Planning for the holidays used to be easy when I was in high school. Eat as much food as I possibly can, go to basketball practice the next morning and work it all off and then have the first basketball game of the season with a tournament on Black Friday night and then a Saturday night game as well. This is how my life was back then. Now it is totally different, in more than just one way. I’ll save the diabetes part of it for later.
First, I live in south Florida now, but my whole family still lives back up north in Pennsylvania. Amanda and I try to make it even by spending one Thanksgiving down here and then the next Thanksgiving up there. My niece just turned 1 on November 3, and my birthday is November 1, so I would like to try and start going up there on the years that I am spending Thanksgiving down here because then I will be able to celebrate the birthdays when they actually occur and not almost a month later. This is the first part of my planning process is when I am going to fly home for the holidays, and what days of the week because I need to worry about cheap flight tickets because I will be flying back home again for Christmas as well, so that is another expense and also planning event that needs to occur. Once all that planning is done, it then comes time to the diabetes part of the planning.
I have talked before about what goes into my packing for a diabetes trip, but this time around it was more than just the packing. I had to make sure that I had enough insulin ordered and testing strips ordered for my trip so that I can pack it. If you read my post about the joke of a Target’s pharmacy then you will know that I just recently ordered a one month supply of insulin to get me through the holidays. And sorry to get off point here, but it just popped into my mind that I have to get blood work done before my next doctor’s appointment on December 3, so I have to do that on Monday or Tuesday the week before, ahhh more planning that I need to take care of.
Things were so much easier as a kid. I never flew before I was diabetic, so I don’t know anything other than how to fly with diabetes. Although, the first few times that I flew I was not using an insulin pump and I only had to carry a few pens and needles with me, so there were not as many supplies that I had to pack and make sure that I had with me.
I am ready to just be up north and start eating some good food!
Have fun and have a safe trip.