#655 Roll Tide

March 30, 2022Scott Benner

Trace Beasley has type 1 diabetes and is the Director of Clubhouse Operations for the University of Alabama Baseball.

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Scott Benner 0:00
Hello friends, and welcome to episode 655 of the Juicebox Podcast.

On today's show we're going to be speaking with trace Beasley trace is the director of clubhouse operations for the University of Alabama baseball team, and he has type one diabetes. If I'm not mistaken, we're all supposed to say Roll Tide. Please remember, while you're listening today that nothing you hear on the Juicebox Podcast should be considered advice, medical or otherwise. Please Always consult a physician before making any changes to your health care plan or becoming bold with insulin. If you have type one diabetes, and are a US resident, or are the caregiver of someone with type one diabetes, and are a US resident, please consider going to T one D exchange.org. Forward slash juicebox. Join the registry, fill out the survey, the whole thing will take you fewer than 10 minutes. When you do this. When you complete that survey, you'll be supporting the podcast and supporting people with type one diabetes. The questions are easy. The entire thing is HIPAA compliant and absolutely anonymous. You'll be happy you did

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Tracy Beasley 2:02
Hello, my name is Tracy Beasley. I'm a baseball manager from the University of Alabama baseball program. And I have type one diabetes for 14 and a half years.

Scott Benner 2:14

How old are you now? 2030. You are nine.

Tracy Beasley 2:19
I got it. I was diagnosed two days after my ninth birthday.

Scott Benner 2:24
Oh, no kidding. Happy birthday to you, Chase. Thank you. What a wonderful gift. Was there? Was there's the wrong word like me nine years old. It's pretty young. Do you have any recollection at that time at all?

Tracy Beasley 2:41
I just remember. I was in second grade and coming back after Christmas break. Going back to school. I remember just not being myself at all. Just I've always been a kid that enjoyed going to school. Just never really like I woke up and be like, I don't want to go to school today. Just just tired of it. And then playing lowly baseball growing up. I remember just in the middle of games having to go use the restroom. Pot about five times just during the game. It was just an I would drink three to four bottles of water during the game just because I was so thirsty.

Scott Benner 3:25
Yeah. How long did it go on for before you were diagnosed? Do you think?

Tracy Beasley 3:31
Occupy said about three months? No. Four months?

Scott Benner 3:34
Do you lose a lot of weight?

Tracy Beasley 3:36
I lost 20 pounds. I was 75 pounds. And then I went to 55 pounds real quick and I don't know how parents like you know how this happened? I was like I had no idea.

Scott Benner 3:46
I you have any brothers or sisters? I do have a sister she older younger. She's older, okay. I mean that's so that's a lot of weight off of 20 pounds or 20 pounds off on a 90 pound frame is a significant amount of weight. You must have looked like a skeleton.

Tracy Beasley 4:04
Oh, I was tiny. Very, very tiny.

Scott Benner 4:08
No kidding. So your parents take you to the hospital to the doctor. Do you remember any of it?

Tracy Beasley 4:13
So my birthday is May 21. Then I was diagnosed on May 23 2007 is on member may 23. Actually, but not before I went and spent the night at my grandparents house. Both my parents are teachers. So no the last few days school when your elementary school you know you really don't have to go because you know elementary school don't have fun or anything like that. But my parents they were teaching high school high school so they had to give final exams. So I remember on May 22. I went and spent the night at my grandparents house and I'm ever waking up at one in the morning. I went and woke ma my granddad up and I was telling him I was so thirsty. Well made him go into the kitchen. I had 10 cups of water that night. Because I was so thirsty. Yeah, the my grandmother, she woke up and she heard us in the kitchen. You know, she'll ask, you know what was going on? And my granddad told her what was happening, and then that it didn't matter what time in the morning it was my grandmother called my mom and said, You need a trace to the hospital. Something's wrong.

Scott Benner 5:24
Yeah, you were probably dying, man. Right? Yeah. Are you in decay when you got to the hospital?

Tracy Beasley 5:31
When I went to the doctor, my blood sugar was 536.

Scott Benner 5:36
Yeah, plus you it sounds like it have been going on for quite a little bit of time, too. Right? Yeah. Wow. How long were you in the hospital?

Tracy Beasley 5:42
For four days?

Scott Benner 5:44
So what's it like then? When you're done? And at the hospital, the hospital stays over and you come home and you have to manage diabetes. Now we're talking about What year was this? Was this 2000 777? You were diagnosed just after Arden. How long have you you've had diabetes. 14 years. You're about me, ginger. You're not quite a year behind my daughter. As far as far as lifetime she was diagnosed. August 2006. So yeah, you're only maybe maybe eight, nine months after her. You were nine. She was two. So I mean, I remember so this is interesting. Because you're what you get you got you have needles, and a meter. That's about it. Right?

Tracy Beasley 6:33
That's about it. Yeah, I got to the hospital. I was on four shots a day. I didn't know what a pump was. I didn't know what a Dexcom Oh, you know Dexcom was a thing then.

Scott Benner 6:42
It wasn't back then. I don't think

Tracy Beasley 6:46
right so I had no idea what a Dexcom was or nobody did. I was on four shots a day for six months. And the prawns with you me my parents got pretty tired to me just having four shots a day because no growing up I was trying to get my white back and everything in a shower just to be just eaten. I'm just ham and cheese just no no carb diet for snacks and it's pretty hard when you're trying to gain your weight that

Scott Benner 7:17
trace was that were you using a slow acting insulin to

Tracy Beasley 7:21
or reason a fast that it was pretty much like my meals.

Scott Benner 7:27
Okay, but they didn't give you a Basie

Tracy Beasley 7:30
I believe yesterday, I believe they did. Okay. Then at night, when I took my last shot for the bed, it was a long lasting insulin helped me night.

Scott Benner 7:44
Okay, so the Basal they gave you at night, but they limited you to form. They just limit you to four meals a day.

Tracy Beasley 7:52
Or really, it was just pretty much three, three, not three, not three meals then my last shot was at night before I went to sleep.

Scott Benner 7:59
They wouldn't let you correct a blood sugar. So you couldn't you couldn't do another injection or have a snack or something like that.

Tracy Beasley 8:07
No, sir. Oh,

Scott Benner 8:08
how long did that go on for?

Tracy Beasley 8:10
About six months. Wow. Endo. He introduced me today. We're like we're pre retired a shot. So parents are like, hey, you know, let's see if there's another thing that we can do. And he said, Well, how about a pump? And then once I got my pump? I've been on it ever since? Yeah.

Scott Benner 8:33
Which one? Did you start with?

Tracy Beasley 8:36
Medtronic.

Unknown Speaker 8:36
Are you still had?

Tracy Beasley 8:38
Yeah, I'll still use the Medtronic the nice

Scott Benner 8:42
Wait a man that's that but that's summer must have suck.

Tracy Beasley 8:46
Oh, yeah, it was it was brutal. Having to learn you know, having to change you know, like I'll mirror my first time I ever went to my blood sugar dropped. I remember that. It was the weirdest feeling in the world to know what was happening. Yeah.

Scott Benner 9:01
Well, you're just old enough to really be aware and not really old enough to help yourself a whole lot. It's a me nine is young. Did you try to play baseball that summer?

Tracy Beasley 9:13
I did I think I needed to finish my season I missed about I think three games in those four days I was in the hospital. But then once I got back it was it was hard to get back in the swing of things but then once after a few at bats, I think I got my I got everything back under control figured

Scott Benner 9:30
it out. Yeah. Wow. That's crazy. Alright, so you've been pumping for your almost your whole time. Right? Okay. Do you know I'm gonna stay with them? Let me stay there for a little while longer. So what was it like growing up with diabetes and you know, going to school and how did you guys manage all that?

Tracy Beasley 9:52
When I was the only school at my elementary school at the time, I was the only kid with type one diabetes in the whole school. So it was It was pretty hard at times because you know, growing up, you're like, No, why do I have to go through this? Why do I have to, you know, miss class, go check my blood sugar. And, you know, all my friends are, you know, playing at PE and you know, I'm having to go to my bliss, you're pretty much every 15 minutes, I'm outside just to make sure I'm okay. But then at the time, I was not very happy that I was diagnosed with it. But then now looking back, I wouldn't change it for anything.

Scott Benner 10:30
No kidding. At the time, not happy just because obviously it made you different and gave you something to do when you're plugging your pump around and everything. But why? Why in hindsight, would you not change it?

Tracy Beasley 10:43
Because type one diabetes has given me a platform to help younger kids today and be able to help inspire the next generation of young kids that have that grew up with type one diabetes, I know it's very difficult at first, but then realizing you know, you can do anything you want with this, the with this disease, and this has helped me tremendously and growing up and I've helped, I've been able to help out at diabetes camps growing up in high school and just now being with the University of Alabama baseball team now just giving me a platform a little bit just to help, share and give that to anybody else that has diabetes.

Scott Benner 11:27
Do you have? Have you ever since then, like coming up? Have you ever played with or going to school with or, or managed at a place where there were other people with type one?

Tracy Beasley 11:39
When I finally got to middle school, there's another, um, another kid, about four years younger than me, had type one diabetes in my elementary school. So it was made and it followed. Yeah.

Scott Benner 11:55
Do you guys did you guys become friendly? Yes, sir. Yeah. Do you still know?

Tracy Beasley 12:00
I do.

Scott Benner 12:02
Imagining my How do you end up doing what you're doing for a living? Like, is it you? Is it a sports management degree that leads to this? Or?

Tracy Beasley 12:12
Yes, sir. Um, it's actually a funny story. I actually stopped playing baseball when I was about 10 or 11 years old. Because I played football and basketball as well. And I'll just thought baseball was probably the most boring out of all three, just a lot of standing around. And no football and basketball, it's pretty much high, hot tempo going up and down court. You know, you get the baseball and it's just, you know, a lot of just standing around a lot, a lot of times, but then I actually must be only into my senior year of high school. No, I really didn't know what I knew I was gonna go to school, but I just didn't know what I was going to go for. But I knew I was going to go to junior college because I had I went to the small high school, I didn't have all the credits or anything like that for, I guess the university yet. So I knew I had to go to junior college first and Junior College helped me tremendously. Um, so my junior college, I went to bevel State Community College and PhET, Alabama. They go into my senior year of high school, they didn't have sports at all in 2011. They shut down all sports teams. I still don't know the reason why that happened or anything. But they shut down all sports in 2011. And then 2017. They said they're bringing all sports back. So my mom, she teaches math at bubble state. And she knew the the head baseball coach, that was you want to be the coach, my freshman year of college and he was like, he came out to my mom one day, it was like, Hey, what's your son doing next year? She is? Well, he's coming here. But I think he's just going to do school and work probably the thing about it, but he was like, Well, how would you like to be my former baseball managers? Well, then that's how it played out. Like, I went to junior college for two years. You know, I was out out of baseball for probably about 778 years. And you know, baseball is a game where you have I mean, there's just a ton of stuff that you have to be in the game to know about. And I was I was very far behind. But then that will stay. They helped me tremendously learn about the game more. They helped me basically start my career off and I got free school for two and a half years. And it was it was awesome.

Scott Benner 14:45
Oh, wow. Oh, good. Because you worked for the school technically.

Tracy Beasley 14:49
Yes, sir. I worked for the team and it was a full ride scholarship and I took it and yeah, the best thing that happened for me at the time,

Scott Benner 14:56
no kidding. That's a wonderful that it really is. And then after you finished up there. You went and did two more years somewhere else.

Tracy Beasley 15:04
I actually I went, I started I went to Alabama. Yes, I went to University of Alabama and I got in touch with their director of operations. A jack Cale. He's, he's awesome. He's one of my bosses were with the team and he I got in touch with him. And now I'm this my second year with the University of Alabama and so

Scott Benner 15:27
so you working and going at the same time?

Tracy Beasley 15:31
Yes, sir. So I'm the baseball manager slash clubhouse clubhouse guy, so I'll make sure everything inside but the facility and clubhouse their thing is stocked up with food, protein shakes, I help. I help out with the equipment operations as well. I put out your help out, put jerseys out before games. help out with laundry schedules. And I do laundry for the team. And

Scott Benner 15:59
at the same time, you're working on your degree. Same time working on my degree. Yes, it's excellent. But you got to get through school without on anybody. Nickel. Huh? Right. Sorry. Take that for

Tracy Beasley 16:11
me. Yeah, a lot of work. But at the same time I have this has been the most enjoyable two years of my entire life. Like growing up. I grew up in Tuscaloosa. I mean, I went to probably I've been to 100 football games, 100 basketball games, 100, baseball, softball games, and just growing up llamando was never to make it like pro it was always to be like, either play for Alabama, or work with Alabama athletics. If that was my goal. That's so I'm, I'm living the dream.

Scott Benner 16:44
Yeah, choice. That's, that's well done, man. Like it really is. It's, um, I have friends locally, whose son really wants to do what you're doing, you know. And freshman year, he showed up at his college and went right to the baseball stadium and sat outside the gate, just sat there and watched practice. And he did it day after day until somebody walked up to him and said, Son, what are you? What are you doing here? You know, and he's like, I won't work for the team, you know, and, and now he does, it's, uh, he really, he started off by just, he picked any baseballs that went on the stadium, he picked them out and bring them back. And then one day, they were like, Well, hell, if he wants to do it, let him in the stadium to do it, you know, and then it just, he just built a relationship with people and and got it done. It's, it's not a common pathway to something. But if you want to do something or not, you find a way to do it, you know?

Tracy Beasley 17:38
Right. And you, you make as many connections as possible, no matter where you start out. I mean, I started at a junior in college program that my summer of my senior year, we were out building, batting cages by hand and putting up the outfield fence by ourselves because they didn't have a team for six years that we had built pretty much build everything back up from scratch, right? You must have raked a lot of dirt. We will lie it was a lot of work. But now they now if I go back to a game or something I look and be like, Wow, man, I I helped put this thing back together. So that's probably the most satisfying thing in my entire life was the hill. Yeah, got programmed back up.

Scott Benner 18:21
And countless boys will play on that field for years. You know, and, and you had a part in it. i We used to drive through town My father grew up in and he'd point to a restaurant. And he'd say that when he was in high school, they were building that restaurant and he worked there, and he could tell how proud he was that the building stood there and he had something to do with it. You know? That's really cool. He that's, that's excellent. Hey, did you um, Arkansas, Alabama pretty close together. Were you aware of Patrick when he was diagnosed when he was playing for the Razorbacks?

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Tracy Beasley 22:59
Oh, funny story about that. So last year, we played at Arkansas, but since it was my first year with a team. I didn't get to go to travel to all the road trips. I only got to but I didn't get good Arkansas. So that Friday night opening game of the series, me and my girlfriend are here at my house. We're watching the game. And all of a sudden I do like a little story behind Patrick. And he's pitching his first game in the series and they talk about him being a type one diabetic and everything else. And we're like, oh, look, he's he's diabetic. And it's it's pretty cool to be like, Oh, wow, like he's like he's like me. So then after that story, I reached out to Patrick on Twitter just being like, Hey, I heard about you being a type one diabetic. I think it's awesome that you're, you know, you're getting the pitch and the best conference in the whole entire country. And I wish you the best of luck. And me and Patrick actually were diagnosed on the same day just 13 days apart. 13 years apart.

Scott Benner 24:03
No kidding. You know, I was I was just talking to him last night. It's the only reason why it's in my head. So that's crazy. I had no idea.

Tracy Beasley 24:13
And his blood sugar I believe he said on your show his blood sugar was 535 and Ma was 536.

Scott Benner 24:22
Yeah, one just want to add one after just one after one year. One. One point. It's a that's a small world situation there that really is I just he messaged me last night. He wants to come back on the show and I want to I owe him a message back and he's in my head and you know me, I'm like, I'm sitting here you're talking. I'm like, I think Arkansas and Alabama are pretty close to each other. I'll try to picture try to picture the map in my head before I asked you and I was like they're just one state apart or two maybe. So that's crazy. I just, I mean there's nothing like if you're gonna play college baseball. Playing in the south is a It's just a dream come true. It really is. I know, for a number of reasons, it was hard for my son because they don't really reach too far north for players and, and he places he got, he got a couple of, of offers down south to play D one ball. But they weren't the schools were so small, and they didn't, they didn't hold up academically to what he wanted. And, you know, you should have seen us sitting here, you know, with a 16 and 17 year old kid telling him like, I can't let you go there and play baseball, like you're not gonna, I need you to go somewhere where you're going to get, you know, a degree that people are going to look at and think well, that's, that's a good reason to hire you one day, you know, and he could never get into the, you know, you couldn't get the bigger schools to, to offer him. But he got a lot of the smaller ones. And in the end, the argument was down to I just want to go down where it's warm and play. You know, like, it would seem so important, and we hold him back from that I'm sure he's probably still mad at us to some degree. But it's, uh, you know, it's, it's really, if you play baseball, you know, you're in the part of the country where you want to be. That's for certain. So can you talk a little bit about what it was what it's like to enjoy a game have played it when you were little and be around it now but not be a player? Do you feel that brotherhood? Or do you feel on the outside of it? Do you feel like management? Or do you feel like part of the team when you're there?

Tracy Beasley 26:32
A little bit of both, to be honest with you, um, I know, everybody on the team and they treat me just like anybody else. I mean, though, me, we go eat dinner together at the dining hall. We all sit together. I help out with the equipment. So they I'm the guy they come to and asked for a new pair of batting gloves if they need it. Yeah, during baseball games, I help out with the umpire like I go get, I'll get foul balls. If they hit it to the backstop. I'm the guy that goes and runs out and gets it then come right back into the dugout. During like when team switching innings, I go out and umpire but I need three more baseballs. I give it out. I give more and then Fievel I can't get a drink of water and I go out and give them a drink of water then it's back to the dugout.

Scott Benner 27:22
Trace when do you start in sleep?

Tracy Beasley 27:26
is anytime you have a little bit of time. Like we played last night I got home about 730 and it was I had a slot to assignments due and you have to just time management is very key.

Scott Benner 27:39
I would imagine you still have that girlfriend. Do you ever get to see her?

Tracy Beasley 27:42
Oh, yes, sir. Awesome. Okay.

Scott Benner 27:45
Trying to figure out where you're making time. Because a D one schedule you guys are gonna play when you play 50 games that the 66 and you're already 10 in because it's warm there already right?

Tracy Beasley 27:59
Yes, sir. In Yes. Last weekend, we played at the University of Texas, which was awesome atmosphere.

Scott Benner 28:05
And your your traveling bus trips, couple three hours.

Tracy Beasley 28:10
Texas was 10 and a half for me and the other managers. But here's the thing about that, though, like growing up now we can talk about that for the rest of our lives. But hey, you remember that time we drove two and a half hours to debt system? Two and a half back? So

Scott Benner 28:24
yeah. My Sunday night. We left Virginia. My son was playing in Virginia. And we laughed and drove away and the bus left and they went a different direction. And about an hour later I get a text bus broke down. Oh man, like, I was like, oh, and he goes new bus gonna not get here for three hours. And I was like, What do you guys gonna do? And he's like, I have no idea. So they got the bus started enough to drive it like another like 1000 feet. And they could walk and he's like, the entire team is in a Chili's right? And he said they spent like three hours in there. And he was irritated because he's tired and he wanted to get back and everything but at the same time I take your point I bet you 20 years from now he's gonna remember that bus breaking down and sit in that restaurant with those guys you know?

Tracy Beasley 29:19
Right? This just traveling and everything with the team is one of the biggest blessings I've ever had in my lifetime just know you like you can look on YouTube and see like Day in the Life videos of teams and everything and that was me growing up I was like, man I wonder what it's like to travel there all these college teams and professional teams now I'm getting to live in it's like wow, like I get to do this.

Scott Benner 29:46
Wow, that's really great. You think Is your goal to stay in college doing what you do?

Tracy Beasley 29:52
Yes, sir. Ma, um, no, whatever God has for me. That's why I'm going to do and no If it's college or professional, no, I'm fine with both. But, you know, whatever God's plan for me is I'm willing to do what's what's

Scott Benner 30:08
wonderful, what's best. So let's talk about your diabetes a little bit. I mean, you have, I mean, we've described now, an active day, you know, you're not just like, up and awake, you're moving. I'm assuming it's warm in Alabama. You know, like, how do you manage day to day? Are you eating on a schedule? Is the pump? Are you using a 670? G? Metro?

Tracy Beasley 30:34
I have a mini man. Oh, okay. Yes, sir. So 70 G, it's a mini mad is that one. Then also use the Dexcom G set. That's probably my best friend. Just to I'm moving around so much. And then I'm just no look on my phone. But I was gonna bless you right now, the knocking, you know, just saying mail to give corrections and that sort of thing.

Scott Benner 31:04
So you're just just paying attention, like you're just nothing special, you just living your life? Listen, trace, the reason I bring it up is because I think you're a great example, for people who were afraid that maybe they are their children, you know, can't be as active with type one. But it sounds to me like you get a minimum amount of sleep, you're going to classes, you're you know, you're going from being incredibly active running around in a baseball game to sit in on a bus for 10 hours. And you're not in Are you having any trouble managing or things going? Okay.

Tracy Beasley 31:37
You know, I'm feeling like, I'm just like, every other type one diabetic, and I have my bad days, I have my good days, you know, some days, you know, I'm, I mean, yesterday before game, dropped to 85. But then all of a sudden, went got a G from the athletic trainer. And then after that I was good to go. So I mean, it's just, you just keep going. Just keep going. Yeah, thing just, no, I'm not gonna sit out for for the team, or I'm willing to do whatever they need me to do get job done.

Scott Benner 32:09
Yeah, I enjoy your attitude about this. And that's why I wanted to bring it up. So I think sometimes people can kind of get in their own heads a little bit, you know, and scare themselves, but it's doable. It's very doable. I mean, listen, we just brought up Patrick Patrick's. Yesterday was his first day of spring training. He's in spring training for the Tampa Bay Rays throwing a baseball, that's not easy. And, and he's doing it you're doing the thing you're doing. There's plenty of people out there with type one who are living lives that are, you know, vibrant. And, and I wouldn't want other people to think it wasn't possible, you know,

Tracy Beasley 32:49
right. Now you can do anybody that's watching this. Now you can do anything with this disease. I mean, anything you put your mind to, you can get your garlis of any circumstance.

Scott Benner 33:00
I agree. You just got to be flexible. Right? Arden started a um, she has to take, what am I thinking of? Oh, my God steroid pack for six days. Well, yesterday, she took the, you know, took the first few pills, and then the next couple in the first day, take a lot of them. And I'd say inside of about four hours, I had to double her Basal. Like her Basal rate is like two units an hour right now, which is is literally doubled from where it was. And I wasn't even scared of it when the doctor gave it to us. She's like, her blood sugar is going to be high while she's on this thyroid pack. And I said No, it isn't. I was like, Oh, I'll take care of it. Don't worry. And and he come to realize while you're doing it, I mean, it's a leap of faith to double someone's Basal insulin, you know, but I just turned it up. It didn't work. I turned it up again. And I just kept pushing it up until I got it to a place where it was it was holding where I wanted it to be and I know that would be a hard thing for most people to do most people would probably listen to the doctrine sale my blood sugar's just gonna be crazy for the next few days, but I thought I don't care if it's I don't care if it's pizza, or it's wrong around the heat or it's a steroid pack. There's an amount of insulin somewhere that's going to work for this you know, and I was determined to find it last night. I did i It's really terrific what you're doing any other people in your family have type one or other autoimmune diseases.

Tracy Beasley 34:28
The last person I can think of that had type one diabetes in my family was my dad's first cousin.

Scott Benner 34:34
I probably took your parents by surprise and I would imagine

Tracy Beasley 34:37
Oh, it was like a total just total of 360 just the mean. I was a healthy little boy and all sudden bang just

Scott Benner 34:46
Yeah, little skeleton playing baseball. What about um, thyroid or celiac or anything like that? No, sir. No. Okay. No more sweet tea. Ptrace

Tracy Beasley 35:00
No, no. Mallos yellow cap is my favorite.

Scott Benner 35:06
I'll tell you, you know what? We were just we were just in Georgia recently. My daughter's thinking to go into college. And so would you drive in South and there's somewhere you hit. I didn't exactly remember where it was, but somewhere you hit and once you go into a store to buy a drink, the concept of diet is gone. They don't I mean, like they don't this the stores don't carry a ton of like diet versions of things or no, it's, it's interesting, especially iced tea. But you say you have one my What is it called?

Tracy Beasley 35:37
It's called Milo's. Pylos Okay, I'll look for that. It's a yellow cap. This uh, it has a it's yellow because it has a Splenda sweetener in it. And it's, I've been on to it on that ever since I've been diagnosed and it's no know all this stuff now with the Nio. Thanks for college athletes Mallos if you're listening to this, I would love to have nio deal. I don't know if they would sign a manager but you know, hey, I'm willing to do change it up a little

Scott Benner 36:09
bit. You're willing to run out get those baseballs holding an iced tea.

Tracy Beasley 36:14
Hey, whatever, whatever it takes.

Scott Benner 36:17
Trace trying to get through college everybody he needs. He needs somebody to come along and help out a little bit. Now I was just we were somewhere middle that like I mean, we drove down. Man, it must have taken us 14 or 15 hours to get the Georgia because we hit traffic at some point. And we stopped somewhere where I was so dizzy by then. Like I went into the store and Arden and I went in to get a drink and and use the bathroom and and I said to the guy who registered us like where are we? Like I don't even know what state I'm in, you know? And I think he said he I think we were in South Carolina at the time. And I said desert like can we get a diet drink here? And he goes no, sir. Like, okay, so we grabbed some bottles of water and we took off. But yeah, it was really interesting. Wow. So um, do you ever feel like I mean, you said you one you met one kid in school. Nobody in your family has diabetes. No one on the team has at the moment. I feel like that, like xever Feel isolating, or do you ever feel alone? Or do you not think about it like that?

Tracy Beasley 37:22
I really don't think about like that, you know, I'm just I just feel like I'm just one of the guys on the team. A little bit, you know, I mean, obviously, you know, I have this disease, I have to take care of every single day and make sure I'm healthy but players and everything else. You know, they'll see me snacking know if I'm low during practice to buy you good. But yeah, I'm good. Just give me about five minutes and I'll be right back out and yes, but they they firstly, have team practice last year. No, I was introduced myself. All the players and everything. And they're, you know, they saw my comp and they're like, you know, what's that? And so the only story a few years ago album baseball had a type one diabetic on the team. His name was Keith hokum, and he played football and baseball for Alabama. And he was probably one of the best baseball players like that a long time.

Scott Benner 38:19
And so the got some of the guys were aware of it or just what, in general.

Tracy Beasley 38:24
They were just like they were aware of a little bit. They just didn't really know a lot about it. Yeah, but but some were Maryland. Law member Keith hokum Didn't he have diabetes a lot? Yeah, that's, you know, I've been fortunate enough to meet Keith before and he's awesome.

Scott Benner 38:39
He's also huge. I just Googled him real quick.

Tracy Beasley 38:42
Yeah, he's, he's a big boy.

Scott Benner 38:45
I say he's a mountain. Look at him. She's six, four to 35. He was listed at his last year now. That's, that's big. So So you said a second ago, if you they see you eating something or doing something there's some concern guys passed by you they check on you stuff like that.

Tracy Beasley 39:04
Yes, sir. Yeah, even the other managers say they're like, Hey, I'm here one day like my pumps, I just fell out my arm they're like, hey, you need to go and I was like, yeah, just probably right back and I went and put a new side in then I'll drive back to practice.

Scott Benner 39:18
You ever grab a glove and shag flies or try to jump into BP?

Tracy Beasley 39:23
Oh, yes, sir. I've yet to share BP us being managers we actually get to customize our own glove with within what the team so I've got been able to get two gloves. And last year, this year, I got outfield glove just be able to shag better so it's awesome. It's x.

Scott Benner 39:40
I know. I know. I'm just thinking about my son. He would just like, you know, if he wasn't on the team. I wonder. I always wonder about baseball. Like if you know if and when he has to stop playing like if he'll try to find a connection back to it. Or if if it'll be painful not to be able to play you know, like I always wonder how that's Gotta go. Yeah, you see a lot of pro athletes that kind of, some of them spin out of control when they when they lose the ability to be, you know, be involved with a team and I think they're incredibly competitive people and then there's nowhere to put that competitive thing. You know, it's a, it can be difficult to leave it behind. I just wonder, I was just thinking for you, man, it just must feel like Little League all day long. You know, just exciting.

Tracy Beasley 40:27
Oh, it's awesome. Like, I remember my first law opening day last year, the 2021 season now it's just like in shock, just to be like, Wow, I'm in the dugout.

Scott Benner 40:37
Yeah, people attend those games to their well attended games, right?

Tracy Beasley 40:42
Oh, yes, sir. We, especially when we play start playing SEC themes. Last year when we we play Auburn, three game series. It was it was a big crowd every night we played.

Scott Benner 40:55
I have to tell you, I just remembered something. So I told you before we started playing, or we first started recording playing that my son took off a semester during COVID. And he and a number of his teammates went out to Wyoming and they snowboarded for a couple of weeks. And then they made their way back home. But they they did a big long loop south and then came back up the East Coast. And as I'm sitting here, I think they stopped in Alabama and saw a baseball game. I well, I am now sitting here thinking that I have a photo of coal in the stands. Write up the first baseline at that at one of those games. I'm gonna have to go back and look when I'm done, because I'm certain they stopped at a game. And now I really think it was with you guys. In that intro, wow. Yeah. very random. I think they just they went through Texas had barbecue, and then they started heading back up, coming north and one of their friends is a student there and got them tickets. And that's how the in who kidding. That is what happened. How about that? So I, you you mix and match. You're using the Medtronic pump with the Dexcom. So you're not using an algorithm. But do you think about ever doing that?

Tracy Beasley 42:15
Yes, I believe. Um, I would like to get the T slim here in a few years. That's like one of my main goals, because I said the Dexcom and the tastes lamb torta like, connect together, like work together. They do. Yeah. So that's something I've been very interested in and getting, but I have like two more years left on this pump I have now. So I feel like just using these two years up, and then once that's over, just move to the T slim.

Scott Benner 42:41
Okay, because you're going to try the app. I'll tell you Arden's about the startup using the Omni pod version of an algorithm. And we're very excited to give it a try. Why do you see it like it'll fry your mind the first time like, you notice on your graph, like you're trying to get low, and the pump takes away your Basal, you know, and catches the low before it happens. And suddenly you don't need a snack, man, you're gonna be like, you're gonna be in heaven. You're gonna think that's the most amazing thing that's ever happened. I'll tell you. It's a it really is something else. It feels like magic. While it's happening. It really does. Well, that sounds awesome. Yeah, I'm telling you, you're gonna love it. Medtronic makers want to, but you would need to use their CGM with it. Dexcom works with tandem control IQ. Dexcom works with Omni pod five. So you'd have you have more opportunities there to choose pumps. Because the interoperability of them, but I'm telling you, man, you're gonna, you're gonna think you think you died went to heaven when you see that? It's pretty great. Do you? Um, you're young though, man. Right? How old are you? I'm 2323. You're not thinking about having kids, right?

Tracy Beasley 43:54
Oh, no, no, no, not right now. No,

Scott Benner 43:58
I was gonna ask you if you ever thought about diabetes and having children, but then I realized how old you are. And I thought he hasn't thought about having kids once.

Tracy Beasley 44:04
Oh, no, I, I graduate in August with my undergrad, then I'll have five classes left in my graduate program that I'm in. So then after that, it will be no trying to find a job in MMA career that I love. And then after that, you know, just try to step by steps, you know?

Scott Benner 44:24
Yeah, no, I understand. I guess it's it's a tough, a tough world when you pick a job that there's not that many opportunities for, right. I mean, honestly, there's as many college baseball teams as there are. I mean, honestly, at most colleges, your job might not even exist, right because they don't have the budget for it. So it's a finite amount of colleges that that run the way Alabama does. And then minor league and Major League Baseball teams, right. Those are options.

Tracy Beasley 44:53
Yes, are pretty much. No, just Yes. But then again, going back to what I said again, Just know you just got to make connections and you know, somebody will know somebody and then be like, No, I got, hey, I have a job opening. Do you know anybody? And no, well, I got some by 40 right now just trying to make as many connections as possible when you're in college and bust your tail every single day for him and just do whatever that needs to be done.

Scott Benner 45:23
I would guess too, you could, you could get it immediately baseball and do other sports too, right? No reason why.

Tracy Beasley 45:29
Yes, sir. What's the equipment operations and everything I'm willing to do? You know, man, I'm a big basketball fan, too. So you know, I love to you know, help out with basketball. Also, softball, you know, it's just like baseball, but smaller field and everything. And obviously, you know, girls play it. So

Scott Benner 45:48
my son met a girl once in he was playing in Georgia. And he's like, the guys are going down to the we're gonna hang out in the lobby of the hotel, and I was like, whatever. It's fine to me. I just slept. You know what I mean? Trey says, I'm old. Like, you drag me around to a cold baseball fields. I'm pretty much done. And, and he comes back up and he says, I Oh, my god is this Alabama? Two is the story about Alabama. He comes back up he goes, I just met a girl who is going to pitch it Alabama one day. She's big, tall, blonde girl. And then she ended up being their main I'm going to look she ended up being their main starter. I think recently, because he's my son, still a senior, they were the same age. But all he could talk about when he came back up was how tall she was. He's like, she's so tall. I wish I was that tall. And he was young back then they were still in high school. Down there playing and there was an overlap. Like sometimes, you know, there's people don't know. But like, there's places where people play baseball, and there's a week of softball, and then their softball clears out. And then there's a week of baseball and you know, high school students and I don't know her name. I feel badly I'm not going to come up with it. But he was just I just remember I'm talking about like, how tall this girl was. So do you know do you know they're there's who are their weekend starters? That's softball. Do you know?

Tracy Beasley 47:15
I know. One. Montana files.

Scott Benner 47:20
I'm looking now. I see her got where I bet you that's her. I bet you that as her? I'm gonna ask him later. Yeah, it just, I don't I just remember him being like 16 years old and coming down. He's like, this girl's over six feet tall. And it's funny. And she says she's gonna go to Alabama and pitch and then, you know, three, four years later, he's like that girl I met like he, she starts for them. And I was like, that's really cool. And people don't understand either like that, you know, this example, I don't know, specifics about but, you know, every school tells about 10 kids that are going to come pitch, you know, and they all show up. And you know, a couple of them pitch and a couple of them never ended up doing it. And so it's a it's a, it's a big leap to make between being a prospect as high school student. And actually playing in the game as a as a college student. It's a it's not a, you know, for anybody listening who have little kids, you know, it probably seems difficult just to think to get a college to be interested in to take your kid. And it is is hard. But it was very difficult. Yeah, you don't just magically play once you show up. That's that's not how it works, either. So it's, I'll tell you what, I would imagine that the you take humility out of this almost more than anything else, you know, to make it that far. And we've talked about it a number of times that I don't know if you're aware of this, but I think it's the number at least when my son was was, was a little kid playing Little League. Every year in America, 4 million boys start playing Little League baseball. And when those boys turn 18 and go to college, 9000 of them go on to play college baseball. That's it like those, that's how the numbers break down. And then you get there. You still might not play. You know, it's it's a heck of a climb. You know? Can you talk about that a little bit like watching it from your perspective. It means somebody not that I would want you to say their name, but someone pops into your head hard worker deserves to be on the field. There's no space for them, right?

Tracy Beasley 49:34
Yeah, obviously, we have a lot of guys in our team that's like that. Um, yeah, that comes to mind is our shortstop Jim Jarvis is started at shortstop for us since he was a freshman. And he is the probably one of the hardest workers I've ever seen. Um, ever since I've been in college. I mean, he comes up he shows. He comes to work every day. He comes to practice every day and he's worried He's ready to work. I mean, there's no. And he's always happy to like me. He's never I've never seen him mad or anything like that. I mean, he, he enjoys being at the baseball field every day. Yeah. And that's somebody that you want to be around too. Because, you know, baseball, you know, you play pretty much every other day. Yeah, it's, and you just have to be like the kid in the candy shop every day. Because how hard the season is. And, you know, like, these guys are getting to live their dream right now playing what for the University of Alabama and us as managers as well. We're getting to live the dream of being with a team.

Scott Benner 50:37
No, I listen, for people who don't know, I can tell you right now, if I think my son would be proud to tell you he was the seventh outfielder at Alabama, you know what I mean? Like, it's, there's guys there that that might never even sniff the field who are still going to have that same exact experience of, of the camaraderie and the the feeling of being there. It's, yeah, now there's some there's some places you want to play baseball in college, and Alabama is one of them. That's for sure. Yes, sir. Yeah, no kidding. So what made you want to come on? Like you just kind of want to kind of be a shining light for people?

Tracy Beasley 51:15
Yes, sir. That's pretty much it just to be know, let other young kids today know that, you know, they can do whatever they want to with this disease. And, you know, I know some days are harder than others. But I know that just keep pushing, keep, keep fighting. And you never know what the plans God has for you. And you can just do whatever you put your mind to. And I never thought in a million years, if you told me, Hey, you're going to quit playing baseball at 10. But then your own go and college and be a baseball manager, your whole college career. I've been like, You're crazy. I never saw me. Growing up, you know, growing up here watching Alabama football my whole life. You know, that's the team that I wanted to play for. But obviously, it just just wasn't for me. But you know, and that's okay to my sister. She was in the million dollar band here as a crypto Unit here at the University of Alabama. And then my brother in law. He played football here at the at Alabama, so I got to experience that side of it as well. But it was awesome.

Scott Benner 52:23
No. is Was there ever a time where you thought that the diabetes could hold you back? Because it's something you had to battle through? Did you just set your mind to it right away?

Tracy Beasley 52:32
I just set my mind to it right away. You know, I'm all grown up. I'll watch the Jay Cutler play for the for the Chicago Bears. I know he will start one day. And also, Nick Jonas, I heard he was diabet. So you know, I saw I'll say these two guys, you know, they're doing what they love to do. So why not? Do what I want to do with it?

Scott Benner 52:55
I see. That's just common sense to me. I think that's fantastic that it hit you that way. Because you know, there aren't I mean, you're making the point you want to you want to let people know they can do whatever they want to do because it can be a burden to some people. And it does weigh them down sometimes to the point where they lose faith or give up you know, I'm not sure how to think of it. But yeah, I don't see. I don't see how it can stop you if if if you but you still need to understand it right? Like it's easy to say like, I'm not going to give up but you know if your blood sugar's going from 40 to 400 all day long. It pretty hard to battle through that. Like you have to have you have to have a firm understanding of it and and be able to, you know, to manage it. Well to give yourself that chance. Do you listen to this podcast with any regularity?

Tracy Beasley 53:48
Yes, I do. When once you had Patrick on I was Oh, I gotta listen to this. I gotta listen to this one.

Scott Benner 53:55
I hooked you with baseball. You know, I get a lot of later I get a lot of letters from mom or like gets enough for the baseball. So like, Well, yeah, I like baseball. So you got to listen to it sometimes though. But I'm glad that that found you like that. Have you ever tried like the pro tip episodes or anything like that the management stuff? Yes. Or has it been? Has it had any value for you?

Tracy Beasley 54:17
Yes, sir. has been just hearing about you know, different things that you know people do and no just try to do it in my in my time and just do it on my time too. So just whatever try to you know, little tweaks here and there just to say like, if this helps, or if it don't, you know,

Scott Benner 54:36
what do you shoot for? Like, what's your range that you try to stay in?

Tracy Beasley 54:41
I try to stay in between 120 to about 175 Okay, I feel like that's where like, light Oh, my best during games and everything to

Scott Benner 54:54
you because you said something earlier that caught my attention you you talked about low being at five Like you said, you got low, you're at 85. And I thought, Oh, that's not low for for us, but I thought maybe it might be for you. So that makes that make sense. Boy, I'll tell you, you would really you are going to like those algorithms because they, it's going to just shoot for like 110 in that range there. And it's gonna do a pretty good job of holding you there. I bet you an algorithm would just just based off of what you said, I'm going to guess that you're a one sees like around six, eight, something like that.

Tracy Beasley 55:28
Ah, last time, it was 7373. Okay, yeah,

Scott Benner 55:32
that that space, that's what I'm talking about right there. I bet you that algorithm is gonna move you down. Without making you lower than you're comfortable with. I bet you that algorithm gets you more down to like, probably the mid to low sixes. I'd bet that'd be that'd be a big deal for you.

Tracy Beasley 55:48
Oh, it'd be awesome. I would love to get down to the sixes.

Scott Benner 55:51
Yeah, it's um, so let me ask you a question. So do you stay a little higher? Because you're afraid of getting lower? Or do you stay a little higher? Because if you don't, you absolutely are going to get lower?

Tracy Beasley 56:04
Are their trust a little bit higher than No, not go crazy high? No, but I try to stay life before game my blood sugar's 190. May I'm not going to try to do like, give a correction or anything like that, just because I know if I feel like, if I get into something I'm probably just gonna bomb out during the game. So I feel like you know, being a little bit higher on this is a little bit on the safe side a little bit. But then also at the same time, you know, you got to know like, Hey, I think I need to give a little bit of insulin here before the game or just be like, Hey, I think I'm okay. Just to check it in that.

Scott Benner 56:40
In that scenario, or thing. I'm sorry, I cut you off. But in that scenario, does that 190 Come down on its own with a running around at the game and everything? Yes, sir. Yeah, how far does it come down?

Tracy Beasley 56:54
So yesterday, before game, I was 182. Then after the game, I was 157.

Scott Benner 57:00
Okay, well, then trace, let me be the one to say do that. I bet if you were 150, before the game, that after the game, you'd be 120.

Tracy Beasley 57:08
Probably so yeah. I'm, uh,

Scott Benner 57:10
I don't want to be the reason why the umpire doesn't have any balls. But I do. I do want to say that there's probably a small correction you could make that would mean, even if you just chop 25 points out of it. The mean, there's a small correction you can make that would do that. That I don't think would, would cause a low you don't I mean, right. Yeah. It's interesting. How much you Why can I ask?

Tracy Beasley 57:37
away? 185? What's your Basal rate? Level about? I think it's 1.2.

Scott Benner 57:45
Okay. 1.2. Hmm. And if so, when you sit stable away from food and Bolus, so overnight, is I guess my best question like overnight, where do you sit stable at?

Tracy Beasley 58:00
Just aim about around 160 to 190? A little bit.

Scott Benner 58:08
Alright, trace the next time you have a day off, where you don't have to do something the next day, make your Basal like 1.4 and see what happens. Overnight, just see what happens. I bet you there's a spot in there, where you could cut some points out of your blood sugar. I know you didn't ask me, I apologize. I'm not just giving you like my my thoughts. And I didn't ask you if you wanted them. But we got to fill time tray. So you have to listen to me. So if you if you just if you just turn it up the tiniest bit, I think it's possible that you could take some of those numbers out still stay in the range you mean to be in and maybe cut your agency under seven without causing you the loads that you're worried about while you're while you're working. But that's I mean, obviously that's up to you. I'm not trying to pressure you. I just think it's possible that that exists. So

Tracy Beasley 58:55
Oh, yes, sir. Notice, I'm gonna do no any tips or anything like that just to stay healthy. So I'm on to that's the whole goal. Right? Right. That's right.

Scott Benner 59:06
Yeah, you work this hard to get this life so that you that you can't live it, you know, so for sure. Alright, well, listen, is there anything that we haven't talked about that you wanted to?

Tracy Beasley 59:17
Um, a little bit? Yeah, about just when I was growing up in high school, I worked to diabetes count called camsell Harris. It's here in the state of Alabama. They have overnight camps they had day counts and out of the camper at first and I became a counselor at the camp and I can honestly say cancel Harris was a big help growing up with type one diabetes. They helped me tremendously.

Scott Benner 59:45
Trace I'm sorry, I know you don't think of yourself as having an accent but I can't hear the the name of the camp spelled for me.

Tracy Beasley 59:52
See a MP. Yep. S E A L E Then Harris, H A. R s

Scott Benner 1:00:05
got it. Camp seal Harris. Two words SCA le A. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, two words. Oh, it's no big deal for you was a big help for you as a kid?

Tracy Beasley 1:00:19
Yes, sir. It was because like I said, growing up, you know, I didn't really understand why No, I had to go through this every single day. And then I went to, I had a diabetes checkup with my endo one day. And he comes in with to my room and has the locker packet in his hand. And it's about capsule Harris. And he goes a capsule, Harris is bringing their account to the University of Alabama for the first time in having they're trying to have a Tesla day camp. And it's for three days, and it's going to be at the university. And once I went, it was probably the best three days my entire life. That's great.

Scott Benner 1:01:00
I have it here. It's camp seal with an E. I'm going to spell it a second. harris.org. So camp, s e a, l e. H, a RR is.org. Yes, sir. That's correct. Cool. Oh, that's very nice of you to spread the word for them. It seems like it meant a lot to you. Did you meet people there that you still know?

Tracy Beasley 1:01:19
Yes, sir. Amanda, some of the counselors that I met and everything like we're still in a group message.

Scott Benner 1:01:26
As many years later,

Tracy Beasley 1:01:28
many years later, me. And I've been able to still help out a little bit here and there, not as much as I'd like to. But again, at the end of the day, they let's, if I were to one day, win the lottery, I would give a good bit about of money to them just to help out. That's what that's how much they mean to me.

Scott Benner 1:01:47
Yeah. Sounds like it was really impactful to you. Oh, it

Tracy Beasley 1:01:51
was like, that was probably the most when I played football in high school, we got like, the one week off to basically do whatever we wanted play before we started. Fall practice. And that week, I was like, they're like, Oh, you go into the beach? Or, you know, you go into Disney World or someone's like, No, I'm going to diabetes camp.

Scott Benner 1:02:15
I'm going to diabetes camp.

Tracy Beasley 1:02:18
They're like, why don't you go there? I'm like, oh, it's like because there's other diabetes there. I mean, why would you why would you not go there?

Scott Benner 1:02:24
Yeah, you get to finally meet people have your you know, your similar situation, right? It's a it's almost impossible. I mean, listen to your as a you know, you're open with your diabetes and you know, you don't hide it and you still you don't meet that many people. You know, it's hard to it's hard to find people that you are the connect with on a level like that.

Tracy Beasley 1:02:45
Right now, I remember the first day of camp that I went to, I was like, Oh my gosh, like there's people that have diabetes, like just like me, and they're having to fight the same battles that I had the fight every day. And it's like, oh, my blood sugar went low last night. Oh, you went low. Oh, I went low too. So it's sort of like that.

Scott Benner 1:03:04
Yeah, there's some common stuff that you get to talk about right? Yeah, no kidding. Hey, I just realized you guys open against Xavier Yes, sir. Boy grew up in my town. I think play centerfield for them. So I just I just realized that now that's crazy. Tracy, I really appreciate you coming on and spending your time with me this morning and sharing all this. I appreciate your reaching out and and the excitement that you have when you're talking about diabetes and being open with other people. I think it's really important.

Tracy Beasley 1:03:38
Yes, sir. I appreciate you having me on Odroid it this my first ever podcast so well, you did reach as you have my own absolutely

Scott Benner 1:03:45
did terrific. And you're smart because you're going to move up on the schedule because I will obviously still want to put you out during baseball season. So you're gonna have to wait too long to hear yourself. Yes, sir. Thank

Tracy Beasley 1:03:56
you. No, thank

Scott Benner 1:03:56
you. Hold on one second. Okay. Stay with me. Okay.

I really love Tracy's story. And I appreciate him coming on here and sharing it. I want to thank Dexcom, makers of the Dexcom G six continuous glucose monitor for sponsoring this episode of the podcast. And I'd also like to thank Omni pod. You can find out about that dexcom@dexcom.com Ford slash juice box and the Omni pod at Omni pod.com forward slash juice box. You may be eligible for a free 30 day supply of the Omni pod dash. There are links in the show notes of your podcast player and links at Juicebox Podcast comm to these and all of the sponsors is this where we say roll tide again. I'll do it Roll Tide. Probably sounds better with a southern accent but I cannot approximate that. So Roll Tide. See just like that. That's all I can do. Hey, if you're looking for those diabetes pro tip episodes, they begin at episode 210. In your podcast player, where you can find them at Juicebox Podcast calm and at diabetes pro tip.com. There are a ton of other series within the podcast off the top of my head defining diabetes, diabetes variables, how we eat after dark algorithm pumping. Hmm, I feel like I'm missing something. You want to stay with me while I look? When I'm gonna look, I have to look at my own website. Don't laugh at me.

I didn't forget anything, either. Good. Well, you're me. Let me think of that. I just fell back in my chair. Don't worry, I'm okay. Well, I'm a bit of a liar. Because I did forget some stuff. There's a pregnancy series, sorry, a big mental mental wellness series, a whole bunch of episodes about fat and protein that had a Bolus for them. There's the defining thyroid series that one I feel bad for missing. I just completed that one. I get so much good feedback from people. And we're working on other series that will help you I think next up, I'm I don't think I actually know because I'm the one doing it. But I'm laying out right now defining celiac series and looking for people to record with about it. So that'll be in the future. But you're talking about right now. So again, I mean, if you're not listening to podcast player, I wish you would follow and subscribe in any audio app. Please don't pay for one you don't have to Spotify. The free version works great Apple podcasts. Amazon music, Google podcasts, there's a ton of them. They're all free. They all work great. You can listen to the podcast for free. You shouldn't even be paying a couple of dollars for a podcast app. You don't have to. I mean, if you have a favorite podcast app, and it cost a couple of dollars. I'm not trying to stand in your way you understand. But I'm just saying, who doesn't have to be any impediment to you getting this information? What else should I talk about here? Oh, you know, what are you in the private Facebook group? You should be Juicebox Podcast type one diabetes, about 23,000 active members right now. Now join is jumping. You want to talk about insulin or watch people talk about insulin, and diabetes and all that comes with it. Head over to Juicebox Podcast, type one diabetes on Facebook, we add about 300 new members every week. It is a really lovely supportive place. Very unlike the internet. And there's something there for you. I promise. Anything else? There's always something else later I get emails from people you're supposed to mention this. He didn't do that. Go do my best here. You don't I mean, I'll remind you again to go to T one D exchange.org. Forward slash juicebox. Fill out the survey. That's a big help to me and to people living with type one. You know, they didn't buy an ad on this episode, but the touch by type one golfing event is coming up really soon touched by type one.org. Head over there and check it out. It's not too late. If you're in the Orlando area, I believe you can still play through what else what else? What else? I didn't have time in the ad to talk about on the pod promise. But it's a real thing. And you should check it out. And now I got to explain it to you. Hold on. All right on the pod. This is a freebie here. I know I talked about getting the dash. And you might be thinking but I really want to get the Omni pod five. So I'm just gonna wait. The truth is you don't have to wait you get on the pod dash tomorrow. And the Omni pod promise says that you can upgrade to Omni pod five for no additional cost as soon as it's available to you and covered by your insurance. That's a pretty great promise. I mean, you could have on the pod dash for two weeks. And then if only pod five was available, you could start the process of switching. There's no impediment. You shouldn't be waiting if that if this is what you want. I think I am beholden to tell you that hold on. This is what happens when I'm not ready to do what I'm supposed to do. I believe that I have to tell you after I say that that I do I have to say that for full safety risk information on the pod promise terms and conditions. You can also visit alibaba.com forward slash juicebox. Okay, now I've done what I'm contractually obligated to do, but it's a big deal for you guys, because I don't know exactly when Omni pod five is gonna be available to you. It could be a month, it could be three months. It could be six months. Like I don't know how the rollout works. You understand? I don't understand the word I'm not in charge of everything. Well What I'm trying to say is I've gotten upset for no reason. You weren't yelling at me, I can't even hear you. What I'm trying to say is, I don't know when it's going to be available. But because you want it and it's coming sometime in the future soon ish is not a reason why you should be sitting around not using an omni pod if you want to. So go ahead and try the on the pod dash, do the free trial, and then loop back around to five when it's ready. What else? I don't know. I'm very ready for winter to be over. It was so cold here today. And it's just it was unseasonably cold, and it was very unpleasant. I didn't like it at all. Oh, I'm getting knee surgery. Do you care? I tore my meniscus.

Anyway, here's what the doctor says to me. He goes 15 minutes surgery. I'm just gonna poke two holes in the knee, clean that thing up. Two days on crutches you'll be back driving and 48 hours, no big deal. That's how he sells it to me in the store. The store in his office. It's the same guy that fixed my shoulder. So I figured, I mean, he didn't do too bad of a job. But that says like, I'll let him try the knee. So anyway, then I get the MRI, you know, confirms that everything for insurance. And he says, you know, no big deal. 15 minutes, poke two holes cleaned up. Just you know, two days on crutches a week icing and elevating and six weeks of PT afterwards. I was like, Where was the icing and elevating and PT talk? Back in the office when you're like, oh, go get an MRI, we'll get this thing fixed up for you in no time. Now, don't get me wrong, doesn't sound bad. I can ice and elevate and, you know, go up the street to a place and bend my knee for a couple of weeks. I'm up for that. I'm young. You know what I mean? I still need to be active. But anyway, I don't know why he undersold the work that I would have to put in upfront and then, you know, once he thought I was, you know, definitely gonna do the surgery. He's like, Oh, did I tell you about the rest? I don't know. Seemed a little disingenuous to me. That's the wrong word. I don't know. I didn't like it didn't seem like anything. I just thought he should have said law up front. Meanwhile, nothing stopping me from getting my knee fix. Because it hurts like a mother. Do you understand? And I can't live like this. So I'm getting this thing fixed up. What else? This is like, this is like I had a folder full of things to say. And I'm just like, clicking through them real quick. And but that's not true. I'm just running through my brain real fast. What else? What else? What else? What else? I don't have anything. I think I'm done. Do you feel good about this? You feel like we've we've done something here. I mean, I appreciate it. Let me thank you real quick for listening for sharing the show with others for leaving those great ratings and reviews my way you do? Everything that you guys do. It means the world to me. That's it. I'm out of here. So you