#1604 Weird Antics

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Brady’s been living with type 1 diabetes for 12 years, diagnosed at age 5 and now 17.

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Scott Benner 0:00
Welcome back, friends to another episode of The Juicebox podcast.

Brady 0:17
Hello, everyone listening. My name is Brady. I'm a type one diabetic since the age of five, I'm now 17, almost 18, going to college soon, and getting out of the house for the first time. It is can be a little nervous, especially when you've had your parents support you for so long.

Scott Benner 0:38
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Brady 2:42
Hello, everyone listening. My name is Brady. I'm a type one diabetic. Since the age of five, I'm now 17, almost 18, going to college soon and get out of the house for the first time. It is can be a little nervous, especially when you've had your parents support you for so long,

Scott Benner 3:01
you thinking about that as you're heading off to college,

Brady 3:04
definitely. So I'm sure if there was any other people in my position, not just diabetes alone, but any college kids, any kids with a medical disability,

Scott Benner 3:15
just listen, any kids that have to cook for themselves, even that might have been a little nervous, right? So you're five, when you're diagnosed, you have any brothers or sisters,

Brady 3:24
or actually, we have a big family. I haven't seen one of them in a bit, two brothers, two sisters, two brothers, two sisters. You're almost 18. Are you the youngest? No, I'm one of the oldest ones. You're one of the oldest. Oh, no kidding, my littlest brother, he's only seven,

Scott Benner 3:40
seven. So from seven to what's the oldest 19 now, no kidding, Okay, any other autoimmune issues in the family? My

Brady 3:50
mom has arthritis for the last few years. I guess that's the only noteworthy issue.

Scott Benner 3:57
Nobody has hypothyroidism, celiac, other type ones, nothing like that. Okay,

Brady 4:02
I was the only one

Scott Benner 4:07
randomized trial. Do you remember anything about being diagnosed at five? I would imagine, maybe

Brady 4:11
not surprisingly, yes. So funny story. We were going to Orlando because I'm Florida based as our my uncle was coming down to visit, so we were driving up to Orlando. It's a three hour drive from where we live, and I was using the bathroom frequently. Obviously, we had no clue at the time that that meant my sugar was high, so just munching on some pretzel goldfish. And my mom was like, Okay, maybe you shouldn't eat these pretzel goldfish. And I was drinking a lot of water, and then she's like, why are you drinking so much water that she took away the water for me. And then we were at the resort for the weekend. I don't remember too much about the resort itself, but then afterwards, we went to a doctor's office. They didn't do anything. We went to another one. They didn't do anything. We went like about five of them, and we finally met this. Guy, and he's like, oh, let's, let's see what your blood glucose level is, or blood sugar. And I guess I was like, around 900 when, when he tested me, huh? So

Scott Benner 5:12
your mom had to take you to a number of different doctors to get somebody to find an answer to your problem.

Brady 5:17
Yeah, okay, at least three. At least three, at least three, and

Scott Benner 5:21
then this one checks your blood sugar 900 they put you in the hospital.

Brady 5:25
Yeah, according to my mom, because she's told me the story, the doctor said to her it would be faster for her to drive me to the hospital rather than calling like an ambulance. So she drove into the hospital and they hooked me up to everything. I was in there for about a week. No

Scott Benner 5:39
kidding. Do you remember any of that? Or is it all just kind of a blur? I

Brady 5:43
remember some parts of it like I remember being given this, like JDRF bear called Rufus, and I still have in my closet. I don't know if you've heard of that name before. I've heard of Rufus the bear. Yeah, in fact, because we were doing like a kindergarten day or whatever, like spirit days of high school. I brought him with me to school in my one to one recreation of the kindergarten outfit.

Scott Benner 6:09
Wait a bit, tell me this again. Start over. What was that?

Brady 6:12
So we had a school spirit week about a month ago, and for one of the days, it was like, dress up as your kindergarten self, really. And so I brought Rufus the bear with me, and his fur is all bad, and he's like this old bear, but I brought him to school with me. Anyways, as a 17 year old 12th grader,

Scott Benner 6:33
what were some of the other ridiculous outfits? Did everybody do this? It sounds like a great idea. Actually, a

Brady 6:38
lot of people our school had a lot of spirit, especially our seniors that were there, yeah, and people had wacky outfits. They had dyed hair, they had people would pull on shave their beards that they had just to look like their kindergartner selves.

Scott Benner 6:54
Colors that don't match right like because you remember, when you're a kid, you put all these colors together and you're just like, I love blue and green, and you're like, that doesn't look right at all. It doesn't matter. Doesn't look great. I just saw a little kid walking around the other day. He had, like, bright blue sneakers on yellow shorts and a red top. He looked ridiculous. And he looked so happy. He was, like, running around as like, this little like, four year old with his grandfather. Did he have his little propeller hat on as well? No, but he was close. He really was. So at what point your mom and dad help you with your diabetes as you're younger? I imagine?

Brady 7:26
Um, yes, so when I was diagnosed there, we didn't have any access to CGM or pumps at the time, so we had to do syringes for the first two years. And so my mom would always have to do syringes, and I kept her up at night. You know, I was but a small child, so I was carefree, yeah, you didn't know what was happening, right? Yeah. But, like, I heard her talking about something, like, how she was, like, always afraid of, like, drawing ever too much insulin from the vial with the syringe and putting too much into me. Then I switched to pens a couple years later, and then I still have those, actually, for a

Scott Benner 8:02
backup. Your mom worried a lot that she was going to give you too much insulin. Yeah,

Brady 8:06
from what I've heard, especially when I was first diagnosed and needing to deal with syringes.

Scott Benner 8:11
And is that a thing that stuck with her? Did she get past that, or does she not really involved in your care at all anymore?

Brady 8:16
Oh, no, she's still heavily involved. In fact, she was messaging me this morning because my sugar was like 170 after I just had a bagel, like I dose for it, but I was still going a little up.

Scott Benner 8:30
How do you find that that relationship? Do you enjoy her helping you?

Brady 8:35
Yes, most definitely. I don't know where I would be without her help, but at the same time, I'm sure in the next couple of years, I would like to become fully independent and without her having to breathe down my neck. What do you mean?

Scott Benner 8:53
You don't know where you'd be without her help. What do you think she's covering for you that you wouldn't do? I mean, obviously, when you're five, you need help, but as you're getting older and older, did you take on more and more responsibility?

Brady 9:04
Yes, okay, I'm a heavy sleeper. The alarms and texts that she would send would help wake me up even now.

Scott Benner 9:10
So she's kind of on top of it when you can't be Yeah, yeah. How have your a one sees, your outcomes been over the

Brady 9:18
years, hovering in the the the sixes and sevens. Wow,

Scott Benner 9:21
that's awesome. You say that's your mom's work a

Brady 9:25
lot, but I will. I can give myself credit, like I Bolus and stuff. Yeah,

Scott Benner 9:31
you do what you need to do, right? Yeah. So what happens is, like, take me through it for a second. You're 12 years old. It's lunch time. Your mom's texting you at school. Or how does that all work? I

Brady 9:42
kind of did my own thing at school. I would I do what I need to do in elementary school, I'd have to go to the nurse's office so the nurse would watch over me. But by the time I got to 12, middle school age, I was doing it on my own at school. Okay? She would only message me if I were to, like, go high while I was in class. Like, how? Is like 202 20.

Scott Benner 10:01
Okay, so you would manage your food, and did you get low? Did you have lows that you had to manage on your own, or did the nurse help with those even after you

Brady 10:09
Yeah, I would, I would go low sometimes, like 60. I would drink a juice, because I have, like, juices and snacks in my actual classrooms. Yeah, and it's been like that for a very long time after Elementary School, really, I stopped heavily relying on the nurse. So after elementary school is about what age? Um, well, what is this? Fifth grade? So, 11, okay,

Scott Benner 10:30
and so you you'd taken care of lows on your own. You're bolusing for your meals. Your mom's only getting involved if she's seeing high blood sugars,

Brady 10:38
yeah, yeah. And then if I were to, like, consistently stay low for like, more than 10 minutes. That's when she'll say, like, you're low. She ping

Scott Benner 10:46
you then try to figure out what's going on. Yeah. I mean, the way you guys had that set up that worked well for you. Okay, it didn't feel overwhelming. You didn't feel like she was too in your business or not enough. Was there ever a time where you were like, I wish she'd help me more than this? No, not at all. No. Okay, so you guys found a nice balance. Now, was your dad involved in this

Brady 11:05
at all? Yes, and no, my mom was, uh, or still is a stay at home mom, while my dad goes to work each day. And so he, I do have sharing on my Dexcom. So he'll sometimes say, like, oh, you should do that. But other than that, he's, he's

Scott Benner 11:21
less involved. Yeah, do you think because he knows your mom has it, or is it not his? Is it not his wheelhouse? Like, or what do you think?

Brady 11:30
I think it's a little bit of both. He's always been working, like, his whole life, so I'm perfectly like, I've accepted that, like, someone needs to work, someone can't be

Scott Benner 11:42
so he puts his effort where it fits. You put and your mom puts hers where it fits. Yeah, yeah. And you more than fill in the gaps. It sounds like you you have a lot going on here, really, like, as far as your interaction with your own diabetes, you seem very involved in it. So would you just call it like, a good blend of the three of you doing

Brady 12:01
what works, I would say, so Okay, yeah, anything about it? You would change? Definitely my ability to Pre-Bolus.

Scott Benner 12:11
Do you forget or do you not like doing it?

Brady 12:14
When I eat food, it, it'll register that I need to dose. So I'll dose like as I'm eating the food or right after, because a lot of the time I'll, like eat on a whim. At school, I know when I'll eat, so I'll dose for that. But at work, like, I don't know when I'm going to break, they'll just send me on break, so I get my food and I dose. Okay, okay. What about at home? Do you Pre-Bolus better when you're not at school? Same thing at home, like, I'll eat whenever it is really the one thing that I do truly need to work on, and that's why I probably experienced that like momentary high after eating before coming down again.

Scott Benner 12:53
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Brady 15:45
That's what I've been trying to figure out for so long. I think it's just I'm still, like, scatterbrained, like, I'm always doing stuff, like, even now, before I was on the call, I was building a Lego set. Like, it doesn't like, go into my mind until, like, it's like, I, like, I Yeah, until it's too late. Well, do you have ADHD? Most likely, yes, you think you might. It's not it's not diagnosed. It's not diagnosed. Do you have anything else going on? No, no. Okay, so ADHD, meaning, well, how Wait? How are you in school? Like, how are you, like, grades wise? So I'm actually just, I've graduated with a 5.0 GPA. I excel well, at school, like, I'm an excellent test taker, but when you shove like, a bunch of assignments in my face, I'll try to do all of them, and then, like, I'll forget to turn like, one or two in. And I think that's most prevalent in my math class. Okay,

Scott Benner 16:42
you have a better than perfect GPA.

Brady 16:44
So at least what around what our school system does is like a weighted GPA. So like, I've taken college classes throughout my entire, like high school career, right? So now graduating because of that, like weighted college classes compared to, just like your normal gen ed classes. It allows me to go higher than a four. In fact, our valedictorian had a six point

Scott Benner 17:05
something. GPA, geez, what are you planning on studying in college?

Brady 17:09
I guess this goes back to my scatter brain thing, like I have no clue what I'm doing, so I picked the most broad category, which seems to be business. So I'm going in as a business major. What I'm doing with that? I couldn't tell you. Are you strong in math? I was until about algebra two.

Scott Benner 17:26
That's pretty far into it, though. So what does that mean? You're good at you can do algebra, geometry, trig,

Brady 17:32
die. Suck At trig. Then no, no. Trick was introduced to me in about pre calculus, and that was the math class that I probably should have wiped for my schedule, but I continue to take it because

Scott Benner 17:46
I'm stubborn. What is failure at trig look like? What's your final grade? It was a D, no kidding, yeah, you passed it, but with no firm understanding of it whatsoever. No Right? Because did your brain just not work that way?

Brady 18:01
I think it's all like the signs and the cosines, tangents. I like numbers and trigonometry isn't really numbers, it's words. And like, well, I'm good with words, but not in math.

Scott Benner 18:14
So your English grades are high. They are Yeah, and you write, well, I do write. Well, that's a good that's a skill, man. Not everybody has.

Brady 18:23
I could write anything. Give me a prompt right now, and I could type you up an essay in an hour.

Scott Benner 18:29
No kidding, all right, would you share where you're going to college? Have you been accepted somewhere?

Brady 18:34
I was accepted to a lot of places, but due to like, financial struggles into getting into those places I've resulted to going to Florida, Gulf Coast University. Okay? And when do you start? I think it was August, 19, and I move in August, 14 or 15th. Oh,

Scott Benner 18:52
and so let's get to it now. Are you excited? Are you nervous? Is this broken up in different sections? Is there like part of you that's going to school and party that's thinking about diabetes, like, how, how is this whole thing like coming to shape in your

Brady 19:03
mind? Obviously, my whole school journey has been about going to college thus far. So it's always been there, and I've always been thinking about it. And now that it's like, here, it's like, yeah, I am. I'm excited, and I've been given the resources to do well in college, I think I said it at the start, there's always that nervousness and anxiety that follows you when you first leave the nest for the first time. Sure. Do

Scott Benner 19:30
you have any friends going to the same school? No, no.

Brady 19:33
Well, close friends, no, but many people I know are going to the school? Yes.

Scott Benner 19:38
Okay. Do you think you'll have trouble with the social aspects of it, beating people, forming relationships, or is that not a thing you're

Brady 19:45
worried about? No, I've, I've always been fairly social. Okay, so I don't think I'll struggle with talking to new people. Gotcha,

Scott Benner 19:53
how far is it from your house? Like, is it a drive, a plane?

Brady 19:57
It's about 30 to 40. Minute drive, depending on traffic, not far. And will you commute, or will you stay there? I will be dormant there for at least the first year.

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Brady 21:17
I do want to do it because I've been told countless times that going to live in college is why? Is one of the big reasons you go to college like you don't want to miss out on the college experience, the

Scott Benner 21:30
experience. So how old are you? Did you say, Brady, you're almost 18, right? I'm almost 18. Yes, your mom knows you're doing this, right? Yes, yeah. Are you going to be partaking in alcohol and or drugs at college. Do you do that now? Oh,

Brady 21:43
oh, no, I don't even drink soda.

Scott Benner 21:47
You're not a drinker. No, it's not a thing you think you're interested in getting.

Brady 21:52
Not at all. I have stayed away from alcohol drugs. They disgust me if, if you get into it, it's unfortunate, but I can understand why you continue to do it. If you're already doing it.

Scott Benner 22:10
Are your family drinkers? Like, is there a beer at a football game? Wine at dinner or anything like that?

Brady 22:16
Yeah, sometimes, but not overly excessive. It's like, there, it's

Scott Benner 22:19
present, but you've never seen it as a problem. No, okay, it's never been a problem. All right. Now, Brady, yes, some really hot girl comes up to you at a party and her belly shown a little bit, and she's like, Hey, try this drink. Do you go, no, no, no, I'm disgusted. Or do you go, Oh, I've been waiting for a hot girl to talk to me and take a little drink. What do you do? I

Brady 22:41
wouldn't drink the drink, but I would be like, kind about it. If someone approached me, I'd still respect them and talk to them, but I just, I guess, humbly decline.

Scott Benner 22:51
Yeah, yeah. Okay, so you don't think there's a thing I pick girls, because to me, that's where I would I'd give up. I'd be like, sure, I might not. I'd be honest with you, but like, that's the thing that would get me in that direction, like, there's no like, you couldn't peer pressure me into it. I wouldn't care about that. It doesn't sound like you have any feelings that that you can I don't think I could peer pressure you into something,

Brady 23:10
right? You could try. I think it would be very difficult. Don't think it

Scott Benner 23:15
would work out. And All right, so you don't think you will drink. I mean, you don't think everyone's Am I wrong? Everyone smokes weed, right? Not me. No, not you. But I mean, like in high school, like in high school,

Brady 23:29
it's definitely there. The people that I associate myself with aren't doing it. Aren't doing it, okay, and those are the close friends I mentioned earlier. But people, yeah, I know they're doing stuff. Do

Scott Benner 23:41
you have a problem with it? Like, on a like, Do you have a judgment about it, or you just it's not for you?

Brady 23:47
When I was younger, I guess I I found it disgusting. But like, I've grown older, I've worked for two years now, I've, I've seen enough of the world to acknowledge that. Like, if, if they're getting by doing weed and still doing well in school, because, you know, many people that I do talk to are still getting a 5.0 GPA while still screwing around at parties. Like, if that works for you, that works for

Scott Benner 24:14
you, how do you get rid of your attention? Like, what do you do to relax?

Brady 24:18
Build Lego, I guess, play, games. Just watch YouTube. You like more solitary stuff, yeah, but I play games with friends, like, I'm never playing a game by myself. I'm always with like, a person or two on a PlayStation party or something like that. Okay, have you built the r2, d2, Lego? No, but I do want to get that. I have built a giant star wars, Venator. I don't know if you've seen that, no. Which is that it's this Venator from the prequel trilogy, and it sent me back a good $600 Oh

Scott Benner 24:52
my gosh. What'd you do with it once you got it built? That's always my problem with it. Once it's done, what do

Brady 24:57
you do with it? So I'm. My whole room is just covered and displayed in Lego so I really just display it and I dust it from time to time. My brother will play with, like, the smaller cars that I have. Yeah, I like building cars in the Star Wars things.

Scott Benner 25:12
Yeah. I mean, that's that's gonna keep a hot girl from offering your drink, for sure. Don't let them see that. Okay, but she's good. Well, maybe not. Maybe one girl will be like, All right, this is awesome. What do you like about building Legos?

Brady 25:24
I've just always liked building things. I guess it's just satisfying to see a whole product come together.

Scott Benner 25:32
We do, like, in the house, like, usually around Christmas time, my wife will build, like, buy a set and like, put it in the kitchen, because then people will, like, stop and, like, put a couple of steps together and then leave it alone. Or sometimes people, like, I'll sit down and, like, obsess on it and work on it all day, or something like that. But then we get done with them and we're just like, what are we like, what are we going to do with this? We end up breaking it apart and putting it back

Brady 25:55
in the box. See, that's that's just sad. Yeah, like it, although

Scott Benner 25:58
we do have, Arden did just ask me to hang the Spider Man portrait where he seems to be coming out of the portrait. Oh, yeah, yeah. That one. My son and daughter did that one Christmas, and she asked me if I'd hang it up for so actually, that's the thing I'm gonna do this weekend.

Brady 26:12
I have my eyes set on the Milky Way galaxy. One another, art, one.

Scott Benner 26:18
My sister in law just told me she built the radio, and she said that it's an old timey radio, and you actually build the entire inside of it. She said she was so sad because the inside was so intricate. And then you close it up inside, like, you know, it's in there all the like, you know, yeah, all the, you know, the guts of it, but at the same time, like, you never see it again. But there was also, they put a little Bluetooth receiver in it so you can actually use the Lego radio, like a Bluetooth

Brady 26:45
speaker. I did not know that. Actually, I know what you're talking about. Yeah, I didn't know what that was. That was on

Scott Benner 26:54
her 40s. She was like, this thing's so cool. And I was like, all right. I had no idea she liked doing that stuff. My son loves it, but, like, I think he's hit an age where he's just like, he's like, I don't know, I can't be doing this anymore. Like, do you know what I mean? Like, it's although,

Brady 27:06
yeah, my whole family thought that I'd be grow out of it, but I'm still building. You're

Scott Benner 27:09
still into it. Oh, listen, I think it's awesome. The LEGO Store. Do you have a Lego store near you? Disney, springs, Orlando. Oh, okay, yeah, you you have access, though, because it's weird when you get into a room. There's so many different like, you know, like, there's like Harry Potter towns, and the little Polaroid camera that Land Rover truck is incredible looking. The the discovery. Do you know which one? I mean,

Brady 27:32
yeah, there was two of them made. There was like a brick built one, and then there was a Technic one, and they both released around the same time frame.

Scott Benner 27:39
It's interesting stuff. I actually happen to know a person who works with a company. Oh, that's and, like she, she has one of the craziest, interesting jobs, where she just shows up at places and and puts together, like, large displays. So I've

Brady 27:53
talked to a bunch of Lego employees when I go to the Lego store in Disney Springs, and I've gotten some wild inside information, such as getting 50% off if you work there for over three months,

Scott Benner 28:05
is that not where you're going to get a job then? Or is it not close enough? I

Brady 28:09
mean, it would be like a three hour drive to go to work. That's

Scott Benner 28:12
not gonna be worth it. Yeah, imagine you drive six hours a day to get 50% off on your latest Yeah. He says that gonna work out. That'd

Brady 28:20
be a hell of commute time.

Scott Benner 28:22
And what you said you game with friends? What do you do?

Brady 28:24
A decent amount of stuff. I'm a completionist on games, so I liked 100% games, a lot of Minecraft, but also, like just single player games that we play together, like we've been enjoying the Resident Evil series. We've played a lot of indie made games, which are just kind of things that, like small creators have made, yeah, things like that. Okay,

Scott Benner 28:48
Minecraft. Have you ever had it crash on you and not save

Brady 28:52
in the old days? Yes, when there was no auto saving? Yeah,

Scott Benner 28:57
my son had a situation where, like, something happened with his Playstation, and he just, it just erased this, this whole thing.

Brady 29:03
Oh, so that has happened once. Don't play Playstation when it's storming, because if, if lightning hits and you lose your power, Minecraft is one of those games you just where it's gone, it will just delete the save data entirely.

Scott Benner 29:18
Yeah, he was like, it was an existential crisis. I take your point about the completion part, like, he liked the working on it part. Like, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, the thinking. I think it's a mind exercise thing, because my son's not like a person who's like, lost in his room playing games, right? He plays two games. But I think there's something about the thinking and the planning that he really likes about Minecraft, and you can see it work in his real life and in his, like, professional life and everything. Like, I was looking at code he was writing the other day, and I just, I mean, he was explaining it to me, and my brain was like, I don't know what I'm looking at. Like, I don't understand how he's keeping this all straight in his

Brady 29:57
head. I wish I could get in. The code. Yeah, it's

Scott Benner 30:01
really something, man. Like, he's sitting in front of three monitors. He has a monitor going, like, portrait, so that the code, like, can, like, stream down this, you know, yeah, I've seen those things before, like, a 33 inch monitor and a portrait in portrait mode, just full of code. And he's explaining to me how this part, you know, feeds this part, and how this and, like, you know, they're going to verify it, and they're doing all this stuff, and he's working for this company, and, you know, and all I could think was, like, how are you keeping this straight in your head? But then I really thought about it, I was like, you know, it's the same way as, like, when he was 12 years old, and he'd be like, you know, here's my minecraft board, and he's, you know, he asked us to stop and, like, show it to us sometimes. And, I mean, it goes on seemingly forever, and he knows where everything is, yeah. It all comes together, yeah. So I think there's something incredibly valuable about it, honestly. So I mean, if your brain works that way, how was the movie? Did you like the movie?

Brady 30:53
Heavily biased in favor of it, of course, but I can acknowledge that it was an objectively horrible movie.

Scott Benner 31:00
I don't know. I was just wondering, like I was dying to know what somebody who likes Minecraft

Brady 31:05
thought of the movie. The movie was amazing to me. I loved the memes associated with the I went to see it twice, once and then once again in 3d Yeah. Was a little different. Not worth not going to see it, though.

Scott Benner 31:19
Not worth seeing it a second time. Okay, so you'll head off to college. You're gonna, you know, start on a business track. What we're really talking about here is, like, it's gonna be your first time away from home. Yeah, it's gonna be your first time making sure you're eating. You're about to learn, Brady, that the quality of food at college is, yeah, I'm really excited. It's going to affect your blood sugar. So you're gonna have to learn how to be more aggressive with your blood sugar. You might have more lows. You know, you have to make a decision about, are you going to tell roommates about diabetes? How much you're going to tell them? You're going to ask them to understand glucagon? Like, have you, like, thought through all that? Like, where are you on that? Yeah,

Brady 31:54
I've, I've thought of that. Fortunately, I do have a kitchen not far from me. I'm Dorman on the second floor, and the building's kitchen is also happens to be on the second floor. So I've been learning how to make things like eggs and stuff. And then for the glucagon thing, I actually recently got like a nasal spray, which works similarly to a glucagon the vaccine, yeah, that, yeah. And then with the insulin thing, I've been in talks with my doctor about an even more rapid acting insulin. Let me see what it's called Metformin. Wait, you're taking Metformin? No, not yet, but we've been talking about doing that. It's just,

Scott Benner 32:35
do you have insulin resistance? I think so. How much insulin are you using a day between

Brady 32:42
like 75 to 90 units. Do you have any weight issues? No, no, I'm you're lean. Weight, healthy, okay, I'm six foot, almost six

Scott Benner 32:55
foot one. Have they talked about trying a GLP medication for you? GLP medication, yeah, like a low dose GLP might help with your insulin if you have All right, ready, ready? If you have insulin resistance. So if you have so we know you have type one diabetes, but if you didn't have type one diabetes, would you have insulin resistance? Still? Would you be pre diabetic type two for example, if that's the case, the GLP meds that are made for, you know, initially were made for type twos, like ozempic, like, you know, you probably hear people joking about it all the time, right? Manjaro, those things, yeah, some people with type one who also have insulin resistance use a significantly less amount of insulin when they're also using a GLP. Now here's the thing, they're going to quell your appetite, which is not exactly a thing you're looking for. Probably. I see a lot of people, my daughter being one of them, who micro doses it so doesn't take the full dose, but takes enough to keep the resistance down without it impacting your hunger too greatly. If they're talking about giving you Metformin. Metformin is gonna try to do the same thing. It just might not be as successful as a GLP would be. So it's worth talking to a doctor about, and I have episodes about it. You could listen to with doctors who talk about the glps. I can even tell you the episode numbers, but I mean, it's not a bad idea to look into a way to get your resistance down, because if you're using, I mean, if you're already using 90 units a day, and then you're gonna head off to school and the food's gonna be crap, and then you're probably gonna need more insulin again. The truth is, is that the more you use, the more reasonable it is to consider that you might end up with a low later from having all that insulin on board.

Brady 34:42
Yeah, that's, that's what happens. There's actually, like, a few things that insulin does with me at least, such as when I do go high, like, let's just say, 300 They'll stay at 300 for like three four hours before the insulin that I gave myself when I was still 250 actually starts kicking and goes down. Yeah, and I don't think it's supposed to be that long for insulin to start acting. So

Scott Benner 35:15
listen, you said that you just recently listened. You were telling me before we started you listen to the small sip series. Your mom, yeah, forced it on you. I imagine. Is that about what happened? Did she say, Hey, listen to these. Yeah, it's okay. Did you find them like insightful or valuable at all? Or did you

Brady 35:33
I did find them insightful and valuable, your tug of war thing, I feel like I focused on that a lot. It makes sense completely. I can see why. I think you said there was like a woman that you explained

Scott Benner 35:45
to, yeah, young girl, young mom over the phone. We were just talking on the phone, and we talked about it in the end, Brady, what you're going to learn is, as you move forward, is that this whole game is timing an amount that you know. It's all about putting the insulin in the right place, at the right time, at the at the right amount. So you'll learn that as you go. You'll figure it out with smaller meals, and then adapt what you learn to bigger and bigger ideas. But I mean going right from where you are now to school, it might be a mess. You know what I mean? I think you're very smart to take this time right now and really dig into understanding how the insulin works for you, especially because once you're gone, you're going to be gone like you and your mom can talk and text and everything, and that's going to be great, but it's a big enough shift going off to college. We want to try to limit the amount of time you have to put into diabetes, because there's, you know, you're going to be trying to make friends, you're going to be trying to go to class and learning how to, like, get your stuff done and feed yourself and wash yourself. Like, you know you said earlier, like, oh, there'll be a kitchen nearby. But I don't know if you've ever heard the mike tyson quote, everyone has a plan till they get punched in the face.

Brady 36:53
Oh, yeah,

Scott Benner 36:55
yeah, yeah. He said it like this, everybody has a plan until they get he has different voice than me, but he's right. You know, like, you go into something thinking, like, I know what I'm gonna do, and then the first time somebody pops you in the nose, you sometimes you lose track of what you're gonna do. You see that happen with college aged kids a lot like, oh, there's a kitchen. I'll cook for myself. And six months later, you're just eating Ho Hos between your fingers. And, like, that's it. This is food. I'm good. You don't want to get into that position where you're overwhelmed. Because the things you're going to give away first are are important, more important to you, maybe, than other people. You're going to give away having good meals. You're going to give away pre bolusing. Like, you know, I mean, like when you're trying to make space in your brain, you're going to prioritize things, and if you don't prioritize food and diabetes at the top, then that's going to tumble on you, and then you're going to get it's going to come back around the backside and kick you in the twice. I'd like to see you be able to, like, really understand what you're doing before you go now, how long has your mom been telling you, hey, you need to know how to do this because you're going away for college and you resisted and or was your mom trying to hold on to some control, and maybe she didn't transition you quickly enough. What do you think is happening?

Brady 38:09
It's a good question. I think an aspect of it was, when I was younger, all of the doctors I had were like, saying, like, yeah, it's okay to hover around 200 and I think that mentality stuck with me in a sense, yeah, and like, it doesn't scare me that I'm 200 when it really should, well,

Scott Benner 38:28
you should, at least want you make you want it to be lower. Yeah, I don't need you to be scared. But like, you should recognize it as like, this is not optimal. We should adjust this. Yeah, for sure. So what I was getting at earlier is, I mean, sometimes parents say stuff like, you know, I want them to do it. But it's also it's hard to give away, like, connection and control when you're a parent, too. I can see how raising a high school kid, you could say in 10th grade, like, oh, they should know by now, but there's time 11th grade, there's time, there's time, you know. Like, well, now it's getting so close, he doesn't really know what he's doing yet. No time left. Yeah, there's no time left. I'll just stay involved and, like, you know, like, I'll help. And not to say your mom did that, or not, like, I'm just saying, like, it's a possibility, and there's also a possibility that you're in the same boat where you're, like, I don't really want to do this all by myself. So, like, we can put it off a little longer, but now you're,

Brady 39:17
I mean, it's June, right? Like, yeah, it's June 3. Yeah,

Scott Benner 39:22
it's here. You know what I mean? This is what Mike Tyson was talking about. So like, you know, you're gonna get a plan that hopefully resists the punch in the nose as much as possible. I think if the small sip series made sense to you, you should go dig into the pro tips and listen through that one. It's

Brady 39:39
your little advert at the end of each of the episodes. It's like, if you think you can, I'm trying made sense to you, Brady,

Scott Benner 39:46
I'm trying to help you. Like, it'll dig in a little more, and it'll give you a chance to and then you just kind of go out in the world and try it, man. You just gotta get an idea and give it a shot. See what happens. Take your data in. This is, you know, I Bolus here. This happen next time. I'll do it a little sooner, a little later, maybe a little more, a little less, and then just keep having those experiences. And I'm telling you, if you continue to have those experiences, watch your results and adjust. One day, it'll just work. And I'm not even kidding, one day you'll just over, you know, overwhelmingly, make good decisions in situations, and you'll have outcomes that you're generally looking for. And when they don't go the way that you want, you'll also know the steps to take to adjust them and get back on track without getting low. Yeah, what you're looking for, you know what I mean? I get it, yeah. And listen, you're young, and you don't feel young. That's the great thing about being young is that this is the oldest you've ever been. This is the smartest you've ever been. And you feel it, man. You're like, I'm doing great, but you'll keep learning. You'll look back on this time at some point and think, like, Wow, I can't believe I thought I was ready to go to college, but it'll work out.

Brady 40:54
That's my like, hope and mentality. I feel like I have been experimenting over the last year, trying to see what works. And obviously I haven't found it yet.

Scott Benner 41:07
You will, though. I you just need to eventually, it's just tools, man. It's tools and experience. You need to know what to do. You need to know why you're doing it, and then you need to do it enough times that it makes sense to you. That's it. It's really not

Brady 41:19
one of those tools. Actually, I mentioned earlier that I'm like, a heavy sleeper. I got this thing called the sugar pixel that has woken me up successfully.

Scott Benner 41:30
Yeah. Well, I'll tell you a secret about my daughter, heavy sleeper, to say the least. And it was the biggest concern we had when she left for college, because my daughter didn't go 3040, minutes away. She went 13 hours by car away. Dane, you know, you left you there the first night. I was like, Well, I guess she'll probably be dead in a week. Yeah, she just told us one day she goes, No, I just wake up. And she goes, I don't know now that I know it's on me, I just wake up.

Brady 41:54
That's another aspect, I think, in the back of my mind. For years now I've always known, like, I have this support system. And while I don't consciously want to, like, think that like, I don't know I like, subconsciously know that, like, there is a support system, yeah, because my brain is like,

Scott Benner 42:16
the comfort makes you soft. The comfort that your mom will handle it makes you a little soft, makes you go, Okay, well, I'll let her do it. Then you don't have it's not a conscious thought. You're not like, Oh, screw her. She can do it. I'm not getting up. I take your point, and that goes away. And you're like, Well, I guess I'm either gonna, like, you know, have a seizure in my bed, or I'm gonna do this myself.

Brady 42:33
So back in ninth grade, and this was years ago, I had a I was in robotics. We went to an international competition in Texas for a full week. During that week, I managed my own diabetes much better than on my own when I didn't have like that comfortable betting, yeah, set for me in case something did happen.

Scott Benner 42:57
It makes sense to me. It makes sense to me that that the responsibility like you rose to the challenge the situation required more of you, and you gave it more

Brady 43:04
a sort of like adrenaline or, I guess, pure survival instinct.

Scott Benner 43:09
I would guess you just, you just, you're like, Oh, well, this is it. I gotta take care of it myself. Or I'm, I'm screwed. First of all, you already have decent tools, that small sip series, man, like, I'm not gonna lie to you, like, that's not just a thrown together thing that's curated, like those are small ideas that are really big ideas pulled out of years of podcasts by hundreds of listeners.

Brady 43:29
I got a sense of that, especially when you had, I guess the doctor speak with you, or like the nurse, I forget her name, but yeah, I could tell that it was like so many things put together a

Scott Benner 43:41
lot of conversations that got distilled down into ideas. Then we got to watch people in the community use those ideas for years, watched what worked, what, you know, what didn't work for people, and then, you know, go back to them again and say, like that. That list started by me asking people just like, tell me a phrase from the podcast that's been, like, transformative for you, and we pulled together that entire list. And, like, I don't know if I said it in there or not, but like, if something's on that list, it's not like one person said, you said, blah, blah, blah. It really helped me. 50, 100 200 people said that was really valuable for me. You know, we pulled together the ideas that large amounts of people agreed were really valuable, but you want to dig into them a little more and find out what about them is. So it's going to be trial by fire. You're going to go to school and you're going to, you know, you're going to do it, but if I was you, I'd keep doing what you're doing, like I talked to your mom right now about cutting her out right now and almost acting like you're away at school just to see how it goes because you don't want to figure out, you know what I mean, like, you don't want to get in there. Yeah, you don't want to figure out when it's too late. What will you tell roommates? Like, have you met your roommates yet?

Brady 44:51
I actually have my own private room and bathroom, no fancy so what I'll be doing, most likely, is when I get there. During, like, the move in day I'll leave my leave my door open, and then, you know, talk to people who are, like, nearby me, and then I kind of guess go from there. Yeah,

Scott Benner 45:10
you've thought about it, I imagine. But it's a tough thing to meet a brand new person and be like, Hey, would you like to learn how to squirt this in my nose in case I have a seizure? Yeah, because they're gonna go, No, man, I don't want to know that, especially guys might be tougher than you might find like a sweet girl who might help you. You know they mean,

Brady 45:27
I actually so this year, I was the only boy in an old girl class. There was like six girls, and the teacher was also a female, and that was funny, and they all knew me from previous years, and they all knew I was a diabetic and stuff. And, like, there was a kind of support system there. Yeah.

Scott Benner 45:48
Now you, you'll, you'll definitely, uh, you'll find people Hey. Episode 1378 is called heading to college with type one low blood glucose incidence. It's a three part series on going to college, and it's me and this person who her name's Andrea, right? And she's worked at colleges, helping kids with accommodations. She's also a type one. She's also worked in the past that, you know, organizations that solely help kids with type one at college. So look for those episodes. She can talk you through some of it. It's really good. And I'm going to email you the GLP list. In case you want to listen to it. I'll email you the pro tip list too, so you can, can take a look if you're interested. But I You can do it like I've been talking to you, yeah, you know, 45 minutes now, like you're easily smart enough and you're invested. It's just a matter of, like, making a decision that, like, you're going to prioritize it and then try to be ahead of it. And I'll tell you right now, man, like, I don't know a way to say it, that it'll be like, flashy, like a T shirt slogan and stick in your head. But life is about preparation for tomorrow. Like, if you're focused on prepping for tomorrow, today goes well. But if you run over there going like, oh my god, I'm here at school, there's people. I'm overwhelmed. I'm taking classes like, Wait, do you see all the things that hit you in the first 24 hours that you didn't think of? Yeah, I can see that. Just getting food for yourself, trying to meet people, wait till the first time is you're woken up by a bunch of drunk, high kids running around and you're irritated by them. That's going to be a problem in my daughter's first number of months at school, she called me one night and she's like, my roommates came home and they're all drunk and they're vomiting everywhere, and I'm trying to take care of them. And then she said something like, it made me realize she felt responsible for their safety. That's actually insane, yeah, and not a thing that she left school thinking was gonna happen to her. She didn't realize she was going to be the person in that scenario who would feel like guilt that they weren't able to handle themselves and that it was like, she's like, well, if they can't take care of themselves, and I'm here and I can now, it's on me. That's stressful. So those are the things you're not gonna be able to plan for. Maybe they won't happen to you. Exactly that something else might happen. You know, you have no idea. You might start dating a girl and she might break your heart, you know, like that, that's true, yeah? Like, any of this, I've dated before, you haven't actually, no, why not? Well, I don't know. I just haven't really felt the need to, yeah, I guess. Like, I've had the same friends since, like, middle school, and we've always done everything together. And, like, even in high school,

Brady 48:19
I met new people that girls and boys, I just

Scott Benner 48:25
haven't had the interest. Brady, I'm worried about your generation. You're not out there like trying to find a girlfriend currently. No, no, you think girls are really pretty though, and

Brady 48:34
you're Oh, yes, okay. I do think there's pretty people and and

Scott Benner 48:40
there's girls out there, you're interested in that way. You just don't make the move. It's

Brady 48:44
less being interested in more, in the sense of, like, I don't want that on my plate as

Scott Benner 48:51
well. I don't understand. I'm old. You understand much older than you. But at your age, I thought of almost

Brady 48:59
nothing else. Yeah, yeah. I think of my studies, friends that I have, the family that I have diabetes, work, and then, like, Lego and games,

Scott Benner 49:10
yeah, no, no. I thought about pretty girls. That was it. And then the rest of it, if it fit, was fine, but also we had nothing to do. Like, you know, I mean, if, I'm putting myself at your age 18, that makes it. Hold on, how old was? What year was it? When I was 18, it's just gonna freak you out. It was 89 you're fine. Yeah, I think was 89 I was 18. And you know, to say that, you know, there was nothing to do, is a there just wasn't a lot to do.

Brady 49:40
Yeah, I guess that makes sense, especially with, like, the Gen Z and then I guess the supposed Gen Alpha generation.

Scott Benner 49:48
I don't track any of that. I don't know what Gen I am. I don't know what Gen you are. I couldn't possibly care less. I'm saying there were no computers, no cell phones there, you know, stuff that came on television at eight o'clock at night. That was it like you didn't have. I mean, listen, I. With you now, I'm hip Brady. Like, I watch Youtube every day. Like, I find something that I'm interested in and listen to 10 minutes of something or a half an hour of something every day. I while I'm making the podcast, if I'm not recording, I am listening to somebody talk about something completely different on another screen. Like, and I'm sure you are too, right? Like, we've all, like, changed, like, as far as that goes, Yeah, people watch television while they're doing something else.

Brady 50:26
I am the same way. I'll watch, I'll pull up a YouTube video while, while

Scott Benner 50:30
something's on TV, which is, by the way, stupid Brady, but, but, like, that's how the world works, although I will say, lately I got that mob land on paramount, plus mob land. I sit and watch that very closely, as Tom Hardy is murdering people. Very good show.

Brady 50:44
I've been a very big Walking Dead enthusiast myself.

Scott Benner 50:48
Walking Dead is awesome. The first season is nearly perfect. It is, yeah, yeah. But now kids, like, don't even do that, like, they'll put it on in the background and do something else at the same time.

Brady 50:59
You see, when I'm, like, engaged in the show. I'll watch the show. Good.

Scott Benner 51:02
That's I'm happy for. This is how it should go. But my point is, is that back in my life, there was nothing to do, like, so you got up in the morning, you ate, and then you weren't like, Oh, I wonder what of these 9 million things I could do that will be exciting. There was nothing to do. So I was just like, let us identify attractive girls and keep asking them out until one of them says, yes,

Brady 51:23
yeah, and you can only play Monopoly so many times until

Scott Benner 51:28
True enough is that you're exactly right. There's nothing to do. There was MTV. Like, you could sit and watch music videos over and over again, but that was pretty much that most of us didn't have a car. Like, do you have a car? Can you drive around if you need

Brady 51:42
to? I actually got a car like, six months ago.

Scott Benner 51:46
See, you have, you have access to being mobile. If you need to reach people, your friends, you can reach them in an instant. I was just telling somebody the other day, we we'd walk for 45 minutes to get to somebody's house to find out they're not

Brady 51:58
there. I would do that when I was when I was younger, maybe not finding them that they're not there, but I would walk, like, a good hour to places.

Scott Benner 52:06
It's funny because, like, when you think of, like, the direction of your life, like, what's your goal? Like, to get a job or to make money, or, like, what do you think about when you think about the next 10 years? For

Brady 52:16
the longest time, I've said college, but I can't even say that anymore, can I? Well, I've done the math. I need to make about $110,000 a year to fully sustain myself, coming into, like, the 2030s

Scott Benner 52:30
and that includes $600 Legos once in a while.

Brady 52:34
Yeah, that includes the Lego that includes the medical bills of diabetes and dental and general. And how

Scott Benner 52:42
reasonable is that to make $110,000 with the degree you're looking at? Do you even know

Brady 52:47
it's reasonable if you could actually get a job that utilizes your degree? Because I've also seen that less and less people are actually going with a job that their degree is used in. Yeah,

Scott Benner 52:59
that happens a lot, man. So I A lot of times you'll see that people will, you know, start in one direction end in another, or that the thing you learn, just, you know, makes you available to get a job, and then you grow in that job or move to another one. You're freaking me out, though. Like my first job out of high school, I worked there part time. In high school, I made $4.50 an hour. Wow, yes, they very generously moved me up to $5 an hour when I started full time. So in a week, working 40 hours a week, I made $200 that times 52 would be $10,400 and then there were taxes taken out of that, in insurance. So I worked all year for about like, seven grand, maybe, is that right? That's hard to wrap your head around,

Brady 53:46
right? Yeah, I I've been working for a couple years now as a cashier at like, a family owned grocery store, yeah? Or, I guess, like specialty market. I first made 12 when I started, and then they bought me the 1350 after my first year. And then, because it's be about another month to go into my second year, but I'll be going to college, which means I won't be seeing much in my raise. Anyways,

Scott Benner 54:10
I haven't never done that math before. Like, I know I didn't make any money, but I didn't realize it was like $10,000

Brady 54:17
a year, Jesus, God with my school, I'm actually making about that much as well, personally. So you're making 1000s.

Scott Benner 54:24
Okay, so I'm not trying to make you feel good, but it sounds like you're going to the school you're going to for some somewhat for financial reasons. Were there other schools you were accepted to you would have preferred to go to that you couldn't afford to go

Brady 54:35
to? I would say so. So there's this private college called it was called Rollins College, and it was a beautiful campus, small class sizes, like 2030, across every class, and it was in Orlando where I wanted to go. So of course, I could work at that Lego store and get the 50% off. I hear what you're saying, but, but that that ended up being like 40,000 a year. Okay? Yeah. And because I'm only 17, I couldn't take out, like, loans or anything. My mom has been helping with my college process, and my dad finances, at least. And she looked at the loans with the help of my dad, like, picking out the loans, yeah, and with interest, those loans would end up being like, $400,000

Scott Benner 55:21
Yeah, after the end, what's the cost of where you ended up going?

Brady 55:24
FGCU, and that's about five grands a year that I'm gonna have to pay for, yeah?

Scott Benner 55:31
So 20,000 instead of 400,000 Yeah, yeah. Well, that makes a lot more sense,

Brady 55:37
because it's a public college, and with my high school education, I was able to get a scholarship, which covers full tuition. Good for you. My mom and dad are paying. They said they would pay for my dorm. That's nice. And my grandparents are setting me up with money for food, which means it leaves me to about 5000 a year that I have to pay for that's lovely,

Scott Benner 56:06
that everybody's going to help you like that, and you're not going to come out in crazy debt that you can never get on top of. That's a big deal, man. Well, listen, can I give you a piece of advice? Don't get a credit card. Okay, I is it too? Have you already gotten one? No, I don't have a credit card. Okay?

Brady 56:23
I've been told different things about credit cards, like you want one to build a credit score, but don't use it frequently, okay? And then at the same time you don't want one, because then you'll fall into the trap if you want to get a credit card

Scott Benner 56:37
with a $500 limit and buy something that you were going to buy anyway, and then pay it off at the end of the month before you pay month before you pay interest on it. That's fine with me, but, yeah, you can't get caught in that trap where you're like, oh, I need a sofa and I can't afford it, so I'll do that. Yeah? Or, trust me, it's never anything fun Brady, it's never a rocket ride. It's never c3 po Lego. It's always a sofa.

Brady 57:01
I was, I was hoping for, for that. C, 3p. O,

Scott Benner 57:04
yeah, it's not that. It's always going to be a sofa. It's going to be a sofa. It's going to be, I need shoes. It's going to be, I can't afford to eat this week. And then, you know, you're going to look up in five years and realize you have the credit card company $40,000 and that's a 27% interest and you're never

Brady 57:19
going to pay that off. My grandma came down. My grandma and grandpa came down from Massachusetts for my graduation. They offered to get socks for me, and I took them on their offer, damn, right? You

Scott Benner 57:29
did I take some free socks right now, if anybody wanted to send them over, I finally found socks I like, and they're not expensive. I'd be happy to take some freebies from you right now. You know what a t shirt cost? About $30 yeah, see what I'm saying. It's all ridiculous, my friend, it's all ridiculous. The chocolate chips I make chocolate chip cookies with, they took four ounces out of the bag, and they put the price up $1 saying That's right. Everywhere along the world there's going to be that, there's going to be going on. So we need you go to school, learn something awesome, figure out how to take care of yourself. Meet a girl, it smells nice. That's interesting. Yeah, you want to make the smell. You want to make sure they smell nice to you. It's very important. And vice versa. You don't think this is important the olfactory

Brady 58:13
I think I smell reasonable. I don't smell bad, although I don't like I don't take the measures to actively, like, smell nice, like I'm not using cologne. That's

Scott Benner 58:24
fine. I don't mean like that. I mean like, a natural way people. You just want to make sure you jive with them, I guess, as I'm saying, Oh yeah, I don't want you to run around sniffing people.

Brady 58:33
No, that'd be weird, damn, right. It would be

Scott Benner 58:37
Hi, I'm Brady. Okay. I'm just gonna go, yeah. So I am super interested in this. I just had a an interview recently with a guy in his 20s, and the same thing. I'm like, you dating? He goes, nah. I'm like, What are you guys doing? What about another person would add value to your life? Like you said, like, I have friends and I don't, like, I haven't really thought about that, but, like, what is it that you think another, like a mate,

Brady 59:02
would bring to you? Well, obviously, the love and compassion, I think hearing couples say, like, Yeah, I'll do I'll do this for you. Like, having a support, in a sense, I think just the support of like, having someone by your side, okay, is what a partner? Yeah, pretty, pretty much. If that's a definition of a partner,

Scott Benner 59:24
would you want to be that for somebody else too? Or does that not occur to you?

Brady 59:28
I don't think that in the traditional sense of a partner, I don't think I'd be ready for that when I haven't fully figured out my own self yet.

Scott Benner 59:37
Okay, so you think that you might not be a good partner for somebody else, but you'd need to get to another point where you would have the space to do that for

Brady 59:45
somebody else. Yes, interesting. Okay, what about

Scott Benner 59:50
the Fred, did you mind me asking, like, What about like, the sex part? Are you not like, interested in that part? If I see boobs, they're boobs pretty. I agree with you. They're wonderful. That part, you. Like, you look at girls and you think, like, oh, I would like to, like, be more intimate with people, but I'm not ready to be like a partner to somebody. I think that seems fair, by the way. Yeah, you think girls probably feel the same way, right? I would think so hopefully, hopefully Britney, like, this is my only chance. If they don't feel that way, what am I gonna do? Like, you know, my daughter has a lot of friends, and I think probably people are people, and they they feel the same way, like, you know, like I, I'm not looking to be responsible for another person, but I would like to have some fun and have some connection, you know, with somebody who I get along with. Yeah, I think that'll happen, don't

Brady 1:00:33
you? I think so too. And what's crazy is that I've been like a best friend to a girl since like, sixth grade and all throughout high school, other girls have said, Oh, you should, you should date her. And I'm like, No, but we're just, we're just friends, like we we enjoy you think she would be no, I don't think so. No, no, not at all. You think she doesn't like you that way? No, we make for amazing friends. Like, just, just weird antics, weird antics, doing high jumping or fixing a truck.

Scott Benner 1:01:07
Well, you have all those interests together. Is she attractive to you?

Brady 1:01:12
I think anyone can look attractive as just having the control to act on that or not act on it.

Scott Benner 1:01:18
So if you like her, then she's attractive, I guess. Yeah. I mean, listen, I don't really have a type. Like, I think that how I feel about you, like, emotionally is, is what makes you attractive. Physically, if you're just meeting somebody in public and you don't know them, then you kind of, you know, you use the basic checklist. But like, once you know somebody, I think, I think people are attractive and like, tons of different ways. And is

Brady 1:01:41
she going to college? Um, yes, she's. She's actually going to an all girls school in Georgia.

Scott Benner 1:01:49
Oh my gosh, you're not gonna be able to get to her there. They're gonna have a fence up. Yeah,

Brady 1:01:53
she's already said she's gonna come down to Florida, like during breaks and stuff, to say hi to her family and, of course, friends back at home, because I'll be staying

Scott Benner 1:02:01
local. I don't know, man, maybe she likes you. You never asked. You're not interested to know. No, no, nothing has ever happened and brushed a hand like by, nothing like that. I mean, she's offering to come see you right at college. Yeah, are you offering to go see her?

Brady 1:02:18
I mean, I said I would, yeah, and then, and then she directly said, Well, I don't know how that's gonna work, because they don't let boys in my school. Yeah. And then, like, there'd be no real place to, like, stay unless I went to, like, an actual hotel. Like, if she came down here, she obviously would have her parents to

Scott Benner 1:02:37
go to. Okay, all right. All right. Is there anything that we have not talked about that we should have Brady.

Brady 1:02:43
There is one thing go ahead that has just always been a thing with me, and that's on a pump, whatever pump, the insulin that delivers from the pump isn't effective for like, the first five hours,

Scott Benner 1:03:00
new sites don't seem as effective as established sites, right? Yeah. I think there's something to do with the the kind of, like trauma at the at the injection site. So, like, there's, yeah, like the boom, the needle go. What pump you wearing? Currently, the Omnipod, five. Okay. So then the needle goes in pop. Pop leaves the cannula behind. Now there's inflammation. Body's probably sending white blood cells there, because there's seems like there's a foreign body inside of you. Usually what people do is just kind of Bolus, a little heavier at pump changes.

Brady 1:03:35
That's what I try to do as well. I usually sell like a temp basal for like 35 40% for the first five hours afterward.

Scott Benner 1:03:42
I like that. I like whatever works for you there. I've seen people do a little like, a Bolus from the old pod. Like, if the old pod's working well, like, they'll, they'll, like, pump in some insulin from that one to cover for what's gonna happen with the new site, not maybe being as effective right away. Does that make sense? Should do that? Yeah, that's another idea that you could use. I like your temp basal idea. I would even, yeah, be more aggressive if you need to be with a temp. I've seen people put on a new pump and just Bolus right away, just to, you know, get some insulin moving through that site, any number of those tricks or collection of those should, should be valuable for you. You're gonna see that with any pump, though, it's just, it's your body, like, I mean, somebody just poked a hole in you, you know, that's true, yeah. So it's a it, there's, like, a small trauma that's gone on, and your body's, like, you know, dealing with it, it's settling down, and then it works better. I mean, that's not very technical, but that is what's happening. So, yeah, you were doing it. Try, try bolusing, like, like that, temp basal for five hours. Like, however much that is, because it's not that much, probably right. Like, what's your

Brady 1:04:51
basal rate? And throughout the day, I receive about 50 units of basal at like, two units an hour. You got

Scott Benner 1:04:57
two units going an hour. Wow. How much did you. Say you weighed you're six something, right? Six

Brady 1:05:02
foot. I'm like, I'm like, six foot one. I'm like, about 200 200 Yeah. So my current basal sets at 2.1 for the majority of the day, and then falls to two at night.

Scott Benner 1:05:19
And what's your insulin to carb ratio, one unit covers,

Brady 1:05:21
I think it's like, five carbs. And has it always been like that? It's slowly gone, yeah, slowly going up. And that's why

Scott Benner 1:05:35
is there any weight for you to lose? Like, do you think you're 10 pounds overweight? I

Brady 1:05:38
don't think. I'm not really overweight. I could maybe lose, like, I could use, I could lose a few pounds, right, if I really tried. Are you strong? Yeah? My Yes,

Scott Benner 1:05:50
yeah. Okay, so you're muscular and you're not carrying a bunch of fat.

Brady 1:05:55
Yes, my arms are developed. I have, like, giant legs. My thighs. It actually, if my thighs are so big to the fact that when I'm like walking around, it causes, like the scafing to happen, I think that's what the term is called. Do you lift? I started to this for the second semester of the school year, and I was doing like, 250 deadlift, 100 bench, yeah,

Scott Benner 1:06:23
no, you're you're okay, okay, he man. I mean, I understand why a doctor talked to you about Metformin, I'd be interested. Like, I'm gonna send you this list. You can listen to some episodes and try to see if you think a GLP works for you. But, yeah, trying a Metformin is not a bad idea at all. It might take your stomach a little time to get accustomed to it, but if you can cut down some of your insulin resistance, and, you know, find a way for your basal to be lower, your you know, your insulin to carb ratio to be lower, it's definitely going to help you when you hit that more challenging food at school, it's going to help you in general.

Brady 1:06:54
That's what I was hoping for, because, like, as I've grown like, I come from a family of a very like, large people, terms of, like, height, I guess muscle distribution, even just generally, yeah, and I've I'm eating more as I grow older, but the same, I'm also having to do higher carb ratios. So it's been like a, what, like a, like a curve, where it's just exponentially going up, in a sense, yeah,

Scott Benner 1:07:23
well, this list I'm going to send you here, besides the pro tips, so you know, talk about how to use insulin. There's another list here for the GLP medications, and there's a ton of people who've tried them, like, with varying degrees of success. There's a story here of a 15 year old girl who's like, barely uses any insulin anymore because of a GLP, down to some people who just have, like, you know, like, a 20% decrease. Now, there's other people with type one diabetes take a GLP, it won't touch them, who won't do anything for them, but they probably don't have any insulin resistance. Does that make sense? Yeah, or wait to lose, you know, maybe some of this will help you here, and you can try to, you know, go back to that doctor with the Metformin. And, I mean, I do it quickly because I'd like to see whatever you're doing. I'd like to see it be a pattern before you leave for school, because you don't want to have, you don't have to start a new thing. Like, I don't want you away at school when suddenly your insulin needs change by 30% you know what I mean, yeah, like, or, you know, or you have to remember to take a pill every day. Or, you know, like I said, a Metformin could mess with your stomach a little bit like, so you don't want to be, you know, if you're going to be poopy, Brady, you'd like to do that at home in June, not at school in September. Like, I ain't no way to meet a girl. I want you out there doing your, you know, at your best, while you're enjoying your your school,

Brady 1:08:43
you know what I mean? All right, Brady,

Scott Benner 1:08:45
this was awesome. I appreciate you doing this. So your your mom make you do this.

Brady 1:08:50
She suggested it, and I was the one that said yes or no. And I said, Yes, yeah, of course. But why did she just suggest it? Do you think I think just to talk to a person like yourself who has information and knowledge about diabetes and I guess life as a whole? Yeah, did you find this interesting or valuable? It was, it's been this was valuable. Yes, it's certainly interesting to talk to like someone such as yourself. Oh, cool. I had a great knowledge and expertise. I

Scott Benner 1:09:17
appreciate it, man. I had a great time talking to you. It was awesome. I uh, you making me want to make a Lego that's for sure. I've never played Minecraft. I don't think I have the head for it. I think I'd be like, I dig one trench, and I'd be like, What the hell? And I'd be done. I don't have big picture. I don't think I could hold all that in my head at the same time without, like, there being a win at the end.

Brady 1:09:37
I mean, my family doesn't play Minecraft because they just get dizzy from playing it, like they can't handle the screens.

Scott Benner 1:09:43
Yeah, I don't think I'd be good with it. I will sit down sometimes watch my son play it because, like, I'm trying to figure out, like, what is he thinking about? Like, what's he doing, you know what? I mean, yeah, but

Brady 1:09:55
that's it. Are you athletic? Do you get out and move around? I did cross country in middle school. Mm. Hmm. And I still like running. I like biking a lot, okay? And I like volleyball, but our school didn't have a volleyball team, so

Scott Benner 1:10:07
try to stay active in college, though. Keep moving, okay? Because it'll be it'll be valuable for

Brady 1:10:11
you. I also play a VR game called Beat saber. I don't know if you've heard anyone talk about that before.

Scott Benner 1:10:17
I have not, but it sounds like you're dancing with a lightsaber in your head.

Brady 1:10:21
That's kind of exactly what it is, and that gets you moving very when you get to, like, advanced difficulties, I guess is what you could say it as you're moving around to the point where, like, your arms feel like jello when you're done and you're sweating a bucket,

Scott Benner 1:10:37
Oh, geez. All right, hey, whatever keeps you moving. All right? I think you're on your way, Brady, I think you're gonna do great. Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. You got a lot of stuff figured out. The things you don't have figured out, you're thinking about. You got good motivation to go find some ladies. I think that's good too. Of all the things you said today, I felt good about that, because I'm very worried for your entire generation. You just don't feel like you guys are dating very much. I don't know it's weird,

Brady 1:11:04
it I'm sure I think it's the online trends. Yeah, no, I

Scott Benner 1:11:09
agree. It's you. Your life is fulfilling inside of a screen. You know what? I mean? Like, like I said, you certainly have more going on than I had going on when I was a kid. You know, more opportunities for things. They're just, they're solitary things. You know, we want you to be able to, like, be around some real people

Brady 1:11:25
even now, I'm not, we're not talking on, like a radio. I'm talking on my computer, and you're talking on

Scott Benner 1:11:31
I'm talking on a computer too. Don't worry. I'm sitting in front of two different computers with two different screens and a bunch of audio equipment. And, yeah, it's not lost to me. I'm actually a couple weeks from now, I'm gonna go myself and 100 listeners are going on a cruise together. I'm excited to meet people in person, and then I'm going to a diabetes conference a couple weeks after that, where I'll probably meet 1000s of people who have diabetes, actually, in Orlando.

Brady 1:11:54
So does the does the merch store fund that the merch store fund? What

Scott Benner 1:12:00
the the the cruise, no, no, no. People pay their way. And we just, we just put it together to see if we could get people interested in just wanting to meet each other. And overall, that's what it is to a bunch of people who are just like, hey, I'm gonna go on vacation and meet a lot of other people living with diabetes. I don't get to see other people living with diabetes. So it's just a nice opportunity for people to get together. But anyway, like, I'm gonna take a lot from meeting people in person. Anyway, can't touch boobs on the screen, is what I'm saying. Brady, so get out there. Okay, that's always that's true. Don't forget to always ask permission. Okay, yep, okay, all right, hold on a second.

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