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    Don't Let Insulin Bring down More than Your Blood Sugar: Tips for Less Stress Traveling with Diabetes
    Don't Let Insulin Bring down More than Your Blood Sugar: Tips for Less Stress Traveling with Diabetes
    Don't Let Insulin Bring down More than Your Blood Sugar: Tips for Less Stress Traveling with Diabetes
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    Don't Let Insulin Bring down More than Your Blood Sugar: Tips for Less Stress Traveling with Diabetes

    By Mark S. R. Peterson

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    Traveling with diabetes, or with family members who are diabetic, can be stressful. Unless you’re prepared.
    Inside are tips and tricks to make your upcoming vacation with type one diabetes less stressful. Whether you’re flying to Walt Disney World and Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, or taking a weekend road trip to the lake, being prepared will make traveling easier. Especially when diabetes emergencies arise.
    Note: all of the information provided is based on personal experience from the past sixteen years. Everyone’s situation is unique, so it is important to seek out professional medical advice that best fits your unique situation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMark S. R. Peterson
    Release dateSep 25, 2017
    ISBN9781370905911
    Don't Let Insulin Bring down More than Your Blood Sugar: Tips for Less Stress Traveling with Diabetes
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    Mark S. R. Peterson

    Born in small-town northwestern Minnesota, Mark S. R. Peterson knew he had a love of writing as far back as 2nd grade.His genre interests are as expansive as his musical tastes–from classics like Mozart and Beethoven to heavy metal like Poison and Metallica. He writes thrillers, horror, science fiction, and fantasy, and even dabbles into nonfiction and inspirational.He is a graduate of Bemidji State University, majoring in criminal justice and psychology. He wrote his first book between homework and achieving his 2nd Dan black belt in Tae Kwon Do. He has over 15 years of law enforcement experience and currently lives, according to a Washington Post article, in the “ugliest county” in the United States.BEHOLDER’S EYE is his first published thriller novel, the first in his Central Division Series. KILLZONE is the first in his Shadowkill trilogy.

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      Don't Let Insulin Bring down More than Your Blood Sugar - Mark S. R. Peterson

      PREFACE

      October 2014

      Hector International Airport

      Fargo, North Dakota

      With less than an hour before our flight was scheduled to depart, we decided to have a small snack before boarding.

      Check your blood sugar, honey, I said to our youngest daughter. She was seven at the time, and had been a type one diabetic since she was two and a half.

      She opened her princess backpack.

      As I divided out snacks to our two other children--one of which was our son, who had been diagnosed with type one diabetes in August 2001--I heard our youngest say, Dad, I can’t find it.

      I looked over at her. Her bottom lip trembled and her eyes were wet. Her blood glucose meter kit, used to check her blood sugar levels, was in a pink camouflage travel bag.

      And it was this bag she could not find.

      My heart pounded hard as I searched through her entire backpack, in the desperate hope it might’ve been way on the bottom.

      It wasn’t.

      We desperately needed this kit. We were on our way to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, for three fun-filled days, and her kit was an absolute necessity. Not that we couldn’t buy one at a pharmacy as a worst case scenario, but they weren’t exactly cheap. There were other items in her travel bag too, like extra glucose meter strips, sugar tabs, juice, and a glucagon emergency kit, that were also needed.

      I took a few deep breaths. If she saw me being calm, she would be

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