Almost 44 million Americans are traveling this Thanksgiving week, and without a doubt there are going to be hassles. But people with diabetes (PWDs) have to worry about a bit more than whether you can carry on a snow globe or your favorite brand of cranberry sauce.
(Both snow globes and cranberry sauce packs are OK, says the TSA.)
Let’s be honest. Many of us have walked through the regular metal detectors (or sent D-children…
Like most in the Diabetes Community, we carry around a lot of baggage, not only emotionally but physically — with all the supplies we need to have with us at all times. And so the we love the Diabetes Social Media Advocacy (DSMA) Blog Carnival topic this month: all about your diabetes bag or gear!
We were asked to post photos of what we schlep, and expand on the picture(s) by answering any or all of…
Just a few weeks after we published our last update on flying with diabetes, the Transport Security Administration (TSA) made a big announcement in response to all the hullaballoo about its agents mistakenly subjecting travelers with health conditions to invasive searches and disregarding their special needs: it launched a program called TSA Cares, “a toll-free helpline for travelers with disabilities and medical needs.”
So what can a helpline really do?
According to the announcement and…
Thanks to Cherise Shockley and the team at the DSMA (Diabetes Social Media Advocacy – #dsma) website, there is a new Blog Carnival making the rounds in the DOC (Diabetes Online Community). How’s that for a mouthful of acronyms? In case you’re not familiar with any of this, a Blog Carnival is a monthly feature in which bloggers respond to a prompt on their respective sites, and the following month all the responses are collected…
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I’ve interviewed athletes, musicians, artists, and even acrobats with type 1 diabetes. But Nat Strand “takes the cake,” if you’ll excuse the expression. She’s a 31-year-old anesthesiologist who, along with fellow doctor and friend Kat Chang, won the 2010 reality TV Amazing Race competition, which challenges two-person teams to race across the globe in a frenzied international scavenger hunt with just one backpack each and very little money. Contestants travel by bus, hot air balloon…
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