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Episode 12: Tyson Major
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🚨 Trigger Warning: This episode discusses the challenges of being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as an adult, including a lack of initial support and the emotional struggles that followed. If these topics are sensitive for you, please listen with care.
In this powerful episode, Jacqui sits down with Tyson Major, whose type 1 diabetes diagnosis as an adult led him through an incredibly dark time. With little initial support, he faced the overwhelming challenges of adjusting to life with T1D. But instead of letting it define him negatively, Tyson found a way to turn his experience into something positive.
Now an advocate and active member of the Type 1 Foundation, Tyson is dedicated to raising awareness and supporting others in the community. He shares how his personal struggles fueled his passion for advocacy and connection.
One of his biggest triumphs? Trekking the Kokoda Track—a grueling yet rewarding journey where he not only proved to himself what was possible but also raised awareness for type 1 diabetes along the way. He opens up about the physical and mental challenges of the trek and what it meant to push past his limits while carrying the weight (both literal and figurative) of diabetes.
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Introduction and Purpose of the Podcast
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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.
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Reliance on any information provided by this podcast is solely at your own risk.
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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.
Introducing Tyson Major and His Diagnosis Story
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Welcome to the Type 1 Club.
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In this episode, we discuss sensitive topics, including mental health challenges and suicidal thoughts. If these subjects might be triggering for you, please prioritise your wellbeing and consider skipping this episode or listening with support.
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If you or someone you know needs help, reach out to trusted family, friends or a mental health professional. You are not alone and help is available. Hello everybody and welcome to the Type 1 Club. I am Jackie Kidman.
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I am a mother to Harvey who was diagnosed in June 2022. Today i bring you a special guest. We love our special guests and we love that they donate their time and their efforts to share their story in order for us to raise awareness around Type 1 diabetes.
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um Today I'm joined with Tyson. We only have Tyson. He's like that, you know, like Jesus or Madonna. The first the only one word of his name. I actually don't know your surname, Tyson. Sorry. It's Major.
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Tyson Major. Well, that does sound like a bit of a rock star kind of um kind of name anyway. So, Tyson, welcome to the Type 1 Club. Awesome. Thanks for having me, Jackie. Tyson, can you start by introducing yourself, telling um everybody a bit about you, and then we'll we'll jump straight into your diagnosis story.
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Yeah, absolutely. Well, I'm a 37-year-old father of four living up here in God's Country in Queensland. In 2017, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 30, believe it or not, so very late in life.
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I guess probably my early years of partying probably led to led to this but um yeah it was it was quite a shock when i started started developing symptoms of type one i didn't really know what type one was before being diagnosed i had a a niece that had it but really really didn't know i knew she had a pump and all that sort of stuff but i started developing symptoms easter 2017 over about six weeks you know the classic going to the toilet 20 times a night, drinking up to 15 litres of water a day. i lost about 25 kilos in a month.
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And it all sort of led to me driving a truck one day for her work and my vision just went blurry. All of a sudden, couldn't see the registrations of the cars in front of me.
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That prompted me to go to my doctor, the GP. He um told me to go to the optometrist just because of my eyesight and whatnot. Went to the optometrist and And he said, no, go back to your GP because yeah eyes just don't go blurry overnight.
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Went back to the GP that afternoon and ah they did a finger prick. The doctor didn't even tell me what the reading was. I mean, they couldn't even get a reading. He said, you're not leaving this room where we've called you an ambulance.
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And that was quite a shock. I was taken to the hospital up here in Queensland, the Logan Hospital, um where I met my wife. I was in a bit of state because I didn't know what was going on.
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They did tests and tests and tests. They thought I had type 2 diabetes. I spent a week in hospital and yeah, within that week they said, no, you've got type 1. So, yeah, it was a big shock to me and my family.
Mental Health and Diabetes Management
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i i believe I didn't get as much help as I should have got from the hospital at the time. i had ah just an educator that was on shift come in. It was actually her last shift. She was resigning, so I don't think she didn't really care, to be honest. She handed me a booklet to, you know, fill out my blood sugar levels, showed me once how to inject a pen, and that was it. I was sent home.
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i spent the next couple of months just trying to learn Googling how to deal with type 1, No real support from anyone, to be honest, which sort of led me down a really dark path. i try tried as hard as I could to try and get on top of it. I couldn't get my blood sugar levels down past 15 every day.
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it all led to a point one day where I just sort of gave up. I really did just give up. I started becoming very self-centred. Nelly lost my wife. We separated for a bit because of it.
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And yeah, that that day I nearly gave up. I injected a whole Nova Rapid Pen into me. And then went for a drive one went for a drive after I did that and found myself in a local bridge in my car ready to just, you know put my foot on that accelerator.
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But suddenly, you know, said, no you shouldn't be doing that. You've got to stick around for your kids. So actually reached out to a Facebook group. think it was Australian Type 1 Diabetes Support Group.
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And I actually had a guy from Cairns ring my local police officer. And they come and, yeah, scooped me up. And I went back to hospital where I spent another week in hospital with, you know, a mental health plan.
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And I finally got onto to an educator that I've been with since. And she's been absolutely amazing. Her name's Jenna. She works up here at the Logan Diabetes Team. And she's she's really got me back on track, got me onto the pump, got me onto the CGM.
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And yeah. Wow. that That's my diagnosis story pretty much, yeah. Wow. How many times have you told that without, I'm like welling up just hearing that story? A couple of times. I don't, it I mean, it does get easy every time I tell it, but I don't, I don't go into too much detail just because of the, you know, talks and talking about, you know,
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mental health and that sort of stuff. So, yeah. It's so interesting, isn't it? Because I think that the realisation of the impact that type 1 has on not just the the diabetic, but that diabetic aspect of what's actually physically going on in your body of high sugars or, you know, trying to manage this, get this magic number that it's then as a 30-year-old having to add in this extra layer of like, okay, well, what am I doing? How do I learn this?
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It's almost, we've you know, we've we've shared, and I have said, it's like learning French, you know, learning another language. um Yeah. it But it says has so much implications if you, you know, like it doesn't matter if you get that the language wrong.
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when you are learning the language with with diabetes, there is so much that needs to go into it in order for you to get it, try and manage it. Just curious, when you said that you couldn't get your sugars below 15, when you're high, what what sort of how do you feel?
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i get the real sort of, I can really sort of get that real sweet taste in my mouth. I get real sticky in the mouth. I get headaches. Yeah, I just feel shit, to be honest.
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Yeah, yes but yeah. Someone has once described it to me as like a hangover. Yeah, absolutely. You feel like you've been on a bender the night before. Yeah, yeah. yeah And sadly, a greasy kebab won't fix it.
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Oh, dear. Or a Macca's Coke. and Interestingly, because my son's nine and he would actually prefer to run high than to have hypos. I'd probably feel the same, to be honest.
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I think running high doesn't feel as bad as going low. It's really interesting. Yeah. Yeah. when When I go low, obviously get the sweats, get the shakes, get really agitated.
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It's sort of the opposite end. You sort of feel drunk. Oh, yeah. and then Yeah. Okay. Yeah, it's not a nice feeling. Yeah, because Harvey will be like, yeah, he often says to me, like, just let me run a little bit high. I don't want to have a hypo. Yeah.
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yeah And I'm like, oh, it sort of doesn't really work
Educating Non-Diabetics and Addressing Misconceptions
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like that, mate. Like you need to, you know, we can. But I think that's his element is he's described his hypos as, you know, those whizzy things at the park, you know, those things that spin around. Yeah. He said that's actually what it feels like to have a hypo. Yeah. And it usually happens at the worst time as well.
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Well, yeah, he hates missing out on the physical activity of it. So that's yeah where he'd be like, just run me a bit high, you know. yeah But he doesn't, he says he doesn't feel different when he's high. He doesn't feel it.
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So I don't know if that's something that comes on later or. Yeah, maybe. I definitely can feel it though. So yeah. Wow. I guess fast forwarding across, quickly across that seven years of you've been diagnosed, how long do you reckon it's taken you?
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Do you think that first 12 months was obviously very difficult? Oh, I'd reckon about two years. And to be honest, i'm I'm still learning. I still haven't fully got on top of it. I was told at diagnosis that it takes four years to get on top of it.
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Can't remember who told me that might've been one of the doctors, but yeah, i I still feel like I'm learning every day. And some days I feel like I'm failing and back to square one, but you know, you just got to keep moving. I've got kids to look after and yeah. And i think I think that's why at diagnosis I got the way I did because you know, my kids were only sort of three, four, five years old at the time.
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ah was working in a job that didn't support it at all, to be honest. It was a very labor intensive job. You'd go low, they'd tell you just to suck it up, go over jelly bean, you know, you'll be right. and and then you're cowering in the corner trying to stay conscious.
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And it's not their fault. It's not their fault, to be honest, you know. It's up to us to try and educate people, I guess. Yeah, absolutely. And that's why, yeah, with I guess I'm quite passionate about it and I share a lot and people, you know, are like, oh, I never realised that was what you had to do. And even we went, Harvey and I went on, he had Grade 3 camp a couple of weeks ago and I went and another Type 1 mum we went because there's two Type 1 diabetics in Harvey's year.
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yeah and we were sharing a cabin with two other mums, non-diabetic mums, and they were like, what do you mean have to get up? Like, what do you mean you have to, like, do that? And, like, they just kept on asking us again and again and at the end of the camp me this other type 1 mum were just like,
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it's It was nice to have someone else that just got it. Yeah, that's right, yeah. Like, you didn't have to always explain. Even though I'm happy to explain, it was all it was also sort of, yeah. but Yeah. it actually It's actually quite funny when I was at the Aussie World Type 1 Foundation Christmas Party, ah this um couple that weren't part of the Type 1 Foundation Party walked past and seen, you know, Type 1. They're like, oh, yeah.
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Is type one the bad diabetes? And I heard it. And I just turned around and went, well, they're both bad, but type one's, you know, type one's the one that you've got to really, you know, lifelong management.
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They're like, oh, okay. It's just that stigma, isn't it, you know? It is. and it's And like you just said, it's actually not their fault for saying, like, you've got the good one or the bad one, you
Media Representation and Awareness Efforts
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know? Yeah. like yeah But it's it is, again, around us of kind of going, yeah, not letting that kind of just go.
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Yeah, like to try and change that language a little bit because... Yeah, that's for sure. I think the world is now starting to slowly realise what type one is. I mean, you see it more on TV now. I mean, every second ads, you know, a Libre, you know, ad or a Dexform or a Medtronic. Yeah.
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There's a lot of people you know in the entertainment and sports world that have it that you know that people look up to. So so it is it is getting out there. It's just all about you know educating people that yeah don't know what it is.
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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.
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If you or someone you know is experiencing these symptoms, don't wait. Get checked by a healthcare professional. Early detection and treatment are key to managing type 1 diabetes effectively.
Type 1 Foundation's Kokoda Trek and Global Challenges
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So let's jump into that a bit of that education stuff because I know that, you know, you've obviously shared your story through the Type 1 Foundation and you' you're quite connected now with the Type 1 Foundation and obviously the broader Type 1 community.
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What's some of the stuff that you have done to help to educate? I know that there was a – this is in my leading question to talk about Kokoda. Kokoda, yeah. Well, I i have – I have quite a large following on social media, specifically TikTok.
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So mainly their comedic videos, but every now and then I'll drop in a you know ah demonstration on how to change an infusion set or a CGM. But yeah, I try and jump on all the groups. and Support young people and and and tell them my story coming from the perspective of an adult that was diagnosed later on in life and and just trying to inspire inspire young people and adults as well living with it.
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Kokoda as well. That was probably the biggest biggest achievement I've had in the Type 1 journey, which was amazing. Do we want to talk all about Kokoda now? I'd love for you to share a little bit about Kokoda, yes. yeah, 2020, 2022, the Type 1 Foundation.
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twenty twenty two the type one foundation launched their first trek to Kokoda and I seen it on their Facebook group. I honestly had nothing to do with the Type 1 Foundation before I saw the post about Kokoda and I thought, you know what, I've got to get off my ass and, you know, do do something with this and try and inspire people. So I signed up immediately and as soon as I did, we were all the people that, all the trekkers the for for the first year sort of come together on a WhatsApp group and I made about 15 friends in the Type 1 community immediately.
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That led to me doing sort of a big fundraising sort of thing in my community for the Type 1 Foundation and raising money to to go do Kokoda. i' went I've spoken to school groups, community groups. I've done sausage sizzles.
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um I went and got a bunch of sponsors in my area, and they all all know about Type 1 diabetes now. I still get messages to this day from people going, hey, my friend's daughter's got type 1, have you got any advice? Joe Blow Down The Roads, friends got type 1, have you got any advice? And yeah, it's just really, really heartwarming to to know that, you know, I can inspire people.
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And yeah, but with Kokoda, it was honestly the hardest thing I've ever done besides being diagnosed with type 1. but it's honestly the most rewarding. um I went over there and I immediately fell in love with Papua New Guinea and the people over there.
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ah went on it last year and this year and both times I've been the only diabetic on it. And yeah, i'm I'm so proud of myself to be able to complete it both times without sort of any incidents while we were over there.
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Type one wise, it was, yeah, absolutely amazing. So with Kokoda, the majority of them would have been, then if they're not diabetic, then they're dads of... Was it the dads one? Yeah, last year it was a lot of women, so there was mums. Oh, sorry. yeah Yeah, there was also educators. This year there was the dads one, so we had the dads, the brothers, the uncles come along, which was which was really awesome. So, yeah, this this year's Kokoda Trek was...
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was to be honest probably beat last year is just um just the connections i made with all the guys we had some really raw conversations about type one and yeah i mean it's actually awesome to see now when i jump on facebook all the locals over there are all in their type one foundation gears i mean the middle of papua new guinea there's someone walking around with a type one foundation beanie or a trek for kokoda shirt you know it's yeah it's absolutely amazing Yeah, that's cool.
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And that's just like, i mean, type 1 would exist there too. Do you don't know what I mean? And it's just again, raising awareness. We heard stories. They get no treatment over there, to be honest. And it's, I mean, if a kid has type 1 and they live along the Kokoda track, they're walking 98 kilometres to a hospital to...
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get treated. So, yeah, we took over some medication and that. They have no power, so there's not really any way to keep insulin cool and that sort of stuff. But we we did try our best to try and support them.
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um But, yeah.
Hiking as Therapy and Personal Empowerment
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That's tough, isn't it? I mean, you kind of go this modern, like, Western society where quite lucky aspect because we do have the access to that modern technology as well but and then you think about what your life could be like if you were living in that those villages or along there and you were yeah yeah that's that's up-wrenching isn't it yeah i mean kokoda has definitely changed my life i mean i'm right into hiking now i take you know groups of up to 20 people in my local area up the mountain the mountain that i trained on for kokoda i've done it
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32 times this year so yeah and I'm I'm I'm fingers crossed trying to get a job actually working it over as a guide for Kokoda so that's cool that happens so yeah Kokoda is definitely addictive I don't know i don't know what ah what it's about I mean you're living in the jungle for 10 days in the dirt covered in mozzies torrential rain Yeah, there's something about it.
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There is something about, there is actually like a mental health, like positive perspective for it because I've done a lot of, since Harvey was diagnosed, I've actually done a lot of hiking myself.
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Yeah. And there is something about, just going out and just in silence and being in your with your own thoughts and just putting one foot in front of the other and at times not thinking that you can achieve that. But then I think I remember when I did my first trek in Lara Pinta, we did Mount Sonder overnight and it was the hardest thing I've ever done.
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You know, i I do remember it was almost like a pivotal moment for me as a parent for Harvey and And I thought, if I can do this, like this is the hardest thing I've ever done in physically.
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you know, I thought if I can show him that I can, his mum can walk with a torch on her head and, you know, just continually push my body, then he can do this, you know, we can do this together as a family, you know, achieve great things with his type, you know, with his diabetes. And we're not, you know, I just remember thinking...
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We've got this. And I just found that quite therapeutic in terms of that mental health. And I'm still my own, like when I've had a really shit kind of time or a shit week, you know, or a shit night with treating his hypos or whatever, um quite often I'll just say to myself, I just need to get my backpack and I just need to go for a big walk. I need to drive and just hike a hill.
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Yeah. Get it all out. Just get it out. Like there is, you know, get outdoors. There's something so therapeutic about moving your body and just getting rid of that that that shit that you're holding on to. Knowing there's an end goal in sight, and that yeah. Absolutely. yeah Being out of service from your phone and social media as well. Absolutely, yeah.
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Absolutely. And that was one of the things when I did go the my first Lara Pintart, you know, there was no service, you know, and I had to just trust that people back home were were taking care of him um and and, you know, and it was it actually was perfect. It was a break for me to give me that renewed energy that what I needed to kind go, yep,
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you know get back into it when I came back home and stuff but for a lot of people we don't get that break but I always encourage people to find a time to just go for an hour walk no nothing else like leave your phone at home go for an hour walk with without um any devices without checking those numbers without doing that sort of stuff if possible I know that that's but let someone know where you're going just in case well That's right. I am a woman.
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um So, you know, I'm aware of that, but um you're right. And I know that for a diabetic, it is very different. You can't just leave your device at home. No, that's right. You can't disconnect from your pump and that sort of stuff. but And I was, I was, I was well supported over Dakota. They have a, they had a medic that was tracking my, you know, my levels on the phone throughout the night. She'd tap on my tent and, are you okay? Yeah, I'm fine, you know.
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Yeah, so, but in saying that, um when I hike and do Kokoda and whatnot, my levels have never been better. I think it's just the exercise and the food that you eat and, yeah.
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So,
Turning Diagnosis into Passion and Advocacy
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You now, like in terms of you want to obviously go into more of working outdoors in the physical kind of aspect. Yeah, so I've been lucky enough.
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Ange from the Foundation has appointed me a trek leader for these treks. So I'm not going on Kokoda next year. I believe there may be a Nepal trek coming up, which would be absolutely amazing. But, yeah, I want to keep doing this hiking thing. I'd love to. Yeah.
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To be honest, even not with the Type 1 Foundation, I'd like to do it as a job. There's just something out about getting out in the bush and, you know, um guiding people, you know, to do a really hard thing, you know. So, yeah, I'd i'd absolutely love to probably be the first diabetic Trek guide in Kokoda. That'd be great. Yeah, that would be amazing, wouldn't it? Yeah. That's great. Like the, you know, like like we see those people like the pilots and, you know, like you can actually – You know, I guess for you when you were diagnosed at 30, I'm imagining that, well, how you have shared your story, you kind of thought, well how do I continue?
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Like I can't, you know, like how do I continue like this? Like it's such a huge change. Yeah, that's right. i like And because you've lived a life before. Yeah, that's what i was about to say. I mean, I guess, yeah, I've already, I lived that life before.
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before having Type 1. You know, you get these kids that get it when they're, you know, six, seven, eight years old, and that's all they know. So I guess I was fortunate to know to know that life. And then I guess the flip side is I wish I had my old life back without Type 1. But, yeah, but then in saying that, Silver Lining, again, if I didn't have Type 1, I wouldn't be talking to you today. i would probably wouldn't have done Kokoda. I probably wouldn't have inspired these, you know, people to achieve their goals even though they're living with Type 1. So...
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I mean, I'd much prefer not to have type one, but, you know, I've got it, so I've just got to live with it and try and do the best I can. Yeah, so positive. Like, it's it is very inspiring how you've flipped that around and realised there's actually a calling for you. Yeah.
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You know, as much as it's a real, you know, you feel like you've been sort of dealt the real shit shit card there, but, you know, be to be able to flip it and kind of go, yeah, but I now need to find my thing, my goal, my, you know, my my passion.
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And if you're you're dealing with yeah diabetes every single day, so, you know, it's kind of like, well, make it, almost make it your passion somehow. Yeah, absolutely. i i think I think us guys also like to, you know, we don't like to share our feelings much, but, you know, you can't keep it bottled up, so...
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You've got to get it out and share it with the world. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. ah Tyson, I'm so grateful for your time and for everything that you you do for our our Type 1 community.
00:23:44
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And just to kind of wrap us up for this episode, I'm going Is there anything else you wanted to quickly share? And then I'll ask you one last question. um I just want to tell people out there, just because you live with type 1, don't let it stop you. Don't let it hold you back. Yeah, you might have a device hanging off your stomach, you know, for the rest of your life, but don't let it hold you back.
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I'm proof that you can achieve your dreams doing really hard stuff. Yeah, just just get out there and smash your goals because just because you've got type 1 doesn't mean you can't achieve it.
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All right. So to finish up, I'd like to ask all our type 1s is what's your hypo treatment? What's my hyper? Oh, I don't know. Any of my kids' school lunches that are sitting in the cupboard over there.
00:24:28
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Yeah. Yeah, there's cause there's quite a few times they've gone to school without their favourite lollies because Dad's are had to eat them.
Managing Daily Life with Diabetes
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I always have this issue where someone's eating all the snakes in our house.
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It's either my husband or my oldest son and no one will admit it and it's definitely not the diabetic. I'm like... Yeah. Who's eating all the snakes?
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The major issue I have in my household is batteries for my pump because my kids like to steal them for their video game controls and they go, Dad, why do you need that battery? I say, well, I think my insulin pump's a bit more important than X-Bot for controllers.
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Oh, I don't know. Yeah. Not to a kid these days. They're like, that's right yeah that that is life or death, isn't it? Yeah, Fortnite or diabetes, don't know. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Thank you so much, Tyson. I will put all of your links to your TikTok and all of your socials so that people can connect with you a little bit further. What what is your TikTok handle? So I'm called Cringedad, Cringedad1987 on TikTok. It's it's just, yeah, that there's the name. So I started it just to do really cringy videos to embarrass my kids. And I've sort of had a few videos that have really blown up. So I've got a bit of a following now. So, yeah, Cringedad1987 on TikTok.
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T1 underscore Tyson Instagram. And I've got a Facebook page just for the Kokoda. It's just Tyson's Trek for Type 1. Awesome. Well, I hope that you go viral from the Type 1 and some of those. I'll have to check out some of your TikTok videos.
00:26:08
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Thanks again, Tyson. We'll talk to you soon. Thank you, Jackie. Cheers.
00:26:17
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Conclusion and Call to Action
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