your intention? My intention? There's so there's like, the monkey side of my brain wants to respond and go stop listening. You don't understand? It's bad for you. It's making you upset. Part of me wonders if I'm just reading the posting correctly. And if maybe their tone and intent isn't how I'm taking it. Right? Like it sure like No,

Ally 58:28
sometimes. Sometimes I see posts and I'm like, What are they doing? I'm just kind of person real. Middle she like I've computer just posting this. Trying

Scott Benner 58:38
to piss people off. Listen, yeah, I have a master list in front of me of just the the episode series that are about management. The defining diabetes series has 51 episodes in it, where we go over different, you know, meanings for different works here in diabetes, the diabetes Pro Tip series 26 episodes, I have heard over and over again, listen to those a once he goes into the low sixes diabetes variables, 22 episodes about variables that impact diabetes. Bold Beginnings is basically the pro tips for beginner 25 episodes defining thyroid 10 episodes, after dark now has 47 conversations with people who are talking about things that maybe aren't like polite, you know what polite conversation is? I don't believe in that. But obviously, I don't believe in that diabetes myths series 17 episodes about myths about diabetes 39 episodes about algorithm pumping 12 about how different people eat different ways. 25 about mental ill mental wellness for type one, there are 20 Almost 30 episodes of Ask Scott and Jenny where people send in questions. There's 16 About type two diabetes 17 about pregnancy with type 128 about talking to children with diabetes 12 About disordered eating 15 about celiac 42 with families that have multiple people with type one in them, how to Bolus or fat and protein seven episodes, eight episodes about the math behind your settings. eight episodes about glucagon stories, people who have had to use glucagon. And they're explaining what their situation was. There's a parenting series, a grand rounds series now for doctors, cold wind is healthcare whistleblowers talking about how doctors really are like, I don't know if you've heard it yet, but they're talking about what they see at their jobs like doctors, nurses, stuff like that. It's not uplifting. And I have nine episodes about my weight loss journey called a week over diary. Nine. So

Ally 1:00:33
it just sent her that.

Scott Benner 1:00:35
I love again, you said her? I thought

Ally 1:00:38
you said she for some reason.

Scott Benner 1:00:41
1138 episodes available right now. Nine of them are about me using weego V. Why is the podcast Let me ask it again, transitioning to weight loss. I don't know what to say about that. That person is listening right now. I don't know how to answer that question. It would be like if you said to me, why do I see your fingers transitioning to being all pinkies? And I go, there's just two pinkies there's a there's a total 10 total digits two thumbs to pinkies. They're not all pinkies. I don't understand. It's a line someone draws their head or a fear or I don't even know what like I can't figure out why this person's asking this question. But now it's my job. Drama. It's my job to go explain it instead of eating my goddamn egg, which is all I wanted.

Ally 1:01:30
I did want to say I really enjoyed the parent teen series, I forgot to tell you that. I liked the because that's kind of new. I've been listening to that. And it's not even I mean, sometimes it's not even about diabetes. It's

Scott Benner 1:01:41
not about diabetes. What am I turning this into a parent? One episode a week. Thank you. And by the way, if you listen to it, it's about parenting. But it's also about diabetes parenting, you just don't have to say the word diabetes constantly to do it. Also, not for nothing. But G LPS you want my opinion, not a doctor, no research don't only stock in a pharma companies nothing like that. GLP medications are going to be widely used with people with type one diabetes in the coming years. That's my belief. And I'm talking about it now today's episode, which is probably what prompted this person is a mother of a young child with type one diabetes. Child's fifteen's had type one for two years, who is using we go V for weight loss, but we go V is ozempic. It's the same drug, right? And this kid's insulin needs are significantly less. As a matter of fact, by the time you get to the end of the episode, you find out she's one four to seven units of basil a day and not currently bolusing for her meals. Wow, she was not not honeymooning, nothing like that. Is this going to be a common story? I don't think so. But it's incredibly interesting. Yeah, story about GLP is being used by a person with type one diabetes. And this person says to me, why is this podcast not about type one diabetes, I'm talking to the mother of a child with type one about her child who has type one diabetes, who happens to be using a GLP. And this person says to me, how come this shows not about diabetes? I don't know what to do, like

Ally 1:03:16
your podcast anyway. So you can do whatever you want

Scott Benner 1:03:20
to be that person. But also, if we're gonna go down that road for a second, I've helped 10s of 1000s of people live better with their diabetes, using my idea of how to communicate with them. I don't know why a person who hasn't helped three people in one way that I know of, maybe they have, but they definitely I mean, this person has definitely not helped as many people as I have. Why would they say to me, you know, I know how you should be doing what you're doing. And this, isn't it. Okay. I don't even know where to go with that. Like, imagine if I got on line today. And I was like, dear Steven Spielberg, you don't make movies, right? Why are we talking so much about your family? And this last one? Where is Indiana Jones that don't watch that one? Like, oh God, la now you've made me upset. Alright, mate, if you know what I'll do to calm down. I'm gonna look at a picture of your husband. Stare into his eyes till I relax.

Ally 1:04:25
I'm gonna have to go look for that post. Because now I want to know, oh, are you responding? Why don't

Scott Benner 1:04:29
you say it's gonna be a lot of fun. I'll be very polite. I'm a nothing but polite. And if this person is listening right now, it's like eight months later, resist the urge to get upset because I know you're still listening. Because I mean, podcast is fantastic to me. Did you hear this episode? I'm at the top of my game alley. There's nowhere to go but up, and I still feel like I'm bumping my head on the sky right now. There's there that's me being no way modest. Anyway, you're delightful. So am I, we're done Hold on one second

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