#1618 T1Daredevil
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Crew, 13, diagnosed with type 1 at 7, is a fearless mountain biker. He's joined by his mom Marsha (at the end of the hour).
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Scott Benner 0:00
Welcome back, friends. You are listening to the Juicebox podcast.
Crew 0:14
Hi, my name is crew. I'm 13 years old. I got diagnosed for diabetes at seven years old,
Scott Benner 0:24
I created the diabetes variables series because I know that in type one diabetes management, the little things aren't that little, and they really add up. In this series, we'll break down everyday factors like stress, sleep, exercise and those other variables that impact your day more than you might think Jenny Smith and I are going to get straight to the point with practical advice that you can trust. So check out the diabetes variable series in your podcast player or at Juicebox podcast.com Please don't forget that nothing you hear on the Juicebox podcast should be considered advice medical or otherwise. Always consult a physician before making any changes to your healthcare plan or becoming bold with insulin.
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Crew 2:04
hi. My name is crew. I'm 13 years old. I live in Lawrence, Kansas. I got diagnosed for diabetes at seven years old. Okay, and it's just, it's been fun, hard and kind of confusing, but,
Scott Benner 2:19
yeah, why don't we figure out what fun, hard and kind of confusing means?
Crew 2:23
So the fun part is, we figured out how to do all of our stuff so far, I think, and it's been fun. I can do the stuff I want to do. I play baseball, one thinking about doing track or football. So that's fun. And the confusing part was, sometimes it's kind of like, I don't really want to do this. It's kind of annoying. I don't really know how so. But other than that, it's been it's been
Scott Benner 2:57
fun. Let's figure out what that means. So how old were you again, when you were diagnosed? I was seven years old. You remember anything about it? I remember
Crew 3:09
I could not feel like any part of my body. I just kind of felt I was there. That's it. And so I couldn't, couldn't really walk, or we had to. We rushed me to, I think, the urgent care, and I think five, three minutes, they said, Yep, yes, type one diabetes that quick. So, yeah, it was fast. It was extremely fast. Three minutes. I'm pretty sure it was the lady came in, smelled my breath, took a look at me and said, Yeah, he has diabetes type one. Your guys are gonna have to take him to children's per seat or right now. Wow. So I
Scott Benner 3:50
want to go back and ask a question. Yeah, you said you couldn't feel your body. Can you be more descriptive about what that means?
Crew 3:57
So what happened was I was like, really? I lost so much weight. I couldn't, like, my legs are kind of numb. My arms are kind of numb. I could barely walk. So my dad was asking to carry me, but I said, No. I mean, I didn't really want him to. So I just, I barely walked to the car, got in the back, just laid down, okay,
Scott Benner 4:19
sat on the back and just, do you know what your blood sugar was when they diagnosed you?
Crew 4:24
I think it was, what was my blood sugar? 485
Scott Benner 4:28
485 okay, yeah, did they say that you were in DKA? Or did you never hear them say that I
Crew 4:35
was in DKA? We went to Children's Mercy Hospital. I was in d k for, I think, 48
Scott Benner 4:42
hours. Wow. So that's how long it took them to kind of bring you back from that. Yep. And how long were you in the hospital? Do you recall?
Crew 4:49
Yes, I was in the hospital for, I think, three days, two days in DKA. And last day I got to actually eat food, and at three. Up because I ate too many oranges and drink orange Gatorade. So that was it. Yeah. And then you're on
Scott Benner 5:07
your way home, and all of a sudden you had diabetes. Now, do you have any brothers or sisters? Nope, only child. Only child. How about your parents? They have diabetes?
Crew 5:16
Nope. None of us. No one in my
Scott Benner 5:19
family. Do you know about other autoimmune issues, like, do you have anything you take medicine for?
Crew 5:23
I have ADHD, so I do take medicine for that.
Scott Benner 5:27
Nothing. With your thyroid, for example, you're able to eat gluten, stuff like that. Yep. Okay, so tell me, how long have you had ADHD? I've
Crew 5:37
had it for a long time, except we just didn't really notice, but I could tell that I've had it for a long time. But we started giving me, um, medicine for medica, yeah, medication for it. I think what, uh, two ish years ago, three issues ago. Yeah,
Scott Benner 5:54
what did you mean? You You could tell you've had it for a long time, like,
Crew 5:58
not focused and stuff in school, when I was in like, second to third grade, first grade, I mean, I don't remember anything about first grade. I remember second third and coming all the way to fourth grade. I was like, could have focused in school, didn't I messed around a lot. And,
Scott Benner 6:15
I mean, yeah, does that not happen anymore?
Crew 6:20
No, ever since I started taking medication for it, it's been really good. I have I've on the principles Honor Roll last year for the whole entire year. Wow, I've had all A's the whole year. It's been a
Scott Benner 6:33
lot better, a lot better. Good for you. And does that make you happy?
Crew 6:38
Yeah, it makes me really happy, because just knowing the fact that it's been working ever since the medication and stuff, it's been working so well. And I'm just happy that I can kind of live my life without having to worry about me just going haywire. Yeah, I
Scott Benner 6:54
get that. So when you get home from that hospital after your diagnosis, there's a way you're taking care of yourself. I imagine your parents were helping you with it, right? A lot. Yeah, okay, yeah. Do you remember how they were doing? It was it with a pump or needles or a pen.
Crew 7:09
It was with pen and needles, and then to take my blood sugar. It was with the poker. We just poked myself, got the blood out, and that was really it, until, I think I was on insulin and the poker for, I think, couple weeks, I think not, not a full month, I don't think, but a couple weeks, and then I went under the My to my pump, yeah, and my Dexcom
Scott Benner 7:37
insulin In the poker sounds like a country music album. Yeah. So you got a Dexcom pretty soon afterwards, yeah, it was, it was pretty soon. Okay, so you've been using it for a long time, yeah, yeah, okay, so let's figure out what you mean by it's fun. So are you telling me that you were presented with a challenge like diabetes, and you find it interesting or engaging to try to figure it out. Yes, okay, are you like that with other things? Yes, a lot. Yeah. Give me an example of something that has nothing to do with diabetes that you find fun just on the idea of you like trying to figure it out.
Crew 8:18
So one thing I like to do a lot is I build speakers. I listen to music and stuff. And so I found this speaker set. It was on Amazon, $13 and so I got one of them. I liked it a lot, and I wired it all together. So I put four speakers and one Bluetooth board, right? And so there was only two spaces to put two speakers in, so I had to cut the wires off, rewire them to the speakers. So I had two speakers on one cord, and I put four speakers and a speaker, so I have a double decker speaker right now. And then I got another one, because I like doing that a lot, yeah. And so I just I figured out how to do it, and so I did it again and put it in my car. So now I have a speaker system in my RC car,
Scott Benner 9:10
in your remote control car, yeah. So when it drives around, it plays Bluetooth music.
Crew 9:15
I can control it all from
Scott Benner 9:17
my phone. Wow.
Crew 9:17
How did you learn to do that? So it was really cool. It did it come with instructions or anything, right? I don't quite understand. I guess I just figured it
Scott Benner 9:27
out. You didn't use a YouTube video or go online. Nope, no, you just looked at it and made sense of it. Yeah, huh? Are you good at math?
Crew 9:35
Yes, I love math. Math is my favorite subject in school.
Scott Benner 9:41
That's nice. That's really awesome. What level of math you in at this point?
Crew 9:44
I was just in regular math, and just I got it done in like, a minute, right? Me and my friend, we were done before anyone in the class. We just got it done. And when we get our math done in school, we get to go on our iPads and, like, go. Listen to music. We get to play, like, educational games. So not just video games, but educational games, like math games and stuff, yeah, or typing games and so I thought that was really easy. It was just so easy the math. I want to do harder math. I want to do pre algebra this year. So I think I'm going to go into pre
Scott Benner 10:19
algebra. Awesome. I hope. What kind of music do you enjoy?
Crew 10:23
I listen to country music. My lesson does some rap music. But other than that, I mean, there's kind of those two things,
Scott Benner 10:31
country and rap. Yeah, tell me a country group that you like.
Crew 10:36
Morgan Wallen. I like Morgan Wallen a lot. George straight. Let's see here, George straight, more than
Scott Benner 10:45
one see George straight, that's got to be your parents music, right? Jelly Roll. Jelly Roll. I like jelly roll too. Let's see here.
Crew 10:54
I There's a really, really old country singer that I like a lot.
Scott Benner 10:57
Do you like rock or guitars or anything like that. Yeah, I do, yeah, yeah. Have you ever heard Gary Clark Jr? Think so. Actually, yes. And what kind of rap Do you like?
Crew 11:08
Some rap I listen to, I Tyler. Tyler the Creator. He's kind he does some rap, but also, I think he's also kind of into pop too. So I listened to Tyler, The Creator. The last song of him I listened to was, see you again. I like, I like that song a lot. Okay, in his playlist, I Gore, awesome. Awesome. That's also the last, I guess, not really song, but that's what I listened to. See you again. On the playlist, I gore. I'll try that out. Okay, yeah, it's, I'm gonna give it a shot. It's fun. It's cool. He's, he's awesome, all right, his music is fun. I'll try.
Scott Benner 11:45
Would you say Morgan Wallen? Morgan Wallen and Tyler the Creator, yeah, I'll give it a shot. Thank you. I need something to listen to in the car today. Yeah, I've been listening to the same stuff over and over again, a little too much, so I gotta branch out. Yeah, you ever do that where you start listening to the same thing? Just way too much?
Crew 12:03
Yes, I just need to find something different. Yeah, I
Scott Benner 12:07
feel like I'm gonna ruin the song sometimes. Yeah, yeah.
Crew 12:10
It's just like, too much. No, give me something else, please. I hear you
Scott Benner 12:14
so you liked music and thought to yourself, I'd like to string together some speakers. Do you go to your parents for that information, or do you just head to Amazon and figure it out? So
Crew 12:25
I went to Amazon and searched up speakers, or I searched speaker systems. And so what popped up was a speaker kit for $13 which is a really good deal, because they it is loud. It is so easy to it was easy to make. All you have to do is just plug it in and then turn it on, and it connects to your phone and it's loud. I mean, it was a good deal for $13 Yeah,
Scott Benner 12:49
it was awesome. I'm looking at some speakers here on my setup, and I paid more than $13 for them. So would have been a good
Crew 12:55
deal for me. Yeah, I don't know. You
Scott Benner 12:58
take that level of interest and do you apply it to your diabetes? Like, why is diabetes fun? Like, I talked to you about the speakers, because, like, I wanted to see like, like, how your mind works, and what you enjoyed about doing that. Are you applying some of that to the diabetes? Yes, how you can manage diabetes confidently with the powerfully simple Dexcom g7 dexcom.com/juicebox the Dexcom g7 is the CGM that my daughter is wearing. The g7 is a simple CGM system that delivers real time glucose numbers to your smartphone or smart watch. The g7 is made for all types of diabetes, type one and type two, but also people experiencing gestational diabetes, the Dexcom g7 can help you spend more time in range, which is proven to lower a 1c The more time you spend in range, the better and healthier you feel. And with the Dexcom clarity app, you can track your glucose trends, and the app will also provide you with a projected a 1c in as little as two weeks. If you're looking for clarity around your diabetes, you're looking for Dexcom, dexcom.com/juicebox when you use my link, you're supporting the podcast dexcom.com/juicebox head over there. Now, I used to hate ordering my daughter's diabetes supplies, I never had a good experience, and it was frustrating. But it hasn't been that way for a while, actually, for about three years now, because that's how long we've been using us. Med, us, med.com/juicebox, or call 888-721-1514, us, med is the number one distributor for FreeStyle Libre systems nationwide. They are the number one specialty distributor for Omnipod, the number one fastest growing tandem distributor nationwide, the number one rated distributor in Dexcom customer satisfaction surveys they have served. Over 1 million people with diabetes since 1996 and they always provide 90 days worth of supplies and fast and free shipping us med carries everything from insulin pumps and diabetes testing supplies to the latest CGM like the libre three and Dexcom g7 they accept Medicare nationwide and over 800 private insurers find out why us med has an A plus rating with a better business bureau at us med.com/juicebox, or just call them at 888-721-1514, get started right now, and you'll be getting your supplies the same way we do.
Crew 15:42
So some of the thing is, like, when I'm dosing, I have to do a little bit of the math to figure out what I have to do, and also figuring out what my blood sugar is. I mean, sometimes, like, my phone dies a lot, and so sometimes I have to poke myself with the original
Scott Benner 16:01
finger poker that I had insulin in the poker. Remember we thought, yeah,
Crew 16:04
sometimes I do have to use those. Why does your phone die a lot? Well, I charge it, it's, I mean, it's an old phone. I have an old phone. So
Scott Benner 16:14
is your mom? Can she hear you saying that? Yes, yeah, act sad. Be like, Oh, I just, I wish my phone was
Crew 16:20
a little, yeah, I wish, mom. I wish my phone just a little nicer
Scott Benner 16:23
phone. Yes, I'd like that iPhone 16. Is that? Are we up to 16 now?
Crew 16:27
I think so. I really, Mom, I really would like the iPhone 16. I mean, is your birthday coming up? Yes, yeah. Wait, no, I just had my birthday a little while ago. I think it was,
Scott Benner 16:38
what'd you get? What'd you get for your birthday? Um, I'll tell you what? Oh, let me tell you something. Crew, if you got a new iPhone, you'd remember,
Crew 16:51
oh yeah, that's that's true, and
Scott Benner 16:54
it is about your health, right? Yes, yeah, it's important that that phone doesn't die. Oh yeah, yeah, that's your argument. That's your argument. That's what you want to do the next time you're talking about it. Okay, okay, I'm worried about my blood sugar, and I really, you know, my phone dies a lot. It's not me. I don't want the phone. I just, I need it. It's a just look cute, and you're an only child, right? Yep, yeah, you must get everything you want. Don't you think?
Crew 17:19
Yeah? I mean, I guess, yeah. Do you wish you had a brother or sister? Yes, I get bored sometimes, and it's kind of like, it's a little bit annoying.
Scott Benner 17:27
But so tell your mom, listen, you can either make a baby or get me an iPhone. Okay? I mean, you see my mind, like, say, Mom, listen, you see what I did with the speakers, right? Like, I'm an intelligent young man. I've got a lot of thoughts. I'm all by myself here. I'm bored. If I can't get a little brother a little sister, I at least need a nice new iPhone that's not gonna die all the time. Yeah, that's how I'm gonna tell her that good job, and don't do it right after this, because she'll know it was like, wait a couple weeks, then drop it in. You know what? I mean? Yeah, yeah. You understand. Okay, so you get bored.
Crew 17:59
Yes, tell me about how so I like to bike a lot, and so, like, sometimes, whenever my friends aren't able to bike around and stuff, I just, I sometimes watch TV if they can. But, like I said, sometimes watching the same old videos, same old music kind of gets a little bit annoying and boring. Yeah. So it's just,
Scott Benner 18:21
yeah, you know, after you and I record this, it'll go off to a man named Rob, and he bikes all the time. Oh, we'll jump on his butt. He'll, like, put his laptop, oh yeah, like with him, and he'll ride somewhere and then edit the podcast when he gets to the place where he's gone. That cool, yeah, that's very cool. That's the kind of job you need. Oh, yeah, I like biking a lot. It's like, it's my thing. How come What is it about riding that makes you enjoy it so much?
Crew 18:49
So I got into biking a couple years ago. I was kind of scared to start get on the bike and everything. So what happened was my dad literally just pushed me on the bike, who is running right behind me, holding me on the bike, and then just let go. I didn't even realize it for a little while, yeah. And I just I started pedaling around, and then I hit a curb, like there was a little the curbs have says, have that little like, jump angle, yeah, in your driveway. I hit one of those and jumped by and jumped my bike. And my dad was like, Oh, my God, oh my God. He was scared. He thought I was gonna crash my bike, but you didn't. Nope, no. Ever since that, I started liking mountain biking, oh,
Scott Benner 19:33
oh, cause you like the riding over things and on the uneven ground. Yeah. No kidding. Hey, listen. Do you want to hear something embarrassing? Sure. Don't worry, Rob, the guy I was just telling you about, like he loves riding a bike, but he still doesn't know how to get started, so his wife has to run next to him and get him going. Oh, isn't that terrible? He's like, 50. Oh, no, yeah, it's embarrassing. You're way ahead of him, really, I guess. But I mean, do you think he's laughing right now when he's editing this? Or do you think. He's like, Hey, don't say that about me. I think he'll laugh. Yeah, do you think I'm being honest, or do you think I'm lying about that? Oh, no, I Oh, interesting career.
Crew 20:09
I like to say you're lying because I because
Scott Benner 20:14
it would be insane for a 50 year old man not to be able to ride a bicycle, right? I guess. Yeah, I don't know, though he's a musician, oh yeah, he plays guitar and all kinds of stuff. He was in a
Crew 20:26
band. He's famous. What band is he in? I don't want to
Scott Benner 20:33
say, oh, oh, my God, I'm sorry I did that, just to mess with him. Maybe we'll say the name of his band, okay, but sorry. Now I'm laughing crew because I'm literally just laughing. I'm just laughing because I'm imagining Rob listening to this, and that's making me laugh. But he's in a metal band called Witch Mountain. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, wow, yeah. No kidding, right? Yeah. What do you want to do when you grow up? I thought
Crew 21:01
about it a little bit, but I don't know if I thought about it enough. I like to be a professional mountain biker for Red Bull, because, I mean, I like it a lot. Yeah, maybe an entrepreneur make my own business Nice. That'd be really cool
Scott Benner 21:14
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Crew 22:34
yes. Do you think you could do that? My parents kind of say I'm a little Daredevil, like a daredevil. So I like jumping off of big things. One time I had, I have this um table in my basement. It's one of those tables they pull out the legs and stuff. I put it on the curb, so it was a really big ramp, and I jumped it, and I think I went like four feet in the air, and my mom told me to stop right there. Just, yeah, nope. Don't do that
Scott Benner 23:03
again. I want to tell you that I've watched those videos, and I think those people are patently insane. There's no way that that doesn't end with you dying at some point you understand what
Crew 23:12
I'm saying. Yeah, some people, I mean, if you don't do it correctly, it's really challenging, because you have to get the right angle. Well, yeah, every you had to get everything right, or else, have
Scott Benner 23:23
you heard of gravity? Yes, yeah. Because, you know, they're on a mountain, you know I'm saying yeah, and there's no snow or anything soft, and they don't appear to have a parachute or anything like that.
Crew 23:36
The only thing they have that will that helps with the landing is the suspension. They have the best suspension.
Scott Benner 23:43
Yeah, I don't know about that. That's going to help you grow when you're falling, like, 3040, feet. You know what? I mean? Yeah, that's all. What kind of an entrepreneur would you like to be like? What kind of a business do you think
Crew 23:54
you'd like? I'd like to build speakers, like I said, I think I might make my own speaker, not speaker, but like, my own speaker brand and my own, like something with music, like my own speaker business,
Scott Benner 24:06
I hear what you're saying, like, sell speakers to, like, people who love them too, but don't know how to build them. Yeah, that'd be cool. You know, when I was a young man crew, this a long time ago, the speakers in my bedroom were, I don't want to lie to lie to you, like I'm being I'm being honest, like they were probably four, four feet tall. They were probably like, I'm gonna guess, 18 inches wide, 18 inches deep. They were these big boxes that had all these speakers in them. Yeah, I don't think they sounded as good as the headphones I have right now, which is amazing, because the technology's gotten like, so much better as time's gone. Yeah, yeah. Really cool. Your speakers used to take up a big part of your bedroom.
Crew 24:45
Oh, yeah, not anymore. Yeah. It's crazy. Yeah. Google, old
Scott Benner 24:49
people speakers, when, when you get down, hold on. I'll do it with you real quick. Let's make sure nothing weird is going to come up. Google. I know Google, T, O, O, old people. Speakers. Oh, they don't even go back far enough. Dang, yeah, there's some type in vintage speakers, and you'll see what I'm talking about. Vince is just gonna get you there. That's what, that's what speakers used to look like in our house. And now, what do you do? You all your music comes through your phone, right? Yep, you even have, like, a record player or radio or anything like that.
Crew 25:23
No, my mom has a speaker in her alarm clock. She has an alarm clock speaker.
Scott Benner 25:30
That's an old person thing. Don't do that. Okay, don't. Don't say it to her, because we're trying to keep her in a good mood for the new iPhone. You know what I mean? Oh, oh yeah, yeah.
Crew 25:38
I do want to say really something funny, so she thought it was broken. It's kind of old, it's kind of new, it's kind of in between. She thought it was broken, so she made my dad go and buy a new one, a brand new alarm clock speaker, and he made him go out and buy one. So he bought one. Came home surprised her. One wasn't broken. It was just unplugged, unplugged. Oh how embarrassing it was, just unplugged. So my dad had to go all the way back to Walmart and get find the receipt and get his money back. He didn't make your mom do it. Nope. All because, all because it was just unplugged,
Scott Benner 26:21
unplug. So all right, does she do stuff like this often? How is she with your diabetes?
Crew 26:27
Oh no, she's really good about my diabetes. She's smart. She's like, she does a lot of it. She puts the insulin of the pump and does all that it. She's really fast too. She does it really, really, really quickly. So how about you? Are you good with it? Yeah, I mean, I can manage it. I put my own pump in. Sometimes she'll have me come upstairs and do it and show me how to do it. But I'm like, she does most of it. So which pump are you using? I'm using the new tea, slim, tandem. Moby, oh, how do you like that? It's really good. It's there's one thing I don't like about it. Go ahead, it's the charging time. It's really fast at charging, but it only holds its charge for three days, and that's actually worse than the old pump I had. The old pump I had held a charger for like, four or four and a half days before I had to charge it. So,
Scott Benner 27:26
really complex, tandem. What are you doing, right? Yeah, right. Is that a problem? Having to try it sounds like it might be a problem, but I don't
Crew 27:35
know. Is it? Yeah, like thing I was out on that dinner yesterday where I was somewhere with my dad, I forgot, and my realized my pump was at 5% and so we had to, we were, I think we were at quick trip or something. And so we had to wait for my pump to charge. And then it was, it was annoying. Hey, I
Scott Benner 27:57
just want to say tandem diabetes.com/juicebox. If you want to learn more about the tandem Moby, use my link. I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to the people listening. You know, people are going to be listening to this, right? Oh yeah, yeah, you're right with that. Oh yeah, cool. How many people do you think will listen? I'm not going to tell you, but I just want to hear your guess. I hope a lot. It'll be a lot. Yeah, what do you hope that they hear when they listen to you? Like, what is it you want to pass on to people?
Crew 28:25
So one thing I want to say is you don't have to be scared. Only part you might have to be scared about is just the fact that, I mean going into the hospital and everything. But other than that, once, once it's over with me, it's okay, it's it's good, yeah, as long as you take care of yourself and take care of your blood sugar and your insulin, especially, make sure you dose for your food, because if you don't, you'll go high, and that's not good.
Scott Benner 28:55
Yeah, then what happens? Does it kind of ruin your day? Or how do you think about
Crew 28:59
it? So when I think about going high. I mean, it's just my mom, and she says it's worse than kind of going low for a certain period of time. It's like a sand blaster on the inside of your body. Just imagine that. Yeah, a sand blaster on the inside of your body. You
Scott Benner 29:15
want the level of glucose in your blood to be where it's supposed to be. Yeah, this is interesting. Like, what are you trying to avoid by keeping your blood sugar down? Like, health wise?
Crew 29:24
So I, I haven't had my blood sugar up for a long, long time or, or, like, low for a long time to know, like, how bad it is. So I'm not really sure. I don't, I don't know how bad it is. But, like, whenever I go low. It's weird. It feels like I'm gonna faint. I don't feel tired, just kind of like you get low, like that. It's actually pretty often. It's whenever I get to, like, 70 or 6070. Is not too low. Like I mean, it's low, low, but not. Lot. It's not really low. I can feel it at 70, but when it gets down to like 60 and 50s, which don't happen too, too often, I can feel them way more than 70. But it's, yeah, I don't like it. It's weird.
Scott Benner 30:14
60 and 50, like once a week, once a month. How often,
Crew 30:18
maybe once or twice a week. Does it
Scott Benner 30:22
come around activity, like, when you're playing sports? Whenever I'm
Crew 30:25
playing sports, I do take off my bump and stuff. So I don't, I don't really know what blood sugar is during like baseball, but I have had my blood sugar go down that low one time. I know when I was playing baseball. Yeah, it wasn't fun. Were you out on the field when it happened? Yeah, I was, I was, did you get dizzy out on the field? Yeah, I did not feel good. I I was just, I was waiting for that inning to get over so I could just go and get some, get some sugar.
Scott Benner 30:54
Yeah, did you think about telling somebody, like, Hey, I gotta, like, time out here?
Crew 30:58
No, I mean, I kind of did, but I didn't make, I didn't want to, like, interrupt anything or any, anyone. So
Scott Benner 31:07
it's a hard decision to make, yeah, yeah, especially when you're low, right? It's harder to think about it, yeah, yeah. That only happened one time while you're playing baseball. Yeah? Well, we don't want you to get low twice a week, though. What do you think is happening? Maybe we could figure it out and stop it from happening.
Crew 31:21
I'm not really sure. I mean, it's sometimes when I overdose for something, or sometimes it's just because the heat outside and stuff, and yeah, me. I mean, riding my bike, especially riding my bike, it goes low a lot, especially on the heat in the summer. Yeah. So is it
Scott Benner 31:38
hard to plan ahead for activity like, you know, to put, put yourself in activity mode, or maybe take away a little just sit talk to your mom about making adjustments. Yeah,
Crew 31:48
I try that sometimes, and just sometimes it kind of doesn't
Scott Benner 31:51
even work. Yeah? So, like, pre bolusing, it's hard to remember to do, right? I pre bullish sometimes something you do, yeah, well, all that stuff that you told people not to be scared about, like, is that something you figured out by yourself? Or did your parents tell you not to be scared and you believe them and you're
Crew 32:07
not scared? Kind of figured out myself. My parents told me that it was going to be okay and stuff. But, I mean, they didn't really say not to be scared or anything. But after I just got used to it, it just kind of came to my sense that everything's fine. I just have to take care of myself and it'll be
Scott Benner 32:24
okay. So after you live with diabetes for a while, you came to the conclusion that as long as you do the things you're supposed to do, it works out pretty well. Yep, no kidding. You just came to that conclusion on your own. Yes. Nice. Yep. Do you have friends who know about your diabetes? A lot of people, yes. Like, did they try to help you with it? Do you guys not talk talk about a lot, not talk about it much. Like, how does it, um, intertwine, I guess, in your relationships?
Crew 32:53
So my friend, who he said, I didn't talk about him. So my friend, his name's Emmett. He's very nice kid. He's very smart. Yeah, he helps me out with it. Sometimes, whenever he hears my beeper, he'll say, are you okay? You need? Do you need any sugar or anything? We were out biking one time he heard my beeper go off, and I did not hear it, and he said, Your beeper is going off. Are you okay? I have snacks in my bag. Do you need any snacks? So I checked my blood sugar, and I was, I was high. So I said, I don't, I don't eat any sugar. I just need to give myself some insulin. So he's, he's really nice. He's, he's a cool kid. How long have you known emit or I've known Emmett ever since second grade. No kidding, you guys, good friends. Yes, we, we bike all the time, all the time. Where do
Scott Benner 33:40
you go through the woods? Or like town, how do you where do you go? Not
Crew 33:44
really in the woods. I mean, necessarily, we go to the park a lot. We ride around the park. There's a little skateboard place. We I jump my bike on the skateboard place on the big ramps over there. So we bike around there a lot. Sometimes we go to the grocery store. Sometimes you go to his house and bike around his neighborhood. Yeah, sometimes you pick around my neighborhood, yeah. Does his phone ever die? No, sometimes he says it's low, but
Scott Benner 34:13
never dies like yours does. No, is yours dying because of your diabetes supplies that you're running off it or because you're listening to music all the time. Do you think I don't
Crew 34:22
really listen to too much the music? Yeah, I listen to music whenever I'm, like, biking and stuff. But other than that, I don't think it's because of the music.
Scott Benner 34:30
I just don't hold her phone, and you've got a lot of, like, Bluetooth stuff hooked up. Yeah,
Crew 34:34
yeah, I do have a lot of Bluetooth stuff, like, I do have the speakers, but I also have my pump, my Dexcom, I have a lot of stuff, so I think it might be because of my diabetes, like, all the stuff doing that, yeah, because I'm, I'm on my diabetes stuff a lot, like, a lot, a lot,
Scott Benner 34:54
right, right? When you're on a lot, is it because you're nervous or just you're trying to do a good job? Do you think you look at it too much? What's your level of involvement with it during the day, and how does it affect you?
Crew 35:03
I think I look at it because I want to keep my blood sugar where it is supposed to be. Sometimes it's because I'm a little bit nervous, like when I'm biking. I check it a lot because I don't want to accidentally go low, yeah, and not realize it. So do you
Scott Benner 35:19
know what to do if you get too low? What is your plan if you get too low?
Crew 35:23
If I get too low, I will just immediately stop biking and tow emit that. We need to take a break right now, and I will get some sugar. And if it does not come up, I haven't really, I haven't actually got crazy low yet, biking like, not low enough to use. My there's a spray thing that you spray in your nose if you go too low. It like, saves your life.
Scott Benner 35:48
It's called back. Semi, right, yeah, yeah. Have you ever heard people call it back? Squeamy, yeah, my parents call it that. Yeah. I think it's back. Semi, yeah. You know, they're old. They don't know how old are your parents, by the way, she's over there right now. It's hard to say her age out loud. But do you know how old she is? Oh yeah, she like, really old, kinda, yeah, kind of really old. How old? Like, in her 40s, more than that. Oh, my God. 50s, a little bit more than that. 60s, Yeah, no kidding. Are you adopted? Nope, no. How long have they been married? Just pretend she's not there. Look away. How long have they been married? You don't know.
Crew 36:28
I think about 1520, years. Really
Scott Benner 36:33
interesting. What kind of work does your mom do? Does she you don't have to say where she works. But like, does she do a thing? Yeah, she works still, what kind of work? Not really sure. I don't know. I hear you. I don't think my kids know what I do either. Yeah, how about your dad? Do you know what he does? He's retired. Nice, wow. Your parents are in there. You're 13. Your parents are in your 60s. That's cool. Yeah, so are your friends parents all like much younger than your parents, yeah, how is that? Is that? Is that any sort of way, or does it not bother you or not come up?
Crew 37:07
It doesn't bother me. It doesn't bother their parents at all. It doesn't no
Scott Benner 37:12
big deal. Yeah, no kidding, wow. Well, that's interesting. You might have to interview your mom in a minute when we're done. I might have to talk to her, ask her say when, when I'm done recording. Would you talk to Scott for five minutes?
Crew 37:24
Mom, when I'm done recording, do you want to talk to him for five minutes?
Scott Benner 37:27
He she said, Sure, cool. Tell her. I got questions. He got some questions. Okay, she's okay with that. Yep, awesome. Okay, we'll keep talking now. Okay, all right. So have you seen any movies this summer?
Crew 37:41
Yes, I've seen a couple. You see Superman? No, I did want to, though, but kind of sad I missed, missed it. Do
Scott Benner 37:49
you see Fantastic Four?
Crew 37:52
No, what did you see? I know I saw the new fashion, furious, um, I think it was like up early, early summer, when I started, I think I went to the movies. I did. I did see the Minecraft movie. I didn't watch it at the movies, but I watched it on YouTube, actually. And I watched Happy Gilmore too,
Scott Benner 38:14
and that's what the ones I watched. Yeah, listen, you definitely play Minecraft, right? No, no with your math mind, have you ever tried it?
Crew 38:22
Oh yeah, I used to play it a lot. I mean, okay, like, a lot, a lot. Just don't play enough, yeah, yeah, outgrew it, yeah, I think so. Just Yeah. What'd you think of the movie? The movie was pretty fun. I mean, it was, it was cool, yeah, it was funny, definitely funny. Nice. I wonder if you would like Superman. Oh yeah, I like Superman. I watched a lot, a lot of
Scott Benner 38:46
Superman. Yeah, actually. So interestingly, isn't Superman from Kansas? I think so, I believe so. Yeah, maybe you'll recognize some of the stuff that they some of the places they're at in the movie. Who knows that'd be crazy if you did? Oh, yeah, you grew up in Kansas. That's where you were born. Yes, yes, I was when you think about going to college? Do you think about leaving home and going to college, or do you think about staying local?
Crew 39:12
Staying kind of local? I might. I haven't thought about a lot yet. Yeah, yeah. We live in Lawrence. So the main College in Lawrence is obviously KU, so I don't really know when I go there, or my parents are K State fans, so it's kind of KU, K State we
Scott Benner 39:35
don't KU, that's the Jayhawks, right? Yeah, yeah. You like basketball.
Crew 39:39
I watch basketball. You watch some of it, yeah. What's your favorite
Scott Benner 39:43
sport to watch? My favorite Oh Baseball. Baseball is your favorite sport to watch? Yes. Bobby Witt Jr, you love
Crew 39:50
him. Oh yeah. Bobby Witt Jr, although he's not my favorite
Scott Benner 39:54
baseball player, he's not your favorite royal or not your favorite baseball player. Actually,
Crew 39:58
no, he's not my favorite Royal. Naturally, who is my favorite royal he's the catcher. I have his baseball card, actually, yeah, Salvador
Scott Benner 40:07
pres Oh, no kidding, yeah, he's old, huh? Yeah, he's been around for a
Crew 40:11
long time. Yeah, Emmy, he's old, but he's still doing
Scott Benner 40:17
it. So I'm kidding. Did you see that? Mason? I don't know how much you follow baseball. Mason Miller was traded from the A's. No, I did not. He's a reliever. He has type one, huh? Did you know that? No, where'd he go? All right, hold on, a second crew. Let me figure out. Let me figure out where he went. He was with the A's. He escaped the A's. Oh, he went through the Padres. Oh, yeah, I'd like him to be on the podcast, but he does not answer my DMs. If anyone knows him, I would like to get a message to him, but yeah, he has type one. He throws, like, like, 100 miles an hour. He's a closer. Geez. Yeah, right. Anyway, he's got type one. Who else has type one? There's another pitcher, you know, any, any type one ball players? I don't think so. Actually, no, there's um, guy used to pitch for the Cardinals has type one. Can't think of his name. I've had Brandon Morrow on the podcast. He's got type one. Adam Duvall has type one. I think Jordan Hicks is the guy's name? Is it Jordan Hicks? Yeah, I am right. Haha, I'm sorry, just, I'm just happy to be right. He's maybe with the Giants at this point. Anyway, there's a couple of play so baseball is your favorite sport to watch and to play, yes, what position
Crew 41:42
do you play? I play second base, right field. Let's see pitcher. I am a pitcher. I'm starting to do pitching. I went to a pitching clinic on Saturday, and they were they were surprised, because I haven't pitched a lot, and so my fastest pitch was 57 and that was on a day that I wasn't ready. We were actually in Branson. Okay, so, but how fast were you throwing? We went to this place in Branson called wonder works, and they had a simulator where you could pick which sport you did. So I picked baseball. Obviously, I pitched 57 and that was when my arm was sore and I was I wasn't ready. It was just a little thing. So I picked, I pitched 57 that day. That's
Scott Benner 42:34
pretty great, man for your age. Yeah, really great. Do you think you'll do more of it?
Crew 42:38
Yes, I do. I really want to pitch for my team. Nice. How tall are you? Almost five foot. I'm 411
Scott Benner 42:46
I think getting there, you starting to grow about now, yes, yeah, a little bit. Are your parents taller or shorter? They're
Crew 42:53
not really short, and they're not really tall. I guess they're, they're
Scott Benner 42:57
in the middle, yeah, gotcha. That's all right. I think pitching is great. Just be careful with your arm, you know, make sure you warm up first. You know about using the bands to warm up your arm? Yeah, yes, good. Oh, man, they're teaching you guys that. Yep, awesome. I
Crew 43:13
actually learned some pitches from a kid who is 13 but plays for 14 team. So he's a really high level baseball player. And so he showed me a two seam, not a fastball, but a two seam slider, and he showed me a curve ball. And so I've mastered the two seam slider and curve ball, and my trustiest pitch I have in my arsenal is my change up, nice.
Scott Benner 43:45
So are you right handed or left handed?
Crew 43:49
I'm right handed in almost everything. Okay,
Scott Benner 43:52
does that two seam? Does that run to the right?
Crew 43:55
It kind of does. So whenever I put spin on it, kind of, it goes down a little bit, and then it kind of goes to the right Somewhat, yeah, it goes to the left or to the right, depending on how you put spin on the ball and how you throw so
Scott Benner 44:12
nice, like, I, I'm excited for you. My son played baseball since he was four years old, all the way through college, dang, yeah. It was a lot of fun. He's older now. He's 25 so he doesn't play anymore, yeah, but yeah, he played all through college. By the time he was done College, his fastball, he played center field and he pitched, and his fastball was up to 93 by the time he graduated. Geez. Crazy that could happen to you. Your body could get bigger and stronger, and you could be like, doing all kinds of crazy stuff. I hope, yeah, that'll be fun. I love that. You love baseball. That's really cool. Anyway, Bobby got a triple yesterday. He was or two days ago. I think he's flying around the bases. He is really fast. Oh yeah,
Crew 44:53
actually, speaking of flying around the bases, my favorite baseball player is led la cruz. And he is the best base stealer in the world right now. I'm pretty sure he the pirate Ellie de la Cruz. I think plays for Cardinals. Cardinals,
Scott Benner 45:08
really, what am I thinking of on the pirates? Then let's see. Hold on, Scott,
Crew 45:14
there's a couple baseball players with the last name Cruz. So, yeah,
Scott Benner 45:19
oh, de la Cruz, red, Cincinnati. Yep, nice. Why did I think he was the pirates? Who's with the pirates that I'm thinking of? There's so many people. My son, like, knows them all. When we talk about it, I'm always like, I don't know what you're saying. I can't remember everybody, but he's got that kind of head. He could play in a baseball game and then sit down afterwards and talk through every pitch of like, four of his at bats. Yeah, he'll be, like, on my first at bat, like, he started me with this, and then the second pitch was this, I fouled it off. The third pitch was this, it missed outside. I'm, like, always stunned by that. Like he re, he can remember all of them, or he'll talk about a guy he threw, like, you know, he's like, in the sixth inning, I pitched to this guy, and he will, he can walk you through all the pitches. It's really an interesting way his brain works, but nevertheless, I don't have that ability. Is what I'm saying. Like, he tells me about it, and I'm just like, okay, yeah, all right, I don't remember, but yeah, do you have anything in common with your parents? Like you said you like math. Is that something your parents like have in common with you?
Crew 46:17
My mom is really good at math, so I'm gonna ask that my dad is also really good at it. I mean, he doesn't like it, but he's good at he's good at it, yeah, my mom likes it. She's good at it. I like it. I'm good at it. So Kinda, yeah.
Scott Benner 46:33
So now I know you're too young for this like, to really have an answer, but you're 13, so college is five years away, which is a long time, right? But at the same time, it's not that long of a time. And I'm wondering, if you've thought about not being home with diabetes, like, what is it you're gonna have to figure out over the next five years to be comfortable going away to college.
Crew 46:55
I'm comfortable with it now, I will have to learn how to put all my insulin and everything in my pump, and I do all of my Dexcom stuff. So I put on my Dexcom. Sometimes I put the little patch on it, so I do all the stuff for my Dexcom for my pump. So I will have to learn that.
Scott Benner 47:15
So yeah, do you think that'll be any
Crew 47:19
trouble to learn? I don't think so. Um, it's way easier, way easier with the new Moby. Yeah. So it should be, I hope it should be good. Do you
Scott Benner 47:29
think your mom's waiting for you to ask about like, Hey, can I learn more about this? Where do you think she's like, happy for you not to have to worry about it right now? I think she's waiting. Yeah? What will make you go to her and say, Hey, I'd like to know more about this.
Crew 47:45
I'd like to so I think I might ask whenever I change my pump out.
Scott Benner 47:50
So yeah, to learn a little more about it. Yeah, yeah. You're not trying to avoid it, right? Oh, no, no, no, but it is nice that somebody helps you. Or no,
Crew 47:59
no, it is. It is nice, yeah, sometimes, but whenever I'm playing my video game, she'll just ask me to give me my phone and my pump. Just take it off real quick. I don't have to wait a wait or anything. She'll just do it, and then she'll come back and I'll put it on. I can go back to play my video game. So it's, it's nice, yeah, it's really nice. Nice
Scott Benner 48:17
to have a little help. That's very cool. I think your mom's gonna probably help you for a while, which you know, especially even when you get to college, like you're gonna need some assistance sometimes, you know what I mean, yeah, yeah. It's gonna be a thing that I think you'll probably like, slowly get more and more control of for yourself. But it's nice to know that somebody's got your back. Yeah, it is. Who is more involved with your diabetes, your mom or your dad, or is it equal? My mom,
Crew 48:43
she does all the stuff. She's the smart one in the house. I guess she's the
Scott Benner 48:49
smart one. Yes. No, she did not know her clock was unplugged. Her clock speaker was unplugged. It is you remember that when she needed a new
Crew 48:57
speaker? Yeah? Oh yeah, that's one thing
Scott Benner 49:01
that's okay, cool. What kind of a branch on that one? Yeah. What kind of food do you like
Crew 49:05
to eat? Let's see, I like to eat vegetables. I eat a lot of carrots and hummus. Okay, I do like to eat peppers. So I eat a lot of banana peppers. Might think that's kind of weird, but I eat banana peppers with my fried chicken, so
Scott Benner 49:21
that's not weird. You think it's weird?
Crew 49:25
I mean, I think some people might think it's weird, but, I mean, I like eating my banana peppers with fried chicken. I mean, I
Scott Benner 49:33
think that's okay. So does your mom make the fried chicken? Or do you guys get it
Crew 49:36
somewhere? We get it at Dylan's. They have the best fried chicken. The best
Scott Benner 49:41
Dylan's is the best fried chicken. Yes. So if I get, if I ever come to KU I should go to Dylan's. Yes, okay, I thought one time I was going to speak there, and then it didn't work out. I forget. Why do you listen to the podcast ever? No, just your mom does, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did she come to you and ask you if you want to do this, or was it a thing you asked about
Crew 50:04
I asked about it. I asked, Has there been any kids on the podcast? So I asked if I could. So she asked you, and yeah,
Scott Benner 50:13
and you got to tell people that you don't think they should be afraid. Nope, that's good. They should be what else do you want them to know?
Crew 50:21
Anything else I would like them to know that, if anything like, if you do, go really, really low, I would say, be calm, be relaxed. Because if you, if you like, get really, really scared. I know sometimes, one time I was riding my bike and I was low and it crashed. And both of those combined the low and the fact that I crashed. I got the sprocket from my bike, went into my calf and cut holes out about maybe a little a half an inch deep. So I probably should have got stitches, but I did not get stitches. We cleaned it out and everything that was not fun. Adrenaline. I did not know what to think about at all. So if something does happen that's really, really bad, like going low, I'd say, if you're calm and relaxed, just be calm. Just try to be sugar. If it's really, really bad, use your back spoony. So
Scott Benner 51:20
yeah, something I want to say, well, that's awesome. I will say that you just gave me the chills when you talked about the sprocket, like, putting holes in your legs that. Yeah, how long ago was that?
Crew 51:29
Oh, um, it's all killed. I don't you. I can't really even see it. I don't know exactly where it's at. I think it was about maybe a year. No, it was two years ago. It was about two ish, okay, wow. Actually, I just had, I had a recent crash in Arkansas. I was riding mountain bikes again in Arkansas, and so my bike wasn't biking. I was going about 20 on a turn. The brakes weren't breaking, and so I tried to brake. And it was rainy that day, I tried to turn my bike. It was not turning at all, so I kind of break. Did not do nothing. I skidded, went into a tree, almost broke the tree in half, took all the bark off the tree, tangled up in my bike and the tree, and so I had a big gash, like it's it's scarred up so I could see it, it's in the middle of my calf on my other leg that I got, not the leg that I had the other incident on. Yeah, so this is a different leg, and it's about an inch long, and I think it was about also half an inch deep, so it was bleeding bad. This guy, luckily, there is a doctor who is writing saw us and saw me in the tree, and so he came over and gave us a med kit. And so we put all the stuff on my leg and everything. And so that was not fun, but also fun, because I got back up and started writing again. Wow,
Scott Benner 52:59
you are Daredevil, huh? I really appreciate you taking the time to talk to me like this. This was awesome. Thank you.
Crew 53:05
Well, thank you. Thank you for letting me come on the show. No,
Scott Benner 53:08
it's my pleasure. It really was. You were terrific. Your mom said you would be, and she was 100% right. I want to wish you a ton of luck. It sounds like you're doing great. I think you should just keep doing what you're doing with your diabetes. Keep learning and keeping that attitude you have, you're gonna, you're gonna do really well.
Crew 53:22
Thank you. You're welcome. So, yeah, man,
Scott Benner 53:25
I don't see any reason why to think you wouldn't like, you know what I mean, like you, yeah, yeah. You're thinking about it, right? You're learning as you go, you have a great attitude, and you're working on it, and you're happy to push through the tough times. I don't want to see you get low as much. I think you guys should work on that, you know, trying not to get so low well during activities. But other than that, man, like you're you really are doing a great job. I hope you're proud of yourself. I am. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Thank you. Let me talk to your mom before you go. Okay. Okay. What's her name? Marcia. Okay. Thank you. Good morning. Hey, Marsha. He was awesome. Oh, good. Yeah, it's hard to tell when it's a one sided conversation, right? Yeah, he,
Marsha 54:04
well, he was a little nervous. I could tell that he was much better towards the end. I could tell
Scott Benner 54:09
yeah, that's, by the way, that's everybody, not just, yeah, not just 13 year olds. Everybody starts out nervous. So I just have to ask you, how old are you? How old am I? Yeah, I'm 60, and He's your only kid. Yes, was he right that you got married about 15 years ago, 17? Oh, he was pretty close. Okay, yeah, yeah, I just popped you on to ask you, like, is it a second marriage, a late in life baby? Like, how did so,
Marsha 54:36
it's really a long story, but yes, I am my husband's fourth wife, and he is my first husband. Wow. And crew does have a brother. He calls him an uncle, but it's a brother. And Adam is like
Scott Benner 54:49
47 No, this is the half brother, obviously, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, wow, yeah, yeah. Now I want to I have so many questions. How will. Your husband? He is 70. Did he outlive some of those ladies, or did they not care for him anymore?
Marsha 55:08
Well, like it's funny. I I laugh. I said I met him after his first wife, dated him after his second wife, and married him after his third wife. So I've known him for a long time, and we just kind of kept reconnecting. And so yeah,
Scott Benner 55:23
and you weren't married through that time at all. No, did you ever think you were gonna have a kid? No,
Marsha 55:27
no. Well, because, like, by the time we got married, I was like 40 some
Scott Benner 55:31
Yeah. So yeah, was crew not on purpose? He was on purpose. Okay, yeah. Are we winking at each other? What's going on right
Marsha 55:41
now? No, okay, wow, that's
Scott Benner 55:43
awesome. It sounds like you have your own little story that I would really enjoy hearing.
Marsha 55:46
Yes, yes. It's it's an interesting it's an interesting one, that's for sure. It's a story.
Scott Benner 55:51
I bet you it is all in Kansas. These, these, yeah, really,
Marsha 55:55
yeah, yeah. I met him in his hometown. I was there on a conference and went out with some friends and ended up like dancing with him. And then he showed up at the hotel the next day, said, Hey. So we dated a little while, that was after his first wife, and then he could, kind of always kept track of me and hunted me down. That's gonna say he's not shy. I know that. Oh no, he is not. He is not. And his son takes after him, like when crew was like, I remember this vividly. We went to the swimming pool, and crew was probably, like, two years old, and this man holding another little girl comes up and he goes, Hi, I'm coo white, what's your name to this guy? And the guy tells him, and he's like, and what's her name, pointing to the daughter. So Cruz, kind of a lazy ladies man like his dad is.
Scott Benner 56:45
He also doesn't seem to have any fear of dying, as far as I can tell. No, yeah, no. He's like, I'm like, What do you wanna do for a living? He's like, I'd like to be one of those Red Bull mountain bikers. I was like, I don't think that's safe.
Marsha 56:58
It's not. He's really good on a bike. He is very good on a bike. And we've gone down to Bentonville, Arkansas a couple of times and rode mountain bikes through there. And so, yes, a 70 year old man and 60 year old woman trying to keep up with a 13 year old on mountain bikes. Picture that
Scott Benner 57:13
I've been picturing it since because, like, I just, I was teasing him a little bit. I was like, because your mom old? And he's like, Well, and I'm like, What's she like, 40? He goes no, and I'm like, 50, and she goes No. And I'm like, 60, goes Yeah. And I was like, Oh, I also told him that he needs a new iPhone and that he should work you for it, so that should be coming soon, just so
Marsha 57:35
that's been going on for a month now, and every time it's brought up because his cameras doesn't work on it, and so when he tries when he tries to take a picture of his Dexcom and go see I need a new phone, he
Scott Benner 57:45
told me, he's like, the battery dies too quickly. And I said, tell your mom, this is a matter of health. It's got nothing to do with your enjoyment. And then he's like, and I said, Do you ever get bored being an only child? And he said, Yeah. And I said, Do you think you're going to get a brother or sister? I think this was before I realized you were 60, sorry? And he's like, No, I don't think so. And I was like, well, then you need a phone for that. And I was like, I was like, he had to tell your mom that. Be like, Listen, I'm I'm very bored, and I just, I need any if you're not going to make me a brother or sister, I need a better phone. I'm interested to see how he comes back to you with it, if he, like, actually follows through and does that or not? Oh,
Marsha 58:21
he's tried with a brother and sister angle too. I need one, Mom, let's just go get
Scott Benner 58:25
one. Yeah, you tell him, Listen, you're gonna be raising that kid if I make another baby, so just be careful.
Marsha 58:32
No, I know that's not that's no joke. No joke.
Scott Benner 58:35
Mommy can't pick the baby up when you're 20, you're gonna be, you're gonna be on the hook. I just want you to know, yeah, that's really sad. That's for sure, you have an interesting life, yeah. How did you find the podcast? Actually, I
Marsha 58:49
have been on your podcast. Oh, what are we like? Episode 1194,
Scott Benner 58:55
I think maybe. Okay, all right, just before that, like, just, how did
Marsha 58:59
I find it? Yeah, we were at a pumpkin patch shortly after he was diagnosed, and he went low. And I gave him a bunch of stuff, like, three different times, and he kept going lower and lower. And we were newly diagnosed. I mean, like, he, he got diagnosed in February, and so, like, this was October, right? And it's the first time I'd ever been out in public with him going so dramatically low. So I pumped him full of everything, glucose tabs, Skittles, another pack of Skittles, a caramel apple, and then he shot high. And I'm like on we just kept listening to him buzz, and it was before I knew anything about being bold with insulin or any of that kind of stuff. So he was sitting at like 250 or something, and we were waiting on this little train, and this he went off, and this woman whips her head around and says, Dexcom. And I said, Yeah. And she goes, there's mine. It was the first time we met someone out in public. And she goes, You should listen to the Juicebox podcast. And so then I started listening. I i. I go to the gym every morning, like around five, and so I get on the exercise bike and put on the podcast, and started listening from there, which has been amazingly helpful. I'm glad when he says, my mom's the smartest about diabetes, that is I am, because I listen to the Juicebox. And so we do a lot of his management that way, and he's maintained low six a one sees his whole diagnosis.
Scott Benner 1:00:26
It's awesome. He told me he gets low a little bit while he's, like, active,
Marsha 1:00:30
if it's hot outside and he is active 100% guaranteed. Yeah. So when he rides his bike, he has to make sure that he has things with him. And then sometimes, when he's playing baseball, if it's hot out, we pass a lot of skittles through the fence, or Gatorade or, you know, whatever, whatever it takes to get him.
Scott Benner 1:00:50
Has he tried eating a little something that's really tough to digest, like, you know, like a kind bar or something like that, little something that sits in your stomach a little longer to hold him up during those activities.
Marsha 1:01:00
You know it's really interesting, because there are times, most of the time, he doesn't have any problem. If he goes in pretty stable to whatever activity, he'll stay stable throughout it. But if he's eaten beforehand and has some insulin on board for whatever he's eaten, it kind of seems to exacerbate that, yep,
Scott Benner 1:01:19
for sure, active insulin during activities is a quicker way to being low. Well, yeah, it sounds like you guys are doing really, really well. And I'm happy for
Marsha 1:01:29
we've just kind of taken the attitude, like, you have this and you'll have it the rest of your life. And so we catch people out in the wild, and we're like, they've got a Dexcom. Let's go talk to them or, you know, so we've done a lot of that we've never made it so it's something to be embarrassed about, or something, you know,
Scott Benner 1:01:44
he seems very clear minded about the whole thing, yeah, yeah, he is. He really great kid. Yeah, he definitely seems. And it makes sense too that you guys are older too, because I think my kids would be better if I was older when I raised them. Yeah, not that they're bad kids, but like I would have given I'm sure I should clarify that. I think that I would have had a different perspective. And I imagine you do too raising some like, because, yeah, what were you 40, like, seven when you had him? Yeah? Wow, yeah, you were probably thrilled when he came out and he had, like, his fingers in
Marsha 1:02:17
his toes, yeah, yeah. He's been good for us. Everybody's like, Oh, he's gonna keep you young. And we're like, Hell, no, he keeps us
Scott Benner 1:02:23
tired. No, I don't see that sounds like something a person would say, who doesn't know? No, that's really something, all right. I don't want to take up your time. This was really wonderful. Tell him again that I said, Thank you, and I'm sorry if you have to end up buying him an iPhone. That's
Marsha 1:02:36
my fault. Oh, I'm sure it's gonna happen before school starts.
Scott Benner 1:02:39
Yeah. Oh, what a lovely back to school idea. Yeah. Oh yeah, thanks, yeah. Just go out there and put it. I don't even know what they cost anymore. They're insanely expensive. Oh yeah,
Marsha 1:02:49
they're crazy. But he's had it. I mean, his schools, interestingly enough, took away all their cell phones last year. And I'm like, on dude, here's one perk. You get to have yours all day long. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, Mama has the share time plan, and so I locked down his phone. So yeah, he's,
Scott Benner 1:03:05
I tell you what, he didn't say one like every kid I've ever interviewed will be snarky a little bit about their parents. He was never once about you guys. That's because He loves us. Well, I hope so, but it's not because he's scared out of his mind, right? You don't have him scared to death. No, no, no, I'm just kidding. He didn't. He just, he, really, he's, he was lovely. I really appreciate you putting him on with me. Thank you so
Marsha 1:03:28
much. Yeah, well, thank you for doing it. He was kind of excited about it so
Scott Benner 1:03:32
well, I can't wait for him, him and Emmett to be able to listen to it. Okay, all right, great. Thanks so much. Hold on one second for me. Okay, I had so much fun. Oh, that's cool, man. I'm glad
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