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Diabetes Connections | Type 1 Diabetes

The T1D news show you've been waiting for! Long-time broadcaster, blogger and diabetes mom Stacey Simms interviews prominent advocates, authors and speakers. Stacey asks hard questions of healthcare companies and tech developers and brings on "everyday' people living with type 1. Great for parents of T1D kids, adults with type 1 and anyone who loves a person with diabetes.
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Jan 16, 2024

Why isn't blood glucose considered as, and monitored as, a vital sign? That's the question this week's guest is asking. Molly McElwee Malloy has big plans to change how hospitals and doctors are able to keep track of glucose.

You may recognize Molly. She's worked at Tandem Diabetes and kept us posted over the years about Control IQ and other advances there. She’s got a new job and this big new goal. As always with Molly, who lives with type 1, it’s a great conversation.

This podcast is not intended as medical advice. If you have those kinds of questions, please contact your health care provider.

our past episodes with Molly: https://diabetes-connections.com/?s=mcelwee

Find out more about Moms' Night Out 

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Learn more about Gvoke Glucagon Gvoke HypoPen® (glucagon injection): Glucagon Injection For Very Low Blood Sugar (gvokeglucagon.com)

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Learn about Dexcom 

Edgepark Medical Supplies

Check out VIVI Cap to protect your insulin from extreme temperatures

Learn more about AG1 from Athletic Greens 

Drive research that matters through the T1D Exchange

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Learn more about everything at our home page www.diabetes-connections.com 

Reach out with questions or comments: info@diabetes-connections.com

 

 

Dec 12, 2023

Living with type 1 while living with an insulin allergy – how on earth is that possible? It’s what Kate Lecker is going through – she developed the allergy after decades with T1D – and experts are still trying to figure out a solution.

Kate shares this very scary situation, how she’s coping – she also has a daughter with type 1 - and what might happen next.

This podcast is not intended as medical advice. If you have those kinds of questions, please contact your health care provider.

Find out more about Moms' Night Out 

Please visit our Sponsors & Partners - they help make the show possible!

Take Control with Afrezza 

Omnipod - Simplify Life

Learn about Dexcom 

Edgepark Medical Supplies

Check out VIVI Cap to protect your insulin from extreme temperatures

Learn more about AG1 from Athletic Greens 

Drive research that matters through the T1D Exchange

The best way to keep up with Stacey and the show is by signing up for our weekly newsletter:

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Here's where to find us:

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Instagram

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Check out Stacey's books!

Learn more about everything at our home page www.diabetes-connections.com 

Reach out with questions or comments: info@diabetes-connections.com

 

 

Nov 30, 2023

At Moms' Night Out Providence, I was part of an Ask Us Anything panel that included Moira McCarthy and Kerri Sparling. We had a lot of fun on this panel and a lot of fun at MNO period. If you’re wondering what this event is all about, I think this panel will give you a lot of insight. It’s serious, and humorous, I hope helpful, and it’s all peer to peer – we’re not doctors.

Moira McCarthy’s daughter, Lauren, was marking 26 years with T1D during this event! Moira is a ski, adventure and travel writer. A JDRF International Volunteer of the Year and author of six books including, “Raising Teens with Diabetes.” Her blog Despite Diabetes helped me a lot and she’s left it up as a resource.

Kerri Sparling is a writer, poet and speaker who has dedicated her life to the power of the patient narrative. Best known for the blog and book, “SixUntilMe,” she is the author of “Balancing Diabetes” and “Rage Bolus and other poems.” Kerri has lived with type 1 for 37 years.

Our next MNO is in Charlotte in February

This podcast is not intended as medical advice. If you have those kinds of questions, please contact your health care provider.

 

Find out more about Moms' Night Out 

Please visit our Sponsors & Partners - they help make the show possible!

Take Control with Afrezza 

Omnipod - Simplify Life

Learn about Dexcom 

Edgepark Medical Supplies

Check out VIVI Cap to protect your insulin from extreme temperatures

Learn more about AG1 from Athletic Greens 

Drive research that matters through the T1D Exchange

The best way to keep up with Stacey and the show is by signing up for our weekly newsletter:

Sign up for our newsletter here

Here's where to find us:

Facebook (Group)

Facebook (Page)

Instagram

Twitter

Check out Stacey's books!

Learn more about everything at our home page www.diabetes-connections.com 

Reach out with questions or comments: info@diabetes-connections.com

 

Jul 18, 2023

Let's talk about menopause and type 1. It’s hard enough to find information about this part of life for women without diabetes.. so when this week’s guest started looking for research about T1D she wasn’t too surprised to come up short:

Dawnie Adams is a midwife who is determined to use peer support to push medical research forward. We talk about her experience, what she and her group are doing to support each other, how diabetes and menopause can have similar symptoms which just makes everything confusion.. and much more.

This podcast is not intended as medical advice. If you have those kinds of questions, please contact your health care provider.

Please visit our Sponsors & Partners - they help make the show possible!

Take Control with Afrezza 

Omnipod - Simplify Life

Learn about Dexcom 

Check out VIVI Cap to protect your insulin from extreme temperatures

Learn more about AG1 from Athletic Greens 

Drive research that matters through the T1D Exchange

The best way to keep up with Stacey and the show is by signing up for our weekly newsletter:

Sign up for our newsletter here

Here's where to find us:

Facebook (Group)

Facebook (Page)

Instagram

Twitter

Check out Stacey's books!

Learn more about everything at our home page www.diabetes-connections.com 

Reach out with questions or comments: info@diabetes-connections.com

 

 

Jul 12, 2023

My son Benny is back from a four week trip halfway around the world with a non-diabetes camp program. He says it was amazing! To be honest, I had a really hard time with it. This week, we share how we prepared, what went wrong, how Benny deals with feeling different on these types of trips and a lot more.

This episode first aired in August of 2021

Previous episodes with Benny:

14 years of T1D

Benny & Stacey talk untethered and more on their way to the endo

Talking about Control IQ & addressing kids' questions about diabetes

Our 12 year diaversary

Ten years of T1D - our whole family speaks up

This podcast is not intended as medical advice. If you have those kinds of questions, please contact your health care provider.

Please visit our Sponsors & Partners - they help make the show possible!

Take Control with Afrezza 

Omnipod - Simplify Life

Learn about Dexcom 

Check out VIVI Cap to protect your insulin from extreme temperatures

Learn more about AG1 from Athletic Greens 

Drive research that matters through the T1D Exchange

The best way to keep up with Stacey and the show is by signing up for our weekly newsletter:

Sign up for our newsletter here

Here's where to find us:

Facebook (Group)

Facebook (Page)

Instagram

Twitter

Check out Stacey's books!

Learn more about everything at our home page www.diabetes-connections.com 

Reach out with questions or comments: info@diabetes-connections.com

 

 

May 16, 2023

On social media, Neil Greathouse is better known as “The Betes.” He posts daily about diabetes on social media. It’s a lot of work – and not his real job. I wanted to know why this is important to him. What is he hoping to accomplish?

There is so much to Neil’s story – he’s become a diabetes educator – and he’s an open book – he’ll share about going into DKA not too long ago, a failed marketing effort with a big diabetes company and much more.

This podcast is not intended as medical advice. If you have those kinds of questions, please contact your health care provider.

My first conversation with Neil, from 2017: https://diabetes-connections.com/neil-greathouse-t1d-instagram-inspiration/

Please visit our Sponsors & Partners - they help make the show possible!

Take Control with Afrezza 

Omnipod - Simplify Life

Learn about Dexcom 

Check out VIVI Cap to protect your insulin from extreme temperatures

Learn more about AG1 from Athletic Greens 

Drive research that matters through the T1D Exchange

The best way to keep up with Stacey and the show is by signing up for our weekly newsletter:

Sign up for our newsletter here

Here's where to find us:

Facebook (Group)

Facebook (Page)

Instagram

Twitter

Check out Stacey's books!

Learn more about everything at our home page www.diabetes-connections.com 

Reach out with questions or comments: info@diabetes-connections.com

 

 

Apr 18, 2023

Jisel Parra had a rocky start with diabetes – as a teen her type 1 was initially misdiagnosed and she struggled with support and mental health. But she found ways to find community and gradually started to thrive with T1D. These days, Jisel runs A Tad Too Sweet, which makes trendy medical bracelets. She has a career outside of diabetes and has two children.

This podcast is not intended as medical advice. If you have those kinds of questions, please contact your health care provider.

Please visit our Sponsors & Partners - they help make the show possible!

Take Control with Afrezza 

Omnipod - Simplify Life

Learn about Dexcom 

Check out VIVI Cap to protect your insulin from extreme temperatures

Learn more about AG1 from Athletic Greens 

Drive research that matters through the T1D Exchange

The best way to keep up with Stacey and the show is by signing up for our weekly newsletter:

Sign up for our newsletter here

Here's where to find us:

Facebook (Group)

Facebook (Page)

Instagram

Twitter

Check out Stacey's books!

Learn more about everything at our home page www.diabetes-connections.com 

Reach out with questions or comments: info@diabetes-connections.com

 

 

Dec 27, 2022

It’s our annual game show: Wait Wait Don’t Poke Me! Taped earlier this year for the Mental Health Plus Diabetes Conference, this is a light hearted episode with games and trivia, all centered around diabetes.

Our guests are Rob Howe, Taylor Daniel and Mark Heyman.. three terrific diabetes advocates who will introduce themselves and share more about their diabetes connections.

There is a video version over on YouTube.

Hope you play along with our silly games at home.. and enjoy!

Check out Stacey's book: The World's Worst Diabetes Mom!

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Nov 29, 2022

We’re in the holiday eating season right now.. difficult enough to manage without diabetes. What can we do to take off some of the pressure this time of year while still enjoying holiday meals and parties and treats?

JoAnne Robb is a therapist who has three children.. two with type 1. We talk about a lot more than food and holidays.. and as you can hear, she feels pretty strongly about some of the advice that’s out there right now.

More info about JoAnne, including her upcoming webinar, Let Them Eat Cake? https://www.diabetessweettalk.com/

This podcast is not intended as medical advice. If you have those kinds of questions, please contact your health care provider.

Check out Stacey's book: The World's Worst Diabetes Mom!

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Nov 8, 2022

Type One Talks is a popular YouTube channel with videos that help manage all sort of technology and situations around diabetes. But its host and founder says he wasn’t always that interested a diabetes deep dive. It all changed with his first CGM. Tom was an accountant in his former life so he really does love numbers. We’ll talk about his diagnosis as a child in the former Czechoslovakia, how much everything has changed and why he started making videos about diabetes technology, basically experimenting on himself.

This podcast is not intended as medical advice. If you have those kinds of questions, please contact your health care provider.

Check out Stacey's book: The World's Worst Diabetes Mom!

Join the Diabetes Connections Facebook Group!

Sign up for our newsletter here

Episode Transcription Below (or coming soon!)

Please visit our Sponsors & Partners - they help make the show possible!

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*Click here to learn more about DEXCOM*

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