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Scott Benner 0:00
Hello friends and welcome to episode 878 of the Juicebox Podcast

today Brittany is on the show she is an adult living with type one diabetes has a really cool story. And she enjoys the Mary Jane, the dope, the grass, the reefer, the pot, the weed, the Bambi the blanket, you know what I'm talking about? Brittany is going to talk about smoking weed. She's going to tell us where the term DAB came from. And I'm going to tell you something high was surprised. To be serious. Brittany is here to tell us about all of her autoimmune issues and how marijuana helps her. Please remember while you're listening, that nothing you hear the Juicebox Podcast should be considered advice, medical or otherwise, always consult a physician before making any changes to your health care plan. Becoming bold with insulin, or smoking until your face melts off. Very quickly. T one D exchange.org. Forward slash juicebox. Go if you're a US resident who has type one, go if you're a US resident who is the caregiver of someone with type one, when you get there, fill out the survey completely. And once you're done, you've helped. That's it. See how easy it was to help T one do research. All you had to do was go to T one D exchange.org. Forward slash juicebox and complete the survey

this show is sponsored today by the glucagon that my daughter carries G voc hypo Penn Find out more at G voc glucagon.com. Forward slash juicebox. There are so many more afterdark episodes, and you can check them out at juicebox podcast.com. Or by going into your audio app and searching Juicebox Podcast or just juice box one word. Do it like this juice box after dark. Three words juice box after dark. They should all just pop up in front of you. If you're not listening to the podcast in a podcast app or an audio app like Amazon Music, Spotify, Apple podcasts, you probably should. It's a simple and free way to listen to this podcast and any other podcast that you enjoy. Last thing if you're looking for community around diabetes, please check out the Facebook page for the group 35,000 members and growing every day Juicebox Podcast type one diabetes on Facebook. Hey, real quick before we start, I just pulled out my Spotify app and I I searched juice box after dark because you know I wasn't 100% sure what I told you was actually right. But I mean it felt right. And it really is it popped up right in front of me. Episode 274 Drinking edition 283 was about weed. This is God three years ago. Kate bipolar psychedelics eating disorder, depression and self harm Emily mama wants her happy I wonder what that's about sex worker John? diabetes heroine sex with type one diabetes from a male's perspective that was heroin addiction I'm sorry. After dark when in Rome after dark male disordered eating after dark gaming after dark life struggles after dark Nolan's story trauma and addiction bulimia and depression sexual assault and PTSD, divorce and co parenting. Childhood Trauma California sober that was a good one. Actually, these were all great ADHD, cocaine and abandonment, striving and grateful. On and on. One thing after there's so many here, like you could do this with anything you could type in juicebox. And then pro tip if you want to see the Pro Tip series, for example, boom, they're all right in front of me. Why does so many people come to me online? They're like, I don't know how to find that episode. Just that. I mean, that works in Spotify. I mean, half of you use Spotify and half of you use Apple podcasts. Hello, sorry, Apple podcast, search. juice box. After Dark. didn't spell right. Now I did search. Scroll either. All right here. I never want to hear from you guys. Again. You can't find something just searching your app. Alright, sorry, that got off the rails. Here's Brittany.

Brittany 4:28
My name is Brittany. And I have been a type one diabetic for 24 and a half years and I am 32 Now

Scott Benner 4:40
24 and a half years. Wow, that seems like a long time to me. What were you ate when you were diagnosed?

Brittany 4:50
I was two months before I turned eight right before I was diagnosed in June of 98. And I turned my workdays in August so

Unknown Speaker 4:59
yeah

Scott Benner 5:01
I know you have a sister. But do you have any other siblings?

Brittany 5:05
Yes. So my parents were teen parents, and they didn't have any other children together. So I have. Well, from from both of my parents, they both had a child at the same time. So my sister, the one that I'm living with now, and my other, my brother that came from my mom, they are three months apart. And then my mom much later had a child. She just turned 14. So we are 18 years apart.

Scott Benner 5:35
Your mom is the ridin ridin it right to the end? Hmm. I didn't mean oh, I meant, I meant life. Sorry. Sorry.

Brittany 5:46
Me at 15. So that was a month before she turned 16. And my dad was 17 at the time, so they were babies.

Scott Benner 5:55
So your mom's about 47? Right now.

Brittany 6:00
She was born. She was born in 74. So she's 4848?

Scott Benner 6:05
Okay, I think is that? Is that something you get accustomed to after a while and you don't notice it, that you're so close in age?

Brittany 6:13
Yes. People think that. You know, my parents were like, my mom would be my sister. And somebody may think that like my dad's my boyfriend. Because my parents were so young. And then with me and my brother, being 18 and 15, when our younger sister was born, people always always thought that she was our child, because I'm closer in age to my mom. So we're 15, almost 16 years apart. And my sister and I are 18 years apart.

Scott Benner 6:42
Okay, so like when your youngest sister was born, people would look at you and think, oh, Brittany had a baby.

Brittany 6:48
Yes, if I would, I would have had her we were 18 years apart. Yeah. So when like, I was involved a lot in her life. And she was like firstborn. And the following years after Todd moved away, and you know, so we would be out doing things and people would think she was mine. Like Nassif, my sister,

Scott Benner 7:07
how would you describe your relationship with her? Is it more parental or more sibling?

Brittany 7:13
Um, it can it's kind of both way she there was definitely like when she was, I would say, definitely under five. Like in that toddler stage, she would almost like try to, you know, almost like, fight with me with a sister like with her stuff, or, you know, take my food and phone and just stuff that the kids do. Right. So she, it was, it was interesting, but we're like best friends. I'm really close with all of my siblings.

Scott Benner 7:41
So when you see now when you guys are together, or you hear a story, and it's a little like, I don't know, racy for the kid, you think? Do you think like a sister? Do you think like a mom when you hear it?

Brittany 7:55
I though, so it just it just depends on what it is. But, you know,

Scott Benner 8:02
happens. That's why I was wondering, like, I can't, I don't firmly have a parental or a sibling relationship with my brothers. You know, it's just and it's not because of our ages, as much as it is, you know, the situation where I just sort of raised them, you know, in a certain time of their life. But it's, it's super hard. It was difficult for me to never know really where to draw the line when something happens. Like, you know what I mean? Like something cool happens to them that your parents wouldn't like, but your brother would love and you're like, I don't know what to say. Yeah, yeah. So I know what you mean. Yeah. Yeah. So you've had diabetes. Since you were eight. Does anyone else in the family have it? No, nobody else. Does anybody else have any autoimmune stuff that a Lago, celiac, Hashimotos, anything like that.

Brittany 8:54
We do have some arthritis, and thyroid. There's nothing else that I can really think of. Or I know off off, offhand, but I know like, I've listened to every one of your podcasts. So, uh, does run like I know, you've talked about it running and a lot of the female members in the family or at least in New York, that's how it is. So it's kind of that way in mine as well. Like my mom and grandmothers and things like that, than ants

Scott Benner 9:31
is the is the arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis. Like autoimmune arthritis. Who has it the worst? You don't have to tell me. Someone pop into your mind when you think that

Brittany 9:42
both of like I know on one one grandmother does. And I'm pretty sure the other one does I just the one that comes to mind. She kind of talks about it more, I guess you could say

Scott Benner 9:56
is it limiting for them?

Brittany 9:58
No, she still works. She's I don't know how she was 39 when I was born, so how she was born in 51. I know people, years sometimes I forget how old they actually are. But she she still works.

Scott Benner 10:15
Okay. It's just such a I'm gonna curse. It's such a mind. You talking about people's ages? Like my grandmother, she was 39 when this happened, I'm like, wait, what?

Brittany 10:28
Yeah, I just remember she was, how old she was, whenever I was born and what year they're born so that I go on my calculator and do it if I forget their actual age at the moment.

Scott Benner 10:41
It's interesting. Okay, so do you have just type one or do you have anything else?

Brittany 10:46
Oh, yes, I have a lot of stuff. I've had. Well, I have currently I guess you could say fibromyalgia. I have dysautonomia. I have some gastroparesis. But it's really mild. It's really triggered by certain things, which are honestly things you shouldn't do anyway, like certain like, fast food or like fried foods or different things like that. And what else do I have? I have a little bit of neuropathy as well. But that, thankfully to you, you know, since my agency is now in the fives, I don't really have a lot of the symptoms of the neuropathy, like I did, when it first started. For a while, I would even have like, just like the pain in the feet, whenever like my blood sugar would be high. But now if it does shoot up, I haven't felt it. Probably since my linseeds and, quote unquote, normal.

Scott Benner 12:00
Brittany, you caught me like, we're, you're the only recording I'm doing around Christmas. And my family's here and my kids are getting ready to leave and you just made me cry. I don't know, like you just said like, thanks to you. And they you started talking about not having nerve pain. And I got really emotional. I'm sorry. Yes,

Brittany 12:18
yes. Like I know, you ask people if they would name their children after you and I do not have any living children. But I all of my baby names I have on my list for in the next few years are like hippie name. I don't know how yours would fit in. But I've literally thought about how like, You've changed so much like I was like, I would love to like one day if I had the money like by the span of vacation, like for his family to go on. Because like the like I talk about your podcast all the time. I tell people if I ever, like find out that you know they have it, I tell them or anything, anybody uses insulin. So even if they're type two, and I'm like to use insulin, and I tried to tell I have a friend who's fiancee recently, who has type two who recently asked me about things and I told them things, you know, like hydration and and other things that I could think of but you know, that would help them without using insulin. But yeah, quite amazing.

Scott Benner 13:19
Oh, that's really kind of you. And you just gave me a great idea. I think we should send me to Bora Bora. I think everyone should get together. I know nothing about the place. I just think of those, those huts up on stilts that are in the water. That would be amazing.

Brittany 13:36
That's what I want to do for like a honeymoon. That's where I want to go like one of those places where it's just like I call it a hut in the middle of the ocean. Yeah. Well, I mean, I don't

Scott Benner 13:44
have a good name. You don't I mean, I don't have a good name like Adele or something. So I don't expect anybody to actually call their child's got even a boat or a motorcycle. It'd be nice. You know?

Brittany 13:55
Well, I have pets are my thing. So I made maybe a dog one day. Oh,

Scott Benner 14:00
I would take that gleefully. But I'm just happy that you're well, how long have you been listening to the show?

Brittany 14:09
I discovered your podcast. And I started listening because that when I learned about it, I probably started within like a week or two actually listening but it was at the end of August and 2020. And I had listened to all the podcasts by Thanksgiving that you had at that time. So I started at the beginning at number one, and I listened to about 50 And by that time I'm I guess I was part of the Facebook group and I heard about the pro tip. So then I went and listened to the pro tips. And then I started back going through all the others from like I said it was about 50 were started those prototypes. Oh,

Scott Benner 14:52
that's amazing. I'm so happy. I just saw a note the other day like there are people's names that I know I don't even know why To how to tell you why, like, it's probably just like spellings that hit my brain differently. You don't I mean, like, then some people's names stick out. Yours is spelled a little differently. And so your name sticks out to me. No, and it's but there was this, um, there was this post the other day, I'm gonna find it for you. If my was it,

Brittany 15:24
maybe the one about was it the Spotify. Right, I'd said, I wish, I wish I listened to it on Spotify.

Scott Benner 15:32
Oh, that one's where I the last time I saw your name, but I'm gonna, I'm gonna tell you something from a different a different person I know. So this post goes up around Christmas. And this happens around the holidays, like people are very kind and they take a little extra time to say thank you about the show or something like that. But this gentleman discusses that his daughter was diagnosed, and he finds the podcast, like that evening, like just out walking, and how we, you know, he talks about devouring the content and how it brought him up to speed and, and, and where they are now. And you know, as I'm reading it, I'm floored a little bit like I really am like, even as you're talking about the show, in my mind, I think, Oh God, I wonder if it sounds like one of those like, I don't even know how to put it. But like one of those very like saccharin, like produced shows where someone comes on to say, Oh, I love this or you know what I mean? Like because it's, it's still strange to me to hear somebody's story like yours, like I believe in the podcast, and I believe in the content. And I generally think that people will have experiences like yours. But still, when it happens, and someone tells me about it, it doesn't feel like they're talking about me. And I had this experience reading this person's story, Matt story on the Facebook group the other day, right before the holiday and, and I just I read it. I was like, Oh, it's this isn't about my podcast, like it just never feels real enough. I don't know if it will one day or not. But right now, I don't think it's imposter syndrome. I'm pretty aware that what you said is true. It's just, it's hard. It's just hard to take it you know what I mean? It's a weird thing. Yeah.

Brittany 17:16
I actually know exactly what you mean, I own my own business. And all on Google, we have all five star reviews. And i i Sometimes I'm like, you know, but I put my you know, like you do I put my heart and soul into my business. I'm very passionate about it. So you just kind of get out what we're putting in?

Scott Benner 17:37
Yeah, well, it just it's, I don't know, it's, it's hard to completely. For me, it's just hard for me to completely. I don't want to say except I do accept that. Maybe I can't absorb it completely. I don't know, like, this will sound like a humble brag, but it happens so frequently that it can get overwhelming. You know, so you start reading someone's note and you're like, oh my god, this is amazing. And then it's a half an hour later and I'm tagged in something else. And it's a very similar note from a different person and you really want to read them all and give them their weight. Because this person is having an amazing you know, transformation experience for themselves. And, and I definitely want to be there to say congratulations. But I don't know it's hard to put into words. I guess I've only been at this nine years now. I guess I'll figure out how to say it eventually. But for the moment, it just feels really good. And and I don't know what to do about it. But so So okay, so fibromyalgia, let's pick through these for a minute. But this auto attack, is it this auto num How do you say it? Guess autonomia this autonomia how does that affect your life

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Brittany 19:51
Well, it currently doesn't because of the reason that I'm on for the podcast. My marijuana use such, but why I first started having symptoms, my resting heart rate was like 130. So it was hard for me to like even to stand outside in the sun. I live in the south. So there's a lot of humidity, and just being outside for like five minutes would, it would just I would be exhausted already. And, you know, miserable. In my heart racing even more, or doing anything like physical was like really exhausting for the same reason. So I saw a cardiologist they did a lot of tests. And that is what they kind of told me was my diagnosis, and I was taking, you take a beta blocker to treat it. So I was taking that. And then once I started using marijuana, like all the time, I guess you could say or daily or however you want to put it often. I noticed that I guess maybe I didn't like half my medicine or I don't maybe i i was during my transition to moving to Florida. So I may have not as went like get a new doctor hadn't went and didn't have the medicines like little I don't need it. And my resting heart rate was normal what it should be. So I didn't I didn't take it anymore. But before I was using marijuana, it wasn't just that I was probably on so many pills, because I got it for the fibromyalgia. And I was on to different pain medications and things like that.

Scott Benner 21:34
Wow. So the, what's the order of the diagnosis is type one first. Ah, yes. And then how does Fibromyalgia come into your life? And how do you know you haven't? How did they diagnose it?

Brittany 21:51
I was having a lot of pain. And they really rolled out a lot of other things. Fibromyalgia. I don't know if it does now, but then it definitely didn't have a test. So I was 20 about 23 When I got that diagnosis, and that one and the dysautonomia, and really the gash of Rhesus, like I had a kind of those all came together, I guess you could say almost within a year. Did I get those diagnosis?

Scott Benner 22:25
Wow. So it all just sort of piled on you at once.

Brittany 22:29
And actually, they didn't diagnosed me with the neuropathy, technically, until I brought it to their attention. I was losing like a bunch of weight. And the reason why was because I was getting full really fast. And they did all kinds of tests. And I've, you know, been pretty much regular my whole life, those have been different GI issues written on island.

Scott Benner 22:56
I'm so sorry, I'm gonna do something crazy. Give me a second. I just did not take a phone call. Hello, okay, no problem. It is. Brittany, I'm so sorry. No, you're okay. Yeah, just to give this a tiny bit of context, before we get back to what you were saying my son is now about eight months out of being out of college and been applying for these, you know, a ton of different jobs. And what he wanted to do was one, it's one of these situations where the entry level of what he wanted to do is still not entry level, if that makes sense. Like would they hire people for entry level. And these people already have years of experience in like other businesses and things like that. So he's, he had been, I don't need to be coy about this. He was trying to get a data analysis job with a major league baseball team. And he was trying to get these like literally like they call them internships sometimes but he was under qualified for them because they were hiring people who had been out in the workplace already for so long. And so yeah, he spread his spread himself out a little bit, and found this other job that he was interested in and applied. And they said, he got he got the job, which was really terrific. And but he needs to relocate. And very quickly, so they were basically like last Monday, you got the job. There'll be about a week of you filling things out. And he literally is just right now out proving who he is. I didn't know that businesses did this, but he had to get something they called an i nine verification. So we had to go to this location here in New Jersey, and use like his passport to prove who He was. And and then he has to start working in 14 days in in Georgia. And so we have to relocate him find them a place to live and it's an Not as easy just to find that apartment in the area that he's at. So we found one, they have one left that he can afford, you know. And, and I just lucked out if I don't answer this phone and they give us away, I'll he'll kill me. So I appreciate you letting me stop for a second. Oh, yeah, I apologize. Okay, well, you were in the middle of explaining to me about Fibro. And am I right about that?

Brittany 25:27
I think it was, I was explaining to you about the neuropathy. How.

Scott Benner 25:32
Okay, so

Brittany 25:34
I started having the GI issues, and they did a bunch of tests and everything was coming back. Okay. And I think that's actually when they diagnosed me with the gastroparesis, which I did one of those scans, whatever they do for the diagnosis, I did one of those when I was a younger kid, like, I want to say, a year or two after my diagnosis, I'm not sure why they did it. Except for just to see where I was

Scott Benner 26:02
aghast. You're like a gastric emptying study.

Brittany 26:05
Yeah. So when they did it, they gave me my diagnosis. This time, they didn't do one of those. So I do want to see how far along it is, especially since you know, I don't have a lot of symptoms itself. Ones that are triggered by food. And I do have some of like the slowed digestion, like I can see that like my insulin needs, and like where my fat and protein rises happen,

Scott Benner 26:30
right? Did you hear Arden's episode about the supplements she's taking for her digestion? Yeah. And I've

Brittany 26:37
been so busy. My work is really busy at this time of year. So and then with my move, and everything else, I haven't gotten around to go and get it into trial. But I do. I want to try that. And I did look up I guess the other one that she's on for the female issues, the one that starts equipment, oh, yes,

Scott Benner 27:00
I will talk about that.

Brittany 27:02
I, I, you know, I want to have babies, like within the next few years. So like, is that something that's just making everything better? And why not? So yeah.

Scott Benner 27:13
Oh, good. Yeah, I mean, it's, but even if you're busy right now, like, I don't want to, I'm not pimping a brand here. But I'm gonna look here and find it for you. You can just go on Amazon, or go to a health food store or anywhere I would imagine to find this. This digestive enzyme is made by pure encapsulations. And so it's pure. It says like, it's a white bottle with like, a blue little label says pure encapsulations digestive enzymes Ultra. It's not cheap. Like, I'm sure in a health food store, you could probably find like a knockoff kind that's a little cheaper. But if you're looking to just give it a try, it'd be at your house like tomorrow if you had Amazon Prime, so And she just takes them with her food. And yeah, just speeds up the it just helps the digestion. And you know, you're on your way do you have I'm so sorry to ask you, does everything come out the way you expect? Or do you get Do you not have

Brittany 28:20
regularly like I'm fine. I have no issue. I am currently on ozempic for like off using the off label for weight loss, which it's been working. So that does cause constipation and itself, which I just tried to drink more water and different things like that. But with a gastroparesis. It's it's like diarrhea and things like that, that I have like in the dumping. Yeah. and forth like the food. Like if there's any weird food items.

Scott Benner 28:53
Yes, there's some foods you just you can't process well at all. Me. Yeah, right. Yeah, I Arden went to a magnesium oxide to help her go to the bathroom more regularly. And I have to admit, I started taking it. I was like, huh, since I was taking fiber as a supplement, and now I don't have to take fiber anymore. So the magnesium oxide did the trick for me. And I've also been popping the digestive enzymes just because like my stomach would get upset with certain foods or there were things that I would say like, I can't eat that. You know what I mean? And when I look back at it now, it was probably fattier foods or fried stuff that I would have trouble with. Sometimes protein, like, sometimes chicken. I can't digest chicken very well. Interesting stuff. But I mean, these things are incredible. I mean, they're affordable in the grand scheme of things, you know what I mean? Like if you know if $100 every two months is gonna keep you going to the bathroom. Well, you find a way to make $100 and get that stuff. And it's not it's not like crazy Easy. I also don't know that if you couldn't prove it to a doctor, if they couldn't write you a prescription for it, you know what I mean? I'm not sure how people's how people's plans work all the time. Because that's the one. Yeah, that's what it sounds like you're saying, right? Is that like certain kind of junky foods you can't get through?

Brittany 30:18
Yeah, and don't get me wrong. I II, like the way of eating the last few years. A lot, you know, better and healthier than what? You know, I'm sure my parents fed me and I eat in my early 20s. But yeah, I don't really eat a lot of bad stuff. And I travel for work. I know you said if I wanted to buy Amazon, I'd do it tomorrow, but I will hopefully be home. By Thursday night or Friday morning. I'll leave after this to go to Ohio doesn't go to Virginia. So Oh,

Scott Benner 30:48
good feel you're getting back to where you mean to be there?

Brittany 30:52
Well, I travel for work.

Scott Benner 30:54
Oh, I see. Oh, I see. Yeah. What do you do?

Brittany 30:59
Um, I own my own business doing animal transportation.

Scott Benner 31:03
Oh, no kidding. So what kind of animals do you move around?

Brittany 31:07
Um, it's mainly dogs, cats, but I have transported rabbits and mini pigs. And I have another mini pig scheduled on at the end of January.

Scott Benner 31:19
So people will literally pay you to like trailer I'm assuming or transport somehow an animal like a great distance, like if they're moving or something and they can't do it.

Brittany 31:31
Yep. So I have worked with the rescues, especially refugees in my area, where dogs are either being pulled from like a shelter and go into a rescue that would then go to a foster home and be adopted, or they're being adopted by somebody. Also people that get new puppies and kittens. So sometimes they may find a breeder or find somebody that's really holding their dog from somewhere that they don't want to drive. And also, people that go on vacation and move. So I have a lot of people that they like to fly when they move and they just, you know, hire movers to take their stuff and then hire people like me to take their pets. I work with a lot of high end clientele that are like snowbirds. So I get a lot of requests to drive their luxury vehicles with their pet in it. So I recently flew to New York, gotten a car with a dog drove back. I have a few repeat clients that do that I drive their land rovers or BMWs with their their dogs in it while they go on their vacations or their snowbirds. Yeah, I have I have an issue via Honda Pilot. So I do it in my personal vehicle otherwise. And my dogs go with me if there's room so I have a trip coming up where I'm going to be going up the East Coast, we're I really won't have room for my dog. So I'm gonna leave them home.

Scott Benner 32:59
That's an interesting, that's an interesting way to see the country too. That's kind of great.

Brittany 33:03
It is. I have I saw a lot and I go from California to Maine. So all the like the snow storms that happen on the East Coast earlier this year, I drove through all of those in the snow and I had never really drawn into snow for but I'm a really good driver. So I adapted well.

Scott Benner 33:21
Wow, that's really interesting. Well, then how do you mix in this other thing? So you you said that you've been managing your one of your issues at least with with weed right? So you're How do you characterize the frequency in which you smoke?

Brittany 33:38
Um, recently, it's kind of went down honestly a little bit. And part of that is just because of cost and access. So when I first started, like, when the election I'm live in Florida, so when the election happened in 2016, and they allowed medical marijuana. I was at the time dating a guy that was a nurse, and he knew a lot of friends. He was from the area that we lived in, in Florida was where he grew up. And so he knew a lot of high end people that would buy marijuana from this person. So it was a friend of his and he got some for me to try just to see if it would help with the pain because at this point with the fibromyalgia I had started on what is Tramadol but at the time, Tramadol is now a controlled substance, where before when I started taking it, it wasn't. I was on the max dose of that. And it turns out that I was actually addicted to it and didn't realize it. I had I was taking so many pills at the time. I had a pill container with like morning and night, seven days a week. And there was a day where I knew I took my medicine that morning like it was so I was so sure that I didn't even look in the thing to double check. But I was having pain and I was having been like sweats and like chills, and I just felt nauseous. And that evening when I'm gonna go take my medicine, I realized that I had not taken it that morning like I knew that I had. And I was like I've been in withdrawals all day. And so I tapered myself off of that. And then after that I was on GABA pin. And that was the only thing that worked. I had tried other things like Lyrica and Gabapentin made me gain a lot of weight, and it made me very fatigued. So that was just that it wasn't, it wasn't great. So when I tried it, whenever he wouldn't got it, it worked. And I was speaking with my rheumatologist, he really didn't know anything about, you know, how to apply for it. And I did some research and I found a doctor. And you know, the election was in November. So by August, and the next year 2017, I had done my application for my medical card in Florida and saw the doctor and since it was so new, and there were so many people applying it took them six months to approve me. So I didn't get approved until February, we're now you may have a month turned around, if even that it may only take a few weeks. So that's how I started during that time. I was I was buying it illegally. You know, that person that source kind of fell through. But I had a friend that I had met in Florida, where his family member basically dealt with that. So I would always go to them. And they they actually didn't even get it directly. They got it from somebody else. And they were like, Well, why don't I just you know, connect you with this person. I'm right now. That's very female, I don't want to go to that neighborhoods by myself, I'll I'll go with you. Or you can go for me. So I just, you know, supplied her some first some business for a good year. So every day on pay day, I went and bought what I needed, and I made part of it into animals, and then the rest was basically smoked.

Scott Benner 37:13
Okay. Is is so let's ask let me ask you first. How would you describe the pain that you were medicating yourself for? Is it all over body pain? Was it joints muscles, like, what were you trying to escape?

Brittany 37:28
It was it was a lot of both. It was really both joint and muscle pain. But like the fatigue was another big thing that comes with fibromyalgia that's I don't even know that maybe we're still in the pain. Sometimes I feel like so like, anytime I try to do anything. It's like I really have to like, prepare myself mentally and just physically to do it. Living in Florida, I love Disneyworld. I have an annual pass and like if I go to Disney for the day, I'm like did the next day and these transports that I do I'm easily like down for a day. Whenever I get back from them. They like they really wear me out.

Scott Benner 38:11
Yeah. Okay, so you were and they gave you some fairly heavy medication which obviously you got away from was that medication though helping with the pain, the Tramadol, for example.

Brittany 38:24
It was in the beginning. But it it gets to a point where you're kind of on the max dose and you're your body's like beating more. So, I mean, it would work but it's like it, you know, it becomes an addiction that if I didn't have it, I was you know, like I explained.

Scott Benner 38:42
Yeah. Okay. So then we'd smoked or eaten both helps you the same way.

Brittany 38:50
Yes. And I was I recently discovered this has many benefits with the diabetes as well. And many of the symptoms, you know, the gastric greases, things like edibles can help so if I do know that I'll be eating something. I'll take an edible and when I say edible, it doesn't have to be a food. It could be a capsule, it could be a concentrate that comes in like a syringe that you heat up and just kind of like a like a honey or wax like substance that you would eat. So it doesn't when I say edible, it doesn't necessarily mean have to be like a candy or food. It's just something that's taken orally.

Scott Benner 39:32
Either and either way is valuable for you.

Brittany 39:36
Yeah. So like I was saying, if I know that I'm going to be you know, eating something that may bother me will take something before if I think of it and it'll help but I recently discover what I do. I do a lot of cooking with it as well, more so recently than I did in the beginning because in the beginning When I was saying I would, I would go get, you know the amount that I would get every pay day and I would use a quarter of that I would normally just like make a pan of brownies or something like that. And that's what I would eat on for, you know, when I needed it to, for that time period until I knew I was getting more. But I've recently started like making butter and olive oil and coconut oil, and avocado oil. And when I've made the butter before, and I've used that in this year, but my boyfriend's birthday was back in October, and he is a big user like me. So what I did for his birthday was for every meal we had it was infused. So for breakfast, we had pancakes that had or no apologize, we had French toast, and we had infused omelets. I'd use like the the butter and the oil that was in the pan was infused. And I had to have I think, all sorts of useful breakfast.

Scott Benner 41:04
Like doing what you were doing, does it leave you? Is it medicinal? At that level? Is it right? This would become recreational desert? Is there a point where you can't function? Or is this a functioning day?

Brittany 41:18
It depends on the person. So the people I was with that day were all heavy users. So it was my boyfriend, my brother, and one of his best friends, which is one of my current sources that I get stuff from. So we I actually did it perfectly. It's one of the things that I'm interested in doing is like doing like, I'm a really big Cook. I'm a really big foodie. So I thought about like doing catering, like meals or infused meals and different things like that for people as I need them or dinner parties. Yeah. Because knowing what I knew about us. The thing is, is when you when you make these butter edibles or whatever it is, there's no way to when it's homemade like that there's no way to measure the THC percentage. So if I was to go to a dispensary, it would say it has this much THC but I have no way of measuring it. So what I had done is knowing how much of I would use to make something and what I would you know dose myself with, that's kind of how I went about this was how much flour and last a flower that is the bud of the plant. How much I was putting in to actually make the products.

Scott Benner 42:36
Okay, wow. Well, you'll see you're learning about it as you go as well. Yes. Can you use it while you're transporting the animals with, like success?

Brittany 42:49
Um, I really don't sometimes, like at night, I may if I have pain, but I use I have a lot of with the driving has a lot of fatal physical thing. So I use this cream. And with the cream you don't get like you don't get high, it just treats the like, it's a topical. Yeah.

Scott Benner 43:06
And that you find that valuable. Because, you know, it's funny, our company just reached out to me. I said no, but they wanted me to I guess they wanted me to, you know, take on this topical CBD as a as an advertiser, and I just didn't know enough about it. So I kind of went into the group and I asked people like, does this work? Like, you know, you mean like, Is this something I want to like? Would anybody care about this or not? And and it was funny how the the answers came back people like I use it and I love it when people like I use it. I don't think it does anything and I think oh, somebody please. There was no there was no like middle ground to be found. But if it's helping you Yeah, that's amazing. So you couldn't do an edible and drive or like what's the level for somebody who's never tried wheat at all? Is it does it like for you? What's your level of functionality when you're using it for pain and it's working for the pain

Brittany 44:00
so I can do everything? Scott it just wouldn't be professional to do that locally. So you know with me, I can really do anything with it. You do get to a certain point especially I've had this experience with edibles if you take too much it can make you sick so that's what I have to watch out for. I wouldn't get necessarily too high too I couldn't do anything I would just feel miserable. edibles are intensified by fat, protein and alcohol. So if I know I'm going to be eating a meal that has a lot of fat protein or I'm going to be drinking alcohol I will take less of it just because it you can just use get sick.

Scott Benner 44:51
Okay, how much do you think it costs you a month to help yourself with the pain?

Brittany 44:57
Um, I don't spend as much now, but back when I first started, I can tell you, when I was buying every pay day, I was spending almost $600 a month. Wow. Now I know I may spend a few 100 I'm it's hard to tell because now that me and my boyfriend are living together and we're buying together, it's not the same and I had when I was buying from dispensaries, I was getting, they have a lot of deals in Denver point system. So I would stock up on stuff at different times. So I've used that kind of the last year since things my income has changed,

Scott Benner 45:38
like a punch card.

Brittany 45:41
Um, yeah, I mean, this is a digital punch card, essentially. But after so many points, you get a, you know, a reward or 10% off. And then they still had, they had their own deals that they would have daily, you know, by two things, one free and different things like that.

Scott Benner 45:57
Well, if anybody thinks retail is not hard, we dispensaries have had punch cards. Yeah. It's not easy making a small business work.

Brittany 46:08
Yeah, but one of the things that I was gonna mention about the diabetes, the day that I did that, that edibles I made that from our boyfriend and we had a meal for breakfast, lunch and dinner, I needed 50% less than one, that's

Scott Benner 46:21
what's gonna be my next question is, is does it lower your stress and change your insulin needs plus pain, adrenaline from pain, all that stuff that comes with pain as well. So tell me, tell me what you need in a day with it without it.

Brittany 46:38
Uh, well, in that day where I had done, you know, I had eaten all day, like I said, I needed 50% less, and then also 50% less the next day. But one of the things that I learned to make from that meal was I made a homemade caesar dressing. And I'm used, I made it with the olive oil that was infused. And so every once in a while, I'll make that and we'll have like a Caesar salad at dinner. And I'll put it on and I don't feel anything from it because I have such a high tolerance. And it takes so much for me, but I would need probably 50% less insulin for the next like six hours, maybe 12 at the most. And I maybe wouldn't have to Bolus as much like for that meal if there was other items. You know, if I was eating like fat and protein like that would help out that spike later, too. But that was that was only recently in the last few months that I discovered that if I was to take like an edible randomly, like this day just for painting or whatever, I don't notice that it's only noticed that with the cooking of the oil and the butter and the food that I eat fresh food that

Scott Benner 47:40
okay, okay, so smoking, it doesn't change your insulin needs.

Brittany 47:44
Not that I've noticed, but I will say when I first started seeing the benefits of it, I would say after six months or a year just in my life in general. After I started using it, I went to my doctor and that was back when I wasn't taking care of myself the way I should have like I wasn't checking my blood sugar. I wasn't giving insulin like I should. And my agency had dropped two points. Because I knew when I started using it, and it went from like a 10 to an eight over but that makes that timeframe.

Scott Benner 48:18
How do you like when you say you infuse the oil or the butter? Can you tell me can you tell me how you do that?

Brittany 48:26
Yeah, so what I do is I use a crock pot. The method that I used I did some research on places that have labs where they can test the THC percentage, and I use a method that yields the highest THC. So you have to take the flour the bud and you grind it up and you decarb it in the oven. So you cook it at 200 degrees for like 30 minutes. You take it out you spray it with Everclear which is this very disgusting liquor. That's very bad quality, I guess you could say okay, you let it sit for 15 minutes and then I put it in a crock pot for probably like at least six hours but you can really like sometimes I'll just leave it overnight so it could end up being there for 12 and you let it cool down and then you straight it with like a cheesecloth

Scott Benner 49:24
and then what's left? That's it

Brittany 49:28
and you can say like the buzzer what you string now you could use recently when I made some coconut oil and the buds smelled it smelled delicious smelled like coconuts. And I had used that like as a topper on like a frozen pina colada that I made. I put like some whipped cream or something and then I sprinkled some of that on top. It was delicious. Do you

Scott Benner 49:53
do you? Do you feel from other people any judgement about it at all?

Brittany 50:00
Oh, yes, my mom is my worst critic she does is horrible because she's a nurse. But she thinks that like people can't do anything. And I'm like, Well, that is what helps me get out of bed. And that is what helps me be productive, especially because of my fibromyalgia and the fatigue that I have. With marijuana, there's different strains and the sativa strain is upper and gives you energy. The indica is more of a downer. And then there's a hybrid, which is a mix between both but it can lean either sativa or indica dominant. So I completely stay away from me, because I would only buy that if I had, you know, if I went somewhere, and I was like, I have $20. And they're like, well, the only thing is $20 into good. I may, that may be the only time that I would buy that. But I bike also TiVos and the strain specifically, there's a part there's different parts of THC, so the thc v, I look for stuff that has that in it. Because that actually helps with insulin resistance. And it helps the appetite suppressant. So it helps with weight loss and different things like that.

Scott Benner 51:17
Wow, is there? How long I guess my question is, how long did it take you before you? You felt comfortable that what you were doing wasn't just like random, like, when you were being more purposeful about it, I guess for your pain for an example and and do you? Do you also use it? Like recreationally?

Brittany 51:44
I mean, yeah, it's part of me feels like everyone's doing it. for medical reasons, you know that everybody's got anxiety, or you know, life, just call the stress, anything like that. So part of me feels that way. There are many people that I know that don't like it, and I wish they would try it and chill out. But, I mean, I don't do it as much. I will say I don't do it as much recreationally now, just because of cost mainly, I don't like how I space it out. Like if I know you know I only have this much until

Scott Benner 52:32
end of the week or next time you get paid or something like that. Then you make it work in that timeframe. Brittany, you're going aren't you? Hello? Hello? Hello. Hello. Hello. She is gone. Gone? Back. Are you back?

Brittany 52:53
Yes. My blood sugar alert. My Dexcom went off. So I guess it policy or

Scott Benner 53:00
the Dexcom alarm? Pause the. The audio? Yeah, wait, okay. Dexcom whatever. Pretty good. I just say something. Okay. Yeah. dexcom.com forward slash Juicebox. Podcast, just head over there now and, and get started. Sorry about that. So yeah, so, so you recreationally, you not as much for cost you spread it out so that it lasts you for your needs? Yeah. And then you mentioned tolerance before. So your weed tolerance has gone up just like your narcotic tolerance went up. But as your weed tolerance goes up, you're not withdrawing and having terrible symptoms, right? It's just It mean Can you can you talk about the difference between those two if there is?

Brittany 53:46
Yeah, it's, there's, there's definitely not, you know, I'm not obviously I'm not having any symptoms. If I you know, let's just say I left today and I went on a trip and I didn't bring my crew with me like I'm going to be pretty sore whenever I get home. And I'm going to feel it that way and you know, since I may not be smoking as much uppers and things like that I may be more fatigued so I'm going to have more just my regular symptom. But if I'm if it's just like a regular day where I'm at home and like I'm relaxing and I may be doing you know, like household chores or whatever, I could probably go really a good day or two in between without really having too much pain or too much symptoms. There may be things with our morale just sometimes there's things that will come and they'll be there for just you know, I'll have a spot that may hurt for like five minutes and then it kind of goes away it's not in that spot anymore. So it just it's not as definitely not as bad as what I was feeling before and even with me, you know not using as much as I you used to the pain just isn't as bad and it's still working. It's wonderful. spreading it out.

Scott Benner 55:10
It's really terrific. So when you talked about the cream, is that something you buy at like a local dispensary or is it a retail thing?

Brittany 55:20
Um, I make it and a dispensary. So the any of the like retail stores that have like CBD and that was one thing I was going to mention about CBD, anytime you're buying like a CBD product, whether it be from like a gas station or a drug store or wherever, like you would want to make sure that the CBD product is a full spectrum CBD product. So that way you're getting all the full benefits of the flower. But a lot of times for pain. What they've discovered is you really do need a little bit of THC with the CBD. So the one that I used to get from the dispensary, it was 5050. So it was half and how CBD and THC.

Scott Benner 56:04
And when you talk about pain relief from it, it's is it cumulative. Does that build up? Like you used it every day for a week and it felt better or you put it on? And 20 minutes later, you're like, Oh, this is great. It's helping, like how does? How's the impact for you?

Brittany 56:19
Yeah, well, you could use it that day. So like I said, I haven't you know, passengers new world. And I will put it on my feet the it helps with like inflammation. So I'll put it on my feet all day that I know I'll be walking a lot. And also I'll put it on my feet if I'm gonna like wear heels or shoes that may be more uncomfortable because it's going to help with that.

Scott Benner 56:40
So if I wanted to go get the screen for myself at a dispensary I live in New Jersey weeds legal here. Do I have to have a I don't need anything right? I can just walk in as a regular citizen and buy it.

Brittany 56:51
If you have if it's recreational there, you can buy it. If it's medical than you would have to go through like your state process of applying for a card and seeing the doctor.

Scott Benner 57:03
I wonder what it is.

Brittany 57:06
You can Google it. There's a map because whenever I go through like transports and different states, I'll look it up because I've stopped. Let me see

Scott Benner 57:21
where to buy recreational marijuana in New Jersey, six dispensaries in South Jersey and cemetery station one of the first Okay, so is recreational here. Okay,

Brittany 57:30
probably I know that like I know, like, different stuff in our area would be like New York and I know like down to DC, and things like that. But yeah, the map that I'm assuming

Scott Benner 57:43
some of these places are very oddly creative. But dad jokey were the names of their business. Mo weed, which I think is amazing. And then Holly weed again. It's silly and stupid, but thoughtful at the same time. I guess that would be most of the fun of opening up a dispensary is coming up with the fun title, or the fun name for the place.

Brittany 58:09
Maybe that's what I can do. When I get to a point where I'm growing my own weed. I could name a strain after you know,

Scott Benner 58:14
hey, now you're on to something. That's way better than a baby, don't you think?

Brittany 58:19
I mean? Yeah.

Scott Benner 58:20
Somebody named maybe after?

Brittany 58:22
Yeah, people will be asking for me or asking for you. By me, that'd be

Scott Benner 58:27
wonderful. I was gonna say someone named a baby after Arden and she didn't know how to feel about it. She's like, that's weird. And I was like, I mean, I don't think it's weird. And she's like, I do. All right.

Brittany 58:38
Yeah, sorry, was great. Um, she allows me to follow her on Instagram. And she's, she's wonderful. I love her podcasts. And I agree with her. At least some some political thinking on a lot of things.

Scott Benner 58:52
That's funny. Yeah. So you're one of the people that she refers to as your people are following me. Is that is that you?

Brittany 58:59
Well, I yeah, she you know, she makes it to where you have to improve her. Yeah. So she, she allows my, she approved me.

Scott Benner 59:09
Yeah, I know. She. She's like, I gotta make my account private. She's like, everyone's following me. I was like, Alright. What's it for them? She's like, it's just for me and my friends. I was like, Alright. Anyway. So you know, for somebody like let's just, we're, you know, we're up on an hour and but let me let me ask you a couple of questions. I have never in my life smoked. Like here. Here are the ways that the internet tells me I can take the weed and it says that I can use a bong. It says I can use a pipe, a joint edibles. vape pen, this thing called a spliff which I think I know is I think I know what that is. Then there's a blunt dabbing. That's new for me. Yeah, tinctures. Which I guess is like oil. This one's good.

Brittany 59:57
I bought a dab before this before this call. Did you okay,

Scott Benner 1:00:00
hold on, we're gonna explain what's a one hitter. We're gonna go through the whole thing. So I think, I think obviously, I know what a bong is this this person saying that this is a little more advanced, I wouldn't start with a bong, she's saying you don't agree.

Brittany 1:00:19
I mean, I don't really, I don't really know what the best thing to start with. I know the first thing. The boyfriend I was dating at the time he did not smoke then he couldn't because he was a nurse. But he had smoked earlier in his days, and he got me a pipe. And that was like, Oh, I don't like this. I didn't like the coughing but I didn't realize that the coughing was really going to come with everything. So I moved to a bong next. And then after for a while I actually had like our Urvi. So it was like a vape pen where you still put the bud in it and then you just move it around, rotate it around after a little while after taking a few hits, and then you can clean it out and put more in. So I did that for a while. But then the person that I bought from they got me using blunts and that's where you take the the cigars and you cut them open, you empty this stuff down and roll them up that way. And then joints are made out of paper. So that's what I prefer blunts has like tobacco in them, those are bad for you. All Smokings bad for you, but that's even worse. So the papers, or the cones is what I use. So that way it has a filter at the end. So you just basically stuffed the stuff in the columns.

Scott Benner 1:01:36
And later, a pipe would also be called a bowl. Is that right? Okay, so I see these cones are basically they're pre rolled papers almost that you just pack. Yep. And blunts. I know that's a mix of like, it's usually like a junky cigar that kind of you kind of split open and pack it is that right? What else do we have here? Do the tinctures work at all the THC like oils.

Brittany 1:02:09
Um, I've actually used those the least I felt like they were may have remember why I never bought them at the dispensary. I was recently going to make them but they whatever I was going to make them for it takes like a few weeks to make them you have to like let it sit for a few weeks to make it so I haven't I haven't really made them but I have heard good things from people that do use them regularly.

Scott Benner 1:02:37
And the dabbing hit you hard is that right? Like quick?

Brittany 1:02:40
Yeah, so you know the dance the damn, I do. Okay, so where that comes comes from it's because you're coughing so hard. You're coughing and your elbow. Which I'm sure a lot of parents that you know have kids recorded doing this thing don't realize what they're doing.

Unknown Speaker 1:02:58
Oh, oh, that's hilarious.

Brittany 1:03:02
For a dab you have you have a bong but you take the bowl because a bowl could also be from a bong as well from the piece that holds it there. So you take out that piece and there's another piece you have to buy that's like a quartz banger where it has a little it's a little bowl but it doesn't doesn't have a hole in it like the other one does. And you heat it up with a torch and then you take a concentrate so that could be a wax or shatter their crumble. There's all kinds of things you can get. And you put that down in there normally with a nail if it's like shatter where it's like candy you can like drop it in and then once you hit it you could have carved cap and the top

Scott Benner 1:03:52
Brittany This is the weed This is the smoking equivalent of looping people heard that and they're like it sounds good but I don't know how to get

Brittany 1:04:01
a lot of steps over to my house I can show you

Scott Benner 1:04:04
but you put on a display. Alright, so tell me this then. What are the downsides? Like if you step out of your life for a minute, are there any like to being involved with we like at the level you are like are there any things that you like I love what it does for me but I wish this didn't come with it.

Brittany 1:04:27
Um, well outside of health reasons the high costs and government being you know, keeping it from people and things like that. That's that sucks. But as far as for health reasons, like I mentioned the smoking, you know for smoking any something's bad. So like when you are using a bomb that is going to be water vapor and the dabs that's all going to be done like water vapor compared to where if you're lighting it with a, you know, a cigarette one The things that I do to help are very health conscious, is instead of lighting like if I was to light a bowl or a pipe with a lighter, you use hemp ropes. So you like the hemp rope, and then you like that, your bowl with that instead of the light of directly. Okay. So that helps cut out some of the carcinogens

Scott Benner 1:05:24
from that. What about socially does does it bother you that your mom doesn't understand?

Brittany 1:05:32
That's more so just frustrating. More than anything else.

Scott Benner 1:05:37
Okay. What about like, do you think that you fit in a profile? Like, do you think if I looked at you, like right now when I go, Oh, Brittany smokes weed?

Brittany 1:05:48
Well, because of my hair, yes. But that's probably the only giveaway. Okay, for looking at me.

Scott Benner 1:05:57
Like, I don't know what that means. Exactly. I'm just wondering if it's a culture, I guess.

Brittany 1:06:03
I mean, I do think that there are certain types of people you know, that use it. i There's a lot of I will say there's a lot of people who use it who aren't as open about it as me that hide it. Because whether it be employers, you know, they don't post about it on social media as much as I do. So it just, it just kind of depends.

Scott Benner 1:06:25
Yeah, but do you think that if we went into Manhattan, you and I, and we were walking down the street, and there are people walking by with like briefcases and like they weren't expensive suits, that there's an there's people in that group where I were, they would be able to have the same conversation you would have they just are able to like, or they're trying to visually hide that they're part of that culture. Do you think that exists?

Brittany 1:06:50
Oh, yeah. I mean, yeah,

Scott Benner 1:06:52
yeah. Like people you just couldn't sniff out? Well, I guess you'd be able to sniff them out. But people you couldn't see visually, visually.

Brittany 1:07:00
I met people that I didn't expect. You know them to be users. And then they were

Scott Benner 1:07:06
nice. And now what if I asked you, like, forget all this thing. Forget your pain for a second the things that you're trying to help medicate yourself with? If I asked you just come on and talk about weed as a fun thing, would you have spoken about it differently than you did just now? No, no. Would it sounded the same? Yeah. So you're not like getting up and just getting ripped and baking in an entire day of your life away, and not really knowing what happened or getting so high, you can't function like that kind of stuff. That's not for you.

Brittany 1:07:38
No, that was back whenever I worked. A quote unquote, real job or wasn't my own boss. That's kind of how I got it to work. I hated my job. That's why I quit my job and started my business. It was how I was able to get out of my door and, and drive to work and deal with the people that I dealt with every day.

Scott Benner 1:07:57
So you were pretty blasted at your job that you didn't like? Yes, yes. Did that slow down your performance? Do you think you weren't rocket technician or something? Well, you

Brittany 1:08:09
know, I worked in a call center for a bank. Oh, so it really made me. I mean, I don't deal with people anymore. I deal with pets, you know that for five minutes at a pickup and five minutes that are drop off. So just dealing with the people and dealing with a company that had issues that they refuse to fix. And we just had to take the heat on the phone every day or every call type of thing. It just kind of kind of

Scott Benner 1:08:40
fun, right? Just kind of sucks. Yeah. So then when when I'm on the phone with somebody trying to get my account reset or something. They're not bored. They're just a little high. I guess that makes sense. That makes more sense.

Brittany 1:08:53
It may seem definitely more like, I guess talking to those people, like I wasn't in a in those professional settings. I wasn't like I wasn't going to ask you as much. I don't know personal stuff as maybe than another person would have like I was going to be very business, you know, what do you need help with? Here's the answer, you know, kind of really straightforward. So I know that there was a certain strain that I would sometimes use for work. One of the when you buy it from a dispensary, it'll tell you the things that it helps with or the side effects that it made you talk to.

Scott Benner 1:09:28
Okay, I see. All right. Is there anything I didn't ask you about that you would want people to know before we before we start

Brittany 1:09:38
definitely be careful with edibles because they can they can make you sick. That's why some of the dispensaries have actually put limits on the milligrams so they can sell in one package. Start off with like five milligrams. I mean even even a friend of mine five meets her. She doesn't do it. hardly, hardly ever, but five makes her very, very high, especially if she's been eating or drinking or anything like that with

Scott Benner 1:10:10
just just blasts are often doing like she's not functional. Yeah.

Brittany 1:10:13
Well, we were about to go on a cruise once since she was walking in New Orleans and she had to like hold her hand and he on the street wasn't level and she like where we'd go. And it was night. So, you know, she just wasn't all there.

Scott Benner 1:10:29
I understand. Is there ever been a time that you've been too high to take care of your diabetes?

Brittany 1:10:35
No, no, not that I can think of. I mean, don't get me wrong before I started listening to your podcast, or before I started preparing my body for babies. I didn't do things as I should. And so that could be a gray area. But I wouldn't say it was, but it wasn't because of the week,

Scott Benner 1:10:56
what would you say that you took from the podcast that was most valuable for you with your management? You said you're in the fives now, right?

Brittany 1:11:04
Yes. There, there was really a lot there. Just being bold with insulin, I had a lot of trauma in my childhood related to diabetes. And we can talk about it whenever you'd like, whether it be in another podcast that after dark. Or if you have time today, whatever you want to do, but a lot of traumas that it just, you know, cause me to not do things as I should. And when the guy that I was previously dating, when you know, we thought we were going to be ready to get married and have children. I'm like, okay, and I went and got index calm. I'd had one before. But that was before it went with your phone, and I kept losing the receiver. And I kind of just kept running out of money to replace the receiver. So I said, Well, I'll get it again, when it connects with your phone, which was years later, and then it just took me I didn't get it right away when I started that. So it took me a little bit longer to actually go and get it. But I got the text column and and that's how I found your page was, I was on our Dexcom Facebook page. And somebody posted this horrible graph. And this other person said, listen to this podcast, it changes how you think about insulin. And that's when I saved it. But But yeah,

Scott Benner 1:12:35
wow, that's amazing. Well, I will have you back on sometime. And we'll talk about the rest. That sounds that sounds like a very good idea. I have to go now. So I can't do it right now. I don't You are the or you are the only person I'm recording with for like, I gave myself off for let me say 234567890 My God, I gave myself 21 days off without recording. But like Slack like but in the middle of all of it, I'm recording with you. Because this is just when we could we could find a time to do it. So I just I really appreciate you taking the time to come on and talk about all this and put context to it. It's a it's an interesting conversation, I think it would be fair to say that anybody who's pretending that weed smoking is not I would say prevalent at this point within society is, you know, is fooling themselves. But I think it's interesting to say that you don't really see it. You know what I mean? Like, you might be walking down the street one day and feel like I smell something or in a movie theater and you think somebody got hired before they came in here. Like that kind of thing. But, you know, for all the people who were like, well, they're gonna make it legal, and then everything is just gonna be Hi, people piled up on top of each other outside. I haven't noticed any difference. Honestly, the world doesn't seem any different to me. I think it's a it's worth paying attention to. And I mean, if for someone like you, who has these specific issues, can feel that kind of relief. I don't think why don't know why it matters where it comes from, honestly, you know,

Brittany 1:14:15
I definitely agree. I mean, I'm able to function and you know, do my job better than if I wouldn't have have had.

Scott Benner 1:14:24
No, I take your point I really don't. Okay, Brittany, thank you so much. Huge thank you to one of today's sponsors, G voc glucagon, find out more about Chivo Capo pen at G Vogue glucagon.com forward slash juicebox you spell that GVOKEGL You see ag o n.com. Forward slash juicebox. I also want to thank Brittany for coming on the show today and sharing her story. And of course Thank you for listening, subscribing, following sharing all that cool stuff you do with the podcast just a couple of weeks ago, we hit our 11 million downloads total for the show, which is crazy. And that's up over 10 million, which happened less than two months ago. Thank you so much for sharing the show. I'll be back soon with another episode of The Juicebox Podcast.