Diagnosed in DKA at 18 in Mexico and told she might never have kids, Tzinnia spent thirteen years on old insulin. Now in Nebraska with twins and 85% time in range.

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Next week: a two-part conversation 'Hero of the Day' with Silvana, a mom outside Sydney whose son was headed down one road until she kept asking whether it might be a different one. Her husband told her she was wishing it away. The hospital humored her. She turned out to be right, and by then the asking had cost the family a year and a half.

The song you're about to hear is called "Wishful Thinking." It's from her side of it. There's nothing in it about diabetes, because the part of her story that stuck with me isn't medical. It's what it feels like to be the least credentialed person in the room and keep raising your hand anyway.

About the song

I made a song out of Silvana's story. It's called "Wishful Thinking," and yes, I used AI to produce the audio.

Here's how it worked. I read both transcripts and pulled the real details out of them — the blood draw at eight in the morning and the phone call by two, the plate her son wouldn't touch, three in the morning doing the math in the dark, the fact that she never cried about her own boy until she saw a stranger's kid in a clinic chair. Her husband's actual words were that she was just wishing it away. That line is the whole song, and she said it to me, not a computer.

The rest was choosing. What to leave out, what the thing was really about, where the quiet part goes, what a chorus has to do. There's nothing in it about diabetes, no diagnosis, no test results, and I never use her son's name. That was on purpose. He's fourteen and the hardest parts of that year belong to him, not to a song.

So: the story is hers. The choices are mine. The singer is a machine. More at Juiceboxpodcast.com/jukebox

At 13, Evan runs his own bike YouTube channel, manages type 1 and celiac himself with a 6.6 A1c, and just did three weeks in Spain solo. He named this episode.

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A clinical pharmacist diagnosed her own daughter at seven. Now she's 14, and mom is coining a new setting: teen factor. School nurses, hospital advocacy, and honest burnout.

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Diagnosed at two, a Pilates teacher has survived seizures too many to count. Somatic therapy, EMDR, a stimulant shortage, glucagon courage — and Scott's first-ever mid-episode bathroom break.

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Sixteen years after diagnosis, a nutrition PhD student studies hospital food, manages with Omnipod 5 and Dexcom, and drops a surprise Scott never saw coming.

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A mother in Zimbabwe on her son's diagnosis at four, $90 sensors paid in cash, a headmaster who said no, and the outdated insulin she didn't know was outdated.

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Bella was diagnosed at four and spent two decades at an A1C near ten, with an endocrinologist whose method was yelling. She also bet Scott he couldn't guess what state she's from.

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*The Pod has an IP28 rating for up to 25 feet for 60 minutes. The Omnipod 5 Controller is not waterproof.

** t:slim X2 or Tandem Mobi w/ Control-IQ+ technology (7.9 or newer). RX ONLY. Indicated for patients with type 1 diabetes, 2 years and older. BOXED WARNING:Control-IQ+ technology should not be used by people under age 2, or who use less than 5 units of insulin/day, or who weigh less than 20 lbs. Safety info: tandemdiabetes.com/safetyinfo

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Christina has had type 1 for fifteen years. Her son William was diagnosed in DKA on a ski team trip to Chile, in a hospital where the care was entirely in Spanish — and the hardest part came after they got home.

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*The Pod has an IP28 rating for up to 25 feet for 60 minutes. The Omnipod 5 Controller is not waterproof.

** t:slim X2 or Tandem Mobi w/ Control-IQ+ technology (7.9 or newer). RX ONLY. Indicated for patients with type 1 diabetes, 2 years and older. BOXED WARNING:Control-IQ+ technology should not be used by people under age 2, or who use less than 5 units of insulin/day, or who weigh less than 20 lbs. Safety info: tandemdiabetes.com/safetyinfo

Disclaimer - Nothing you hear on the Juicebox Podcast or read on Arden's Day is intended as medical advice. You should always consult a physician before making changes to your health plan.

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