Well hello, I can't say I'm particularly happy to be here, but here I am. Diagnosed as a type 1, after a particularly harrowing weekend of vomiting coughing and blindness, it seems that I've got to do some rethinking about stuff.
I'm a long term motorcycle adventure rider and enjoy nothing more than disappearing for months, on my own, to meet as many strangers as possible, in places that I'm not familiar with, or which pose challenges.
I'm wondering if anyone else here shares the interests and if they can relate to me what impact diabetes has had on their planning and travels.
I'm currently the oldest student I know (older than the lecturers) and my dissertation is, 'The diabetic adventurer', addressing how the disease impacts upon the travelling adventurer (motorcycle or not). How, in remote locations do you ensure your health and availability of medication?
Is this site a resource and contact point for example?
If possible I'll be throwing a few questionnaires around the web to my fellow riders, to a few medical folk I know and to adventure ride tour operators, travel insurers and logistics companies, but if anyone here can think of other people I should be asking questions of, and indeed, what those questions should be, then please, please, do let me know.
By the way... diagnosed type 1, 20 minutes later in Tesco to refresh my larder with good stuff and "Welcome to Tesco, this week's special, 12 jam doughnuts for £1.00".
Tesco, sponsors of the Diabetic Trust or something diabeticy, in S. Wales, diabetes central from what I gather in my limited time as a paid up member, offering discounted sugary doughness, deep fried on the day I'm diagnosed diabetic... so here's my question... do you have a fundamental diabetics front, or revolutionary wing, that can get the supporters of diabetic charity to discount healthy food and not the guff that is currently discounted (I believe guff is a medical term).
Thank you and hello.
I'm a long term motorcycle adventure rider and enjoy nothing more than disappearing for months, on my own, to meet as many strangers as possible, in places that I'm not familiar with, or which pose challenges.
I'm wondering if anyone else here shares the interests and if they can relate to me what impact diabetes has had on their planning and travels.
I'm currently the oldest student I know (older than the lecturers) and my dissertation is, 'The diabetic adventurer', addressing how the disease impacts upon the travelling adventurer (motorcycle or not). How, in remote locations do you ensure your health and availability of medication?
Is this site a resource and contact point for example?
If possible I'll be throwing a few questionnaires around the web to my fellow riders, to a few medical folk I know and to adventure ride tour operators, travel insurers and logistics companies, but if anyone here can think of other people I should be asking questions of, and indeed, what those questions should be, then please, please, do let me know.
By the way... diagnosed type 1, 20 minutes later in Tesco to refresh my larder with good stuff and "Welcome to Tesco, this week's special, 12 jam doughnuts for £1.00".
Tesco, sponsors of the Diabetic Trust or something diabeticy, in S. Wales, diabetes central from what I gather in my limited time as a paid up member, offering discounted sugary doughness, deep fried on the day I'm diagnosed diabetic... so here's my question... do you have a fundamental diabetics front, or revolutionary wing, that can get the supporters of diabetic charity to discount healthy food and not the guff that is currently discounted (I believe guff is a medical term).
Thank you and hello.
