Tips for Traveling with Diabetes
Even though you’d prefer to take a vacation from your diabetes, the fact is, you take your diabetes on vacation with you. But that doesn’t mean you have to limit possible destinations or activities.
If you have diabetes and are going on vacation or traveling for business you just have to do some extra planning. How much extra depends, in part, on your destination, the kinds of activities you`ll be participating in and the length of time you`ll be gone.
But for any trip, long, short or even around town, …
The neurological examination obtained, you must go back to your diabetologyst doctor and ask him to prepare a special report based on the results of all tests and examinations ( it’s un-useful to mention that this action requires to stand again in a line (nothing new on the Western Front). With the paper in your hands, now you still have to go for a few steps.
Last month, like every 15 past years, I had to renew the Disabled Person Certificate. This Certificate helps me in some ways : exemption from the tax upon my salary ( if I would have a job ) , land tax exemption, free medicine and procedures associated with diabetes, obtaining a special permit for parking, obtaining permits on public transportation or subway and a monthly allowance of about 50 euros. I can, with the help of this certificate, be part of the cultural life of the city for free, but …
Starting with 6 years old, since you’re perfectly aware of what is around you, and start to realize if you’re hurt, if you’re bleeding, if you’re dizzy, drunk or tired, you should have someone near you (parents for example, or the family doctor) that should indicate you to pay attention to what always happens with your body and the signals that it often gives you.
A few days ago, I had some signs that are permanently linked with the feeling of hypoglycemia, and as never, just like in Proust’s novels, I …