Olivia Attwood

Because they're classic warning signs, aren't they?

Extreme thirst, feeling like lethargic, like you can't lift your head off the pillow of diabetes.

Which is kind of crazy that your GPs didn't... I know.

So you go in, you get tested, they diagnose you with type 1 diabetes.

What is going through your head at that point?

There's something wrong with me and now I know what it is.

i didn't collapse but i i did lay on the floor and i was like having my first hypo okay yeah so for listeners and like myself you know to educate us as much as possible when you say hyper that is that short for hyperglycemic it is yeah and that basically does that mean that your glucose levels have dropped it means that my sugar levels are so low yeah that you've gone into a state and what if you're hyperglycemic what would it feel like i think

So it basically, you have to recognize that that onset and then get sugar into your system to basically try and combat that.

What's the simplest way of explaining diabetes to an alien?

Is it basically your body's management of sugar?

And that's like one of the most, that's quite, for the ones I've seen, that looks quite high tech.

And just what you were saying about your phone.

Explain to me about that, how that works.

So is it got like a little, is it inside your skin?

And it'll basically, it's reading your blood sugar levels.

And so if they go low, you will need, you know, you need to eat something.

I mean, what do people do for that kind of tech?

It must have been so, they must have had to manually test.

And you getting diagnosed at 29, is that super unusual?

Not that unusual?