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Episode 10: Violet’s Diagnosis: A Mother’s Journey Through Type 1 Diabetes
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In this powerful episode of the Type 1 Club Podcast, host Jacqui Kidman speaks with Lia about her daughter Violet’s type 1 diabetes diagnosis at just 11 months old. She shares the raw emotions, unexpected symptoms, and the life-changing moments that defined their journey from uncertainty to understanding.
In this episode, we discuss:
✅ Early signs of type 1 diabetes in babies and young children
✅ The terrifying experience of DKA and emergency diagnosis
✅ Navigating life after diagnosis while growing a family
✅ The emotional impact of a “diaversary” and reflections on the past two years
Through candid storytelling, this episode highlights the resilience of families facing type 1 diabetes and the importance of community, knowledge, and support.
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Transcript
Introduction and Purpose
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The content provided in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Reliance on any information provided by this podcast is solely at your own risk.
Welcome to the Type 1 Club
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Welcome to the Type 1 Club. Whether you're a parent grappling with a new diagnosis, a caregiver seeking guidance or simply someone wanting to learn more about Type 1 diabetes, this podcast is for you.
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Together, let's dispel myths, break down barriers, and build a community of understanding and resilience. Join us as we embark on this journey together, because with knowledge, compassion, and support, no one should ever feel alone in managing Type 1 diabetes. Welcome to the Type 1 Club.
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Hello, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of the Type 1 Club podcast.
Meet Leah and Violet's Story
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I am Jackie Kidman. I am a mum of Harvey, who is nine years old and was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in June 2022.
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Today, I have a beautiful mum with us to share her story. Her name is Leah, and she's based in Canberra. She has two two little children. um She will go into a bit more detail about all of that, but she has Violet, who is a Type 1, and Violet is 2, almost 3.
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You got to have that almost three. She'd be saying that to everybody, I'm sure. um and And Leah also has a newborn baby. So a three month old little girl called Delilah. So Leah, thank you so much for your time. I know your time is very precious.
00:01:53
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But thank you so much for being here on the podcast today. Thank you. Thanks for having me. So can you just tell us a little bit about you? I just, and I know I just hijacked it a little bit and didn't say anything about you, but if you wanted to add in some more, more about you and your little family, that would be great. Yeah, sure. So um my husband, Josh and I, yeah as you said, we live here in Canberra and ah almost 3 years ago, we were blessed with our first little girl. And just recently, and another little one has come along. So I am, I think we're going to be, it's, it's, yeah, it's already um at not quite 3. We're already experiencing some fun um with, with little girls. So yeah.
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We're just um you getting through that. Right. Yes. Yes. I've got two boys, so i i don't I don't necessarily know the whole story, but um but i my background is early childhood. So I've worked with a lot of families and a lot of little little humans. And I know that dynamic of when, particularly when they're um moving from toddlers to kind of preschoolers.
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Yes. that will That independence. And then also adding in another sibling into it is another dynamic. Yeah. There's a lot of sass, um but always a lot of fun too. She's a real little treasure. so Fantastic. I'm sure she's a beautiful, big sister. She is. She loves being a big sister. Oh, that's good. So can you tell us about Violet and when she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes?
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Yeah.
Diagnosis Journey and Challenges
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So Violet was diagnosed in October 22. So just after ah Harvey was, and she was 11 months old. So um I remember very, very vividly, 11 months and five days. So yeah, very young, not the youngest, but very young and we were told, you know, fairly unusual. So. Hmm.
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OK, what were symptoms? you just Maybe just walk us through, walk us through. Yeah, so um to be honest, I can look back and in hindsight, I've thought about this as you, you know, you can probably imagine a lot. And in hindsight, I can kind of say, oh well, now that I know, I could see, yeah, she was drinking a little bit more. But being 11 months old, October in Canberra, we had a little bit of a warm, um a warmer um kind of little be And I just kind of put that down to her just being a little bit thirstier. She was becoming more active. um She wasn't walking yet, um but she was crawling. So everything was kind of new. And really, though, yeah there weren't any symptoms that kind of made us go, oh, there's something wrong in terms of um she might have an illness like type 1.
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It was really when she was ah quite progressed in her illness and was already in DKA that we kind of knew something was wrong. And it was when she was presenting with those respiratory symptoms. So, uh, struggle to breathe. Yep. Yeah. Yep. So, um, sucking in at the neck, the like strata kind of symptoms. And we were like, this just isn't quite right. But, you know, looking back, we can see some of those other ones. She went through a few nappies.
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some interesting ones. um She was quite irritable. Sleep wasn't kind of, she wasn't sleeping a lot more than she usually was. um But she, in the couple nights before diagnosis, um she almost like binged her food and then vomited. um So there was some more unusual symptoms for, I guess, than what we're used to hearing about. But for us, it was really that breathing. And I've got this video of her and I'd kind of sent it to, so to my mum and to some mum friends. And everyone was like, yeah, you need to get that checked out. And she'd had COVID um when she was 5 months old. And so I was kind of familiar with that, that strider and that kind of sucking in the neck and under the ribs a little bit. And um that's when I kind of knew something was actually really wrong. But it came on very quickly.
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no weight Did you know it worked weight loss? No, I am blessed with very chunky little babies. So um for us, no, and I don't even know really how much she weighed because you kind of don't weigh them after that six months to between six months and 12 months, I don't think from memory. So at six months, she was almost 10 kilos. So she was a um Yes, a very full, yes, a very healthy baby. But so we didn't notice anything like that. um Obviously nappies, nothing was really different in that respect. She just, yeah, she seemed to us completely normal, but was perhaps getting some type of bug or something. Did you think more like asthma or was that where you initially kind of thought? So I probably just thought another
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COVID type illness because we had experienced that when she was five months old and because she was so young then, ah we were hospitalised for that as well. So I kind of just thought, oh, you know, she's she's got something going on here, but never i I had no clue about type 1 diabetes. I didn't know the symptoms. Nothing even crossed my mind. And it all kind of happened really, really quickly once we um noticed that she was um Yeah, not breathing so well. OK, so did you take her to the GP's? Did you go straight to emergency? What did you do? Well, so um it was about five o'clock on a Friday night, um which is when it always happens. And we'd been at Jimbaroo earlier that day. And so I kind of noticed those, you know, it's a few little things happening. And then that evening got home and I was sitting on the couch.
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And um that was when I was kind of going, oh, something's not quite right. So I booked an after hours GP appointment. So they open at six to book from 8 p.m. So our appointment was at 8 p.m. And it's just at the hospital here in Canberra. And yeah, so we went off to that appointment, not really thinking, you know, too much would come from it. And we didn't have the best experience.
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So she was like so many other, um particularly young children, she was misdiagnosed. Yeah, it's probably like, ah ah for me, like a real source of trauma, I guess, because um like we knew something was wrong. And I guess we didn't probably understand the seriousness of it. And as a non-medical person, like I've got no medical background or anything like that, um I guess I really place a lot of trust in ah in in a GP or in the people that I'm taking my very young child to and we left there with a diagnosis of asthma or croup at worst is what she said to me and as a parting gift she said you would know if she was really sick and that was it so we went off to get I think she prescribed some steroids or something and um
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And yeah, we were sent on our way at about 9 p.m. that night. And when it got, went to the pharmacy, the funny thing is, is you walk past emergency on the way out, past the you know at leaving the doctor, you walk past the emergency department. And I kind of think now like, I wish I'd just gone in there, you know, but yeah. But so we ended up going home and off to bed and she ended up coming into bed with me um through the night. She woke up. And one thing I do remember, she had kind of stopped waking through the night for a bottle and she had started to kind of wake again. And I just assumed, you know, like she, she was hungry. So, and the bottle helped as it would. So she wasn't hungry. She was thirsty. um And so she worked for a bottle.
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And then ah we settled back into sleep, and then she woke up and proceeded to vomit everywhere. So all through my bed, in my hair, everywhere. So we were like, oh, OK. Oh, motherhood's so beautiful, isn't it? Good times. That was my first kind of, um yeah, experience with with that level of vomit, which was really nice. But um yeah, so we kind of just cleaned up, showered, and she wouldn't settle.
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And we ended up giving her um some water. So she had a cup of water um and down to that. And again, I still had no clue. um So she downed that pretty quickly and we laid back down and almost instantly she vomited again. um So this was around kind of 5 a.m. And at that time I called my little brother who is a paramedic. in london He's in London though, so he's not. um But he kind of, ah he's later told me he knew or he suspected um what might be going on. um And I remember him telling me after she kind of, who we were like, what should we do? Like, I don't want to be over the top. I just had her at the doctors. I'm not, um
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I'm really not somebody who myself goes to the doctor a lot. So I kind of was like, am I just this, you know, first time mum who's being a bit over the top like the doctor kind of said I was, or um is something really wrong? And she ended up kind of her hands and her lips and um all of her skin kind of went purple and all mottled. And I called to my husband and I said, just call the ambulance. So he did. And my brother said,
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get them to check her sugars. And still didn't even know, like I didn't know um what was going on still. They came really quickly, the ambulance and that, I didn't even have to say anything. That seems to be the first thing that they do, which is really, um yeah. So they did it straight away, checked her blood sugars and she was high. So off the, off the meter, it didn't even read. So on there, just the normal pricker. Yeah, like. be above what twenty eight Yeah. So when we were, when we eventually did get to hospital, she was in the thirties and I can't quite remember. But yeah, so ambulance came and then I went in the ambulance with her, still had no clue. Um, I, yeah, I feel a bit silly thinking about it actually. Cause like I was just sitting there thinking, I really had no clue and no one said anything. My husband suspected it. My brother suspected it, but no one said anything to me. So yeah. So they took us off to emergency.
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And ah straight in, that's the quickest um emergency visit we've ever had. When people complain about emergency, when you do need to be there, they certainly do get you in um quickly. so And from there, it's kind of a blur. We went straight into one of the recess rooms. I remember everything just so vividly um and fairly quickly. um the on-call endocrinologist came and he said there's really no two ways about it. She has type 1 diabetes. So yeah, so it kind of just rolled on from there, really.
Life Post-Diagnosis
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Don't ignore the four. The four early warning signs of type 1 diabetes, excessive thirst, frequent urination, unexplained weight loss, and extreme fatigue. If you or someone you know is experiencing these symptoms, don't wait. Get checked by a healthcare care professional. Early detection and treatment are key to managing type 1 diabetes effectively.
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Can I just go back to when you said your husband said that he knew? Is that because he... He knows stuff.
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I'm just not a medical, like I've got... Until two years ago, I really had... It's just, yeah. I would too. No. Yeah. If you don't need to learn all the major details about... Yeah.
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Yeah, I mean, and he just like brain space. but Exactly. He just knows a lot of random things about stuff as well. And it's just not like, for me, I didn't even connect blood sugar to like, just No, so yeah. I couldn't accept it until the doctor had said to me, like maybe a couple of hours into emergency, I couldn't accept that that was going to be the diagnosis. Right. not Not even saying it out loud for myself, you know, like, yeah, it's weird, isn't it? Like, I can i can feel like how that would would have been for you, but particularly because she was so unwell. Yeah, well, and to be honest, I don't remember even really
00:15:24
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understanding that it was bad until a nurse came up to me. And she just gave me a big hug. And she said, I'm really sorry. um And she's like, she's critically ill. So that possibly wasn't the best thing to say to someone. I can laugh about it, you know, kind of looking back at the time, I was like, Oh, okay, thanks. And we were just really, really lucky. We had,
00:15:53
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probably what was the most traumatic bit was trying to get, get the needle, the cannulas and all those bits into her. She had, yeah, so we ended up, they kept trying and trying and would get the next level of, you know, a person who, who's meant to be better at it. And in the end we had to get, um, the specialist, um, who came with the ultrasound and can did all of that. Um, and so she was wrapped and, um, you know,
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feeling terrible and hysterical and scared. yeah right It's even harder to find the veins. Yeah. You know, like it's... Yeah. And it's so... So that was probably the worst. Even watch your child have to go through that. I didn't have that with Harvey. We didn't have any of that. Well, we did, he did, they did have to do a cannula, but actually at Monash they have, and he's, ah he's older, they have like this VR thing.
00:16:48
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right so they were doing it while he was just watching these fish in the water and you know stingrays and so he's just distracted yeah but i do remember when my oldest child had barley belly and we had to pull him we had to hold him down four of us to get a needle into it that was traumatic but not as like traumatic obviously as what Violet's going through at 11 months it's yeah yeah i think having to hold your child down to you know and Since then, we've had to do a lot of that yeah for various reasons, but yeah. Well, we're coming up to, you've just had your two year anniversary, is that cool? No, we're just about to, so October. So he how have the last two years, I mean, you've been pregnant for a year of it, ah you know, nine months, and then you had a newborn. So, yeah you know, you've had 12 months, I guess, of just focusing on Violet.
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and the Well, I really feel like um two years, honestly, it feels like forever. It's kind of like, I describe it like, you know, BD and after D, like, cause it's just um really, it's two different lives for us. um And we've had like just so much change, um you know, just with that starting a family, but having this extra complication that yeah, our old lives just feel very different.
00:18:13
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I'm very, very far away. But, um you know, it's been, I can't really pretend that it's been easy. It's definitely been a challenge. And there's been good days and hard days. And I guess like almost in a way kind of feels, it's it's probably difficult because we're in that kind of month leading up to to her diversity. So that's probably making me a little bit more emotional thinking about it. But yeah, lots of kind of,
00:18:42
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just get on with it and really grateful for the technology and the advancements, you know, medically and all those sorts of things. But then on the flip side, all of the, I guess, negatives that the technology brings, um you know, and we've moved through from Violet being a baby, you know, who couldn't talk, ah navigating that through to, um you know, being this little toddler and she started to talk and walk.
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all with Type 1. She's recently toilet trained, so, you know, the the difference is toilet training. um I've never toilet trained anyone before, but I i imagine that um it's probably a little bit different and, you know, things that we're kind of navigating with her is how do you pull your undies down and not rip off your Omnipod? Yeah, that's what I was going to say. So wearing some sort of pump. So yeah, so you've got to teach them. And yeah, like I can imagine, I was just thinking about like, when they've got something on them. And when they're so young, that understanding of you can't rip that off. But yeah, and age, you know what I mean? Like, so there must have been a lot of teaching the lessons. She was really good early on. So she bore her Dexcom just on her bottom until only a few months ago. And so that for her was just a nothing. And then when she was about 16, 17 months, we started the Omnipod, 16 months.
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And she that's obviously you know a little bit bigger and um has a few little extra challenges. It's you know it's every three days versus every 10 and those sorts of things. um But it's become harder as she's gotten older to change the devices. She's really fearful of them. So we're going through a period now where it's um I always said I wouldn't bribe her, but now I bribe her a lot. That's just a standard thing with parenthood. Yes. no um My child's not going to do this, don't do that. You do whatever you every need need to do to survive another day. Yes. Every time we have to change a device and she becomes hysterical, that can't be good for her. And for us, it's easier if we can kind of just think, all right, we're not going to get her to that stage.
00:20:59
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because you know it takes so long to calm down then after it. And it just makes everything so much harder. So yeah, we're going through a bit of a tough period at the moment, but... Which is easier with manual injections. She was just easier with everything when she was younger. So yeah, which I know is really weird, but I actually, I shared a video the other night of her when she was newly on the pump. I um put it on her. She didn't even notice, and inserted it. She kind of looked down at it.
00:21:29
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Whereas now it's an ordeal and it's, you know, numbing cream. Both of us have to kind of hold her to do it. and We're just kind of newly in this numbing cream phase um where it's definitely not hurting her, but it's a mental thing for her now. Yeah. and I've heard that's quite common that they, that these, you know, like not just little children, yeah you know, even teenagers get that need phobia, like anyone really. I think I would like, you know, I,
00:21:58
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She's braver than anyone I know. That's all I can say. Like, yeah. Wow. So it comes with its positives and its negatives in the aspect that, you know, you kind of like, it's great. Once you get it on her, you kind of feel like, okay, I've got like 70 hours. I don't have to think. yeah But then once that kind of 70 hours come around, you know, you only got like kind of two hours to change it up. and yeah And it's trying to fit that in, you know, after daycare when they're, they're so ready after daycare.
00:22:25
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Um, you've got dinner kind of happening at the same time. You need to time a bath, uh, cause she, she, you know, you've got to have the user remover and the wipes and then we need to get them off to bed. We've got a baby screaming and that kind of whole juggle, like evenings are hard enough, you know, and you've got to fit this extra thing in and the days that it catches you by surprise and you're like, Oh, like it's just the worst, you know? And I think with these devices, there's a lot of other things that people kind of,
00:22:54
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don't really think about either that, you know, occupies a lot of my brain space. And, and that's, you know, the damage to their skin. Like, where she's a little, ah quite a little person, particularly when she first started, there's only so much real estate that you can put these two things on that. On an adult, ah pretty small devices. But on a one year old, two year old, three year old, they're quite big. And um you know reactions to adhesives. like There's just so much stuff that you you know you have to worry about. It's not just simply as you would know.
00:23:32
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great. They've got a pump on and they can just live like the rest of us. It's just not as simple as that. Yeah. Yeah. Now you raise a really good point because as I said, Harvey's manual injections um and for us, you know, that it works and I'm sure that could work as well when we got to that point. But my, my concern is, yeah, like what's it doing? Like if it's like, I, I, I've sort of read about people that have like sort of scar tissue that happened along their tummy yeah wearing like a pump all the time or,
00:24:01
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And then so I just worry that like, if we're going to start it too early, you know, like what's, what's it going to be like in the future? But then I guess in yeah yeah maybe we'll have better technology. I don't know. You know, like it's, it's, there's this, it's amazing, but it's also, yeah, I can see where you have that. It adds an extra layer of worry and concern and work. Yeah. I think for us, we couldn't live without the pump very easily. Um, the pump allows her to go to daycare and, uh,
Balancing Family and Diabetes Management
00:24:30
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to eat freely. And you know, you can't kind of ah say to a ah two year old, you know, when when she was first diagnosed and she was on injections, she was just kind of starting to eat. So things were easier, you know, she would have her morning tea at morning tea time and everything was predictable. And we could kind of follow that routine day to day. Now it just doesn't look like that. um Daycare days are much more structured. But when she's at home, if she wants to eat something, she can eat something. We don't restrict her in any way. um But I think it would be a lot more difficult for us to kind of manage. And the way we like to do it is to try to, I guess, yeah, just to, I guess, manage her, her insulin and and everything as kind of, for her, she doesn't know that anything's happening. And that's, yeah, kind of for us, the the way we want to do it now, yeah um until she's older. um We talk to her. Well, I think, yes, um will probably be great like you guys are not. Less interruptions, um you know, for us to have to go in and do a correction um or do multiple corrections in the night, something like that. Like it's just difficult. She's a light sleeper. And early on, the fear of waking her, you know, for she would then have to do another four hour wake window as she was awake and we were ready for bed kind of thing. So
00:25:54
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Now she's kind of a bit easier to manage in that way. But yeah, so definitely disturbing her was one of our huge yeah things that we didn't want to do. Yeah. How are you finding the juggle of a newborn and a... I like to i like to joke about that because um a newborn is easier than I think you ah um a toddler with type 1 diabetes newborn, I think.
00:26:25
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something that kind of really, you know, only being so fresh out of, I guess, that baby, well, we were still in the baby phase, but out of that newborn phase when she was diagnosed, when you've got a newborn baby, you kind of go, well, this isn't forever. It's a season. It's a point in time. And I remember getting up in the night after she was diagnosed and just going,
00:26:48
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it's not a season anymore. You know, like this is forever. I use that analogy i have used that analogy myself. So that's, yeah, that's, you just reminded me. I was like, yeah. And I know a lot of Type 1 parents do feel that way because I guess, I know that being a parent, you don't, or especially maybe being a mum. I don't know if dads are quite the same, but being a mum, you don't ever really sleep that well again. And lots of um more experienced moms like to tell me that. i But, you know, you've just got this, I don't know, just this extra kind of thing and, you know, you don't sleep through anymore and you've got all these other worries and they're high and they're sitting high and you're wondering if there's ah some tech, a tech failure or, you know, the Dexcom drops out. And so you've got all these other things and then um you're trying to navigate that ah now.
00:27:37
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with a baby as well. And I think one of the difficult things I've found is I guess trying to juggle two very important needs. So Violet's at an age now where you can kind of um placate her for a little bit and say, yep, I will be right there. The baby's obviously not and diabetes isn't either. So I have had quite a few kind of evenings. It always seems to happen, you know, when you're in the thick of and that witching hour.
00:28:06
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Um, and you've got a screaming baby who needs you. Um, I've got a hyperwing toddler who's, you know, starving and like, it's just trying to navigate that and. All the alarms going off. The alarms. Yes. Yeah. Um, the overstimulation with all of the alarms and the screaming and the this and that. Yeah. So I definitely know that it'll get easier. I'm just very, I think, blessed, very blessed to have a fairly easy baby in Delilah. They were both very easy babies, but she's, um I think she's been sent, to sent along to kind of ah make things a little bit simpler for us in that way, because it could have been much tougher, I think. And what do you do, personally, to kind of cope one day? Well, I can't say I'm very good at doing anything for myself. I recently, I recently... You're still in the thick of an, yeah you've still got very young children. I don't think any mum would say that they're good at that. But
00:29:05
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You know, just, I'm just thinking about you've got the, the diversity coming up. You know, there are always going to be emotions, but these little humans are so dependent on, on you. And, you know, I remember one of the things that for me, I remember things like I was, I pretty much ran myself into the, to the ground because I was like, well, I have to do it all. And I can't get sick. And then I was basically just getting sick. You know, my body was kind of, you know, shutting down basically.
00:29:34
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on me. And then, you know, I had to kind of take some steps to to heal myself from the trauma a that was, you know, type 1 diabetes. yeah Not going to be, that's just not an incident. It's, you know, it's ah it's our lives. I think for me, like, as you said, you know, I still have quite young kids and it's just really been probably a couple of years of survival in that respect. And um you kind of just get on with it and and do it. But as much as possible, we have just tried to live how we would have without Type 1. Type 1 hasn't stopped us from traveling or doing anything like that. Violet has continued to do all of her activities and and all of those sorts of things so I haven't wanted her to ever think that it can stop her from doing anything and so I guess in that respect i you know I probably approach this from more of a family
00:30:26
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point of view and less about just me. But one thing that I do actually get a lot ah out of is ah the Type 1 community. So I started an Instagram page for her last year and just the other um mostly mums that I've met through that has been like, I think it's a real lifeline um because we do, we everyone kind of follows each other and And, um you know, you can understand what everyone else is going through. They can understand what you're going through. And so for me, that's been a little bit of an outlet. And it's not just Mums in Australia as well. um You know, they're all over the world. And I think learning and seeing the differences, um you know, with how we do things here versus in other countries. And it's a great community. And um I think that, you know,
00:31:16
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as great as your other friends and even family are, they don't get it. um They're never going to understand it like another type one parent or or person who's living with it. And yeah,
Advocacy and Community Support
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and so probably just that community. And then also just um throwing myself into anything else that I can. So, you know, anything from an advocacy perspective, awareness raising, the community, you know, we,
00:31:42
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I did a whole bunch of fundraising and awareness when my husband Josh did Kokoda for the foundation last year. So just kind of, yeah, that that stuff feels meaningful and important to me and that kind of Like I said the other day, I don't have any hobbies, diabetes, type one diabetes is my hobby at the moment. And I know that it won't always be that way, but yeah, that kind of stuff, I guess fuels me a little bit. And and yeah. Oh, that's so good Leah. Like it's you, that's amazing that you do all that as well as have a young family and that it, you can find the joy in it. That's the main thing, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. And I think that's it. And you know, when you're overwhelmed, there's times where I just kind of take
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time out and I don't need to go on Instagram and only see, you know, diabetes posts. But for the most part, it's all, yeah, it's really good and just feels really important and hopefully there's some value in it. Oh, I'm sure there is. I will actually get you right now to maybe share your, what's the Instagram page where people can... Yep, it's at oursuite.type1.
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um So spelled out like O-N-E. And I'll add that to the show notes. Leah, I've really felt so privileged to be able to hear your family's story and Violet's story of diagnosis and how you guys are doing two years on. I know we're just there, almost there. By the time this is out, it it will be two years. so And we often say that pipe one is the um the best worst club that you could possibly be in. um And these this sort of stuff just shows it's people, no matter what sort of where we're at, everybody will put their hand up to offer advice, support, non-judgmental. It's a very amazing community of people and knowledge. And there's not just one expert, you know, there's lots of them and lots of people that you can lean on along the way. um And it's so great that you and your husband have both found that connection.
Unique Hypo Treatment and Closing Remarks
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through the Type 1 community as well. So thank you so much for your time. Is there anything else you wanted to say before we wrap up? Oh, no, i I can talk about Type 1 diabetes all day, so. We're gonna get you back on.
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you talking Just, I'm gonna, we're gonna finish up and I just want you to finish up by telling us what is Violet's go-to hypo treatment Oh, okay. This is a bit of a long one because she was so young. Sorry. um Because she was so young, um she pretty much couldn't have anything. um She couldn't have honey because you can't have honey under one or under some people for under two. So jam. And I've not come across another person um who uses jam and the daycare has jam sachets and she's, yeah, she uses jam. Just like a teaspoon of jam. or a Yes. Yep. Yes. She hates honey.
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um She's like, don't give me that sticky stuff. She likes jam and we've just started to transition her. She's just just started to have glucose tablets. aunt Leah, thank you so much for your time and we will wrap up this episode. We've obviously left Leah's contacts there. You can follow her and her family and Violet's story further, but we just want to thank you for being here and we hope that you enjoy the episode.
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