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Welcome to 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', Episode 18

Now with listeners in 18 countries! We welcome listeners in the Netherlands to our community.

This Episode is brought to you by the CDE Online Pharmacy (https://cdeonline.co.za/), the online store of choice for people living with diabetes.

If you're living with diabetes or a health professional that facilitates diabetes care, you're in the right place!

Join us on our journey, as we grow together in understanding, insight, and self-awareness to change lives for the better. Our deliberations will always be honest, challenging and thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we discuss real people, their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.

This week Stan and Michael reflect on how, over time, roles of care can reverse in families with diabetes.

As a background to our next studio guest, they also reflect on the last 101 years since the discovery of insulin therapy, and focus on one of the early ‘Resurrections in Toronto’, Elizabeth Hughes.

יְהִי בֵיתְךָ בֵית וַעַד לַחֲכָמִים, וֶהֱוֵי מִתְאַבֵּק בַּעֲפַר רַגְלֵיהֶם, וֶהֱוֵי שׁוֹתֶה בְצָמָא אֶת דִּבְרֵיהֶם

Let thy house be a house of meeting for the Sages and sit in the very dust of their feet, and drink in their words with thirst.

Ethics of the Fathers, chapter 1, verse 4

In a landmark Episode, we meet a grand older lady of immense fortitude and wisdom, Elizabeth Lane. Now 86 years old and having lived with type 1 diabetes for 66 years, Elizabeth speaks with authority on past years living with this chronic condition, both without and with the benefits of modern treatments and technologies, and the wonderful evolutions and revolutions in insulin therapy and sensing technologies over the decades.

Elizabeth relates

• How her father also had type 1 diabetes
• How she and her father lived for many years without the benefit of being able to measure blood glucose
• Her experience of the first blood glucose meter… vast, heavy, blue and cumbersome, but a ‘game-changer’
• Her active lifestyle
• Her indignation at not having her routine blood results shared with her by her doctor, and how her diabetes management is better in her hands than in just the hands of a doctor
• The ‘magic’ of her new hybrid closed loop insulin pump which has made her life ‘so much easier’, and which drastically decreased her experience of hypoglycaemia
• Her ability to bear children, live a long and healthy life and work in a professional role
• Her frustration with the well meaning but misguided ‘guidance’ from others
• The importance of people ‘unlearning’ their misconceptions
• The importance of consistency and routine in diabetes self-care
• That diabetes is "not the end of the world... learn to live with it... cope with it... and stay positive. Just get on with it!"

We also introduce the next Sweet Life Diabetes Community Advocacy Message, “Routine really does make life a lot easier...”

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