Removing Drama from Type 1 Diabetes for 58+ Years

Love to hear your feedback, text us! EPISODE 7: Fifty-seven Years as Type One Diabetic, Don’t be Perfect Just Be Good    This podcast introduces a series of priorities that have paved the way for me to enjoy 57 years as a Type One Diabetic, and still counting.  Knocking on wood here, but to this day, I am still lucky to have avoided hospitalizations and emergency room visits for unstable blood sug...

Love to hear your feedback, text us! EPISODE 6 PART 5 “Diabetes Can Be Wild:  Mingling with the Elephants of Makhanda, South Africa”  Well, at long last, here is the second and final part of my podcasts about how I navigated Type One diabetes on safari in rural southeastern South Affrica --- Mahkanda, to be exact.  It recounts my 5 days of encounters with the amazing elephants of Makhanda, how bea...

Love to hear your feedback, text us! EPISODE 6 PART 4 “Diabetes Can Be Wild:  Navigating Type One and the Big 5 while on Safari and in Capetown South Africa”  In this podcast, I reflect on 10 days of personal experience as a Type One Diabetic in South Africa.   My 10 day family vacation occurred during the Xmas season in South Africa, their Springtime to be exact.  The experience was truly an adve...

Love to hear your feedback, text us! In this podcast, I compare my earliest days as a Type One, back in 1968 – 1970, to parts of a recent trip to South Africa that were eerily similar to those early days.  I review  some early thoughts when I prepared for my trip.  I also talk about certain  anxieties, and how they were grounded in actual experiences from prior vacations over my 56 years as a Type...

Love to hear your feedback, text us! “DEAD DOCTORS DON’T LIE”, SEASON 1, Ep6, Pt2 This podcast is the second in a 3 part series, and reviews my earliest days as a Type One diabetic.  It’s an episode that is relevant to all Type Ones and Twos, who may be struggling, frustrated, anxious, dissatisfied, or just plain disappointed in their progress managing themselves.  Looking back, I felt that way ma...

Love to hear your feedback, text us! EPISODE 6 PART 1 EARLY DAYS  Self-management and living with Type One diabetes has come a long way since the late 1960s.  My personal story reveals highlights and many differences and details, between then and now.  “The Early Days” points out how lucky you are to be diagnosed with Type One diabetes today.  Yes, you are lucky, very lucky.  Why?  Listen in and f...

Love to hear your feedback, text us! Episode #5 of the podcast -- “The Juice IS Worth the Squeeze. Embrace It: 56+ Years as a Type 1 Diabetic, and Still Counting”, lays out some of the uncommon medical facts that preceded my diagnosis as Type 1 in Fall, 1968.  At the end of the prior podcast #4, I recounted the events of a “violent and fateful night” in Summer, 1968, that triggered the physical ch...

Love to hear your feedback, text us! This podcast recounts events of a violent, fateful first day in June, 1968, in my 55+ year journey as a Type 1 diabetic.  A growing part of the medical community believe that Type 1 diabetes is triggered when a confluence of inherited genes combine with environmental factors, to cause the body's immune system to attack its own pancreatic cells, and termina...

Love to hear your feedback, text us! Episode #2, Part 2, concludes this segment of the podcast --- “The Juice IS Worth the Squeeze. Embrace It: 55+ Years as a Type 1 Diabetic, and Still Counting”.  Part 2 captures more details about the remarkable journey I’ve had being a T1D over 55 years, and more details about the part I’ve played in carrying the journey this far. With a life expectancy when I...

Love to hear your feedback, text us! This podcast is the multi-media version of a parallel podcast that lays the groundwork for explaining how different my life story is, as a Type One diabetic (T1D) for 55+ years.  This podcast reviews facts and figures from recent T1D research, and personal stories that begin to make the case that "reasonable" control of T1D over a lifetime, can lead t...

Love to hear your feedback, text us! This episode opens a discussion about how different my 56+ years as a Type One diabetic have been.  It reviews some basic facts about the consequences of T1D management, even when not "reasonably" managed. Perfect control is not necessary, nor easily achievable.   My story begins to make the case that "reasonable" control & success of T1...

Love to hear your feedback, text us! This Part 2 to my first episode, continues my initial episode with more commentary, pictures and videos of moments and people who were inspirational to me growing up with Type 1 diabetes.   Support the show

Love to hear your feedback, text us! This opening episode introduces my life as a Type 1, insulin-dependent, diabetic (T1D) after 55+ years of experience.   At the age of 71, I've been lucky to have avoided all the common reasons for hospitalizations, as well as the serious complications of diabetes, that T1Ds face when they have not been as well managed as I've been.  To the contrary, w...