I am starting to pack for our Europe trip already, and one of the biggest headaches is packing all my medications. I have eight pill bottles to take with me, and only six have the prescription label still available. I am not too worried about over-the-counter vitamin D since the yellow gel capsules are quite recognizable. I am missing labeling for Tacrolimus however. and since I take seven pills per day, there is a lot of it.
The other issue is all the paraphernalia that I need to bring along. Due to the length of the trip, I will need two pens for each insulin type. Then I need to take the glucose monitor with enough test strips for three tests per day. Finally, needles. Since I am shooting myself four times per day, I will need a lot of needles. The photo above has seventeen days’ worth of needles or sixty-eight needles. I also need to carry some buffer in case i mess up or catch COVID and must quarantine. So instead of enough medication for sixteen days, I am taking a month’s worth just in case.
My sister decided we would all take one backpack and one carry-on since we have a short layover in LHR (London Heathrow), and there are a lot of inter-city travel on trains and cars. I will need to find all the dry-fit clothing I purchased for my Tunesia trip in 2014 so I can handwash my travel clothing in the hotel bathrooms.
Life with chronic diseases 