Welcome to our 80th & final Episode of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened', THE podcast packed with unfiltered reflections on all thing’s diabetes!

This Episode is brought to you in support of diabetes awareness & care by the CDE Online Pharmacy (⁠https://cdeonline.co.za/⁠), the online store of choice for people living with diabetes. #AnytimeCT3CGM #MiWell

If you’re touched by diabetes in any way, whether personally or professionally, you're in the right place! Join us on this social learning journey as we grow together in understanding, insight, & self-awareness to change lives for the better. Our deliberations are always honest, challenging & thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we meet real people, discuss their real issues & stories, & together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes & its care.

Stan & Michael open by discussing urinary tract infections in people with diabetes, what causes them & thinking laterally to manage them.

Wisdom well beyond his years…

This week, our studio guest is Tawana-Musa Munatsi aka Musa. Musa is a proud 32-year-old global citizen and ‘Mama’s boy’, navigating through life in the small business space as a director of an industrial procurement business, & digital ‘sterring'*, & balancing his type 1 diabetes with daily difficulties. Musa's passion for life, family and culture and his growth in self-awareness and wisdom shine through and make this an unmissable episode.

* 'Sterring' (n) adaption of English 'starring'. The main actor or character, action hero, starring role, protagonist, good guy, “someone who is really tough and undefeatable” (Mzansitaal).

Musa reflects eloquently on

• His diagnosis of diabetes 20 years ago while overseas
• His teen years growing up with diabetes & balancing the want to be ‘part of the majority’ with his own health interests & fears
• The ‘watershed’ moment of being confronted with the need to buy-in to his self-care
• The passing of his proud ‘role-model’ father 3 years ago
• The support he enjoys from his caring family
• The importance of honesty & being ‘easy to deal with' as a chronic health client
• Being diagnosed (eventually, after being mistaken as a drug abuser!) with epilepsy at a time where he was in the best physical shape of his life
• His love & appreciation for his mother
• Tips for enhancing accountability & responsibility for the self-care of his chronic conditions
• The benefits of continuous glucose monitoring in his life
• Being open to talk about diabetes to others

Advocacy message

Elré Clarence shares her thoughts on the ‘not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened Podcast’ & sets our listener community a challenge to help us rise again…

Time to say goodbye…

Thank you to our loyal listeners for joining us along the way! Please take up our challenge to SHARE, SHARE, SHARE this podcast, or give us any other ideas, to help us to make our education and advocacy bear fruit. We’re praying for an advocacy & listenership miracle!

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