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.

Melissa talks with her older brother Christopher about Diabetic camp, changes to their relationship in adulthood, and the family's infamous Diabetes emergency at Media Play.

Highs & Lows is a limited series exploring what life with chronic illness means for those who live alongside diagnosis—not in it themselves.

Can a T1D diagnosis (usually a jarring and traumatic moment) actually be a relief?

“This thing is keeping me alive, but it’s also ruining my life.”

“is that a pager?”

Melissa and Steve talk everything bagel pumpkin bread and give a general primer on Diabetes and its treatments.

Melissa and Steve talk cardamom bread and Diabetes identity with special guest, Dr. Heather R. Walker!

What is Diabreadic and how did it come about?