Over on the Tandem website, there’s a new bit about traveling with diabetes (that I helped craft up), and that went live this morning. You can read more here: But it made me think about my travel experiences this past weekend (I was in Seattle for the ConnecT1D retreat – more on that in a few days, as I’m waiting…
I accidentally took a week off from blogging, but there are reasons. And they involve dinosaurs. Bullet list, because that’s the only way to organize what’s swirling in my brain? Yeah, let’s do that. Last week started strong – a good visit to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on Tuesday to confirm a strong and healthy growing boy. More on the…
SOP for TSA and PWD.
Diabetes Advocacy, Diabetes Tech, Pumping Insulin, Real Life Diabetes, TravelingThis past week, when leaving Las Vegas and heading home to Rhode Island, I had another new experience. The TSA pat-down agent, after making a horrified face when I told her I was wearing an insulin pump, told me she has to check the pump itself and then my skin where I was wearing it. Since it was in my…
Earlier this week, I flew to San Diego to visit with the team at Tandem and brainstorm some plans for 2016. It was a quick trip (managed to land right when that weird storm was picking up speed – made for a very exciting landing and also reinforced my hatred of flying), but a productive one. On Tuesday morning, before…
I wish I had known, years ago, that blaming diabetes for my lack of travel experiences was a stupid excuse. Sure, I didn’t backpack around Europe after college for a dozen different reasons, with the need to work a structured job immediately after school was done so that I could have medical insurance to cover all my diabetes shit, but…
These Boots Were Made For Talking.
Diabetes Advocacy, Psychosocial Support, Real Life Diabetes, TravelingAt the airport two weeks ago, I was coming home from Washington and my flight to Rhode Island was delayed. The wait in the cramped US Airways terminal was long and oddly warm for October, giving people a certain irritated twitch. I was still dressed from my meeting, with a dress and tights and boots and not enough real estate…
Last week, I was in Sweden for work, for the fourth annual blogger summit that Animas hosts during the EASD conference. (Here’s a look at the first summit, and the second one, and last year. And here’s a look at my disclosures, as my work with Animas is what brings me to these different places.) I’m in the process of…
Last week, I was up in Boston visiting with Ed Damiano to hear some updates on the bionic pancreas (now known as the iLet – more on that later meeting this week), and our meeting ended late in the afternoon. Which means I climbed into my car to make the drive home on Route 93 south towards Rhode Island at…
Last night, I unpacked the suitcase I had used a few days earlier for a trip to Toronto for a conference. And then I promptly refilled the suitcase with clean clothes to prepare for my trip to Washington, DC today. It’s kind of exciting but also a wee bit of a bummer to be away from home so much. I…
Flick of the Wrist.
Diabetes Advocacy, Diabetes Community, Diabetes Online Community, Psychosocial Support, Real Life Diabetes, Traveling, UncategorizedIn the interests of getting through TSA in Orlando as quickly as possible and making my way over to my gate so I could find some iced coffee and a banana, I disconnected my insulin pump and put it through the x-ray machine, caring very little if it melted in the transaction because I was melting in the transaction. The…
The Need for Naps … I mean, Self-Care.
Diabetes Advocacy, Diabetes Community, Diabetes Online Community, TravelingTen years ago, if you told me I’d have to bail out of a conference in the middle of the day to take a nap, I’d have laughed in your face because I thrived entirely on insulin, caffeine, and chaos and what do you mean, NAP? I don’t need to nap. Funny how being in my 30’s and hosting almost…
Hi! I still write here. I write a blog about things here. This is my things blog, with diabetes stuff and other times not so much diabetes stuff. Welcome to it. (My brain is not entirely tuned in this morning. Working on it.) Coffee is helping, but it may take a few days to kick in. Yesterday was a long…