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August 18, 2015August 17, 2015 by Laura

Dealing with Non-Diabetes-Related Complications

When a doctor calls you after doing blood work, it’s never a good thing. It certainly wasn’t when my new primary care doctor called me in June, three months into our trip. We were home for a few weeks for a friend’s wedding, and I took the opportunity to see my doctors, get my A1C

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March 8, 2015March 24, 2015 by Laura

Travel Vaccines for Type 1 Diabetics

With our around the world trip approaching, Peter and I both has our travel immunization appointments recently. My appointment was at the Beth Israel Travel Medicine & Immunization Clinic, and they were wonderful. Between the nurse practitioner and the doctor, they spent 2+ hours with me (when does that ever happen with a doctor anymore?!), and were

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Hi, I'm Laura. My husband and I have quit our jobs and are on a year-long trip around the world! I have the additional challenge of managing my T1 diabetes without easy access to my doctors and pharmacy. Watch me plan for (and hopefully pull off!) this trip via this blog.

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