#1978 Juicebox Rewind - Week 611

Tuesday, uh, 1974.

It's called Lower the Threshold.

Engineering student diagnosed mid-semester.

She thought it was burnout.

She had a lot of reasons to believe that because she had taken a really tough program, and she has a history of anxiety.

Eventually, someone found her in her dorm shower.

Ambulance comes.

She gets back to class pretty immediately, but she also has a needle phobia, and she handled it unlike I would've expected her to, and you might not too.

So that's it.

You should go check it out if you want to.

I thought it was a fantastic conversation.

It's episode 1974, Lower the Threshold.

I had Erica Forsyth back on Wednesday.

That's 1975.

CGM Burden, it's called.

I mean, you get it, right? There's a lotta data in your CGM, and I brought Erica in.

You know, she's a therapist, um, Type 1 herself for nearly 40 years at this point.

I tell some stories.

Uh, we go over some ideas.

Uh, we talk about the underneath stuff that it might not be seeing, and, and that's it.

Like, I think you should listen to it.

It's a, a thoughtful conversation about the rigors of having CGM data in front of you all the time.

But in case you were wondering what, uh, what I was supposed to say to you, it says, "Wednesday, Erica Forsyth is back, and we got into something I've wanted to talk about for a long time, which is what all of the data does to the person watching it.

Erica puts words to the belief underneath of it, and it's a sentence I think you are going to recognize immediately.

I also told her about a night early on walking down the hallway to Arden's bedroom, and that's a story I mostly keep to myself." Do I sound like the kinda person that mostly keeps stories to themself? Anyway, that, uh, paragraph is engineered, I'm gonna tell you, through an AI thing, to keep you involved in that lo-...