Supporting Your Family Member with Diabetes Without Being a Nag – E91

Mar 3, 2020

Stacey Simms is the host of the award-winning podcast, Diabetes Connections and the author of “The World’s Worst Diabetes Mom.”

Stacey's son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2006, one month before he turned two, and Stacey started blogging about her family's experience with T1D a few weeks later. For more than a decade, she hosted Charlotte’s Morning News on WBT-AM, the city’s top-rated morning radio news show.

Stacey's been named to Diabetes Forecast Magazine's "12 People to Know,” the Charlotte Business Journal’s “Forty under 40” and as one of the “50 Most Influential Women in Mecklenburg County” by the Mecklenburg Times.

Diabetes Connections has been awarded the WEGO Health Top Ten Best in Show – Podcasts; The Podcast Awards – People’s Choice - Top Ten Health; and Diabetes Forecast Magazine: Top Diabetes Podcasts.

Stacey lives near Charlotte, NC with her husband, two children and their dog, Freckles.

Link to her podcast episode with Robby: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/diabetes-connections-with-stacey-simms-type-1-diabetes/id1006168716

We cover many topics including:

• Raising a child with type 1 diabetes
• Becoming a HELPFUL family member for someone living with any form of diabetes
• The problems with over-sharing a child's health info on social media
• How the media covers diabetes
• Why it's not great for laypeople to give diet dosing advice (like we see on social media every day)

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Thank you for listening!