Own Your Diabetes Journey | Kim Boaz-Wilson, CDE and PWD | Real Life Diabetes Podcast 38

When seeking diabetes healthcare, it’s rare to find a person who delivers advice that he or she has felt. In speaking with Kim, you know she lives and breathes every word of her life lessons with a no fear philosophy. Ryan and Amber went to school.

Fortunately for us, she’s also a CDE (certified diabetes educator). Diagnosed at 5 years old with type 1 diabetes, Kim found her calling as a CDE (and RN) with Diabetes Solutions Oklahoma since it’s inception in 2000. As the Executive Director of Diabetes Solutions, Kim manages new family education for type 1 diabetes, pump therapy training, and ongoing patient consultations. During the podcast, she answered a question over text about what to bolus for a certain number of carbs–she’s committed.

We love her openness toward the patient’s own experience, letting their purpose in life guide the direction of therapy, with no fear.

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SHOW NOTES:

                                                  HAPPY DIAVERSARY – RYAN, January 15 & AMBER, January 28th!

* Join us at the Sugar Surfing Conference with Dr. Stephen Ponder, hosted by Diabetes Solutions Oklahoma on April 8th. 

* Support Kim’s 50th birthday celebration GoFundMe that pushes forward Diabetes Solutions to the next level!

* Shout out to the JDRF TypeOneNation Summit 

* Diabetes Solutions Of Oklahoma– Identifying how diabetes affects individuals, the community, the state & the nation.

* Camp Endres

* Hypothetical Facts On Ketones – NOT Keystones (Amber was tired)

* Not enough insulin

* Dehydration

* Lacking nutrition

* No one lives in a clinical setting

* Breaking down the word diabetic

* Kim is a person with diabetes, she’s not a disease.

* The more a person refers to themselves as a diabetic, the more they complain about everything in life.