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Speaker: Hello and welcome to the Type 1 Club. I am your host, Jackie Kidman. I am a Type 1 mum to a boy named Harvey who was diagnosed in June 2022 at the age of seven.
Speaker: Today's guest is Lucy Woods. I met Lucy at the Omnipod conference back in August of 2025 and I've since followed Lucy's kind of advocacy that she does on her Instagram and I love everything that she, you know, addresses and shares. And I actually don't know where you find the time. i remember after that weekend and you did the little vlog of what happened. And I thought, I think I took three photos. How did you do that? I didn't even notice you doing any of that. You were so good. it was I was like, I just, yeah, that's great. That's awesome. So Lucy, thank you so much for your time. It's a little bit earlier for you You're in WA. I'm in Melbourne. So welcome to the podcast.
Speaker: Thank you. I'm so excited. ah Good. I'm excited to have you. I would love for you to start by introducing yourself to the the community and to share your diagnosis story from what you remember.
Speaker: Yeah, of course. Thank you for that lovely introduction. i also don't know where I find the time. It's there somewhere. My name's Lizzie. You got that sorted. I live in Perth, WA. I was actually born in Victoria. I was born in Melbourne and moved over to WA in 2000 and I think it was maybe 2009 or 2010. So a year post diagnosis, which would have been really difficult for my parents leaving our support network over there, of all of our extended family and coming over here. But when i was diagnosed, I was six years old. So I remember...
Speaker: I do remember quite a lot of it. I think I was right at that age where kind of I was beginning to understand the concept of time and little bits of responsibility. So my memory is quite clear of that time.
Speaker: I want to say for about, I've asked my parents about this as well. I want to say for about two weeks I was presenting symptoms and very waking up in the middle of the night, wetting the bed. I remember drinking out of the bathroom tap and just letting the sink run and sticking my head under. i still do that sometimes actually, if I'm being completely honest, because wake up high. It's just a coping mechanism. But I was wetting the bed. i was really tired. i remember I was sleeping all the time, I'd come home from school and if I hadn't fallen asleep at school, I was sleeping at home pretty much as soon as I got home.
Speaker: My parents had actually surprisingly heard of type 1 diabetes before. In 2008, it really wasn't a... i it really wasn't a well-known condition, but my parents had met a friend of a friend that had type one. So they did know, I think the name was about it.
Speaker: They took me to the GP and I remember seeing the GP. I do remember that appointment and just getting a blood test done and feeling really chuffed with myself that I didn't cry.
Speaker: And I think that was a Saturday night and i was going to a play. My grandpa was performing in Pirates of Penzance.
Speaker: And yeah I went with my grandma and my older brother and my little sister went to her, went to our Nana's house and my parents were having date night at home.
Speaker: And they got a call from the GP at about, seven o'clock or eight o'clock and said, Hey, we've got these results back. You need to take Lucy to the hospital. And they briefly explained what was going on. But obviously i can imagine as a parent hearing that your child needs to go to hospital and your child's not there with you you block everything out really that they say afterwards, you wouldn't really be digesting any of that information. so My parents got into the car, drove to the theater, such a dramatic story.
Speaker: in true fashion but they got to the show and we were right in the middle of the first act and they got through the door and the ushers were going no you can't come in you have to wait till intermission you can't go in if you don't have a ticket blah blah blah and on the other side of the door I was about to wean my pants in the theater seat and I remember saying to my grandma I need to go to the toilet and She was saying, no, you gotta to wait, you gotta to wait.
Speaker: Anyway, i think it was about 10 minutes till intermission. So mum and dad waited till intermission and we went out into the lobby and saw them. And I remember being really excited that they were there. i was like, oh, they're coming to surprise us. it's This is so fun. And they, i remember sitting in this really crowded corner and feeling very confused because I was excited that mum and dad were there and everyone else looked very scared and so I knew that there was something going on but I didn't know what was going on because no one was telling me we got they did say if we've got to go to the hospital remember you had your blood test and your doctor's called and he's saying we need to go to the hospital to get another blood test
Speaker: Which is hilarious because it's not just another blood test. It's another five blood tests once a year for the next rest of your life. But we were in the car and dad was driving and mum was sitting in the back seat with me. And she said to me, i was excited. I thought that maybe I was like getting getting a cast or something. I don't know. I remember thinking I'm going to get cast and everyone's to sign it and...
Speaker: It'll be so That is so funny. And we ended up getting to the hospital. Mum had said something in the car as to, there's something in your body, it's not working, we need to go to hospital and they can fix it for you.
Speaker: i was like, great. So got to the hospital and i from that, I think I was in the hospital for a few days, maybe two or three days. I recently just read the discharge summary actually, which was actually quite confronting. And...
Speaker: I remember from that admission, really all I can remember are the cheese and crackers that they would give you. The little Arnott's pre-packaged three crackers, three slices of cheese. And I remember eating them and being like in awe of how good they tasted because this must've been post insulin and they were just trying to feed me anything. And I just remember they tasted bloody amazing. And I kept asking for them. I think in between the crackers and the joy from the crackers, there were definitely a few moments where I was scared. i know that I was quite terrified of the needles at that point. So when they would come in throughout the night to do a little finger prick, I would not like it.
Speaker: But yeah, after two or three days, we got out of the hospital and it was, here's your logbook and here's your next appointment and here's your syringes, bag of syringes and couple vials. We'll see you in a couple of weeks. So I was really, i am really lucky that my family is really supportive of my diabetes and my immediate family, but as well as my extended family as well. So post-diagnosis, everyone banned diabetes.
Speaker: banded together and being a six-year-old you wouldn't think that a six-year-old would be able to understand what's going on but I really do remember feeling very loved I was loving the attention and that made it a little bit easier a little bit easier because everyone was like oh Lucy and that felt nice the reason as to why they were doing that that didn't feel great but they were doing it so yeah had and uncles who were giving me my injections and that happened for probably about maybe eight or nine months. It was a whole family thing. Everyone was doing everything together, babysitting, grandma and nana. They were all across it and then my dad got a job in WA. So we packed up and we moved across the country and that was really the start of
Speaker: what I would say the start of my type one diabetes journey coming over here. Cause that's really the normal before it was very, everyone's doing everything over here. It was okay. Now it's mom and dad, dad's at work.
Speaker: Mom's looking after three kids. it was It was quite a lot. So that's, as I said, quite a dramatic story and it's pretty ironic. happened in a theatre but it was, that's the story. Wow.
Speaker: it's that You've got such vivid memory of that. I was just thinking as you were saying it, I was like, oh I wonder what Harvey would think. Like if I asked him what he remembers, I actually don't, I don't know. I think he just remembers.
Speaker: He did say something. I can't remember it now, but he did say something what he did remember, but not to that point. He would just remembered. Harvey's now 10, turning 11 in May.
Speaker: wonder if he goes back when he's your age. I feel like a lot of Yeah. I feel like a lot of my memories came back really as I started rediscovering my diabetes. So few years ago, it's not something that you, it's not something that your brain wants to remember. I don't think regardless of how it happened, if it was a positive experience or not, I think naturally your brain doesn't want to go back to that time, but There is something really powerful going back to that time when you're ready and working out how you felt and what was happening and how that really affected you now. So I would say that ah in a couple of years when he's ready and when he's thinking about it, he'd be able to remember it.
Speaker: Yeah, it is even for me to go back over. Like I look back, at I was just looking back at some videos of when we, he first got his CGM and we were changing it and all that sort stuff. And it's, oh, wow, that just seems like I'm really clunky with doing it. And within that first like six months and stuff, and now it's like, boom, but like you just, it's just part of what you do. Even Harvey just does it himself. He's just, I'll do it. And he just like, it's, it does bring back to that. Everything is just so, those moments were so like, almost like tender you're just like oh I've got to put these devices on my child and that sort of stuff and used to feel so guilty about it but now it's just like oh that's it get it get it done get it like it is yeah you still have the elements of that but now you just know that it's life-saving sort of that's the way it goes yeah and that's just how it is and unfortunately do you recall when you started to do your own injections and stuff like that were you still doing that in primary school or
Speaker: I pretty much from the get-go, I was comfortable doing it. I remember even in Victoria, I was in year one when I was diagnosed and I remember doing show and tell and I'd do finger pricks in front of the class and i was very excited to show everyone. And I would say syringes, i pro it because syringes look so scary.
Speaker: So not the pens back then? No, the orange cap syringes and drawing it out of the vial. Right. They look pretty freaky. They're not they're not sparkly. So i wasn't a fan. I want to say maybe a couple years post-diagnosis, maybe nine or ten was when I started feeling comfortable enough to do it myself. Yeah. um Because it's such a technique though as well, like drawing the insulin, making sure there's no air bubbles. That's not – for a little those little hands, like even when I get Harvey to do it for his pod, he's like it's quite tricky.
Speaker: It's tedious. Yeah. You don't have those fine motor skills. yeah Yeah. Seven years. So it's. And so much. know is Yeah. And then so much like there could be so much error that could happen as well.
Speaker: You're doing the wrong yeah amount. Yeah. Yeah. yeah I didn't even think about that. I just think, I just think pens. And so when, so you went, then went on to, so your manual injections and then stayed on manual injections. Yeah.
Speaker: I think once we moved over to Perth, when we started going to what was then PMH was very much, they were like, Hey, we've got these amazing, amazing new technology. It's called an insulin pump. And so I went straight from syringes to an insulin pump. I think it might've been maybe when I was 10 years old, I started on that.
Speaker: So I do remember definitely having an insulin pump in primary school. Yeah. Maybe in year three or year four. And that was, gosh, it would be like a relic now. It's a it was a, an Animas. It was an Animas pump.
Speaker: So it was pink. It was quite clunky. And that was, I went from across the years, went from different pumps, mainly Medtronic,
Speaker: from in my schooling years, it was Medtronic. But towards the end of high school, it was very much, oh, I'm on a pump. Now I'm on pens. Now I'm on a pump again. Now I'm on pens because I didn't really want to commit to anything.
Speaker: And that really stayed the norm until i was about 20, about six years ago. five. Oh God, how old am I?
Speaker: It was my birthday recently, so that's why I'm still trying to work out how old I am. thought that only happens in your 30s and 40s, Lucy, that you just forget how old you are. Jackie, you know how you said, where do you find the time? I'm in my 30s and 40s. So I think around about 20, 20 to 21 was when I started using the Omnipod.
Speaker: And that's what I've stuck with for since then. Yeah. So it's, okay yeah. So let's go back then to that, what you said then around the changing your tech on pens on that. So you've shared a little bit with on your sort of social media platforms that you do. i only know you're on Instagram. I don't know if you're on anything else, but talk to me, ah you've said shared a little bit about burnout So when did you feel that happened to you It's probably something that I'm quite, I feel like it's such a hot topic for for young people when they're diagnosed and then those 10 years are a struggle anyway, just not without having type 1. And then you're adding type 1 to it where there's this actual, there's this immense responsibility that is, you know, your health and life that you need to be doing these things. And then it's such a, can be feel like I could imagine feels
Speaker: would feel for a teenager, such a burden? So I feel like I want to preface this. I do speak a lot about burnout on my social media accounts, but I definitely, something that I've learned from that is that my burnout is not going to look the same as your burnout and the next person as well. So this is all from my experience.
Speaker: And also i would pop a trigger warning out as well. When I have been burnt out, listening to people talking about burnout doesn't really help. So that's just out there as well.
Speaker: I think I started to feel burnt out ah around year six of primary school.
Speaker: So i was around 11 or 12. And at that point, i was quite the little things that I would do that I can classify as re I was burnt out.
Speaker: I would not give myself insulin for recess and lunch. And by the end of the day, I'm sky high, but we didn't have CGMs then. I wasn't using a CGM.
Speaker: So it was just finger pricks. So if i didn't do a finger prick, no one would know that I was high. So didn't do a finger prick and I wouldn't give myself insulin for recess and lunch. And I would actually...
Speaker: Right before mum and dad would pick me up, I would go back on my pump and I would change the time on the pump to recess and I'd give myself a bolus and then I'd change it to lunch and then I'd give myself a bolus and then I'd get home and mum and dad would check my pump and it would seem like I had given myself insulin for recess and lunch, but I hadn't.
Speaker: Wow, you're very clever. ah
Speaker: It is really actually quite scary looking back at that, thinking, wow, how can an 11-year-old even think of that idea but then execute the idea as well and mostly get away with it?
Speaker: it was It is pretty scary to look back on, but that is the first real instance of burnout that I felt. And that's where it really began. is Sorry to interrupt, but is that because you didn't want to do half, is it like, what was the mindset? i don't know if you can put it, if you could even articulate that, but is it because you didn't want to have to stop and have to do it and feel different? Or is it because you were just in denial that you had and then had one? Yeah.
Speaker: I think it was a mix of everything. i didn't want to be left out while everyone's going on the playground and I have to sit back for a couple minutes and carb count. My parents would write the carb counts on everything that they would put in my lunchbox. of Giving myself insulin, that took away playtime.
Speaker: So it was definitely that. But I think it was also, like you said, the denial as well. Oh, like I don't really, it's not that important. I don't have to look after it It's not, I'm still walking. I'm still breathing. It's fine. And I think that's the one thing like, yes, I was a very clever 11 year old, but the one thing that I didn't think about was how this would be affecting my future.
Speaker: So it wasn't that clever at all, but I think the mindset really was just focused around that. It doesn't matter. but don't have to do this. I'm still fine.
Speaker: Maybe I'm just the lucky diabetic that doesn't have to actually do anything with her diabetes and she's still fine. So... Is that also because you felt fine being high? you You didn't, did you not have, yeah, you didn't have those symptoms? Yeah.
Speaker: but Yeah, because the Harvey would be the same. i He would prefer to sit high than to sit, than to have a hypo and miss out on something. that He would just be like, he used to say, like i'll just run high. It doesn't matter.
Speaker: But only now is he then starting to get now those high symptoms, which do you, yeah, which yeah I don't know, that that comes over time? or I definitely, so what I've learned is that when you're sitting high for a long period of time, you do become quite sensitized to those symptoms. And it's not until you bring your average glucose down that you do begin to feel a little bit, how you going when you're getting high?
Speaker: So that's been something over, over my whole journey. Like at that time I was sitting high all the time. So I was perfectly fine and happy throughout my entire high school to sit at 22 throughout the day and I wouldn't feel a thing.
Speaker: And I think when I really did tune into my health and I brought my average down, that's when I really started to feel the highs. And now it's if I'm sitting it and i hate to put numbers out there, but if I'm sitting any higher than nine or eight, I immediately I'm checked out.
Speaker: So yeah it's really, how works because so nine or nine or ten or eight would be ideal for me in high school even like 13 would be good so it's really changed but that definitely carried throughout high school as I said like I was happy to sit really high came up with more silly ways to hide things and to hide the truth. And a lot of that was, and I think this is not spoke, I don't think I've ever heard anyone speak about it, but the coping mechanisms that you learn when you're living with diabetes to hide what's going on.
Speaker: And I think one of the big ones that I've actually learned in the last couple of months going to therapy and really speaking to someone about it is that I take on the emotional load for everyone else.
Speaker: And I put up a really happy, tell me all about your day. Tell me all about your problems to everyone. And in return of that, they're too busy in the conversation talking about themselves that they don't ask me what my levels were today.
Speaker: So that's something that I learned pretty early on as well. i don't know the answer to, like, I don't know how to, the only thing I think we can do as a community is to talk about it and become aware of that, especially for our parents of kids with type one, having the awareness that could be going on and that it is just a coping mechanism.
Speaker: I think Once I reached to high school that and to especially like year 11 and year 12, that was really the brunt of my burnout.
Speaker: I, and I'm not being like, I am dramatic, but I'm not being dramatic when I say that this burnout lasted for years. There was not a oh it's been a good week or it's been a good couple weeks. Like it was constantly burnt out. And I was,
Speaker: Hospitalised a couple of times actually because I'd gone presented with something else at the ed and they'd taken my blood test and seen my HbA1c and they've gone, oh, okay, if this girl's got a HbA1c of 15.
Speaker: She, obviously, we need to look at her here. And I was in hospital for a couple of times and year 11 and year 12 were really hard. I was going through exams.
Speaker: I was trying to set myself up for the future and i was burnt out and obviously not feeling great as well. Living with type 1 diabetes can feel overwhelming, but you don't have to do it alone. At the type 1 hub in Geelong, you'll find connection, support and real people who truly get it.
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Speaker: Visit us at 251 Moorable Street, Geelong. When you say burnt out, what's the external world seeing of Lucy burnt out? What am I looking at? Am I looking at you where you're not socialising, you're not chatty, not bubbly, not like, yeah, what does it look like?
Speaker: You're seeing me as you're seeing me now.
Speaker: I think that's the scary part about burnout. It's the ball. Might be little quirks that I show. Maybe I'm spending more time in my room.
Speaker: Maybe I'm getting snappier at people. I have a bit of a temper, having some attitude. That's also called being a teenager as well. it's quite hard.
Speaker: But I think my advice to like any parents listening that are really wanting to know how can I look out for my kid before it gets to this stage. I think having the awareness that it can happen and that if it happens and I would say when it happens, cause it will, maybe it's not eight years of it, but burnout is, it comes and goes when it does come up.
Speaker: to have kind of a plan set in motion of okay what am I going to say and what am I going to talk about because I think it's it's always great to be prepared you're not always going to be prepared for the right thing but having some sort of a plan of how am I going to speak to my kid or what am I going to bring up how am I going to say in a way that's not judgmental that's not accusatory that's not making them feel like a burden how can I do that and that will work for you and your family it's a very personal thing but that would be my advice for sure and it's nothing ah my words will be like
Speaker: You won't believe me here, but it's nothing to be scared of as well. Burnout. it's a Our bodies, someone living with diabetes, my body is constantly thinking, thinking, thinking. The mental load of diabetes never stops.
Speaker: And it's not just mental as well, it's physical. So you're bound to get burnt out, just like if you were working a really hard labor job all the time, you're going to pull a muscle at some point.
Speaker: So you just have to be prepared and work out what your plan will be that will work for you and your kid. And maybe it won't work the first time or the fifth time, but as long as you keep that attitude of we're not judging you and we're not angry at you and really continuing that where we get upset because we care and we get upset because we love you and we want you to feel good and That's something that I'll never forget that my parents used to say to me all the time. And now that I'm 24, it's really given me a lot of perspective, not just into my parents and I's dynamic, but in the workplace, if someone's upset, maybe they're not upset because you've done a bad job or they're angry at you. Maybe they're upset because
Speaker: If something else is going on in their life, it's not always the first thing that you think it is. But really making sure that's a constant, I would say. But once I did...
Speaker: get out of high school, I went to uni and I graduated in 2019. So 2020 was when I actually started uni and 2020 was also when COVID started. so it was quite a crazy year couple.
Speaker: It was crazy for everyone. So I guess my context, it was just, what is uni? What what do you mean it's all online? i was promised meeting all these friends and having all these parties and we're all the parties. We're just on Zoom.
Speaker: So it was quite a confusing time. But I think COVID really helped me to, like I was forced to spend a lot of time with myself. So there was a lot of reflection going on.
Speaker: I met my partner that year as well. So we started today around the beginning of COVID. And I also got a new job.
Speaker: I think in one, the beginning of 2021. So I started working at PDC Health Hub, which is an allied health clinic in WA that provides services to people living with all types diabetes. So that was crazy because what do you I was going, what do you mean?
Speaker: I was changing the times on my pump and now I'm working in the field of the thing that I have the most love-hate relationship with in the world.
Speaker: But truth be told, my mum actually came to me and said, hey, PDC is hiring. You should go down and put your resume in. And I think as a parent that would have been her aha moment maybe a little bit. Hey, this is how we can maybe get Lucy more involved. So I started working there as a receptionist, which was great. I loved meeting the community. it was The community is just, I have no words for it. It's powerful and it's it feels like a family. i started meeting all of them and then I think a couple years into working there, I was deferring uni, coming back, deferring, coming back.
Speaker: very choppy changey again. i think that's just a pattern of me, but we started, i started working in the communications team at PDC. So working in social media, working in community initiatives, which is hands down the best decision I've ever made to start working in that team.
Speaker: I think that the work we do is awesome, but the work that it's done for me and my journey has been very significant.
Speaker: So it's really helped me to get more excited, excited about my diabetes again. Like I'm doing my show and tell again, I'm doing a fake break and showing my work besties and be like, Hey, look at this. And they all live with diabetes as well. So it makes, it makes it really easy It's interesting, isn't it? Because sometimes we see that diabetics go into that field of something to do with type one. And it's but not just not all of them, but I guess it's and it's a community that will understand what if you're low or that sort of stuff like that you need to stop or you need to what that alarm is or that sort of stuff. You've got an element of the same language and someone who just gets it.
Speaker: instantly you don't need to explain to work colleagues what this thing that you have is and then but then I also then think could it be when you're trying to lighten the load of the type one kind of thing that then you just then you're in it all day for your work day it's it's you either find that balance or you don't it's yeah yeah which is the same as with me as being a parent of a type one is that how do you feel about it Yeah, it's very, i I'm really grateful that I've started this podcast. said to my husband, i don't know, last year, I feel like I've found my calling a little bit in what I'm doing with the podcast and with Type 1 Foundation. think you have. ah I think you have.
Speaker: Thank you. That wasn't a leading kind of question. I am a very positive person. That's why burnout was incredibly hard for me. I'm a very positive person. think...
Speaker: i think I saw an opening in the market as I think and while things do go wrong, it is yes, important to also highlight the things that are going really well.
Speaker: So. that i might come across I might come across to people as boosting and blah blah blah, blah, blah, but I do bring a lot of vulnerability to my content as well.
Speaker: I've made content being like, oh content from the Type 1 community that I love seeing or creators that I love what they're doing, the silver linings of Type 1. I'm really focusing on making life sweeter. So i think so that's so share your handle, which we'll put it in the show notes, but share your handle. So that makes sense. i I have an Instagram account at the sweet life of Lucy, and I have a TikTok account at the sweet life of Lucy. So both of those platforms are very different. So I've been learning what performs well on TikTok might not perform the same on Instagram.
Speaker: And it's also, i have very different audiences on their Instagram. I've got lots of, healthcare professionals that are engaging with me. I have lots of parents and professionals. I would just say professionals, whereas TikTok, it's very much a youth dominated app where my audience are the younger kids with diabetes. so I definitely i positive on both fronts, but with TikTok, you have to be a little bit more careful. As I said before, when you're burnt out, watching other people that are also burnt out
Speaker: or watching people that are doing really well in in what you think, it's really harmful. So have to be really careful with that. But I'm learning, still learning, but as to the balance, it's definitely as well, it's a learning journey.
Speaker: I think sometimes I take big breaks in my content because I am having to pull away for a bit and go, okay, I post about diabetes, I work in this field, I live with it.
Speaker: 24-7 of everything. yeah Yeah. But I genuinely, coming back to my diabetes a few years ago, it's a completely different situation than it was.
Speaker: And it's I'm so grateful. And I think the things that I can really chalk it up to being are community, working where I work as well as the online community, I've gone to quite a few conferences as well. We met at the Omnipod conference last year. I've gone to the Australasian Diabetes Congress with Diabetes Australia a couple times.
Speaker: And I'm actually presenting at the Australian Diabetes Educator Association Conference this year. So that's cool all of this community, yeah, it should be great. That's all going to be about looking behind the numbers as well. So that'll be a great presentation when I write it. this time the community The community is really the main reason I think I am where I am now, as well as I have to give myself some credit too. I think I've done a lot of work.
Speaker: within myself too so but I think the biggest help is time i think getting through those scary teenage years and the child years as well it's you just have to get through them and surround yourself with people that are going to give you a soft cushioning and you will get there in the end but it does take time and it does take effort as well Lucy, you've shared so much insights. and I'm just so reflective on this conversation as well. i I think about Harvey and where he's at, obviously it's my only experience that I can share really, but being 10 and he wanted to take on his own, managing his own diabetes at school. So not having the nurse involved. Yeah, but then it's also quite scary that you're like, is he taking too much responsibility too soon? yeah Like it's trying to find that balance as a parent as well. And i look, when he's when I'm with him, he fully hands the reins back over to me. Don't worry. There is that balance. That's the thing. Knowing that he can, knowing that he can is the thing that I think will help lots of kids, knowing that you can pass it back to mum and dad if you just want a break for a bit.
Speaker: And then you slowly ease into getting some more responsibility as you become a bit older. But having the option there that mum and dad will do it for you for as long as you want us to and making sure that is voiced constantly and not just voiced but shown through your actions as well, that yeah that mess that's the best thing that you could be doing, Jackie. You're doing great job.
Speaker: oh Thanks, Lucy. I did when your mum, I saw a video of you having a hypo in the middle of the night and you'd run out of hypo treatments or something. And I saw your mum just come in with the bowl of sugar and just, I was like, you're 24 years old and we're still like, your parents will, it will never stop. I always like to wrap up these conversations with one last question, which is what is your go-to hypo treatment?
Speaker: Oh, juice box. be yeah is but Be specific. Golden circle, golden pash. Hashtag sponsor me, please. it's i go to Costco and I buy about three 24 packs every month.
Speaker: And so I keep the carton at my partner's house and I keep a carton my bedroom. And I disperse the rest of the carton around the house in the bathroom. Thank you so much for your time. And i think that what you do in the advocacy, everything you get to share on socials, there's some quite vulnerable kind of aspects there that I think is really important for people to see. But there's so much positive as well, which I think you do a great job with that. So thank you so much for what you bring to the Type 1 community. And thank you very much for being part of this episode.
Speaker: We will leave all Lucy's details under the show notes and you can connect with her on those platforms. But I would just like to thank everybody for listening to this fortnight's episode of the Type 1 Club. And we look forward to bringing you another conversation in another couple of weeks. Take care.
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