{"id":37040,"date":"2010-07-18T15:14:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T19:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=9181"},"modified":"2015-12-29T06:25:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T11:25:58","slug":"never-check-your-diabetes-bag-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=37040","title":{"rendered":"Never Check Your Diabetes Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/iStock_Backpack.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9185 lazyload\" style=\"margin: 4px;\" title=\"black backpack \" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/iStock_Backpack-270x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"210\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/iStock_Backpack-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/iStock_Backpack.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a>Lost luggage: Just about every frequent traveler has had to deal with it.\u00a0 My own worst loss of luggage happened when I flew to Turkey and my suitcase went to London.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was the same trip that Mike forgot to pack his glucometer.\u00a0 Upon arrival in Turkey, instead of heading straight for the beach we ended up walking around a tiny Turkish town in search of underwear and a glucometer.\u00a0 We found underwear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first lesson here is, of course, don&#8217;t forget to pack your glucometer.\u00a0 The second is a reiteration of Catherine Price&#8217;s recent tip: <a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/catherine\/blogs\/type-1-blogs\/travel-tip-264-never-check-your-diabetes-bag\/8998\/\" target=\"_blank\">NEVER CHECK YOUR DIABETES BAG<\/a>.\u00a0 When you travel keep all of your diabetes supplies with you, next to you, on you.\u00a0 You can&#8217;t afford to lose them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lost luggage: Just about every frequent traveler has had to deal with it.  My own worst loss of luggage happened when I flew to Turkey and my suitcase went to London.  It was the same trip that Mike forgot to pack his glucometer.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":53098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1431],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Never Check Your Diabetes Bag | ASweetLife<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" 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