Digesting Life with Diabetes,
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RECENT EPISODES
Melissa and Steve are joined by Dr. Samuel Thulin—artist, composer, sound designer, educator, and researcher—to wrestle with the question: what role can art play in helping us understand life with Diabetes? And is it possible to think about the MASSIVE amounts of data created by CGMs and BG meters in creative ways, or even... outside of biomedicine?
On this episode of our limited series Highs & Lows, Melissa talks with her mom Loree about Diabetes in school, understanding diagnosis when it’s your child, negotiating responsibility for care and treatment—all interrupted by an untimely (and classic...) low blood sugar while they were recording.
Why is Diabetes always the butt of the joke? Dr. Bianca C. Frazer talks about how comedy, and performance in general, CAN be a valuable means for pushing back against those systems that shame and defame.
Melissa and Steve are joined by Taylor Johnson (@taylorbetic on Instagram) for a conversation about Diabetes service animals.
Melissa talks with her younger brother Marcus about Squeezits and school lunch, blood spurts, bedtime scrambled eggs, and how Diabetes has always been a “normal” part of life around him—until moments of crisis reveal those difficult bits.
Insulin Pumps and CGMs can be life-changing--miraculous even. But as always-connected medical devices, that influence can be... complicated.
FROM THE BLOG
Over the span of about 2 years I have created, maintained, used... and then killed 5 different sourdough starters. The care work needed to sustain a sourdough starter, as it turns out, is a kind of proxy for the care work needed to sustain myself.