This week’s fabulous podcast guest Jade Byrne is an actor and comedian from Darlington, and she’s lived with type 1 diabetes since she was 4 years old. In 2018 she took her play Pricks, which journeys through her life dealing with over 70,000 medical pricks, to the Edinburgh Fringe, and this year embarked on a UK tour.
Jade is frank and funny as she recounts her experiences of living with type 1, from hiding in the hospital from the doctors and nurses so they couldn’t give her an injection, her motivation to reduce the misconceptions and misunderstandings around diabetes in the media by writing Pricks, and how writing the play has changed her perspective of what it means to live with type 1 for both her and her family.
Jade has such an infectious spirit and her motivation to change the understanding of type 1 diabetes through entertainment is SO inspiring. Pricks, as Jade mentions, is as heartwarming as it is heartbreaking and I’d urge you to see it if you haven’t already. Her view that ‘type 1 is a hurdle, not a barrier’ is my favourite takeaway from this heartfelt episode!
Find out more about Jade’s play Pricks.
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