Hey Christian , what's happening , man ?
Speaker 2Nothing much .
Speaker 1Hey , welcome to Spark and Stride . Thank you , yeah , it's awesome . I'm so happy that you had the time to come by and hang out with me for a little bit .
Speaker 2Yeah , I'm happy that you invited me .
Speaker 1Oh , that's awesome , man . You know you're my family . You can come here whenever you want , yeah . Yeah , let's talk about what's important to you , though , like what's been going on with you . So seven months ago pretty like four , that's when we knew I had diabetes .
Speaker 2Oh , okay , so you want to talk about your diabetes . Okay , I want to talk about how , how I had , how I got in , how we found out okay , cool .
Speaker 1So what was yours ?
Speaker 2so four months ago i'm'm pretty sure May 4th , something like that I was really sick Like I went to the bathroom a lot , I drunk like a lot of water , like six of these bottles a day . For real yeah like a lot and then I barely ate and I lost 20 pounds in like two months wow just from all that .
Speaker 2And then we went to a doctor and they took blood and we and they found out , um , I had diabetes . So the next day , at one I know the exact time one , one o'clock , my mom took me out of school . We went to the doc , doctor , and we found that I had it and we rushed to the emergency room and then after that they like put IV , and then they were talking about how we found out I had diabetes and they thought , like , average is four months , that's what they think .
Speaker 1So basically seven months I'm in that diagnosis , but we didn't three months , we didn't find no oh , okay , okay , yeah , so they think that you maybe had it for seven months , but they didn't know four months and then four months or no , three months I think , and then four months .
Speaker 2We knew that got it okay .
Speaker 1So that's when you had your diagnosis . Yes , you kind of knew , wow , okay , so , uh , let me ask you something . So when you got sick , that's what started . Everything was that you got sick so there was no symptoms .
Speaker 2When we , when we first had it , I started losing a lot of weight in winter when I was playing basketball . So we just thought that since I'm playing basketball , I'm very active , I'm drinking a lot of water , I'm losing a weight . Then , when basketball was done and we came to the doctors because we saw we lost too much weight and we kept losing weight after basketball . So we went to the doctors and we found out they took blood . Then the next day we went to or ER , er , I think , and then the emergency room .
Speaker 2Yeah , and we found out I had diabetes , and then , like , we stayed there for three days . Oh , wow . And then I had IV and then we had to rush to the emergency room because my blood sugar was very high , like 500s and average blood sugar , probably yours . Yours is either 90 , 93 to 120 okay so right now I'll actually show you okay , hold on . So I open my thing up and it's gonna say clarity and type dexcon g6 . So that's when I have . I can actually show you where it is . Mm-hmm .
Speaker 2Right on my arm , right here .
Speaker 1Okay , so that's like the sensor .
Speaker 2Yeah , so it says like what the brand it is , and I have a thing over it like a .
Speaker 1Needle tiny nose like , like this big , it's thinner than a hair . Okay , so I thinner than a hair .
Speaker 2Yeah , very , very , very . And it goes so like you have a little injection thing kind of like , so you press it down like this and it goes in like I don't even know how fast , very fast you don't even feel it okay and it's very tiny , so , and then you set up the app uh-huh and you have two apps . Clarity is which um it tells you like how your range is . So , like , 120 is my range , and then this is my um , where it tells me my blood sugar actually .
Speaker 1So so what's your sugar right ? Well , what's your sugar rate ?
Speaker 2328 , which is not good . It's higher because I ate and I think I undercover and I'll get into that soon .
Speaker 1What's undercover ?
Speaker 2Insulin , because my body does not produce insulin , so my pancreas doesn't work . Got it . And I wasn't born with it . It's called an autoimmune disease .
Speaker 1So explain to me again how does it work when you uh ?
Speaker 2so you said 328 is too high yeah because your range you say your range was 120 120 , 193 , like 120 , 90 under , and I'll also talk about low soon . So um 120 is perfect , you want , want it , or lower than that , like 93, . 90 is good for you , an average person or just a regular person ?
Speaker 1Got it .
Speaker 2Okay , blood sugar .
Speaker 1So you said what kind is it ? Is it type 1 or type 2 diabetes ?
Speaker 2So I'll explain that .
Speaker 1Okay .
Speaker 2Type 1 is where you're born with it . But in my case my body I have autoimmune disease which fights my body off Like a disease . But I don't have one In type 1 , you're either born with it or get it regularly somehow . Type 2 is where you eat horrible , Like you don't eat good at all , and then you have to . You have to , like eat healthier to get it out . But type 1 , I mean type 2 , you can be regular again , but type 1 , you're stuck with it for your whole life until they find a cure .
Speaker 1Got it .
Speaker 2So which one do you have ? Type 1 .
Speaker 1You have type 1 .
Speaker 2Yes .
Speaker 1Okay , so you're prepared to live with this .
Speaker 2Yeah , only until they find a cure .
Speaker 1Right .
Speaker 2So what my mom said was like it's my pancreas kind of like sleeping so it doesn't really produce insulin , so we make a fundraiser . Remember that walk last week .
Speaker 1Yeah , I remember .
Speaker 2That was the fundraiser for or it's just a walk diabetes , but um , they made a fundraiser where we raised like four thousand dollars hold on .
Speaker 1We meaning like your team , yes , your team . Oh well , do you know how much they raised altogether ?
Speaker 2Yeah , like $4,000 . Okay . And then we donate . I donate every $1,000 . Mm , okay , so we made a fundraiser , and then after that we went to the walk , and then what else ? And then now we're , and now , well , so fundraise for a cure , that's what the fundraiser was for . Got it , it was for a cure . And then now we're and now they that well , so fundraiser's for a cure , mm-hmm .
Speaker 2That's what the fundraiser was for Got it , it was for a cure . And then they had the walk , and then they announced how much people did Mm-hmm , and then they even sent us socks For . For real . Yeah , they sent us socks . I was wearing socks .
Speaker 1Who sent you socks ?
Speaker 2The program sent us socks , I think I don't even know the name , I don't remember , but they sent us socks for it . Then we had to walk all that but they were still finding the cure , kind of like cancer , cancer cure . We're still finding it . So they had the cure to kind of wake up my pancreas . Okay , for works , wow . Any questions ?
Speaker 1Do I have questions ? Yeah , do you have questions ? Yeah , I have a whole bunch of questions . I have all kinds of questions .
Speaker 2Ask .
Speaker 1Yeah , so what do you like to eat ?
Speaker 2Eggs , eggs and bacon that's what you eat . So eggs and bacon , so that's what you eat . So were you eating eggs and bacon before you found out I was eating eggs and bacon .
Speaker 1I love eggs and bacon . Okay , can you still eat eggs and bacon ?
Speaker 2yes , yes , okay , okay any meat or protein or low carb stuff okay or if they have fiber , so say something's four carbs . Fiber is going to make it lower . So four carbs . Fiber , say it's two grams of fiber , it's going to make it to two carbs . So I they make like low carb popsicles , so I like having that . So it's eight carbs , I'm pretty sure , which is not big but it's not also small . But I can have it like special times only if I'm not like now okay , because right now you're up yeah okay , so how do you bring it down ?
Speaker 2I take insulin we're . I'm gonna get that soon okay so um , they make that keto stuff . So basically I'm on keto diet or I take insulin for like foods or snacks or treats okay so things we avoid is basically carbs , higher carbs and then sugar . So like high sugar , not like one gram of sugar . It's not crazy yeah but like 20 grams for a bite of Skittles or something , which is a lot .
Speaker 1Got it Okay , so you kind of have to monitor what you're eating obviously right , yeah , so like . How does that make you feel ?
Speaker 2Annoyed , like it's . You got to watch everything you eat . And you see , say you love a cereal and they say it's more healthy for you , but you have it now . Like , say you got diabetes . Uh , a month ago , before you had the diabetes , you love that cereal , but now you realize it makes your blood sugar go very high , but now you can't have anymore . So like say you love something , a lot candy . You can have candies for low I'll talk about that soon too . You can have candies for low , but you cannot have candies for like regular time . Like , say , halloween , they made a whole day , um holiday , about it . I can have candy then because it's a holiday , but , um , like regular basis , I cannot have it and it's not good for really anyone either but what about ?
Speaker 1what about if you were ? What about if you were 328 on halloween ? What do you do then ?
Speaker 2I would probably have like the lowest carb thing and take a little more correct . So I can show you that right now .
Speaker 1But I'm not , so . So what ? So what would you do ? You know , like what ? What would be ? A candy that's low ?
Speaker 2I actually oh so skittles or apple juice or anything sugary . If I'm low and I can show you like low times or I can tell you I don't think it shows up . So the lowest I ever went was low , just low . It just said low , like like under 20 whoa under 20 that's not good right ?
Speaker 1no ?
Speaker 2that's horrible got it you get sweaty really oh , you get so shaky , like like this , and it's horrible for you and then making yourself go back up . It's not good either . So you kind of like want to have candy , so I take five skittles . If I'm low , like say , I'm going down rapidly and I'm 98 , we take five skittles , wait 15 minutes , then take another 10 , so 15 you want to have , and 15 and all and I'm still going low . There's something called sugar tablets which we take four and 16 carbs . That makes it go up . So that's low and then high one , um , so it's like it .
Speaker 2Your blood sugar is really up , you're dehydrated . It's not good for you at all . It's kind of . I think it's even like a little worse than low , because you can die in both ways if you go too low and you can die if you go too high . But you can only die if , like you have , don't take insulin at all . I eat candy all day . Like you can get a dka , which I was , I was in , but not the serious . So like ketones is when you're really dehydrated , and ketones , like I don't , it's like acid , acid in your body which is not good for you . So , like you can lose limbs , arms , legs , all that like fingers .
So how did you learn all of this ? How did you learn everything you're telling me ?
Speaker 2Doctor , my doctor , okay , and my mom reaches us up and she tells me Okay , wow , because it's a lot of information . Yeah .
Speaker 1Wow .
Speaker 2When I first had it actually I'm going to talk about when we didn't know I did not have it , so I had to go to the bathroom like 20 times a day At night when I had to go to sleep . I had to go bathroom at least five times before I get to go to sleep . And then , since my blood sugar is so high , I was shaking like this . I could never go to sleep , and that's still now . Only if my blood sugar is so high , I was shaking like this .
Speaker 4I could never go to sleep , and that's still now only if I'm .
Speaker 2my blood sugar is high , though whoa . So or low , too low , is not fun , but when you go to sleep you're not gonna feel it , you're not gonna be shaky in your dreams or anything like that . So when we went , when I was going to school and I didn't know I had it , I had to go a lot and I had to put on Chastik every 20 minutes because my lips were so dry , and then not even 20 minutes like every minute . And then lotion I put lotion all over my hands .
Speaker 1Because you're so dehydrated .
Speaker 2Yes , my hands used to be like a desert literally Wow . And then that was for three months . My hands are to be like a desert literally Wow , and then that was for three months . My hands are so itchy . The lotion soaked into my hands in three minutes .
Speaker 1Okay , did you tell anybody ?
Speaker 2My mom used to see that I was very ashy , but before I even had diabetes , we used to put on um , I used to put lotion on my hands like all the time , but I stopped and so it got even more , um , even more worse , even now . How yeah ?
Speaker 2because when you get dehydrated , that's what happens , right yeah , wow , like you don't feel it on , like you feel very itchy and like it's an , it's annoying , but , um , so when I we we , I always used to put on . Like one day I used to put on lotion , like five squirts and it was like big and three minutes it's gone . And I live five like 54 seconds away from my school and I was almost gone .
Speaker 1Wow , oh , you live real close to your school .
Speaker 2Yeah , I live . So say this is where I live , and then you go up , take a left , take another right , take another , and you're there . Oh okay , I literally timed it 54 seconds away .
Speaker 1Do you walk to school ? I're there , okay , I literally timed it 54 seconds away . Do you walk to ?
Speaker 2school . I get there , I go there . My mom drops me off , but I walk home from school . But I used to in like second grade , I used to get picked up because , well , we just got moved there . We moved there one year ago , I think . Mm-hmm . Or two maybe , I don't know , but I used to walk home at third grade and fourth grade . Now .
Speaker 1Got it , so you would walk home because you live close by yes , right .
Speaker 2We just got there so we didn't know the neighborhood a lot , so we didn't know if there was creepy people or anything . Yeah . But now the last robbery in our neighborhood was like 1984 . And then there's no other things in our neighborhood .
Speaker 1How'd you figure that out ?
Speaker 2First Halloween , when we moved there , our neighbors right next to us told us the last time there's a robbery or crime here it was 1984 , I think . Wow . I think it was our other neighbors . So we lived up here and it was like right here Got it . Right in front of us . Okay . So let's get back to the like , how we didn't know sure , whatever you want to talk about .
Speaker 2Yes , um , when I had to go , and then my teacher realized I was drinking water like crazy and then everyone had to go to the bathroom , so one after we got that was sorted out , we went to the doctors , like I said , went to the emergency room . Oh , actually , my teacher . So I think the day before we went to the emergency room we were talking , we found that I had diabetes , but we didn't do anything crazy . So the next day we went to
school . My teacher told me so this is what we do , to go to the bathroom . So my teacher told me just do this and you go to the bathroom anytime you want . And , um , if you need a nurse , just rate . No need to go to the nurse , just raise your hand . And if you need to do anything , um , for lunch , you're gonna lunch at 11.34 or 30 . But I go there at like 11.20 because I need to take insulin . Oh , before I eat , because I take this , eat and then give me insulin , I have to take it before .
Speaker 1So you give yourself insulin .
Speaker 2Yes , I can show you soon .
Speaker 1Okay . Soon .
Speaker 2So after and then the day before that , I think after lunch , 11 , I mean 10 , one o'clock , one o'clock , one o'clock , um , that's that's when we left to go to the er because we didn't know . Like the doctor told us I had diabetes , but we didn't , we didn't do so much crazy stuff about that until we actually went to the er and told us how had diabetes , but we didn't , we didn't do so much crazy stuff about that until we actually went to the ER and told us how my blood sugar is crazy , like in the 600s like .
Speaker 1Your blood was in the 600s . Your sugar levels were in the 600s .
Speaker 2Wow , 600s , and then when I used to go to the Adidas house , that's dangerous man . I know like crazy , like 500s , like very high , it's like high , high , higher than 400s , like 400 is considered very , very high , but like 500 , 600 , crazy high like dki high and I had like what's dk ? Um , that's I 'll , that's we're getting to that . Okay .
Speaker 2We got to the nurse , they told us I had DKA , which is I don't even know what DKA stands for , but it's when my blood sugar is very high and you get ketones , which is acid in your body , basically . So when we got there , they rushed , they pricked me . It hurt Like pricks , me like it hurt like pricks . You know , I have it actually with me , but yeah , like pricking , I don't .
Speaker 2I don't remember what it was , but they , I said , they said it was very high , so and then so , and then we , we , we waited , waited . We got into a room like in the lower class and then , like the sink , we stayed there for three months . I think the second night or maybe a little later , like at nine , they took us to the emergency room because how high my blood sugar was , and like they every um , like they had IV right here in my arm , right here , and then , before that , they tried to take blood from me and I didn't get blood at all they couldn't find the vein they went here do you know why they couldn't find the vein ?
Speaker 1I don't know . Actually , because you were so dehydrated . When you're dehydrated , it's very hard to find a vein to draw blood from . Yeah , so you were probably super dehydrated . You know , I could only imagine Wow , you're pretty brave man . You're pretty brave to go through all of this stuff and to still stay positive about it . And , you know , just keep you know with a positive attitude . Yeah , that's gonna that's gonna do a lot for you , not only now , but as you get older too . Yeah , because you're an example . You're an example for other young men that probably you know , don't ?
Speaker 1They're learning that they have diabetes for the first time and they don't know how to . They don't know how to adjust to it , because it is an adjustment . It's not just an adjustment for you , it's an adjustment for everyone , right ? For your grandparents , your parents , everyone , even me , right ? Because you come to visit my house and play with my daughter , your cousin . I got to make sure that I have the right foods here for you , that you know . I can't just give you junk food when you get here , because like like diet coke or water yeah , right and diet coke I .
Speaker 2It's like a treat yeah kind of like candy , but better for me , so like if my blood sugar's been good , I can have it okay but um aspartame . Aspartame is in diet stuff yeah which they say has cancer , which can give you cancer .
Speaker 1So we kind of have that less often as um as normally how was it , when you went to school , when you went back to school after this whole thing , after being in the hospital for a few days , after figuring out exactly what the diagnosis was was that you had diabetes type one and getting all this information ? Because it's a lot of information , right , like it's a little bit overwhelming , right ? You're kind of like , oh my God , like you know , you're getting all this new information when you go back to school , right , and you go tell your friends , what do your friends say ?
Speaker 2My close friend . His name is Luke .
Speaker 1What's up , Luke ? What's happening ?
Speaker 2He didn't really think much of it . I didn't say he wouldn't care . I didn't think much of it until we got more into and see , when I go over his house , how it's low or high . Because one day I went to his house and this was recent , like two weeks ago . I went to his house and I changed my Dexagon , which tells me my blood sugar .
Speaker 1You do that yourself . You switch that out yourself .
Speaker 2Yeah , you just rip it off like a bandaid place it in kind of like this and then it just goes in like 60 miles per hour .
Speaker 1Really , it goes in quick . You have to press it .
Speaker 2Yeah , you have to press a button like this .
Speaker 1Got it , and then it shoots out it shoots out . It shoots out . Wow , when do you know that you have to change it ?
Speaker 2It tells me , actually I can pull it up right now .
Speaker 1Oh , the app tells you it's time to change out the .
Speaker 2Yeah , so I go on to settings right here and then I look all the way down Counts for all that stuff . You can see right here . Last time it gave me my calibration which told me my blood sugar it was . What time was it ? I don't know , that was a long time ago . But this Sensor expires . You can see right here Sensor expires . Look for sensor expires , okay , and you see the date .
Speaker 1Yes .
Speaker 2That's when it expires , and it tells me the time too . Oh , wow . And I can show you on my pump . I can pull it out right now .
Speaker 1So the sensor expires October 21st of 23 at 8.14 pm . Yes , so that's when you have to switch it out ? Yes , october 21st of 23 at 8.14pm yes so that's when you have to switch it out , and it's going to give you like a reminder it's going to give me actually this , gave me a reminder actually now , because it expires today oh right this one expires today .
Speaker 2This one , not this one so what's that one then ? So this is my pump . This is basically a pancreas . Oh wow , you can see like , wow , I put an over thing over it so it doesn't break off , right ? Right Because you can see the difference from the bigger difference from this .
Speaker 1Yes .
Speaker 2Because it's not going to get caught on barely anything . But , this can get caught . It's like the on barely anything but this can get caught . So , like the first day , the first time I had this , I put it on my thigh , and every time I put it on pants it like ripped the back , like this part off .
Speaker 1Got it .
Speaker 2And like that wasn't good , so we put like tape over it . Okay . Kind of .
Speaker 1And then the next we had to change it every three days .
Speaker 2Every three days you got to change that out . Yes , every three days . Whoa Actually we can . Let's see when this changes .
Speaker 1So is that one similar to that ? Like you put it on and then you press a button and it .
Speaker 2Actually no . So this rips , we just rip it off and we have to put insulin manually into it . So we have a little bottle , we have to put insulin manually into it . So we have a little bottle , we have a syringe , pull it up and then we place it in here actually , and then it takes three clicks and you can see right here it says change pod and then 24 , you left in reserve reserve wow wow , that's , that's so like 20 , you means um units , units means insulin right , okay so christian .
Speaker 1Could you imagine ? Just imagine that you didn't have this technology yeah , I would prick myself , I .
Speaker 2So when I first had diabetes and first got off the hospital actually when I ate food they um , they gave me shots . It's like I put on my thigh or arm you had to inject yourself .
Speaker 1Yes , okay , yes , okay .
Speaker 2Yes , I think stomach too , and I used to hit a muscle and it hurt so bad . Oof .
But when I first did that for like three months the first three months , I think- so can you explain that part to me again about how you stick yourself ? Okay , yeah , so I used to do it on my arm , both arms , thighs , legs . I used to do it on my arm , both arms , thighs , legs .
Speaker 2I can't even do it on my butt wow but , um , I always used to do thigh because after I hit a muscle on my stomach , I hated it , so I always used to do thigh . So I used to put do it right here or on the side . Okay , wow . So inner or outer ?
Speaker 1Yeah , so who teaches you how to give yourself insulin ?
Speaker 2The nurse .
Speaker 1The nurse taught you how to do it when we were in the hospital , they taught us where we can put it . Okay .
Speaker 2And then I used to , just so you're supposed to squeeze it like this . Okay . And then place it in and then just press it down .
Speaker 1Got it .
Speaker 2So you like twist the cap kind of like this and it goes to 30 . 30 units is crazy a lot . Yeah , you don't want that right 30 units is like eating a whole buffet , like candy , everything . Right , okay like candy , everything right , okay . So probably people are gonna need higher , like five units , because they're bigger , they need bigger meals for now . I'm usually taking either two units or three units , depending on the meal okay , so what were you saying ?
Speaker 1so um oh , I know , I know what I wanted to ask you . I know so . So they're teaching you how to give yourself insulin at the hospital . They're teaching you . So , when you do it for the first time , who gives it to you when you get home ? Not in the hospital .
Speaker 2Oh , okay . So in the hospital the first time was the person , the nurse . But then I think , like the fourth time I had a meal , I gave it to myself .
Speaker 1So you gave it to yourself , I gave it to myself in the hospital , in the hospital , yeah , after the nurses training you and doing all this stuff . Yeah , wow , was that scary .
Speaker 2You don't really feel it . Have you ever had stitches ? Yeah , okay . So it kind of feels like that , but it's like this big . Okay and little less so , and I think every three months you're gonna have expires and they had to get a new one wow so um what is ? It wait what expires every three months so when I had the pen I had to expire . I think it expires every month or three months . Okay , we had to get a new one out , a new pen . Yeah .
Speaker 1But it doesn't matter . You still got to stick yourself . Yes , you still got to , no matter what . The act of actually puncturing your skin with the needle , yeah , you have to do that .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1Because there's no other way for it , to you know , unless , unless , you have that .
Speaker 2Yeah , I think I got this like a month ago , I think . Okay . So this is basically a pancreas . It gives me insulin every hour , so like a tiny drop in the water kind of .
Speaker 1Instead of insulin . So is it giving you insulin according to what the other sensors telling you , or is it just giving you a little bit at a time ?
Speaker 2and you have to manage okay , so yes and kind of no , so this that was funny .
Speaker 1Go ahead go so this um tells me my blood sugar and it also connects with this well , that's okay , that's what I'm trying to get at right .
Speaker 2So it's kind of .
Speaker 1So it's working together .
Speaker 2Yeah , to keep you Steady and .
Speaker 1Right to keep you balanced right , yeah , not go low or high . Gotcha okay .
Speaker 2So wrong thing . So I press this little , like you see , that cap kind of I press that to take insulin . That's what it looks like , the little insulin bottle , and I put 100 units in here . Whoa . Like that's very a lot . Yeah , yeah , yeah .
Speaker 2But we're not going to have all that . So I put my carbs . So 60 would be three units . And then UCGM means correct my blood sugar , and I'm not going to do that because I corrected it a little while ago . But CCGM means 0 . Blood sugar , and I'm not going to do that because I corrected it a little while ago . But C says me 0.8 U . U means unit , which is insulin . So that's kind of what it gives me . And then , so that basically works together . And then I'm going to tell you about the activity mode and switch mode . So switch mode means I'm in automated mode right now , as you see , automated , which gives my daily hour insulin . Little drop of insulin , kind of like a pancreas gives you that hour insulin for it doesn't mix up your blood sugar .
Speaker 1Yes . So , Well , I wasn't aware of that . I just learned that .
Speaker 2Oh , you just learned that now .
Speaker 1Right this minute . So thank you yeah .
Speaker 2So you see this IOB right here . Mm-hmm , I don't know what that means , but 1.5U is the units , so how much I have in my body , right ? Now Got it .
Speaker 2It was one unit and five one and a half units . Okay , Okay . So right here this is the graph . It tells me how like my blood sugar is now and how it's been . So I've been steady on the way here and then went down a little and went up until now . So it's been going up until now and now it's steady . So that arrow is steady . Up means going up . Double arrow means going up fast . Double arrow means going up fast . Down means going down double .
Speaker 1So right now it's supposed to be roughly 120 , right .
Speaker 2Yeah , 120 .
Speaker 1It's where we would like to be .
Speaker 2Close to like . We want it to be in the hundreds . Got it ? We want it to be under 180 .
Speaker 1Under 180 , okay .
Speaker 2Anything higher is considered high .
Speaker 1Okay .
Speaker 2Or very high .
Speaker 1Got it . So right now at 330, . We're high right now .
Speaker 2Yes , that's very high .
Speaker 1That's very high . So you're trying to . Bring it down , bring it down , bring it down and you said you corrected earlier .
Speaker 2I corrected at 3.34 . Okay . So like an hour ago .
Speaker 1I think , oh , wow , okay , so it takes some time for it to kind of so when we first got out of the hospital , we had to wait 15 minutes to eat .
Speaker 2every time Got it . Then that was annoying Every time I had to eat . Imagine waiting 15 minutes after you take insulin and you have to stare at your food while everyone else is eating .
Speaker 1Just imagine that . Yeah , that's no good .
Speaker 2And then sometimes if I was lower , I didn't wait at all .
So in school when I had to wait 15 , I used to go a little earlier to wait .
Speaker 1Yeah , you were saying that , right yeah .
Speaker 2So I used to bring my lunchbox to there . I used to bring my lunchbox and my mom's write how much carbs down . So actually I can show you what we used to do . So I used to go on the calculator Let me find that Calculator . And then I forgot what my thing used to be . I think it was like 70 for correction and then 24 for carbs . But this is already knows . It has its own calculator , so we don't have to calculate it anymore . So I'll say I'm having 60 gram of 60 carb meal , 60 carbs . So I put 60 here and I divide it by I think it's 24 . 24 equals 2.5 . So I think we changed my correction stuff so it's going to be a little higher than that . And then 75 , I think it was , or 80 was for my correction , like for connecting my blood sugar . So if I corrected it now it would be 0.8 .
Speaker 1Got it . So , right now that it's high , yes , right . How do you feel right now ?
Speaker 2I don't feel anything .
Speaker 1You don't feel anything , you feel regular regular .
Speaker 2Yeah , my lips are a little chapped because I was licking it , but that's yeah , but .
Speaker 1But I'm just saying , like , right now you feel , you feel , you feel okay , right , yeah . So so right now that , since your sugar is high , but you feel okay right , if you were in school right now , would you like go out on the playground , would you play sports , would you engage other kids , like would you start playing a game of basketball , or would you kind of like sit back and wait for your sugar to come to stabilize ?
Speaker 2so that can be out an hour 30 minutes to make it down oh so that's going to be annoying , but I could do anything really if it's high . But if it's low I have to go to the nurse , take 14 , I mean 4 tablets , sugar tablets or 5 Skittles , depending 5 , 10 , or 15 , depending on my blood sugar .
Speaker 2So , I can show you . So when I go to recess , actually , I press this like little three lines right here . I press it and then it goes to this you can see switch mode automated manual . Manual means you're not going to get your hour insulin , which is not good . So sometimes at night or sometimes regularly , it makes you turn . Automated restriction mode , which makes you turn into manual mode . Wow , and then , I don't know , set time bolus . Bolus is your insulin , no other word for it . And then activity . I can actually put it on right now and take it off . So you see , it goes to 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 .
Speaker 2It can go all the way to 24 hours . It can go all the way to 24 hours . So say you're in the army and you're going on an all-day trip to I don't know , you're in war for the whole day . You put it on 24 hours . That's just a thing .
Speaker 1So you put it on 24 hours , meaning that you're going to be active for 24 hours .
Speaker 2Active for 24 hours Right , okay , you're going to be walking , running . You're going to be active for 24 hours . Active for 24 hours , right , okay .
Speaker 1You're going to be walking , running , you're going to be doing stuff , you're going to be moving around .
Speaker 2For like the whole day Got it and then next day , so I can actually not put it on 24 hours , but I can put it on one hour and say it stops my hour insulin . And then right here it tells you how long I can just cancel that right now so that beep's telling me it's gone ? Got it okay it's giving my hour insulin now , and then these switches this um little mark saying it's on automated mode which is good , and this tells me my blood sugar .
Speaker 2so this one tells me one is going to expire and one to change it . So it says change 24 units left in the thing and then pod expirations today at 8.21 pm . Wow . So that's what you want to see .
Speaker 1So that's what you want to see . I think for me right now , as I'm listening to you and watching how you're navigating through your phone , it's pretty amazing that at your age you're so in tuned with how this all works and how it affects you , because ultimately , it's you right , it's you , it affects you because , ultimately , is you right , like it's you . But I think it's very impressive that you're able to not only show me , but you're navigating , a pretty complex I mean application almost you know what I mean . Like that would take me a long time to try to like figure out . And you're you're not not only have you figured it out , you're just like moving through . You're not not only have you figured it out , you're just like moving through , you're navigating it . It's pretty impressive . May I ask you two questions ? Yeah ?
Speaker 1So if there were , like a group of young boys and girls who were just diagnosed the day that you left the hospital , the way you were feeling , if there was a group of kids who were feeling that same way , like what would you tell them ?
Speaker 2so the day I left , I felt perfect . Fine , I felt like now . So I don't want to say anything , because I felt fine .
Speaker 1I felt well , no , you felt , you felt fine , but you felt fine . But you were just diagnosed with type 1 diabetes .
Speaker 2Well , I was diagnosed for seven months . That's what we like . They said four months or three months , that's what they thought how long I've been diagnosed for . So really , I've been diagnosed for seven years . I mean seven months .
Speaker 1Right , but you hadn't gone to the hospital , you hadn't taken insulin . No , you hadn't gone to the hospital , you hadn't taken insulin . No , none of that , right , yeah ? So the doctors are thinking and I don't even want to talk about because I wasn't there , I'm not a doctor , I'm not a medical professional in this area whatsoever , I'm more . I'm asking in terms of the way you were feeling like as a person , not feeling that how did you ? Was your sugar up or down as a person ?
Speaker 2and how did I react ?
Speaker 1yeah , like if there were a group of kids right now that are experiencing the same thing you've experienced . What would you tell them ?
Speaker 2so I would say it's not the worst thing and it's not the same thing you've experienced . What would you tell them ? So I would say it's not the worst thing and it's not the best thing that would happen to you , but say it's even better for you . You get a healthier life . You're going to be way more healthier than average people that have like or people that have like treats or like . You're going to be healthy , very healthy , and then you're going to be healthy , be strong . So take that as an advantage and have better . Your blood sugar is going to be better . You're going to feel amazing . You can do anything you want , basically Mostly . But you can do anything , but just watch out for your blood sugar and , um , if you go high or low . So if you had your pump , if you had a pump , you would put it on activity mode for how long you're having uh , you're playing or doing whatever . But if you had uh injections , try to wait like 30 minutes or an hour after you take that injection so you don't go low
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Speaker 1Okay , I have another question . So what have you learned from this entire experience ?
Speaker 2So far .
Speaker 1So far .
Speaker 2So I learned that I had to eat way healthier and how I feel better , like stronger I actually I had more muscles now than back , when we did not know , and I used to be a little more chunky . I used to be 101 pounds . Now I'm like 81 . I lose a lot of weight , but now I'm a perfect weight for me .
Speaker 1Wow , is there anything else you ?
Speaker 2want to share with the people that are going to listen and watch this . No matter what medical disease or anything that happens to you , don't make it stop you from anything you want .
Speaker 1I like that .
Speaker 2Actually , can I redo that ? Yeah , yeah , go ahead . Don't if you have a medical disease or anything , don't make it . Stop chasing your dreams . Okay . That sounds way worse than the first one .
Speaker 1It's all good , brother , thank you . So you're going to come back . You're going to come back and hang out with me on Spark and Stride yeah , awesome . We with me on Spark and Stride yeah , awesome . We would love to have you back , man . All right , christian , thank you so much . It was awesome talking to you and I hope that this was also beneficial to yourself in terms of getting out your message and how you've bounced back from this diagnosis .
Speaker 2Yeah , all right brother . Thanks for having me .
Speaker 1You got it Spark and Stride , stay sparked .
Speaker 2It's much it , you got it . Spark and stride , stay sparked .