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With Veteran's Day later this month.. we’re talking about T1D in the military. Yes, you can serve with type 1 diabetes, but there’s a catch. You have to be diagnosed while you’re already enlisted. That’s what happened to Sergeant Major Mark Thompson.
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Mark shares his story and has advice for young people with diabetes who want to enlist and find that they aren’t allowed.
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In Tell Me Something Good, a study at Ft Bragg that is changing the military’s perception of type 1 diabetes.. and how a canoe trip through the Canadian wilderness changed one family’s perception of life with diabetes.
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Learn about Caroline Marshall: FBI Special Agent with T1D
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Krishna Kaliannan is the founder of Catalina Crunch, a low carb cereal company. But that wasn’t the path he thought he’d take when he was diagnosed with type 1 in high school. In fact, he was so angry about the diagnosis that for a while, he considered ignoring the whole thing:
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Krishna made his peace – he tells us how – and he wound up creating a line of low-carb crunchy cereals. He also lives with epilepsy.. and shares that story as well.
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In our Community Connection: Sugar Surfing for your doctor, a new resource from Dr. Stephen Ponder.
And in TMSG a T1D teen takes a prize at an invention convention. Congratulations to Morgan LaRochelle! Learn more about her story here.
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This week, Stacey moderates a frank conversation about women’s issues and type 1 diabetes. This episode contains the full panel.
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You'll hear about everything from periods to menopause to appearance issues with diabetes gear. The panel includes Elizabeth Forrest, the founder of Touched by Type 1, the conference where this panel took place, lawyer Risa Katz and Nicole Johnson, who is with JDRF now and was Miss America in 1999. All the women live with type 1 diabetes.
This is the full panel - an excerpt ran in the episode immediately preceding this one.
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Ask The D-Moms is back. This time around we’re answering your questions about the “right” ages for diabetes development, wearing extra gear for DIY systems and a discussing about extra praise for diabetes routine stuff.
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Join Moira McCarthy and Stacey as they answer listener questions and share their own experience raising children with type 1 diabetes.
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In our Community Connection segment, find out about the I Hear You campaign.
In Tell Me Something Good, Stacey share listener milestones and gives and update on Project 50 in 50
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00:00 What's on this show this week?
1:35 Stacey Welcome: more about Benny at "regular" camp, Stacey talks about the Myabetic Diabetes Awards (vote here) and more.
7:45 Ask the D-Moms
43:00 Community Connection: The "I Hear You" campaign
47:30 Tell Me Something Good!
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It's our annual game show edition! Taped on location at the Children with Diabetes, Friends for Life Conference, we have a lot of fun with in-studio contestants and prominent panelists.
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Our panelists this year are: Dr. Stephen Ponder, founder of Sugar Surfing & a renown pediatric endocrinologist who's lived with type 1 for more than 50 years. Howard Look, founder of Tidepool and the father of a college-aged child with diabetes and Cherise Shockley, founder of DSMA (Diabetes Social Media Advocacy), Blue Fridays, WOCDiabetes and who lives with LADA.
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In our Community Connection this week.. another Caravan to Canada but this one gets the attention of a top tier US presidential candidate
And in Tell Me Something Good: A birthday, an international trip and much more!
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Richard Vaughn was diagnosed in September of 1945, just after he turned six years old.
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Stacey calls Richard a "treasure to the diabetes community." He is the author of Beating the Odds and keeps a lively presence on social media. Find Richard on Facebook here.
This interview first aired in September of 2015.
Richard Vaughn Healthline article
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Diagnosed with T1D in her 20s, Rachel Price admits she was in denial at first, insisting to her doctors there was nothing wrong. Now, she’s an advocate who stays positive but realistic. Rachel has three children and started a business called DiaBeTees selling t-shirts and other products with fun diabetes sayings and catchy slogans.
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In our Community Connection this week, Dan Haddin is off for Teach for America, but not before creating some fantastic diabetes song parodies. Stacey plays his latest - a funny appeal to Nick Jonas.
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And in Tell Me Something Good, a day camp milestone and a hiker sets out to make his mark.
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00:00 Tease/Open: What's this week's show about?
1:50 Welcome: Stacey talks about JDRF Children's Congress coming up and talks about CWD Friends for Life later in July as well as her family's plans for the rest of the summer.
5:45 Stacey's interview with Rachel Price
32:40 Community Connection: Hear Dan Haddin's T1D Sucker Parody
36:45 TMSG: Inspired by Isabella: Isa goes to gymnastics day camp, Mike Joyce will hike the Appalachian Trail and Cami is excited (and worried) about her son heading off to college.
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Follow Mike's journey on the AT
41:30 Stacey talks about the presentations she's doing at Friends for Life later this month and hints at something new coming up outside the podcast... stay tuned!
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Dear DMoms is back, answering your questions about when it's time for T1D kids to be more independent, worries about camp and handling judgmental friends. In this monthly segment, Stacey and Moira McCarthy share their experiences to help you through diabetes parenting.
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Moira shares what her medical crisis has taught her about diabetes.
Plus, a Caravan to Canada – going across the border to get cheaper insulin. Activists Lija Greenseid and Quinn Nystrom give us a report on their way back home to the US.
Previous interview with Lija about traveling the world with T1D
And in Tell Me Something Good, a graduation that is well earned and a long time coming. A diabetes social media advocate who got her cap and gown. Congratulations to DSMA founder Cherise Shockley!
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2:00 Stacey Welcome
5:20 "Dear D-Moms" Stacey & Moira answer your questions
51:30 Community Connection: Caravan to Canada
1:07 Tell Me Something Good: Congratulations to DSMA founder Cherise Shockley on her college graduation!
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Diabetes Connections turns three years old this week! To mark the occasion, we turned the microphone around. KTLA News anchor and diabetes dad Frank Buckley interviews Stacey
They talk about everything from Smart Insulin to Encapsulation to Stacey's family and the emotions behind a T1D diagnosis and Stacey looks back to our very first episode with Christel Aprigliano.
Learn more about Frank's story and his son's diagnosis here.
Plus Stacey shares the case of the double inset from Benny (with his permission) and explains how you can take part in our live game show taping at Friends for Life this summer! Just email stacey@diabetes-connections.com and use the subject line "Game Show." Make sure to provide your first name and where you're from.
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1:30 Stacey welcome and looks back at three years of the podcast
6:00 Frank Buckley interviews Stacey
29:00 Stacey explains "Wait Wait Don't Poke Me," the game show we're taping later this summer.
42:30 Stacey shares a story of Benny's latest adventures in pumping. What happens when you change your inset and you can't remember which inset is the new one?!
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Determined to serve her country even after a diabetes diagnosis kept her out of the military, Caroline Marshall found a way. She served as a police officer, interned with NCIS and she’s now a special agent with the FBI. You'll hear on this Mother's Day episode that she and her husband, a National Guardsman, just had a baby.
Country singer Ben Rue joins us to talk about his journey with diabetes. He's teaming up with Roche for their #BuckOffDiabetes campaign.
In our Know Better segment a look at sharing CGM data. Good advice from Kerri Sparling & Dr. Bill Polonsky for talking about it before you jump right in.
Do you know someone who uses the OneTouch Verio Flex® meter? Nominate them today for the #SmallVictories campaign, where OneTouch® celebrates the small victories of a patient with diabetes in a BIG way. To nominate a loved one who has made a healthy choice managing their diabetes, email OneTouch@hellommc.com
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2:00 Stacey welcome, talks about the Touched by Type 1 conference and a little about sharing CGM data
6:30 Interview with Caroline Marshall
42:30 Know Better: Sharing CGM Data
47:00 Community Connection with Ben Rue #BuckOffDiabetes
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Where will Stacey be?
May: JDRF One Challenge with Riding on Insulin
July: Children with Diabetes Friends for Life
October: Children with Diabetes Falls Church
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