Type 1 on 1 | Diabetes Stories

Another week, another flight, and Jen and Ami are finally on the timezone! Although Jen can’t actually say the word ‘timezone’ because she’s rocking that jet lag. But she’s very happy to be back in the UK, and now you lot don’t have to listen to yet another travel story every single week…

This week we’re talking about balancing type 1 diabetes with the demands of a day that hasn’t gone to plan, as Ami’s had a busy one. Is there a balance when it comes to life and type 1 diabetes, really?

There’s cause for celebration though, as our wonderful NHS have come through and Ami’s got herself a fully funded Dexcom, hurrah! She did have to climb into a bin to get it, but we should be clear that that was neither Dexcom nor the NHS’s fault. It was about time we had another bin story on the podcast anyway.

Welcome to Type 1 on 1: The Diaries! Writer and broadcaster Jen Grieves and producer Ami Bennett are good friends - who both happen to live with type 1 diabetes. For this special spin-off series of Type 1 on 1, nana diabetic Jen (25 years) and baby diabetic Ami (3 years) chat through the frustrating, funny and challenging experiences they’ve faced each week thanks to this ridiculous condition. All in the hope that their stories might help you too.

Thanks so much to Dexcom UK & Ireland for sponsoring this episode.
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Bienvenidos! We’re back with more type 1 diabetes chat, and this week we’re talking about being defiant when it comes to allowing yourself to slow down because of the small matter of handling a chronic illness.
 What do you think?

Ami’s miraculously had an escapade free week despite enjoying a bank holiday weekend, and Jen’s finally giving the hikes a rest to enjoy the bright lights of her new favourite city, although walking 15km in a day did result in a rather spicy hypo…

We get to reminiscing about starting university - good luck if you’re heading off in the next few weeks! Our only advice is to try and make sure your drink of choice doesn’t look radioactive…

Welcome to Type 1 on 1: The Diaries! Writer and broadcaster Jen Grieves and producer Ami Bennett are good friends - who both happen to live with type 1 diabetes. For this special spin-off series of Type 1 on 1, nana diabetic Jen (25 years) and baby diabetic Ami (3 years) chat through the frustrating, funny and challenging experiences they’ve faced each week thanks to this ridiculous condition. All in the hope that their stories might help you too.

Thanks so much to Ypsomed MyLife Diabetescare for sponsoring this episode.
https://www.mylife-diabetescare.com/en/

Come and say hi on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/missjengrieves/
https://www.instagram.com/amilovesyoumore/

Jazz hands at the ready, we’re feeling a bit showbiz this week…
After a little dancing reminisce, we finally get to the real topic - type 1 diabetes. Jen’s had a shocker with her blood sugars and after going round the houses with the possible culprit, it all becomes very clear. Oops.

Ami’s in the mood for some science (read: not scientific at all) this week as she tries to understand a bit more about the magical properties of insulin. She is not, I repeat NOT a medical professional, despite ticking a box on a webpage to say otherwise…

Welcome to Type 1 on 1: The Diaries! Writer and broadcaster Jen Grieves and producer Ami Bennett are good friends - who both happen to live with type 1 diabetes. For this special spin-off series of Type 1 on 1, nana diabetic Jen (25 years) and baby diabetic Ami (3 years) chat through the frustrating, funny and challenging experiences they’ve faced each week thanks to this ridiculous condition. All in the hope that their stories might help you too.

Thanks so much to Ypsomed MyLife Diabetescare for sponsoring this episode.
https://www.mylife-diabetescare.com/en/

Come and say hi on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/missjengrieves/
https://www.instagram.com/amilovesyoumore/

The tables have turned this week as Ami’s voice is back in action, but Jen seems to have caught the lurge through the airwaves. Undeterred, there are more stories to share, not least having crossed 4 countries in two days.
Ami’s having another week of bruises, and despite staying in the same city in the same country, she’s collecting all the escapades and then some. Dodgy needles, misplaced injections and more crashing hypos - just another week with type 1 diabetes.

Welcome to Type 1 on 1: The Diaries! Writer and broadcaster Jen Grieves and producer Ami Bennett are good friends - who both happen to live with type 1 diabetes. For this special spin-off series of Type 1 on 1, nana diabetic Jen (25 years) and baby diabetic Ami (3 years) chat through the frustrating, funny and challenging experiences they’ve faced each week thanks to this ridiculous condition. All in the hope that their stories might help you too.

Thanks so much to Ypsomed MyLife Diabetescare for sponsoring this episode.
https://www.mylife-diabetescare.com/en/

Come and say hi on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/missjengrieves/
https://www.instagram.com/amilovesyoumore/

We’re channelling the chill vibes today as poor Ami has lost her voice, and whatever she’s fighting off is sending her blood glucose soaring. Jen’s also struggling with high glucose readings that are sneakily creeping up on her after she’s gone to sleep. Rude.

We discuss the psychology of feeling guilty for choosing certain sugars from one day to the next, and while there’s no full escapades this week, Jen had an *almost* incident with her only remaining full, very fragile vial of insulin…

There’s also talk of a few needle mishaps, as anyone who’s lived with type 1 diabetes for any amount of time can understand. Word of caution: don’t wave an uncapped needle anywhere near your eye on a moving vehicle.

Welcome to Type 1 on 1: The Diaries! Writer and broadcaster Jen Grieves and producer Ami Bennett are good friends - who both happen to live with type 1 diabetes. For this special spin-off series of Type 1 on 1, nana diabetic Jen (25 years) and baby diabetic Ami (3 years) chat through the frustrating, funny and challenging experiences they’ve faced each week thanks to this ridiculous condition. All in the hope that their stories might help you too.

Thanks so much to Ypsomed MyLife Diabetescare for sponsoring this episode.
https://www.mylife-diabetescare.com/en/

Come and say hi on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/missjengrieves/
https://www.instagram.com/amilovesyoumore/

Get ready, Jen is feeling CHATTY this week… there’s an update on the many cuts and bruises she’s collecting on her adventures, and with the extra stress of being immuno-compromised, she’s turned to the carbs to get her through.
Ami’s got high hopes for a rom-com with a type 1 diabetes storyline, but she’s slightly baffled as to how the main character manages to bag herself both an insulin pump AND a husband…
Elsewhere Jen’s lost an insulin pump to a vigorous suncream application, but she did fight off a snake at the same time (not exaggerating AT ALL…), and there was a mighty rollercoaster blood sugar day featuring a bowl of fruit and the new love of her life, Peloton.

Just another low-key week with type 1 diabetes…

Welcome to Type 1 on 1: The Diaries! Writer and broadcaster Jen Grieves and producer Ami Bennett are good friends - who both happen to live with type 1 diabetes. For this special spin-off series of Type 1 on 1, nana diabetic Jen (25 years) and baby diabetic Ami (3 years) chat through the frustrating, funny and challenging experiences they’ve faced each week thanks to this ridiculous condition. All in the hope that their stories might help you too.

Thanks so much to Ypsomed MyLife Diabetescare for sponsoring this episode.
https://www.mylife-diabetescare.com/en/

Come and say hi on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/missjengrieves/
https://www.instagram.com/amilovesyoumore/

There’s an awards ceremony on one side of the world this week, with a lost Libre and a few celebratory gins for Ami who was arguably more excited about spotting a fellow sensor-wearer in the wild than she was about her collection of trophies, while over in Central America Jen’s been contending with a volcano (casual) and managed to collect a series of unrelated cuts, bruises and scrapes in the week since they last spoke. It’s all for the story, right?

They discuss why said cuts and blisters take an AGE to heal as someone with type 1 diabetes and how cruel that is given that by default, having diabetes means you have to make yourself bleed most days.

Jen also reminisces about all her mortifying experiences as a school kid with type 1, including getting locked in the nurse’s office, and bursting into tears for taking her insulin at first break instead of lunchtime on her very first day. Happy summer holidays if school’s out for you this week!

Welcome to Type 1 on 1: The Diaries! Writer and broadcaster Jen Grieves and producer Ami Bennett are good friends - who both happen to live with type 1 diabetes. For this special spin-off series of Type 1 on 1, nana diabetic Jen (25 years) and baby diabetic Ami (3 years) chat through the frustrating, funny and challenging experiences they’ve faced each week thanks to this ridiculous condition. All in the hope that their stories might help you too.

Thanks so much to Ypsomed MyLife Diabetescare for sponsoring this episode.
https://www.mylife-diabetescare.com/en/

Come and say hi on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/missjengrieves/
https://www.instagram.com/amilovesyoumore/

Oh it’s a hot one this week! Between the UK heatwave and moving house, Ami’s insulin requirements have unsurprisingly disappeared. Jen’s still sweating away in Central America and is feeling a little bruised after her first surf lesson, which came about from meeting another person with diabetes in the wild. We love to see it!

Welcome to Type 1 on 1: The Diaries! Writer and broadcaster Jen Grieves and producer Ami Bennett are good friends - who both happen to live with type 1 diabetes. For this special spin-off series of Type 1 on 1, nana diabetic Jen (25 years) and baby diabetic Ami (3 years) chat through the frustrating, funny and challenging experiences they’ve faced each week thanks to this ridiculous condition. All in the hope that their stories might help you too.

Thanks so much to Ypsomed MyLife Diabetescare for sponsoring this episode.
https://www.mylife-diabetescare.com/en/

Come and say hi on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/missjengrieves/
https://www.instagram.com/amilovesyoumore/

We do eventually get to some actual type 1 diabetes content this week, promise. It’s been a week for Jen and Ami, who are both on the move! Hypos abound for Ami as she packs up her flat to move house, while Jen has crossed into a new country with her case of diabetes stuff in tow.

The heatwave in London hasn’t helped matters, nor did Ami’s upsetting encounter with a ‘you don’t look disabled’ person on a bus. Jen’s had better luck with the humans of this world, meeting an absolute angel who put a fridge in her hotel room just to store her insulin. *heart explodes*

There’s also a bit of chat about what a wild, wild condition this really is. But we knew that already, didn’t we?

Thanks so much for listening and supporting us and our rambles, this community is the best!

Welcome to Type 1 on 1: The Diaries! Writer and broadcaster Jen Grieves and producer Ami Bennett are good friends - who both happen to live with type 1 diabetes. For this special spin-off series of Type 1 on 1, nana diabetic Jen (25 years) and baby diabetic Ami (3 years) chat through the frustrating, funny and challenging experiences they’ve faced each week thanks to this ridiculous condition. All in the hope that their stories might help you too.

Thanks so much to Ypsomed MyLife Diabetescare for sponsoring this episode.
https://www.mylife-diabetescare.com/en/

Come and say hi on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/missjengrieves/
https://www.instagram.com/amilovesyoumore/

There’s a rude interruption to proceedings as Jen’s beeping insulin pump distracts the chat, and we ponder how much extra knowledge we’re holding in our little brains because: type 1 diabetes.

We’re feeling a bit dia-tired this week between Ami preparing to move house and well, dealing with a chronic illness every single day, and there hasn’t been much sleep between these two ladies. But we’re doing it! We’re here! We’re living! Right?

We also talk about whether, despite the moaning and the frustrations, we’d actually change our diagnosis if we had the chance. Would you? It’s a little bit reflective in parts this week, but there’s a few cheap jokes in there too of course so WORRY NOT! We’ve got it all covered.

Welcome to Type 1 on 1: The Diaries! Writer and broadcaster Jen Grieves and producer Ami Bennett are good friends - who both happen to live with type 1 diabetes. For this special spin-off series of Type 1 on 1, nana diabetic Jen (25 years) and baby diabetic Ami (3 years) chat through the frustrating, funny and challenging experiences they’ve faced each week thanks to this ridiculous condition. All in the hope that their stories might help you too.

Thanks so much to Ypsomed MyLife Diabetescare for sponsoring this episode.
https://www.mylife-diabetescare.com/en/

Come and say hi on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/missjengrieves/
https://www.instagram.com/amilovesyoumore/