Travel with Type 1 Diabetes
I'm posting this blog after a while. My work was getting hectic and as a result I couldnt keep up with the blog. I hope I can do this more regularly going forward. Our first travel to India was for couple weeks about 13 days after his diagnosis. We were planning to go India during the December break. Tickets were booked weeks before Sriram's diagnosis. On the day of Sriram's diagnosis, one of the questions I had was, how to handle this travel and if we should go at all. Our doctors and diabetic educators assured us we should be able to travel to India less than 2 weeks after the diagnosis. They just cautioned us that we have to make sure we always eat clean food and drink boiled water. Basically, the thought is to make sure Sriram doesn't get any infections. The doctor did make a passing reference that we can expect some high blood sugars as Sriram would be excited to see his grand parents. But, that didn't prepare me for the numbers we were going to s