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Viox doesn’t let Type 1 diabetes slow her down
Water Into Wine owner Candace Viox is always on the go and will not let diabetes Type 1 slow her down. As a restaurateur, mother of two daughters, Rotary Club president and Shop Farragut Chairman, she never sits down. “I don’t like to be a burden,” she reflected. So, Viox takes the necessary precautions. “I wear a pump, and the pump on my body works with a Dexcom sensor,” she said. “So my Dexcom sensor will alert me that my sugar is going up — that my sugar is high — and my pump, made by Omnipod, talks to my Dexcom sensor and starts giving me insulin.” Viox explained Omnipod is a type of fake pancreas. “I need to be at a healthy blood sugar — between 80 and 120 — for me,” she said. “Some people are different.” When Viox is alerted about her blood sugar, her Dexcom sensor will beep on her cell phone. “I make the joke, I’m a robot,” she said. “When I’m speaking or when I’m in Rotary, I beep,” she said. “I just randomly beep. I’ll tell people, ‘it’s not my phone. I’m not being rude, but I have to carry my phone with me all the time because my phone talks to both of those (the Dexcom sensor and pump). “If my sugar’s going high, it will alert me,” Viox said. “If my sugar’s going low, it will alert me — very loudly. My body doesn’t work so I’ve got to wear all these things that beep at me.” While she makes a joke of it, she hates the disease. “I hate being sick,” Viox said. “I hate having Type 1 diabetes.”
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When Town of Farragut’s director of public services Chris Sheffield joined the Town’s staff, he brought with him his years of U.S. Air Force service. While in the Air Force, he organized security on bases. Now, he uses those organizational skills for the Town. Before coming to Farragut as a paid employee in January 2024, Sheffield was with the Town in a fellowship status in September 2023 through a program, Skillbridge. It is a program “that allows military members who are separating from the service, either having finished up their commitment or, in my case, retiring, to essentially become fellows, or interns, in another government agency, a local business or industry and allows those folks who are changing their career paths to go, while still employed by the military, to new agencies to learn skills or immerse in their next life.” In Sheffield’s case, he was involved in the Veterans Local Government Management Fellowship Program through the International City and County Managers Association. “That program placed me here with the Town as an introduction to city and county management,” he said. “So, from September ’23 until December, I was an active duty Air Force officer, but my full-time job was with Farragut, learning that life.
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