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Katharyne, 47, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the start of 2025 and is still in her honeymoon phase.
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Scott Benner 0:00
Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of The Juicebox podcast.
Katherine 0:15
Well, hi Scott, thank you so much for having me on your podcast. My name is Catherine, and I was diagnosed with type one pretty much the start of this year, around New Year's Day.
Scott Benner 0:28
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Katherine 2:23
Med, well, Hi, Scott, thank you so much for having me on your podcast. My name is Catherine, and I was diagnosed with type one pretty much the start of this year, around New Year's Day, really. Yeah, it was a crazy time.
Scott Benner 2:42
Oh my gosh, you guys have New Years in
Katherine 2:43
England too. No, I'm not. I'm not in England, in California.
Scott Benner 2:47
You're in California. You You sound British? No, I am British.
Katherine 2:53
I've been here for about 16 years now.
Scott Benner 2:56
Oh, but they do have new years in England, though, yes, they do it's on the same day.
Katherine 3:02
Well, you know, we have this weird calendar that, yeah,
Scott Benner 3:06
they do it on the same day. It's awesome. I like when there's unity. So wait, how old
Katherine 3:11
are you? Oh, God, I'm 47
Speaker 1 3:15
but that sounded like it hurt you. Oh, I never tell anyone my age. Well, we need
Scott Benner 3:21
to know for context. So you're 47 I'm 47 Yeah, all right, do you want to say it a couple more times till it stops hurting?
Katherine 3:28
No, it's late. No, I'm gonna pretend this never happened and
Scott Benner 3:33
you're diagnosed, so eight months ago. Yeah, wow. Out of like, like, the clear blue, something you saw coming. You didn't have an illness even first Wait, I didn't have what an illness Were you sick prior?
Katherine 3:49
Yeah, so, well, it was funny. I yeah, I was losing weight last year, and I didn't really know what was up. And I had a bit of a crazy year. My husband and I were trying to be clowns, and we were going to LA a lot and performing in clown shows. And I just thought maybe I was just overdoing it a bit and doing this sort of theatrical clown thing, and it was very exercise heavy and losing a lot of sleep. And I, I was I was okay, though I was functional right up until just before Christmas, like I was literally in a show on the 23rd of December, and I was fine. And then we went on vacation to Las Vegas, and I on Christmas Day, I just started getting really sick, and I was like, Oh, I think I've got flu, and I'm just not doing too well. And we kind of cut our vacation short, which was sad, because we had the kids there with I've got three kids who are aged between 16 and 24 and we came home San Diego. So and, gosh, I just got really sick. Once I was home, I started throwing up, and I just was like, This is the worst flu I've ever had. And I kind of don't remember a whole lot after that. I think it got to I was admitted into the hospital on the 28th of December, and I don't really remember anything until first of January, and everyone's just running around me, saying, Happy New Year. And more than nurses are wearing, like, little hats with, like, New Year's Day and stuff.
Scott Benner 5:33
They're like, hey, it was Christmas last time I looked what happened?
Katherine 5:36
Yeah, and so I guess I went into DKA and I had no idea at
Scott Benner 5:42
all, did you take yourself to the hospital, or did your husband take you?
Katherine 5:47
So I guess I was getting sicker and sicker. I started growing up, and I had a shower, and I kind of just like, sunk down in the shower, and my husband was like, he didn't really want to take me to the hospital. He was like, Oh, are you really sick?
Scott Benner 6:03
And I don't want to give up the afternoon. I don't want to pay for this.
Katherine 6:07
Yeah, you know how it is. And so in the end, he was like, talking to chat GPT, and he was giving on my symptoms to chat GPT. And chat GPT is like, I really think you should call 911, at this point. And so he was going to take me to urgent care, but I had stomach pain, and apparently I was saying, No, I can't go into urgent care. So in the end, I think I started losing consciousness, and I was just rambling. And so he called 911, and yeah, he also it was so funny because I read the logs back afterwards, and he was having this conversation with chat GPT, and it's like one of those scenes in a TV show when people are just doing they're not doing the right thing, and you're going no call 911, and he goes, Do you think I should give her some ham She hasn't eaten? And I'm reading this back like, What? What?
Scott Benner 7:04
No, by the way, like lunch meat or a cooked ham that you had guys had made. What was the I
Katherine 7:12
you know, just like a slice of ham,
Scott Benner 7:17
where'd you find this boy out? Were there? Were they out of boys when you were starting to look or what happened?
Katherine 7:22
You know, he's an angel. He just, I think he just had a lot of anxiety about going into hospital and just what's going to happen.
Scott Benner 7:31
And are you telling me, though, that if I look back at this transcript between your husband and chat, GPT, I'm going to see 1000 red flags that would have made me call 911,
Katherine 7:40
absolutely. Yeah. It's like, Oh, her legs were going blue, and like, she's mumbling, and
Scott Benner 7:46
yeah, chat GPT wasn't like, Oh, she might pop back out any second. Just hold on another minute.
Katherine 7:52
Wow. Chat GPT is like, yeah, get her to the
Scott Benner 7:55
hospital. Do you have any other autoimmune issues? Well, I
Katherine 7:59
suspect I have celiac, and I've suspected that for a really long time, and so I've never had it actually diagnosed. The doctors looked at it now and said, Yeah, I probably do have it, but you know, you've got to go through the thing where you have to actually eat gluten and then get tested. And I just didn't really want to do that to my digestive system,
Scott Benner 8:23
gluten free on your own? Yeah? So
Katherine 8:26
about it was actually a long time ago, after my youngest was born, I had a lot of stomach pain, and it was like chest pain as well, and I realized it was heartburn, and I'd never had heartburn before, and good and all of that, yeah. And I went to a specialist, and he did a lot of examinations. He also found my liver. All the the levels from for my liver in in blood tests were really out of whack as well, and but he couldn't give me any answers. He just said, Oh, you've got good and IBS, and you should go on Prilosec for a while. And I was like, okay, it didn't help that much. The Prilosec helped, but I was still getting all this pain, and so I just kind of went through my diet, taking out different things. And finally, when I took out, like, bread and started taking out wheat, I was like, Oh, this. This made all the difference. Yeah. So I've just stayed off weeks since then. How long ago was that? That was 16, 1516, years
Scott Benner 9:27
ago you would just come here, or you just,
Katherine 9:30
yeah, I just moved to the US. So I moved here pregnant with my with my third child, yeah, and I had him, and then just after he was born, I got really sick with these stomach issues, okay? And I had no idea what was going on with that. And so I mean that for me, was the solution. I found giving up weight just solved it.
Scott Benner 9:51
So, yeah, hey, why did you come here? Did they kick you out? Or were you you come here on purpose? What was going on?
Katherine 9:57
No, I Well, I was married to an American. In at the time, and also, actually, it's funny, my grandmother lived with us, and she wanted to study Montessori education. She was a retired teacher, and she got really into Montessori education. And I just finished my college degree, and I wasn't really sure what to do with it. I had two kids, and the third one was, yeah, he was on the way, and I wasn't quite sure what to do with myself. And I knew I wanted to move to the US at some point. And at the time, my husband was American, so it seemed kind of like a good choice. And she said, Listen, I got this idea, but Montessori institutes in California, Florida, and these various places. And I was like, Well, that sounds fun. So she was kind of the catalyst, in a way, to get us moving here.
Scott Benner 10:50
So also, yeah, you said it twice now, in a way that makes you feel like that, the boy that helped you with the DK is not the same boy that made those babies.
Katherine 10:57
It's not no Gotcha. Yeah, we ended up getting divorced after we moved here. And, okay, yeah, that was, that was a bummer. It was kind of unexpected. It worked out though, I mean, and yeah, it worked out. And then I met my, my new husband, Isaac, and it he's been absolutely amazing. We've been together now, yeah, I mean, I met him when my son was one year old, and he's now 16, so we pretty much raised him together.
Scott Benner 11:33
Yeah, oh, wow, that's lovely. Did you stick with an American or did you try something else the next
Katherine 11:37
time? Yeah, he's American too. California.
Scott Benner 11:41
Okay, so now you're whacked out of your skull. We finally get you to the hospital. Yeah, no. Thanks to that lovely boy. I mean, he waited till you were like, just loopy, yeah, I gotcha.
Katherine 11:53
And then I had delirium pretty badly.
Scott Benner 11:56
Apparently, I was gonna say, did they tell you what your blood sugar was?
Katherine 12:00
Oh, gosh, I've forgotten it was like, super duper high. It was, like, off the charts high. I, you know, I don't remember off the top of my head. I think I have it logged somewhere, but I Yeah, hi, I know. I think it may have been like, 600 or something. They said I should have been on a ventilator.
Scott Benner 12:18
How did you respond to the news once you were like, up and moving and doing better, yeah, what were your initial responses?
Katherine 12:25
That's a good question. So I had a couple of memories of being in the ICU, and Isaac kept trying to tell me what had happened. And I was just like, whoa, that's crazy. That's crazy. He said every time he told me he had to keep telling me over and over, and he was like, they think you've got diabetes. They think this thing happened to you. It's called DKA. And I couldn't understand any of it. I was just going, it's crazy, whoa. And then I guess on New Year's Day was when I first started, they moved me out by cu into a regular room, and that was when I started to kind of understand more what was going on. Like, okay, diabetes, okay, that's interesting, but I was really struggling. Like, they kept asking me, like, what people's names were, and I couldn't remember my kids names. They were like, you've got children, what are their names? And I'm like, like, I thought I knew, but I didn't know, really,
Scott Benner 13:21
what did they attribute that to? Later,
Katherine 13:25
they said it was delirium. They said, so basically I had flu, and the flu triggered the dka, so it seemed like I'd been building up the diabetes for probably, they said, at least four months, but it was probably a lot longer, okay, and so it was really complicated for me to wrap my head around. The Diabetes Educator was coming in, and she was trying to explain it to me, and I'm like, wait, what does insulin do? It makes it go up or down or what, like, I just I was really struggling to wrap my head around things. Yeah, fortunately, they sent a really nice educator, and she was really helpful, and she kind of spent a lot of time with me, sort of, and she came up with this Pac Man analogy, which was great. She was like, Well, you know, insulin is like the Pac Man that goes around and Hoovers up all the sugar in your system, like the little pills. And I said, Oh, now I get it. This is a great analogy. She didn't
Scott Benner 14:21
make that up, by the way. I've heard other people use that, but that's good, oh, that's that's a common thing. Is that once you're through the hospital experience, right? And you're back on your feet, and you're, you know, making sense of things that people are talking to you and you're understanding them, yeah, what is your first thought like? How did this happen to me? Or, yeah, what does your brain like jump to I guess diabetes comes with a lot of things to remember, so it's nice when someone takes something off of your plate. Us, med has done that for us. When it's time for Arden supplies to be refreshed, we get an email rolls up and in your inbox says, Hi, Arden, this is your friend. Simply reorder email from us. Med. You open up the email, it's a big button that says, Click here to reorder, and you're done. Finally, somebody taking away a responsibility instead of adding one. Us. Med has done that for us. An email arrives. We click on a link, and the next thing you know, your products are at the front door. That simple, US med.com/juicebox, or call 888-721-1514, I never have to wonder if Arden has enough supplies. I click on one link, I open up a box, I put the stuff in the drawer, and we're done. Us. Med carries everything from insulin pumps and diabetes testing supplies to the latest CGM like the libre three and the Dexcom g7 they accept Medicare nationwide over 800 private insurers, and all you have to do to get started is call 888-721-1514. Or go to my link, usmed.com/juicebox, using that number or my link helps to support the production of the Juicebox podcast. Today's episode is brought to you by Omnipod. We talk a lot about ways to lower your a 1c on this podcast, did you know that the Omnipod five was shown to lower a 1c that's right. Omnipod five is a tube free automated insulin delivery system, and it was shown to significantly improve a 1c and time and range for people with type one diabetes when they switched from daily injections. My daughter is about to turn 21 years old, and she has been wearing an Omnipod every day since she was four. It has been a friend to our family, and I think it could be a friend to yours if you're ready to try Omnipod five for yourself or your family, use my link now to get started. Omnipod.com/juicebox get that free. Omnipod five Starter Kit today, Terms and Conditions apply. Eligibility may vary. Full terms and conditions can be found at omnipod.com/juicebox
Katherine 17:00
I think I had a lot of anxiety. I really struggled with the idea that this could just happen out of the blue. So I was like, Is there something else wrong? There's something else going on. Is this a symptom of something bigger or scarier or like, is this really just it that I go home and I take insulin and now I'm okay. And it was weird, because I felt like I was hearing very mixed messages from different people. Like some people are like, Oh, this is terrible. It's a death sentence. It's a it's going to get worse. And I you kind of think of like, all the horror stories you've heard, sure, and then other other people, I mean, like the educator, she was great, because she actually had type one. And she was like, Well, you know what, I've lived with this 20 years, I'm here, doing this job. And I was like, Okay, this is good. Like, what seeing someone who's here that has been in a similar position, and who's doing, okay, I found that really, really reassuring, yeah, but yeah, going home was scary. It was like just sort of coming out into a new world and trying to wrap my head around, sort of how you use insulin, what you do and yeah,
Scott Benner 18:13
does it affect you otherwise? Meaning, do you start thinking, Well, if this just happened, like, what else might happen? Do you start having, like, bigger concerns, like, maybe life's not as on autopilot as you thought it was originally.
Katherine 18:26
Yeah, that's interesting. You asked that. Do a lot of people feel that way?
Scott Benner 18:31
No, I heard it in something you said a little while ago.
Katherine 18:34
Oh, that's interesting. That's that's really perceptive.
Scott Benner 18:37
Yeah, yeah. That's my whole job. Like, you know, would you tell me a little bit about that, please,
Katherine 18:43
about feeling kind of unsteady in life? Yeah, as I say, last year we kind of had this kind of wacky year where we were like, Okay, let's, I mean, I, my first degree was in performance, and so I've always kind of chased that. I've always, like, had that in the back of my head, like, Okay, I love acting, I love doing comedy, I love sort of doing very outward things, and I do YouTube and stuff like that. And so we really kind of dedicated ourselves to doing these classes last year and performing. And it was going really well, but it was a little crazy. It took us away from our work and our day to day lives, and it was like, suddenly, everything kind of stopped after this happened. It was like, Okay, I need to get more responsible. I need to double down on work. I need to make sure that we're going to be okay, because, like, both myself and my husband is self employed, and I would say the world feels a little unstable at the moment as well, like it kind of came, like the diagnosis came along with all the elections and the LA fires were happening at the time, and I kind of stepped out of the hospital, and it was a very new world that I stepped in. To all the sort of fun and games and everything, kind of had to slow down a bit, and I had to really sort of regroup, and life became a lot more simple. I mean, now we kind of focus on work and just taking the dog for a walk, and it's sort of become less about sort of chasing dreams at the moment. I mean, I always hope that comes back and and there's time to chase dreams.
Scott Benner 20:24
But, yeah, what do you do for a living? Like you don't have to tell me exactly, but what kind of work do you do?
Katherine 20:30
We create software and online courses. Okay, so I've been self employed for 15 years teach people how to make books, and you've been
Scott Benner 20:39
making a living at that your whole adult life. You've raised three kids off of that, but in your heart, you'd like to be a clown.
Katherine 20:48
You know, I don't know if I'd say like I want to be a full time clown, but I think performing, I enjoy live performance. It's a lot of fun. I'm good at it. My husband's good at it, too, and it gives you a buzz like nothing else does. It's really fun to be on stage and to just create something that's new. And we were doing these classes, and they're so fun. There's a place in LA called the idiot workshop, and what they do is they put you on stage for 10 minutes, and it's okay, you got to be funny, and you can't, like, repeat anything that you've ever done before. You have to sort of improvise on the spot. Yeah, and you've got to be funny, and it's like, you've got to make the audience laugh, and they'll, they'll gamify it and say, okay, when the audience laugh, you're allowed to step forward, but you can't step forward until people are laughing at you. So you you go through everything you can, making funny faces, or, like, grabbing a weird prop, or like, staring at someone like you go through all these things. And it's really empowering, though, because you come off and you go, wow, I had no idea that was going to happen tonight, that I was going to come up with this weird thing, that I did this routine or this performance,
Scott Benner 22:04
I think I understand also, what did you call it? The weird workshop? What is it called? It's called the idiot workshop. Idiot workshop. When you said that, I thought everybody who's hate listening to me right now thought to themselves, yeah, that's, that's what we call Scott's podcast.
Katherine 22:19
Yeah, it's a great name.
Scott Benner 22:21
Well, I mean, I so I take your point. Do you think you'll get back to it? Or do you like, I guess my question is, is, did this sober you the diagnosis? Or do you think it just slowed you down for a half a second?
Katherine 22:32
That's a really good question. I mean, I would love to go back to it. I think it's just one of those things where it's like we need to stabilize first and sort of make sure that our lives are in good order before we can sort of take like, you know, just sort of take risks, take time away from work and things like that that that feels like now that the stakes got a little bit higher, is what I would say,
Scott Benner 22:56
like life turned on, or something like that. Like the thing that you hear happens to other people? Happen to you?
Katherine 23:02
Yeah, that's, that's probably a good way to say it, yeah.
Scott Benner 23:05
Like you have three grown kids. Yeah, you've navigated changing continents. You navigated changing husbands, you raised three kids. You found a way to chase your dreams while you were doing that and have a good time. Nobody had been sick, except for when you were like, Oh, I can't eat wheat anymore, which probably didn't seem like a big deal at the time. Just like, that sucks, but I just won't eat wheat. So other than that, you hadn't seen a lot of illness through your life. Yeah?
Katherine 23:32
I mean, yeah, I think I've been very lucky in a lot of ways. Yeah, I think I rode on that a lot, and sort of this was the first thing that really made me go, oh, okay, I now I need to plan a little harder. I can't just rely on, like, ah, the universe loves me and everything's going to be great. It's like, I need to, like those
Scott Benner 23:52
people who told you, like, put, you know, save for yourself first, you know, make sure you have health insurance. Like all those people who seem like they were being a little too careful. Maybe they just had an experience you hadn't had yet. It's interesting. That might be true. Yeah, I wonder, like to that point, how did your kids accept that? Like mom's sick. I mean, is the first thing, and then they have to understand what diabetes is. But do you put a ton of effort? I mean, you're only eight months into it. You're still learning what it is for yourself. Are you sharing it with them? Are you trying to figure it out for yourself before you decide how to tell other people more about it?
Katherine 24:27
Oh, that's interesting. I mean, I think at the moment, I'm still quite lucky, because I think I'm still in the honeymoon phase, and so I'm not like needing a ton of insulin at the moment, like I need a little bit, I mean, touch wood, I feel like I'm managing it well at the moment. So it's really just, Oh, I gotta go do a shop before I eat, and things like that. I don't think it's really affected them too much. I think, I think for my youngest, I think he was a little traumatized by me going into the hospital and just that whole experience, especially being in ICU. I think I. That was pretty hard on him.
Scott Benner 25:01
Did they see you there, like when you were unconscious? Did your husband bring them or?
Katherine 25:06
No? No. He saw me going into the hospital. He saw me when the paramedics took me, but they didn't see me in ICU. They came to see me in the hospital once I was in a regular
Scott Benner 25:16
room, but that's five or six days later, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a long time like to be at home thinking, like, my mom just got like, my mom was babbling, and they put her in the hospital. I haven't seen her in five days. Yeah, yeah. How soon until you can care about that? Do you know what I mean? Like, when do you get to be a mom again? When is the trauma for you dying down enough that you can start thinking about the other implications? I think New
Katherine 25:41
Year's Day, I say that that was pretty much when they put me in a regular room and I could speak and sort of normally. And that was when I FaceTime them from the hospital. And that was pretty cool once, once I could talk to them and talk with FaceTime. Then that kind of changed everything. Then, then I could think about them,
Scott Benner 26:04
yeah, yeah. And they could see you and see that you were at least, kind of, yeah, popping back a little bit. Jesus, a lot. It really is okay. So you're, you know, you're eight months into this. They started you out, I imagine with a pen. Maybe Did they give you a CGM?
Katherine 26:21
Yeah, so I've got a Dexcom now. I've got on a Dexcom seven and, yeah, I've got pens, so I'm still doing that using the
Scott Benner 26:32
injections. And you think you're maybe honeymooning still,
Katherine 26:35
at least the Endo, she thinks that. So it hasn't changed too much. I've stayed I do basal of 14 units each night, and I just do maybe two units before meals. But we eat pretty simply. I eat pretty low carb that I've just found that that seems to be working well for me.
Scott Benner 26:54
I already asked you how old you were. That made you upset. I almost asked you how much you weighed, just so I can understand the insulin you're using.
Katherine 27:00
I lost 40 pounds. I was kind of overweight last year, and between some I came out the hospital 40 pounds lighter.
Scott Benner 27:09
The fluorbees Knocked 40 pounds off you. Well,
Katherine 27:12
yeah, it did. I was, I would think I was about 180 pounds. At some point last 185 and now I'm like, 141 40.
Scott Benner 27:23
You've been here so long you didn't tell me in stone, I appreciate that. Oh yeah, yeah. Every time someone says that, I'm like, I don't know what that means.
Katherine 27:32
Oh yeah, I forgot what a stone is. It's like, 12. Is it 12 pounds? 14 pounds?
Scott Benner 27:36
I love that you don't know. You sound like you would know, but you don't know. I just Googled, do your kids talk normal, or do they talk like you?
Katherine 27:44
So I've got two girls, they're 24 and 22 and they kind of have British accents. They my son is Californian, but it was so funny with my younger daughter, she has autism, and she was on an IEP at school, and they were assessing whether she needed speech therapy. And they were like, well, she has this very storybook way of talking. They're like, we can't decide whether she has a speech issue or whether she's just British.
Scott Benner 28:14
So did they figure it out? What did they what did they land on?
Katherine 28:17
I think they landed on, I think she had a little bit of speech therapy, but they determined that even though she has kind of an unusual pattern of speech, it wasn't anything to be concerned about. She just uses very long words and talks like a fairy tale.
Scott Benner 28:36
So right now, your management's not too overwhelming. Is that giving you some opportunity to kind of settle into it. Or do you find yourself thinking I'd like to get to the part where this is more, you know, predictable?
Katherine 28:49
No, I I'm like, I'm just, how do I keep it like this as long as I can? You know, I'm kind of grateful that I'm doing okay. And I, I feel like the doctor always tries to scare me a bit when I go in. She's like, Oh, it's going to get worse, you know, oh, you're going to you're going to need more insulin. Oh, you're going to have more symptoms. And I'm like, oh, okay, I I'm just going to enjoy this while it lasts,
Scott Benner 29:13
yeah, oh, no, I would take it for as long as you can get it. Sometimes people will describe that, you know, you make a big Bolus for something, and then your body jumps up and helps a little bit, and you get low. But it doesn't sound like you're using much at all, like you're you're putting, you know, what basically translates into a half a unit an hour of basal. And for a person your weight, it's not very much. And then you're just putting in a couple of units to what, like, kind of kill the spike a little bit at meal time. Yeah, that's it. You go up and come back pretty quickly after that. Yeah, yeah.
Katherine 29:48
I keep it pretty smooth. And we walk every day, and I found that helps. But I often find I go low when I walk, though. So I tend to take, like, a big bag of, like, cherries and straw. Reason things with me, and just sort of Munch those as I walk along the beach.
Scott Benner 30:04
So when you go for a walk, even that smaller amount of insulin is too much, you start getting low. Yeah, yeah, interesting. Did the weight stay off?
Katherine 30:12
Yes, it has, actually, but I really changed how I ate. So I tend to eat, sort of, I eat a lot more fruit and vegetables, and just I eat kind of healthy now we eat a lot of fish.
Scott Benner 30:23
So before is this is the thing people mentioned sometimes that the gluten free options for a lot of foods are maybe more caloric. Yes, that's probably true. Yeah. And see what you get away from, like the breads and things like the gluten free breads.
Katherine 30:41
Yeah, I did. I gave up. Yeah, I don't bother buying bread anymore. I We eat tortillas. We do quinoa. I get, like, chickpea pasta and lentil pasta, and we do those.
Scott Benner 30:52
But yeah, and those are adjustments you've made since your diagnosis.
Katherine 30:56
Yes, very much. I mean, last year, honestly, I was eating a lot of junk food. We were driving a lot, going between San Diego and LA and, yeah, I mean, I would drink, like, venti lattes, and I was doing all the wrong things. Like, it was such a surprise, I mean, but it's been a big change of lifestyle. But it hasn't been bad, actually, it doesn't bother me. I'm kind of happy that I'm eating healthier? Yeah?
Scott Benner 31:22
No. I mean, I guess there are people who would talk about like things got taken from me, but you're seeing positives from it, so it feels more like a good step, instead of something being taken away.
Katherine 31:33
Yeah, yeah, definitely, as far as food's concerned, but that's that's definitely the case, yeah? Okay. How did you find me? How did I find you? I don't know. You know, I think I found you through Facebook. I think I was looking for groups and what, what I found well, so it was interesting, because a lot of people told me, like in the hospital, they were saying, Oh, this is very rare. Oh, it looks like you've got type one, but that's really unusual for someone to be diagnosed with that later in life?
Scott Benner 32:02
Yeah, no, it's not. But okay, well,
Katherine 32:05
right? And so it was interesting, because then that was what I found. When I found your group, I found a lot of people had similar stories, and I was like, oh, and I felt a million times better. So as I said, I kind of had this sort of hypochondria brewing of like, is this all that? Is this? If it's so rare, why has this happened to me? Like, what what happened? And I think seeing a lot of other people in a similar boat, really, like, was really reassuring, yeah. So I'm very grateful for your group and your podcast, that I've been able to find that and see that in other people.
Scott Benner 32:41
I'm glad. I mean, even if it just alleviated your feeling of like, oh, what's going on here? Like, is this me? Yeah, you know, that would be a lot, but there's, I'm sure you've gotten more from it since then, and more will even come, especially because, and I'm not here trying to scare you, like your doctor, but doctors also not wrong. You know, as your insulin needs go up, the game changes, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't know how long this will last for you. Listen, I've interviewed people like you who've, you know, been in like, a honeymoon, like you might have a lot of, right? It could take years for it to come. You know, full circle. I've interviewed people who have lot of who started using, like, a GLP medication, and they're down to almost no insulin at all, wow. And not gonna last forever. But, like, they apparently had some insulin resistance on top of the type one, and they got even a, you know, a little more of a boost out of it. So no one knows how long it's gonna take for you to, you know, see the quote, unquote, full effects of this, yeah, but you know, hopefully it happens gracefully and gently, so that you can adjust as it comes.
Katherine 33:46
Yeah? I hope so. And I think that was the other thing that I really got from your group and also from friends as well, that the diabetes educator in the hospital, she sort of said to me, don't google anything. Just don't google and that freaked me out even more, because I was like, Oh my gosh, what am I going to find? What terrible things. And then I started sort of having all these, like everything started becoming like a terrifying thing to me, like, Oh no, if I, if I have, like a sore spot on my toe, is is that going to turn into my legs falling off, or something like, and there was this sense of the unknown. And then I think what I found was the more people that I saw sharing their stories and saying, Well, I've had it for this long. I'm managing it. This is how I manage it. It started to feel a lot more manageable. It stopped feeling like this terrible, scary thing that I wasn't allowed to Google.
Scott Benner 34:37
Yeah, no, I agree. I think that. I don't want to say knowledge is power, because that sounds very simple, but I think you should know as much as you can handle knowing, yeah, that that will pay you back at some point, having information for sure. Yeah, really, what I was saying too is that as this progresses, you're going to have that group to back. Bounce things off of, because right now, where you're at, like, I don't even think the Pro Tip series would help you that much. How interesting, because you're not really doing a lot with your insulin at the moment. Like, I mean, not that you couldn't get ahead of it and grab yourself an understanding, but I don't know how much of it you'd get to use right away when you're basically right now shooting basal and just, you know, throwing in a couple of units for a meal and making sure you have a snack when you go for a walk. That seems like what diabetes is right now for you, is that right?
Katherine 35:26
Yeah, yeah, that's, that's pretty much it.
Scott Benner 35:30
Wow. I hope that lasts forever for you. First of all, that would be awesome. Thank you. Touch wood, exactly that would be. That would be really, really lovely. And I've talked to people who have had this part of it go on for way longer than you would think. You know, it wouldn't be unforeseen if it lasted years. And it also wouldn't surprise me if you sent me an email in three months and you're just like, hey, I use a lot more insulin now, you know, so,
Katherine 35:55
and that's one of those things where I'm like, you know, I do wonder about, sort of, whether there might be a time in the future to go back to the UK, or to go back to Europe where there's a bit more security, or if it feels like maybe there's more security around sort of insulin and things like that. So those are the kind of sort of things I think about at the moment, of like, okay, where's the future?
Scott Benner 36:20
You mean, to get free insulin? Yeah, on the NHS, yeah. Because, I mean, I think there's going to be insulin here, but you know, if you're talking about just the pay for it side of it, I mean, yeah, it doesn't hurt to be somewhere. It's free. Also, that sometimes changes a lot about the options you have for taking care of yourself and the kind of the kind of stuff you have. Like, I don't know if I think they'd cover your CGM, but I don't know if they'd cover every pump you wanted, or if it's just some pumps, if you decide you want to pump one day, yeah, I don't know. Like, you'd have to talk.
Katherine 36:53
I had that covered Dex pump, so I was like, Well, that's pretty awesome. Dexcom and insulin.
Scott Benner 36:58
It's, Does it scare you that much, or is that just a big idea? Like, are you really thinking about that, like, practically, or it's just the thing that popped into your head that you've considered,
Katherine 37:07
I do think about the future, and I'm sort of looking at the sort of basal of being self employed, and just how things are, political climate, and just there's, like, a whole bunch of things at the moment that feel very uncertain or very unknown, and so I don't know, and I do wonder if it's like becoming sick, and there's sort of maybe some mental health issues that go with that, because I do feel like diabetes, kind of like I notice when my sugar goes Low, I tend to start having a lot more anxiety than I used to have, sure, and I don't quite have that sense of like, oh, everything's just going to be totally fine all the time. So interesting. Yeah, I do wonder if I chase security a bit
Scott Benner 37:54
more now. Yeah, did you have anxiety prior? I had
Katherine 37:57
anxiety on and off. But I also, I think I had a lot more faith in myself. I think now maybe I've lost a little bit of like, okay, I need to take care of myself. I'm not as invincible as I thought I was.
Scott Benner 38:09
Oh, so the reality of life is getting to you. Yeah, I
Katherine 38:12
think that might be it. Oh, I don't like that word reality, but yeah, no.
Scott Benner 38:17
I mean, listen, there's a couple different ways it's going to hit you the way it hits you, but I'd be happy that it made you, made it this long without any, like, needing anything like that. You know what I mean. But at the same time, I understand exactly what you're talking about, like, just the way I look at it is you're mainly cruising along and things are going well. Yeah, I had the same exact thought. You know, my daughter was diagnosed when she was two. That's 1919, years ago now, I guess, yeah. And prior to that diagnosis, not only was life like working, like we had climbed out of, you know, a number of different, like, we know, a slow start in life. I grew up poor. My wife was too like we were, like, pulling things together. You know, things were coming together. We had bought a little crappy house, and you know, we were in the middle of having, like, our daughter's second birthday party in the backyard during the summer, and we were like, wow, look at this is going exactly, you know, this is going great. Our kids are doing well, and, you know, we're chipping our way through life and everything, and then all of a sudden, like, bang. Like, there it is, right? Like, yeah, yeah, not, not a thing you never thought about in a million years. Like it. Never once considered that this could possibly happen to anybody, to me, or to her, to anyone that I I
Katherine 39:30
think that's even more of a shock with a child as well. Like you really don't expect that.
Scott Benner 39:34
I don't know it all sucks, but that feeling of like, wow, how did this happen? Yeah, is this the reality that we live in now? And it is like the truth is, is that, you know, sometime later, she got hypothyroidism. My wife had it, you know, my son has it. I don't know, you know, bad luck. I don't know what you want to call it. You know, have you had your kids tested to see if they have any markers?
Katherine 39:56
Yeah, we've, we've checked. No, I haven't. Actually that. That's probably something we should be looking at doing. Well, if
Scott Benner 40:02
you need something else to worry about, let's start thinking about that. Great. Okay, yeah, you can look at trial, net.org,
Katherine 40:10
that's one of the places. Is that the place to look? I'll take a look at that.
Scott Benner 40:14
That's one of the places you could look. They could do a blood test and tell you if they have one or more of the markers that would indicate that makes type one diabetes more possible.
Katherine 40:25
The first thing we did was we, we checked everyone's blood sugar and like, oh, let's everywhere. Okay, everyone's take a finger prick. Let's see where your sugar's at. Yeah, they all seemed okay.
Scott Benner 40:36
So now, yeah, there's, I have five markers, and you know, the more of them you have, the more likely it is you're going to get type one at some point. That's interesting. Yeah. So my expectation for you would be that you had markers and the something about getting the flu just kind of, you know, short circuited your your immune system and and here you are.
Katherine 40:56
Yeah, there were a lot of things sort of going off last year. As I say, I was losing a lot of weight. I was really thirsty all the time. I was I got a slushy machine like to make ice, and I was just drinking non stop. And in hindsight, I It seems kind of obvious what was happening, but it didn't kick in until I got the flu, and they said that was like the trigger for it all.
Scott Benner 41:19
Now listen, I interviewed a woman this morning who's an ICU nurse, and she ignored about every like blaring siren about her kids diagnosis. So don't worry, you weren't going to figure it out from being thirsty and losing weight, you know. Yeah, you're probably just, I mean, listen, you're a lovely person. You said, Oh no, no no. Wait, listen, you said, before you take the take the compliment. Oh, I thought being active and clowning was why I was losing weight.
Speaker 1 41:46
That's true. Yeah, I held in a laugh
Scott Benner 41:49
when you said that. I just want you to know, because I was like, Oh, she's she's like, Oh, I'm more active now I must be losing weight and it's from like at all. It made me wonder, is, like, Geez, what's involved in that clowning that you thought you lost weight from it.
Katherine 42:04
It's pretty active. You bounce around a lot as a clown.
Scott Benner 42:07
Well, yeah, but don't you think that everybody who wanted to lose 40 pounds would just like, get a red nose and head out if it worked out?
Katherine 42:14
Well, that's a great idea. I think, I think there should be a workshop for this.
Scott Benner 42:19
Why don't you see here's how you handle it. Now you combine these two things. It's clown school and, like, kind of like an exercise program,
Katherine 42:28
you know? I think someone actually was doing that for a while. Yeah, I think it had a name. It wasn't like clown fitness, it was that, yeah, someone was doing something like
Scott Benner 42:39
that, yeah, I can't imagine that was a big winner as a business. But I want to try to also, like, lessen your fears a little bit. Like, I mean, if you feel like politics is more fraught than normal, I have to be honest. Like, I've been here my whole life. I don't think it is okay. Yeah, I think the the words and the things we're worried about are they're new and they're more they're maybe a little more different than they've been in the past. But this thing has a pretty amazing way of self leveling.
Katherine 43:13
So that's what I hope. That's That's my hope. I mean, you know, I became a citizen last year, and I was so happy to become a citizen. I'm so proud, because I really do love America. I mean, I've been here 15 years and 16 years now. I think it's a great country, and I'm very happy to be a citizen.
Scott Benner 43:34
I'm glad that's nice. Welcome. Thank you. What's it like to become a citizen? What do you have
Katherine 43:41
to do? Oh, it's Yeah. Let me think, well, you have to take the test. So that's kind of easy. You just gotta learn the questions. They have, like, 100 questions, and then they ask you, I think it's like six to 10 of them. And once you get I think it's like six, right then you pass and you have to get all your paperwork together and just sort of show them all your marriage stuff and things like that. But it's really funny. They they kind of reel you in with all these videos, like stadiums of people waving flags, and it looks like this huge and they're like, Oh, you're going to go to a ceremony, and it's going to be this big, exciting thing. And then really, what happens? They put me in a room with this guy on Zoom, so I wasn't even with like a I was with someone on Zoom. So I was just in a little office on my own talking to a guy on a computer, and he interviewed me and asked me the citizenship questions, and at the end, he's like, Yeah, okay, you passed. And then he's like, please go outside to the corridor and then go in the elevator. And so I'm like, oh, okay, so you go out, and you go in the elevator, and they take you up, and then you come out, and then there's like, they they call it like a revolving ceremony or and it just goes on all day. It's like a permanent ceremony that's just happening. And so they'll push you into the room, and you're there with a bunch of other people, and they give you, like, a little welcome pack with a flag and leaflet and a letter from the President. And then they they're playing that song on the TV. They're proud to be an American song.
Scott Benner 45:20
No one was waving a flag, though, like in the video, no.
Katherine 45:23
And I'm like, Can my can my husband come in? And they're like, oh, no, sorry, no one can come in. It's just no, you're just gonna stand here. And so you just stand there with whoever else is in the room, and you all just sort of mumble this oath together, the vow together, and the Pledge of Allegiance, and that's it. And then then they're like, here's your certificate, and you have to hand in your green card.
Scott Benner 45:46
And then the pledge allegiance isn't part of the test.
Katherine 45:51
No, I don't think so. I think you have to say that at the end. But I don't think they it might be included in the question. So they ask you any of these, like, 100 random questions, yeah, like so it may be one of the questions that's in there.
Scott Benner 46:05
Could you knock out the Pledge of Allegiance right now, if I told you to sure you can pay me too. Do you know it? Yeah, go ahead.
Katherine 46:15
I pledge allegiance to the question.
Scott Benner 46:18
Maybe not. I don't do the flag of the United States of America, right and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Wow. Yeah, that's really good. Every damn day of my life in school, they made us say
Katherine 46:32
it. Oh my gosh, wow. You did that every day at school, every
Scott Benner 46:36
day, every day you got you had to be at your desk at a certain time. Sat your down. Five seconds later, you got your back up again, found the flag, turned to it, hand over your heart. I pledge allegiance to the flag the United States of America, and to the republic which it stands, one nation under God, liberty and justice for all. Boom, kindergarten, first, second, third, all the way through 12th grade.
Katherine 46:56
Oh my gosh, I guess, I guess it's been a year. So, yeah, I
Scott Benner 46:59
haven't said that in 40 years, and it just flew right out of my mouth. Yeah, and my memory is horrendous about stuff like that. Like, if you asked me any of the kids names that I went to school with, like, I like, I know, like, 10 of them. Oh, my God, I don't remember anything I learned that's for certain.
Katherine 47:19
Like, can you ask me, like, 80 song lyrics or something,
Scott Benner 47:22
by the way, that I'm terrible at Did you hear it? We put up an outtakes in blooper short episode the other day where I got it into my head to sing, she's gone by Hall and Oates, and realized I don't know any of the words, except for, she's gone, she's gone.
Katherine 47:38
Oh yeah, I don't think I know any of the words to that. I mean terrible or something. I could maybe do that.
Scott Benner 47:45
My wife will get in the car with me and she'll go, this is one of your favorite songs. You don't know the words to it. And I'm like, No, I know. Like, and then I tried to have this conversation with her, which she laughs at me for. But there's a thing where some people hear song lyrics as music. Oh yeah. So I don't really always know what they're saying. It's more like a it feels like a collection of like the musicality of it, like the words are sort of meaningless to me. It's more about the beat and the rhythm and everything like that.
Katherine 48:16
My husband's like that. He's He's a musician. He plays guitar and he but lyrics are kind of not that important to him. I love lyrics. He He loves music, so it works. But, yeah,
Scott Benner 48:29
I hear you all right. So we got diabetes. We're a little worried about everything at the moment, but I imagine that will come together for you over time. Yeah, we're thinking maybe we'll check on the kids, but we don't know they're also a little older than older, they might tell you to go to hell, right? They might. Yeah, no, you might. One of them might say, Look, I don't want
Katherine 48:48
to know that. Yeah, they're all busy. I mean, they're they're all sort of doing their own college things, and so, yeah, they kind of have their own lives.
Scott Benner 48:58
Mom's a bummer. She called me at school. She wants me to get my blood test to see if I might get type one diabetes one day, they're probably like, oh,
Katherine 49:05
yeah, that sounds about right.
Scott Benner 49:09
Other autoimmune in your extended family.
Katherine 49:14
That's a good question. I don't really know. I'm sort of a straight I never met my father and my mother died quite young, actually, from alcohol issues. Yeah, so I don't really know my grandparents were fine. I mean, very my grandmother has type two now, but she's in her 90s, so she didn't get that till quite late in life.
Scott Benner 49:44
Did you grow up with them? With your grandparents? Yeah, oh, I thought this was going to turn into a Dickens novel. Oh, I was in the poor house, sir, and I didn't I wasn't sure where that was going. But mostly, your grandparents raised you from what age it.
Katherine 50:00
It is a bit Dickens. And i My father left when I was a baby. My mother was only 16 when she had me, so they kind of my grandmother pretty much raised. Actually, both my grandparents raised me pretty much from a baby, but I went back and forth a bit. So I actually, I grew up on an island, and my mother moved to an even smaller island, and I was sort of to and fro between the two islands for a while, sort of living with my mother and then living with my grandparents. But I talked to my grandmother this morning, actually, so she's she's in her 90s, and she moved over here, as I say, she was kind of the reason I moved to the US, because she wanted to study Montessori education, yeah, so she did that. But then her student visa ran out, so she ended up going back to the UK. And she has another daughter there, my aunt. But I actually, yeah, I talked to her this morning, so I chat to her all the time on FaceTime.
Scott Benner 51:00
So how old was your mom when she passed? She was 43 Wow, my gosh, but you weren't particularly close with her. She more like a friend from high school.
Katherine 51:12
Yeah, it was a bit like that. It was a bit sort of like she Yeah, I was more stable when I was with my grandparents, and so I kind of went up and down with my mother, and she she was just dealing with her own issue. She was in and out of like rehab and trying to get sober, and it was always a struggle for her. And so it was, it wasn't an easy relationship. Yeah, I was sort of dealing with being a teenager, and I don't think I was as sympathetic as I wish I had been, no kidding, hindsight.
Scott Benner 51:43
Yeah, some hindsight there. Well, I mean, that's, that's all you're going to have is hindsight at that age when you're when you're put in that situation. But if we brought Dickens back now and let him start writing about modern life, those stories would sound so much different, wouldn't they? Maybe, yeah, maybe not, though, who knows? Maybe the, maybe the main themes stay the same.
Katherine 51:59
I think so. I think all the big stories in life, they never change in some ways, which is kind of reassuring, I guess.
Scott Benner 52:07
Can you tell me? I know this isn't why you came on, but what kind of an impact did your upbringing have on how you raised your kids?
Katherine 52:14
Oh, that's interesting. I'm a very I would say, let's say fair mother. So So I I never been a very pushy mother, right? I put them in Montessori schools when they were little. And then my son, now he's home schooled. And really, he does School of Rock. He was doing Coda school he does, and now he's doing community college. So I actually pulled him out of school during the pandemic. I wasn't very happy with I felt the school wasn't doing a very good job. They kind of fell apart during the pandemic, and didn't have enough teachers, and there was a lot of things going wrong. So he's been home schooled, and now he's doing community college, and he's a singer, he's a musician, and he's, I think he's hoping, at the moment, he's looking into doing firefighting or being an EMT, and I think that would be pretty cool for him, awesome. But my oldest is, she's like, literally, a rocket scientist. She's doing about start her Master's. She just graduated with an aerospace engineering degree. Wow. So she's about to do her masters. So I guess it worked with her. It did like she's done really well. And then the middle one starting, she's going to be doing writing, literary arts this year.
Scott Benner 53:32
Well, I said, if they're happy, it went well for all of them, right?
Katherine 53:35
Yeah, I think so. I mean, I don't think I'm the typical mother. I've sort of tried to run off to be in the circus for a bit. And I've been an entrepreneur for many years, and the ups and downs that go with like, I literally, when I moved here, I made a living selling on eBay, and then I just started teaching other people how to do that, and built a business from there, really. It's, yeah, it's pretty fun.
Scott Benner 54:01
So tell me a bit about that, though. Like, because I see this all the time, you know, I pay attention to social media a lot, trying to figure out, like, what other people in different segments are doing that maybe I could, you know, co opt or steal or try, you know, oh, we should talk, yeah, yeah. Because I never, like, most of it never goes well, you do see that thing that happens, right? Like somebody has some success early, and then if they can get to the teaching part of it soon enough, then they become the thought leader on the thing. And now their new success is just telling somebody else you can be successful. This is how I was.
Katherine 54:36
That's, yeah, I guess I was kind of kind of been on that so, yeah, so what happened I was I didn't really have a source of income after my son was born, my grandmother moved back to the UK, and I was just kind of like, okay, I really need to figure out what I'm going to do with myself here. And I happened to run into someone who was re selling from stores. From shops. And I don't know how long we've got this a bit of a
Scott Benner 55:05
story. I want to hear it, but we can end on this. I'd like to hear this go, please. Okay, sure.
Katherine 55:09
So I was buying things from yard sales, estate sales, selling those on eBay. And then I happened to be out with my husband, and we ran into one of his old friends in a shopping mall, and he was coming out victoria secret, and he had bags of bags of stuff. And I'm like, Does this guy have a lot of girlfriends? Like, why is he buying all this stuff from Victoria's Secret? And Isaac's like, this, my old friend here. We should say hi. So I said, Okay, let's say hi. And he said, Actually, what I'm doing is reselling this stuff. And I got really fascinated by this. I was like, wait, you can buy things and then resell them on eBay. And I talked to him a little bit, and then I went and did some research, and I decided to try it. And so what I did, I went to Nordstrom Rack, which is, and there may be people who've heard my story on YouTube.
Scott Benner 56:04
And are you more famous than I think you are? Catherine, what's going on?
Katherine 56:08
I do some videos.
Speaker 1 56:10
Okay, go ahead, keep going. I'm with you.
Katherine 56:12
I wouldn't say famous, but in Yeah. So what I did my eyes. Had bought me an iPad, and I went, I started looking up everything that I could see in Nordstrom and all because, you know how, like Nordstrom Rack, everything's on discount, and I found that the thing that that had the best discount was Hunter rain boots. And I realized that these were selling for about $50 more on eBay. So what I would do is I would make a list of all the sizes and colors that all the Nordstrom racks in my city had, and then I would list them on eBay, and I was more or less like selling them out of the shop,
Scott Benner 56:54
yeah, so you were selling them without buying them. Yes. Oh, that's brilliant, isn't it? Because then you didn't have to put out any of the money. Basically, basically you said, you said to people like, look, there's stock at the store. I can see it online, right? This thing costs $20 if you give me 50, I'll go get it for you and ship it to you.
Katherine 57:16
That's kind of like that. I literally just put them on eBay and just hope for the best and just kept track.
Scott Benner 57:21
Why wouldn't they go to nordstromerac.com and buy it themselves?
Katherine 57:25
Oh, because I was actually in the store. I was, like, physically in the store, hunting food, and I just drive around
Scott Benner 57:31
the store. Oh, it wasn't that. It wasn't something they could have done online. They had, they would have had done, yeah, you were doing work, but that was the work you were doing. You were going out and basically taking stock of what every place had that what you saw that was popular online,
Katherine 57:45
yeah, and so I kind of built this up, and then I discovered Amazon and selling on FBA with Amazon. And so I started doing that. And then I started teaching, because I can't keep my mouth shut about anything. So I started teaching it on YouTube and talking about it and saying, Hey, this is what I've been doing. And people like, Okay, can you show me how to do this? And so then I moved into, I created a course about it, and then I sold the course. And people were like, This is really fun. This is actually making a huge difference. I'm actually making money doing this, Wow, and so. And then my husband left his job, and he's a programmer, so he built the course platform for me. And then from there, we started building software together, building courses. And now we mostly teach people how to make books. We have software for that, and people publish their books on Amazon, and it's called Low content books. So a lot of people make, like notebooks, exercise books, guided journals, things like that. And we show them how to put those on Amazon and get them selling. And so it's, it's been a really fun business. I've been doing it for over 10 years now with Isaac and so, yeah, that's, that's our
Scott Benner 59:03
thing. That's really awesome. Good for you. That's great. But that's like, that's the most American thing I've ever heard in my life.
Katherine 59:10
We hustled away from the ground up. Yeah, for sure,
Scott Benner 59:14
yeah, wow. How about that? Oh, I appreciate you sharing that with me. Thank you. And I will take a pause after we're done recording and see if you have any thoughts for me. But for
Katherine 59:22
sure, if you're, if you're any interest in sort of books or notebooks, anything like that, like diabetes, books are huge. So isn't
Scott Benner 59:30
that interesting? Are they really? Yeah, I think a lot of
Katherine 59:33
people want to do like log books to keep track of things. So if you can find a unique spin on that, or a unique way to log things, especially, I think the tip I'm finding at the moment with people making planners is to put an emotional connection in there. Like, how are you feeling today? Mentally? Not just like, how are you sort of medically doing? How many units did you use today? But like, how. How are you actually feeling? And I'm noticing this in even in like kids homework planners. It was interesting. One of my friends the other day, who's a teacher, she shared a picture of the planner that their kids have at school, and it in the old days we had homework books, and it just said, this is the stud the subjects I'm studying, and this is the homework I'm doing. And this planner had, but how am I feeling today? And it had little emojis that you can circle. And I was like, this is 2025, I think it's a little bit nicer now, like people actually care more about how kids are feeling. And I thought that was really cool.
Scott Benner 1:00:40
Look at you out there doing stuff I didn't even know existed. That's pretty awesome. It really is. I appreciate you doing this very much with me. What made you want to come on and be on the podcast?
Katherine 1:00:49
I used to do a lot of improv, and in improv, they say yes, and like, if someone gives you an opportunity, you say yes, I'm going to do it. And I'm trying to get back to that instinct. I think, I think, honestly, getting a little bit sick with all of this, with with diabetes and everything, I think I kind of lost a bit of my yes and and now I'm trying, like, if I, if I see something like, you put it out there. I saw a post and you said, Hey, I'm looking for people to be on the podcast. And I was like, Yeah, I want to do this.
Scott Benner 1:01:26
Say hi. Yeah, that is awesome. Well, I'm glad.
Katherine 1:01:29
I'm really grateful, and I'm really, really grateful for the podcast and for your group as well.
Scott Benner 1:01:35
Oh, well, I appreciate that it's that you're saying something nice about it and that it's helping you. I'm really glad to know that it's been valuable
Katherine 1:01:42
for you. It really was and really reassuring.
Scott Benner 1:01:47
Well, I think that as time passes and your insulin needs change, you're going to find a lot of value in maybe the bold beginnings, Pro Tip series, some of the other series that are available for the podcast. So they're in the feature tab of the Facebook group that you're in if you want to check them out right now, there's a lot of lists. A lot of lists there. Sure I would check all of those. I think, I think you're gonna, you might see some stuff that'll really help you. So thank you so much for doing this with me. I really do appreciate it. Hold on one second for me. Okay. Okay. You
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