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Episode 35: A Type 1 Conversation with Jye Warren
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In this episode, Jacqui sits down with Jye Warren, a dad, social worker and person living with type 1 diabetes, for an honest and deeply human conversation about diagnosis, mental health, masculinity, parenting and finding the right support.
Diagnosed at 25, Jye shares what it was like navigating type 1 diabetes as a young adult with limited education, minimal support and the realities of young adult social life. He speaks candidly about burnout, denial, complications and the turning point that came with fatherhood and finally finding a healthcare team that truly understood him.
This episode also includes a special and heartfelt conversation between Jye and Jacqui’s son Harvey, offering a powerful glimpse into peer connection and what it means for kids living with type 1 diabetes to feel seen and understood.
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Intro 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. 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.
Meet the Hosts and Guest
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Welcome to the Type 1 Club.
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Hey everybody 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 with Type 1 diabetes in June 2022 the age of seven.
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I am excited to bring you a guest this week named Jai Warren. Hi, Jai. how are you? So Jai and I are both juggling the school holidays with kids and other people in the house, so we're going to do our best to limit the interruptions, but...
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There's also the type 1 diabetes alerts that could also happen for us. So we're all used to that. Everyone listening is used to that. So other interruptions is not a problem. So, Jai, thank you so much for coming on the podcast.
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I would love for you just to introduce yourself and then to go into sharing a little bit about your diagnosis story.
Jai's Diagnosis Story
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Yeah, no worries. And thank you so much for getting me on. We had a conversation around this not long ago and we've finally got it all sorted now. So, yeah, I appreciate you and thank you so much for inviting me on. Yeah, as we've touched on, my name's Jaya Warren. I'm 35 years old. I've got a lovely four-year-old son and partner that we're exactly juggling some school holidays. Yeah, realistically, my story's been, it's been 10 years now, bit over 10 years, so that was diagnosed at 25 while living on the Gold Coast.
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Bit of a shock to the system. I was just a normal average 25-year-old guy that loved sports, loved doing everything that you could imagine a 25 year old would. I traveled a lot with footy and stuff, but yeah, it was a bit of a curve ball thrown my way when I went down to Melbourne and I was catching up with an ex partner at the time that lived in Melbourne and yeah, watching the footy. And I unfortunately fainted while watching the footy and I knew there was a fair few symptoms that, that weekend that, Now I look back on it and think if I knew we could have probably made things change. But I guess I've yeah fainted and my auntie who I've touched on so many times is a teacher, but she's one of those aunties that is all like all around everything. She knows everything. She's very, ah very smart. And she, she comes straight away from Werribee and helped me out and took me to hospital. And sure enough, seven days after that, I was out of hospital with type one diabetes. Yeah. Shock to the system.
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I wasn't really prepared. I don't think anyone is at the time. I didn't have any family on the Gold Coast at that stage. My dad come down to Werribee to see and check in on me and see if was i okay.
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It's funny how you get those little, what's the word, maybe we could say little kind of angels or voices that, you know, like those people that make the reference of, okay, this is not right. We had it, I had it with Harvey where a chiropractic friend said to me, who's actually a type one, said to me, have you thought of how frequently is he going to the toilet? She just alluded to, and i was and that was maybe maybe a few days before he was diagnosed.
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And then, yeah, I guess if you didn't, being a 25-year-old, if you didn't, have your looking maybe in hindsight, is that the right word? Gosh, I'm really struggling with words.
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Would you have taken yourself to hospital? That's what I'm trying to get at without having that person say, your auntie say to you, yeah, this is not right. yeah so Yeah, I probably wouldn't have. even Even now, like I really struggle to accept that kind of stuff and go and get help. and I guess that's... I think a lot of young men are like that. It's a little bit of an embarrassment and so that stigma around young men don't like to go to the hospital or the doctors. But ah I ah knew that looking back now that it was the best thing for me. I've
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I shared a little story with Drew and Nat from Medtronic the other day around my eyes. And this isn't public knowledge, so I'm being very vulnerable right now. And um it's a little bit emotional but because I don't like accepting the negatives that come with type 1 diabetes. I celebrate positives, but we're real and we're humans and we've got to accept that there's negatives that come with it. But my eyesight's pretty poor. I've been to the optometrist twice in the 10 years that I was
Living with Type 1 Diabetes
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diagnosed. So just recently I went and got my eyes checked, unfortunately, got some blood splatter.
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behind the eye, which isn't great for 35 year olds. I've now got book into a specialist. I guess looking back to then, yeah, I wouldn't have, but now it's changed. I need to make sure that okay. And I think that's why I reached out to get onto the pump and try and better myself, not only for myself individually, for my family and my son and making sure I'm around a lot longer. so I do know that looking back now from the airport, and don't quote because I have told this story a few times, but it was up to 10 different drinks from the Gold Coast Airport to the Melbourne Airport from Melbourne just going out. So I think it was Lazy Mo's at the time, and I had up to 10 drinks, water, Coke, Powerade, you name it. I had it in the space of two hours from the Gold Coast, and then from the Melbourne Airport, my honey was waiting for me with some other drinks.
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So the symptoms were all there. I just wasn't educated. I was not educated. And was there anyone in your family that had type 1? Yeah, look, my dad's uncle, he was type 1 diabetic. He was diagnosed at 17, but no real direct lines as such. I know my pop so my mom's dad got diabetes when he pancreas cancer. So they just come hand in hand with that. He wasn't diagnosed with at a young age or a late onset. It was just purely the fact that unfortunately he he got cancer to pancreas. Besides that, mate, there was no one and there isn't really anyone else. so a lot of argument around that maybe dad's uncle was the contributor. But but yeah, nothing that we have known over my years of living here.
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Yeah, I think it's always one of those things that people want answers for of why. And I don't know, like I remember and an or maybe it was a diabetes educator at the hospital when Harvey was diagnosed was like, you'll never know why or how, but we can put this a little bit of reasoning of why, but you it's why him or why you in particular is never really going to be a concrete answer. Yeah.
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And then even if you did know what's, I think even if I did know concrete answer, but's that's not really going to change much anyway. You can't reverse it and you can't really yeah predict that thing was happening. Like 2012, so three years prior to that, dad picked me up from a function of footy just near home and I was thirsty and urinating a lot. And I said to dad, um I reckon I've got diabetes and We had no idea. Dad was like, mate, come on, you're fit, you're healthy, you're not overweight, you're not old, and this and that and the other. And sure enough, the endo has basically said that could be the early onset of you having type 1 diabetes and then three years down the track. Yeah. And just from not being educated, like we thought type 2 was the only diabetes out there. But type 1 is obviously definitely alive and living.
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And that's, I think, the frustration that I think people who are type 1s or even my sister-in-law, she gets quite frustrated when she hears advertisements and then she's, but they just alluded that type 2 is just type 1. And I'm like, yeah, like it's still...
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I guess we could get frustrated about the terminology and I said, but it's still awareness, but it's more around, yes, I think that to a degree there are treatments and reason, reasonings for the two are different, but it's more around,
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that early detection that I feel like if you can yeah if you can get that early detection and say potentially save someone's life because there is a bit more awareness, then maybe it's a positive. i don't know. So 25-year-old, you go back to living in the Gold Coast and then having to learn –
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well, become the this functioning adult. Yeah, tell us what happened. No, so yeah, I went straight back after seven days in hospital, so getting everything sorted and whatnot. Yeah, I went straight back to the Gold Coast, just living the normal life that I lived. Didn't have an educator, didn't see an educator. went to an one endocrinologist on the Gold Coast. And again, back then it wasn't a priority. Even after having that scare and being diagnosed, I just went on c pricking my finger, giving myself insulin what needed,
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Didn't really have a plan, didn't follow a plan, didn't count
Educational and Support Journey
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carbs. I was horrible, really horrible. And looking back now, I just think I just don't understand how I've sustained playing sport and continue to live the life that I was living with, I guess, such a little desire to to support myself.
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So I didn't see anyone. i I, yeah, continued to stay there until the end of 2016. And sixteen and It just got a bit too much mentally. I really struggled with not having family there and got into a few dark places where it was just like, I just had enough of it all and being different. And I think that's what will lead into the next few conversations around type one warriors. But yeah, moved back home and just continued doing what I was doing. I seen a diabetes educator. I'm originally from a small town called Newmerca, which is about 4,000 people. And seeing a lady that wasn't type one, she was quite an older lady and just didn't really connect with her. And
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Just, yeah things didn't, I didn't really progress and didn't see anyone until probably another 12 months down the track and seen an endocrinologist in Wangaratta who basically said to me that I don't need a pump. I was really reaching out for a pump. I was trying to find ways to make it easier on myself because I thought that if i get a pump, that'll just fix everything, which in in hindsight, it does a little bit, but you still got to do a lot of education around it.
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So, yeah, fast forward, I had another sort of like couple of incidents, my beer, and i was hanging around with younger people, some sort of my age as well, but and I had a bit of an incident where I got really high again and ended up in hospital, and and start that's when it started to change a little bit.
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But with me, Jackie is that probably change a little bit now, but I tend to follow things really closely and and whatnot. But then I fall off the wagon a little bit. And like with my health, I know it's easier for everyone to say, but it's your health and this and that and it's life or death. But I just put the bandaid on until I was right and then i' would move on. But,
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I guess since having Job, my son, it really started to sink in that we're not here for very long and I needed to make some changes. And I could bore everyone with so many different stories, but I went and seen and an educator in Echuca. So I live in Moama now, been here for six years, and an amazing lady named Laurie Org, who's the educator at Echuca Regional Health, and I praise her every time that I talk to people because she basically saved me.
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She just, I've seen it her consistently and then I got recommended to an endocrinologist. And then from then on, we we started making some changes. And Rory's type 1 diabetic. We connected straight away. She's a little bit older than me.
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Very educated. She's on the pump, Medtronic pump. And the rest is history. I've been in the pump for about 12 months now. So I didn't get it straight away. Oh, 12 months. That's right. So I'm only fresh and i only new on this amazing technology that has changed my life.
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Okay. nine years of MDI and for people who don't know manual manual injections with the pen, so doing a long acting and then doing your fast acting for for meals and et cetera. And then...
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Yeah, there's so many questions I have that i just after what you just shared and then moved on to a pump. Sorry, I just assumed there was a pump you were just, you know, yeah yeah sort of um almost like straight on to a pump. but So do you feel that there's a couple of things? I really want to ask you about the drinking because I feel like that's an interesting yeah side of things, like the alcohol. And also do you feel because you didn't get – the education or the support from you had to find that team that you you just didn't know how to take care of yourself and you didn't know what was possible. is that what I'm hearing? Is that until you found that educator, you then realised, okay, there's actually a better way to manage this.
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Yeah. that And so many people I feel are the same as me. You've got to feel comfortable and that's massive for me. Relationships are huge and that all the people that I've seen in the past, don't get me wrong, they're educated, they've done an extremely good job to get to where they are But Actually having conversations connecting to someone that actually has type 1 diabetes in that field has changed it for me. Yeah, Laurie's really hard. She's strict. She tells me when I'm doing the wrong things. She tells me i'm doing things great. And i don't know, we just connected straight away. And I think just from knowing all these little things of her being type 1 diabetic, her having the pump, and ah seriously have screamed out for a pump for such a long time. But the money side of things, how much it was, I've been on private health for...
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13 years now, but unfortunately i wasn't in the right. I had a bronze, so i had to bump it up to a silver, which is the different levels of cover before I, and then I had to be 12 months in that silver before I could get a pump.
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um We did a few little sneaky little tricks and Laurie again, just supporting me and we finally got one. And my pump is it actually mine. It's on loan for 12 months until I can actually, it says that I've been on silver 12 months.
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So that's online through Medtronic. Is that what you're saying? And they're just amazing. Yeah, that's amazing. Which is, yeah, I was pretty lucky. So the team there have been really supportive. And again, like tell you, think it's maybe February, I think, so it's not even quite 12 months on the pump.
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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. It's such an individualised, everyone's, like we kind of clump, like it's great that we can all speak the language and understand it, but I just get so much, like from every person that I speak to, there's just it's just so individualised. And I remember when Harvey was diagnosed, her mum, that when her teenage daughter was diagnosed a few years earlier, And she just said one thing to remember is this disease is so of individualised that and what works for one person or what, you know, yeah is not the same.
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And that's exactly what I'm getting from, i guess, your story. And I think it's important for people, yeah, that that cover stuff. with I think people just think, oh, because you've got, it's just everything's just covered under Medicare or anything like that. But, yeah, unless you can afford to go up your private health insurance, you can't necessarily go on a pump. and if that's something that really want to do, then yeah you should be able to do it. But anyway, that's a whole other discussion. Yeah, and people don't realise that diabetes doesn't just affect the individual, it's families. We have to make a lot of sacrifices a family to be able to
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to pay for that kind of stuff. And we're not well off at all and whatnot, but that's what I've learned over the last 12 months is the strain and the pressures it puts on families. And that's, we don't always have the answers. And that's why, again, back to the type 1 warrior side of things, not all our parents have the right answers. i don't have the right answers. My language around diabetes is horrible. I still get educated every single day. i think that's, what people don't understand the cover, being educated and understanding that there's so many different turtles you've got to get over to to get a pump and get on to that sort of way of changing your life.
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Yeah, absolutely. All right, let's quickly go back to my other question was around, so you were diagnosed at 25. I'm sure the hospital was, as long as you're taking children, you can still maybe live the life that you've lived. And being a 25-year-old, I guess, Australian, the drinking culture is pretty
Challenges and Social Aspects
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interesting. Pretty a country boy too. It's, there is this drinking culture that we have.
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How did you manage it? And I know that you've said that not sometimes not great, but is it something that you still like working on or with is it being definitely trial and error? Yeah. No, it definitely was ah trial and error at the start. When I was really abusing my diabetes, that's seriously the seriouslyly yeah honest way of putting it, it didn't bother me. If I had a sugary drink, I'd just make sure I'd have 10 units before I have it. It would just bang, just get it done with it, I can have a sugary drink.
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And then fast forward to now, it's there's no sugary drinks. so I don't drink anything but sugar-free alcohol or beer. There was a few times where The endocrinologist before him that I spoke to, the probably one bit of good advice that he had was don't drink no sugar, no carb beer because unfortunately when you're drinking and you're getting toxicated, it's pretty much the same way or the same feeling as when you're having low. So a lot of people, when you're...
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you're intoxicated, you'll you'll have lollies and that thinking that you're low, but you're actually just intoxicated. And then on the flip side of that, you give yourself a little bit more insulin because you're thirsty or whatever and you think, oh, I'm high.
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And then unfortunately, your intoxication and your low is very similar in the way that your body, I guess, reacts. So, you tend to go really low and you're in some trouble then. So it was, like I said, the perfect way of explaining is I've used my diabetes before I, I guess, had my young son. And now it's beer, you know, don't get me wrong, this time of year is pretty festive because of the weather and Christmas and New Year and stuff. But I just basically stick to beer now. And Don't do it as frequently as what I would normally do. I don't want to sugarcoat and say that I'm the perfect person because I'm not, I'm fit and healthy. I don't abuse alcohol, but I do love to have a beer with friends and family. And you're just sticking to low carb beers, are you? No, just normal, just just the mid strength. and
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Yes. Yes, that and I want to don't want to give out the branding because i want to plug it because I don't think it's a great thing for young people to be involved in, but it's reality and it's life. No, it is reality and I've got lots of friends that other parents that I know that have got like kids that are 17 getting to that age where they're type ones and they're like, I don't really know how we manage this. Yeah.
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with the drinking and stuff so not that I'm thinking that you'd have the answer for that one I'm just curious to know and also maybe for me even though Harvey is still a while away from that yeah but of just like the more information I think as a parent I can gather the better I knowledge that I can then go yeah yeah And plus, Jai, look, you're 35 now. Hangovers really start to suck. Limiting, I'm 46 and I limit my drinking too because I can't really handle it. The scary part is that a lot of our younger generation now are really indulging in those sugary, high-glucose drinks and
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That's the cool thing, I guess, for young people. And that's why I think we young type 1 diabetics need to really be careful of their selection of choice. And I'm not professional in whatever else, but I know that if we have glucose, it spikes us. So I know that beer for me doesn't really send me really high. Yeah, if I have ever have anything that's high in sugar, which I don't never do, it helps me with that as well, which is good.
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Yeah. Okay, thank you for sharing that that part. That wasn't what we were planning to discuss. that No, no, no. No, no, I'm, that was, it was just organic, so that's good. Now, so your ah you're you're a schoolteacher, primary school? I can't remember. I'm a social worker at a primary
Career and Community Initiatives
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school. Oh.
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Yeah. Social worker at a primary school. Yep. Yep. Okay. Sorry. I got that completely wrong. Everyone assumes because I work at a school that, yeah, I'm a teacher. It's okay. That's great that they've got a social worker at the school. Amazing. And is it a high school or a primary school? Primary.
00:21:12
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Yep. Primary. Oh, that's even more amazing. Yeah. Very lucky. That's great. So you were already a social worker when you were diagnosed? No, yeah. We could sit here and talk for hours around my story on what I've done and and what I've been through. But no, I've worked in education for over 10 years and...
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i not over 10 years, probably 10 years, but i was starting to be a teacher at Gold Coast at that time, but I quit and didn't want to to do it anymore. But I just worked as a career educator, which is an Indigenous like liaison officer at a secondary college. And then from then on, I ah studied part-time whilst working to be social worker. So then I did that and then had a year to go and I transferred up to Scotland and went and worked for the Catholic Education Department as a wellbeing officer.
00:21:59
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I would support 36 different schools, 56 different schools, sorry, and that was primary and secondary. And then I wanted to be closer to home because I'd travel a lot. So I applied for the social worker job. So I I graduated a year and a bit ago from Swinburne Uni. Yeah, I went for this job. My partner works there. She's a teacher and they were looking for a social worker. So yeah, I applied for job. So I've been there for 12 months.
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Okay. Okay. so tell us a bit, you have another little project that you work. So can you share, you'll be able to explain this little project around your aspect of the mental health sort of side of things. yeah Is it truly focused on type one mental health or are you just open to...
00:22:41
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No. Men's, kids. so Yeah, tell me. Yeah, everyone in general. So like i i did I do other business on the side of work that I started, but it's of I had a shoulder operation three months ago and I had a broken hand at the time, so i couldn't drive and I had to put that on on hold for a little bit and that was mentoring. Yeah.
00:23:00
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supporting young people just with everything. So whether that was getting themselves up of morning, helping them with their mental health, supporting them with transitioning to schools. And then obviously with my skills and the background, I decided to support a few kids with type 1 diabetes. And I had a lot of people reach out on Instagram their parents and say, I don't know, how to how do we talk to our son or our daughter around being comfortable with their diabetes and newly diagnosed? And I'm not going to sugarcoat anything. I've been really slack on that just because life just gets in the way.
00:23:31
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And financially, I just don't have it already set up to to go all in. But I, yeah, I just feel that a lot of our young kids, they feel they're different. And this is the type one diabetics I'm talking about, but...
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They really struggle with the acceptance and have to check in their glucose at school and oh what's that on attached to you or why have you got a pen or why that's stuck to you. And it really causes a lot of grief for our young people and they think they're different essentially. So I just really wanted to...
00:23:59
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to organize a space where our kids and their families felt safe and not to be defined by a pump or not be defined by a diagnosis of chronic disease like type 1 diabetes because at the end of the day we can live a normal life like every single person out there every young person like kids can have cake still we just got to make sure we understand the carbs and the glucose and giving yourself the right amount of insulin but I just, like, ah I feel that our kids really struggle with that side of things. and I wanted to give them, like said, a safe space to be able to come and have a conversation with me on Zoom, like you and i doing right now, and then meet them that way, and then eventually get us all together as one and have a massive Zoom call where the kids can have conversations with each other and understand that there are a lot of kids out there that are now diagnosed and they can have a normal life like everyone else. So, I do, ah yeah, empowered body and mind was my my business and that was concentrating on the mind but also physical health and eating well and getting involved in sports and stuff and keeping active in the environment. So that was pretty much it. Is that something you want to like continue you with? Yeah, definitely. i yeah i want to get I want to be huge. I want to have my own space. I want to be able to have kids come and go with their parents and not only just for their kid themselves, but their parents to have a chat with me. either live in a really small community. We're a border town, Chukamama, and there's so many diabetics around town, especially young people.
00:25:25
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that that I've met or that I've caught up with their parents. And I guess all I want is to help them and their families to make sure that they understand that they're okay and that I'm just a normal country person that is really easy to approach and have a chat with. And I really would love to start something and make a hub sort of, guess, here.
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Yeah, amazing. Telehealth would be good to get started as well. i'll Just do some Zoom stuff with kids. Yeah. Yeah. I know that that's, I feel like that's so important because I quite often, I'm always, um I feel really lucky that Harvey has been able to connect with some other males that are type ones.
00:26:03
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And because I know that I just want him to see that he can still be there. It is completely normal, like they're playing sports and wearing pumps and all that sort of stuff. And we've been lucky enough to connect with Ollie Green has been, i don't know if you know him, but he's another type one. He's a footy player and Harvey did some runs with him and he he lives close to us. And I feel really lucky that they've been able to just, to just been able to normalise that. And that's so great that kids can have someone to look up to. yeah like that's in exactly And particularly, I think there is a lot of, there's a lot of, there is some women, but I feel girls to a degree need, need some girls and, female influence and then boys also need the male influence.
00:26:45
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But that can also cross over. I'm not saying that it's totally, but it's nice to have. I totally agree. Totally agree. Yeah. Because even like with this podcast, i ask type one I've asked for type 1 dads to be come on and I very rarely get, I've had anybody yeah put their hand up. That's my challenge, my something to work on for this year. Yeah. But it is interesting to hear.
00:27:08
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There will be, but and maybe I'm just not the right person that they want to talk to. Who knows? So we thought as well, so you've got this little series that you've got on your Instagram that I was looking at today around where you shared some of those chats that you've had with those kids. So we will, we are going to grab Harvey, which is the convenience of being school holidays. And joy Jai is going to have a little chat with him. So we'll get to share that very soon. But before I wrap up my side of things, was there anything else that you wanted to share, Jai? I feel like we've shared like heaps in this
Thanks and Conclusion
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30 minutes. Yeah. I guess just from my perspective, and again, I'm not paid or anything by anyone, but like the Type 1 Foundation, firstly for me, I would like to thank because they do a lot of the things that I've been doing in the background with the Type 1 Warrior. In my opinion, I was lucky enough to go to the Christmas party at Gumball. Yeah, that's great to meet you.
00:28:00
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And it was yeah amazing seeing the kids there and it was incredible to see the families. And again, so many different relationships I made that day. So I want to thank them because without them, like our kids wouldn't have that amazing opportunity to meet other kids. So amazing. they And then Medtronic, obviously for me, and i know there's so many diabetics out there that that are on different pumps and whatnot and and all that aren't on pumps, but Medtronic have been amazing and i can't thank them enough for supporting me and they share a lot of things that I do and Yeah, I guess those two organisations I've got a really soft spot for and it warms my heart to be able to be a part of such an amazing community. So that's pretty much it for me. Thank you so much for getting me on. I appreciate it.
00:28:42
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I appreciate your time, Jai. I'd like to wrap up before we grab Harvey. I'd like to wrap up just with one last question. What is your go-to hypo treatment?
00:28:55
Speaker
I made a video on this one. but but I'll give it away. am a massive fan of gummy bears, but Sour Patch Dolls, Sour Watermelon, bang, my favourite.
00:29:06
Speaker
Really? Okay. We haven't had the Sour Patch ones. I don't think people have said that. lot of snakes, lot of Skittles. There you go. Okay. I don't know if I've ever even tried them.
00:29:20
Speaker
I'm sure Harvey has, but I'll grab Harvey. I'll put the headphones on. Here we go. Have a seat. No, this is Jai. Jai, how are you? Good, how are you?
00:29:31
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Good, what's happening? Nothing much, just chewing in my house. Oh, what did you have, some mylo? yeah Yeah. Do you scoop, do you like three scoops before the milk, then you chip the milk in, and then you put another three on top?
00:29:45
Speaker
Yeah. Smart. You got to. It's the only way. And then mix it all up together and then bang. Yeah. So how old you, hubby? Ten. Ten?
00:29:55
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Getting old. Yeah. Yeah. I'm starting to grey hairs. i don't know if you can see in the camera, but I'm getting grey hairs. I'm getting old.
00:30:06
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Who do you follow in footy? Essendon. Oh, the Bombers. The Bombers. I go for kangaroos. They're not very good. Oh, yeah. Who's your favourite player?
00:30:18
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I don't really know. That's all right. You don't have to. If you like them all, it's even better. Yeah. Yeah. You got diagnosed how long ago with type 1 diabetes?
00:30:30
Speaker
Three years ago. Yeah, three years ago. How did that make you feel?
00:30:38
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A bit nervous at the start, but now I'm used to it and it's way easier. It is, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:49
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how did you go How did you go at school with all the kids? Did they ask you 100 questions all the time? ah Sometimes. Yeah. Have you got some really good friends that look out for you and help you out at school when you're going low or when you're high?
00:31:04
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Yeah. Who are your friends? I've got a lot. I just named some of them. So I've got I've got Archer, I've got got Danny.
00:31:19
Speaker
I've got a lot more. Yeah, cool. That's good. Because it's super, super important when we're obviously at school and we do have these moments that we're being low or going high and we've got our friends around us because they're amazing and they can help us at school, can't they? Yeah.
00:31:35
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Do you know what you want to be when you're older? NBA player. Ooh, who do you follow in the NBA? Grizzlies. Ooh, the Grizzlies. Never actually, never spoken to someone that's gone for the Grizzlies before.
00:31:48
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Was Jay your favourite? Yeah. He's a gun, isn't he? I'll go for the Lakers. yeah. So my error was Kobe Bryant dominating. He's the GOAT. Yeah.
00:32:02
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Yeah. Did you ever see any clips of him play? Yeah, I did. He's pretty good, actually. Yeah, saw a lot of... You play basketball? Yeah, played rep basketball and normal basketball.
00:32:16
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How good is So do you have to travel do you have to travel around Victoria and go to tournaments? Yeah, I do tournaments and Yeah. Is there a tournament? Do you go to Bendigo for tournaments?
00:32:29
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Have you got one coming up Australia Day weekend? oh Yeah, I think so. Yeah, yeah, we do. Funny that if you go to the tournaments, I go to most of the tournaments as well because we've got my, she's my ne sister-in-law, but she plays, she's in year seven or eight, but I go to the same tournaments that you go to, I bet you.
00:32:51
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And I might be able to talk. If we can, I'll keep in touch with mum and what we'll do is if I come to the tournament, I'll come watch you play. All right. So you break a few ankles, hey? Yeah.
00:33:03
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What's your favourite position on the basketball court? Point guard. Oh, I knew it. I knew it. I knew you'd have handles. Crossing them all over. Yeah.
00:33:15
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Yeah, good stuff. You got any questions for me? not really. That's all right. That's good. I haven't thought about that. I put you on the spot there. I'm sorry about that.
00:33:28
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Yeah, that's fine. That was awesome to meet you and I really appreciate you jumping on. I know mum said you're a little bit shy, but I don't think you're shy at all. reckon you're a nice, kind confident young man. Yeah.
00:33:39
Speaker
Yeah, good stuff. Awesome. Hopefully I can catch up with you, mate, on the basketball court. Yeah. That's me for me. You too, mate. Yeah. So thank you for having a chat with Harvey.
00:33:54
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I guess it just gives you a little bit of an insight to like that, having, building that relationship as well and having that chat with another type one diabetic and, and connect, connecting with each other. Cause I feel like that's so important in our community. i think everybody's very open to sharing and to all that sort of stuff. And I often say to people who are newly diagnosed with or there or their parents of newly diagnosed kids is just start building your community because it's like you all talk the same language kind of thing. And and if there's nothing like being in a room full of people that all understand the sort of...
00:34:33
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type one and all understand the sleepless nights and the alarms. And it's quite funny when you're in a room with the same with type ones and the, is that, and the alarms are going off. Is that my child, your child? Is that you? Is that, yeah it's quite funny, but yeah, thank you. Thank you for that.
00:34:49
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jai And i just wanted to say thank you, everybody, for listening to this fortnight's episode of the Type 1 Club. We hope that you've enjoyed it. All Jai's contacts will be in the show notes. So please give him a and a follow and get in touch with him if you want to find out anything further.
00:35:07
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Take care. Thank you.
00:35:13
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00:35:26
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00:35:47
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