One. Long. Trip.
Well now, compared to years past, the 10-hour flight was almost relaxing. Everybody in my family but me slept for a while. No one screamed. Only one needed to use the paper sick bag. Twice. But recovered quickly. So pretty smooth, really! 
It was the 4+ hours from Amsterdam Schiphol to Duesseldorf that put me over the edge. At one point while waiting nearly 2 hours for a train connection at some godforsaken outpost of a Dutch train station with the girls munching rock-hard “bagels,” I got so hungry that I downed an entire bag of Bugles (those junkfood cornucopia-shaped things, and the only wheat-free bread-ish choice within kilometers). Bad diabetes move. Major stomach ache, and post-Bugles BG of 253, even after attempting to dose. Splitting the Lantus went OK in general, if you don’t count the lows following each post-Lantus bolus.
Anyhoo, here we are in sunny Germany (no kidding!) Insulin’s in the fridge, and everybody slept through the night. So far, so good. You know what’s weird? I just checked my blog and the Google ads are in German! Scary, how technology knows everything like that. It pegged me for accessing aus Deutschland right away, ay?
OK, now about dLife: I’m writing a new monthly column called Straight Up, with Amy. It’s me, waxing poetic and telling it like it is on various aspects of living with diabetes. Yup, there’s even a professional photo (yikes! I’m soooo not photogenic…) But pretty exciting stuff. Now I have another outlet for all this strange D-energy, and hopefully a channel to reach out to an even larger D-audience.
But you still need to visit me here if you want the daily dish!! And of course, here’s where I can exercise artistic license and go wild with grammar (see all those parentheses and these !!!) That’s what I love: complete freedom …
Ah, time for our evening cocktail, folks. Don’t be surprised if you see my usual US fare posted here in the coming days: I’m taking the chance to catch up on a number of ‘queued’ posts. Prost!
How did you do getting through airport security?
Have a fantastic vacation!!! I can’t wait to read more about it.
Have Fun Amy!
saw you mention Google ads in German – a friend of mine has wriiten an excellent new book called Make Easy Money With Google.
http://www.MEMWG.com
you obviously have the whole Google AdSense thing going on but I thought it might be nice to share with your fellow D-Bloggers.
it’s a fun & interesting read!
Cheers/Prost!! Billy
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Surprisingly, airport security was a total non-issue — even following London bombings. Nobody said a word about my bag-full-o-needles.
Hey Amy, I hope you are enjoying Germany. I read your treatise on guilt, good writing and very true. What I learned mucho years ago, when I started accepting total responsibility for my life, the guilt disappeared. It kind of snuck up on me one day. I used to tell doctors to go straight to H_ _ _ when they tried the guilt trip. That is when I fire the doctor and found a new one.
Enjoy your trip!!!!!!!
How did everything turn out? You didn’t have to go the hospital, did you?