Packing + Diabetes Chaos | She's Diabetic

[@AllyKayPet]

Most relatable video on the internet. 😂 Have a fun trip!!

[@Atrus999]

Happy holidays everyone! And good luck managing your holiday blood sugar aka annual roller coaster!

[@AnitaFilip5280]

Loved every minute of this video! I gotta show my family from beginning to end! Merry Christmas to you both! Can’t wait to see your holiday pictures!Thank you for a whole year and more of essential Dia-support. Sending love.❤

[@ShelleyHardy-x3h]

Incredible, the amount of supplies required in modern treatment of T1! Plus the size of bag required. It can be daunting, to travel.I recall, 40 years ago, I could easily carry equipment in small bag!

[@ShesDiabetic]

This is such a good point!! Yes - the tech has gotten better and better and better but the size of items required...larger and larger!!! It's definitely something that has to be balanced and dealt with when traveling especially!!! By the way - 40 years is an INCREDIBLE achievement and I'm so in awe of you!!!! I hope you know that!!!

[@thorritz8520]

This was so enjoyable. You guys make such a cute couple. Boy I relate to your low blood sugar as you started packing. And traveling with diabetes is mentally challenging as well as physically. Hope you let us know how your trip goes - ENJOY

[@traceymayo1583]

I love to watch your videos. You are like me with your diabetes supplies, so, so well organised lol Hope you both have a fantastic time. Will look forward to seeing you in your next video xx

[@marieaberg3540]

Greetings from Sweden🎉 just love you way of ” whyyyy!!!” Argh… then ” I dont give up now”👍🏽 powerwoman!! I have had typ1 for 56 years now and STILL some days are ” just baaad”, but then we go on anyway…. Your not alone!❤ Hope you had a great trip!☀️☀️☀️☀️👠👠🥂 Marie

[@ShesDiabetic]

Thank you so so much sweet woman!!!!!!! 56 years is absolutely amazing!!! You make me feel less alone!!! THANK YOU!!!!!! It was an amazing trip! As I type this I'm taking a break from all the unpacking!! Madness!!! But very grateful and excited for the year ahead!!! Big love and joy to you for a fantastic 2025 ahead!!!!!!!!! ❤️💙❤️💙❤️💙❤️💙

[@marieaberg3540]

Thx, such a sweet reply♥️♥️ Remember, I got my typ1 1968, and im still alive and kicking🎉👍🏽🤩 Thank God for Dexcom etc, makes our lives so much better- when I was young there was no way of measuring glucose, just ketons on a stick😮😮 Love your positive attitude and djävlar annama!( i e never giving up!) Hugs från the cold nordic, 🎉 Marie

[@alohayoutube]

Beautiful and inspiring as always, Andrea!

[@rexhowells7015]

Hi Andrea, Loved the video , very easy to relate to the packing , and how the diabetes likes to give us some low and highs while we do it . We wish you and David a wonderful family Christmas , and a great, safe holiday cruise. God Bless, Rex and Sharron ❤

[@ScottleCrue]

I absolutely do the same thing when I’m doing a task and go low. I just think, “Oh, I’ll deal with that later” and keep going. And then later shows up pretty soon after and I’m forced to deal with it. But rarely do I stop my task. The power of a low - it’ll keep me right on task, even if I probably shouldn’t be!

[@dwightl5863]

Me too! Dump some carbs in and keep on truckin.

[@nanettesilas6062]

This was the most helpful video , thank you

[@auswalker7865]

Great video Andrea. I do that (keep at a task when I know I'm starting to get low). Later I might be high from eating / drinking to many carbs. I also pack more diabetic supplies than I need, but that's ok to cover contingencies like delayed or cancelled flights. Best wishes for the festive season and for the cruise. It should be very relaxing.

[@jessdunn4957]

Happy Christmas, more vlog style videos would be great 😊

[@ShesDiabetic]

Yay!! Okay! Request received!!! Thank you for loving them! I love making them!!

[@AngelaGlebe]

I’ve been treating lows with the fruit snacks too! I use the Mott’s and yes, not chalky! For myself, I’ve found they work better than glucose tablets, once again, that’s me! So frustrating when busy and have a low! Hope you had a Merry Christmas and New Year! God bless!

[@suzannebak9954]

Happy Holiday to you and your Family! I would love to see how you handle all the bodemless food on a cruiseboat. How and if you make smart choices and how you estimate the carbs. Because we are also on a cruise in February. First time for my 5 year old with diabetes.

[@mattcristino9804]

Know the packing feeling well. I always take more than enough supplies and insulin with me and also backup in my suitcase, its Diabetec paranoia. I check when my Dexcom is going to expire and if its on the same day of travel or during my flight time, I change before hand. merry Christmas

[@rexsissom7880]

Happy holidays!! Sounds like a very exciting adventure. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!!! I will say that when it comes to my trips, I'm definitely an over packer of diabetic supplies. Especially with dexcom. I even factor in accidental knock-off. Send my love to the Big Ten champions. Go Blue.

[@user-nr5he3ic9o]

Great video!! Very realistic to the overwhelming feeling that we have during packing. At least it what I experience. I stress a bit less packing since the iPhone app has been released. Instead of packing Lantus and Humalog pens I just pack the Omnipod 5 controller. If something happens to my phone I can just switch to the controller which takes up very little space in my luggage.

[@jlm1411]

Happy holidays! Great video as always! I’m loving fruit snacks as well which I have to hide from my kids lol. I forget how come you don’t use g7? I love mine for sure

[@ShesDiabetic]

Oh fruit snacks is an excellent idea for little kiddos I would think!! Awesome!!! I don't use the G7 yet because it's not compatible with the Omnipod 5 along with the iPhone App (you can use it with the reader but not the app yet) - as soon as it's compatible with the app I'll be hopping right over to it because I've tested it out and I LOVE IT!!!!!

[@jlm1411]

@ Yes right now I remember?

[@marinakiell1069]

Yes please, more vlog-ish type videos 😊

[@gloriavilla7559]

Enjoy your family, merry Christmas. I enjoyed your video.

[@Cherlovesorange]

We are heading out on Christmas Day for a 6 week trip. I may have to go manual by the end of it. Which freaks me out. We fly out and then are in our small B van the rest of the time. I do not understand how people get extra supplies, I am always on the edge of the 90 days they give me. And yes, I call for replacements for issues. Merry Christmas, enjoy your trip!

[@dwightl5863]

I have not figured out how to get a surplus of Dexcom G7's. G6's were quite easy to restart an old sensor. Fortunately I had 2 months surplus of G6's when they started out sending G7's. Tandem pump supplies are easy to extend over a period of time to have extras'. Omnipod, I have no clue.

[@galithershco3627]

Enjoy !! I usually pack insulin pens in case the pump does not work !

[@ShesDiabetic]

Such a good point!!!!! I didn't do this and I got lucky that I didn't have a problem - but that was definitely an oversight of mine in this video - that's for sure!!!!

[@jane8760]

what do you use to keep your insulin cold for travel? Have a wonderful time !

[@Sean-uz1lt]

Travel as T1D is “fun”. Get the normal supply and backup. What to do if the phone dies (OmniPod) or insulin goes bad. The individual bags for organizing is great. I miss the old Dexcom applicators. They were very small easy to pack.

[@christinewelch8365]

Hi Andrea. Would you consider doing a video on how to manage diabetes and packing for a long flight over multiple time zones? I live in Toronto and I’m headed to Greece in May for three weeks. I figured that with the number of transatlantic flights you’ve done you’d be the perfect person to ask. Food? Insulin? Jet lag? Thanks. I can use all the help I can get!! Christine

[@friedelpas5637]

I have not that much experience as Andrea has, but 12 years ago, before I had CGM, I did a trip with a 12 hours different in time. Everytime we landed I adjusted the time of the insuline pump. But the day after traveling I did as well when traveling to there as back a very serious hypo. So that is surely a dificulty you need to be aware about and be prepared for. With CGM you would get faster alarms then I had at that time so will be easier now then 12 years ago.

[@christinewelch8365]

@@friedelpas5637thank you for the hints! My CGM will certainly come in handy!

[@friedelpas5637]

Happy holidays everyone! That is the reason I like to go on camping trip. A lot of space in the car for my diabetes stuff 😉. I travel not much by plane. I can imagine that for such a long trip it can be a chalange. Travel next time to New Zeeland for having an extra chalenge. 12 years a go I had to go to there to represent as volunteer an international organisation. A trip for 2 weeks. It was already 36 hours of traveling to get there. I checked the conditions before on the abasade. All the stuff for diabetes will be only accepted when you have unopened boxes. So as you got them from the pharmacy. And you need a letter from your doctor with a list of all supplies you need. So that is more then you needed in that time much more and so also much more place in your lugage. Give me also a lot of stress. And the funy thing is, one of the meetings I was there was for a meeting of UNESCO and there was an ex minister of the country who take me to all the locations and interviews I had to do. So I pass first the customs who were asking for what I was there and were to stay. Then I go to the drop of the lugage and there was a person asking me that I was who I'm and he bring me with my lugage aroud all other custom and food and drug controls directly to outside while he was doing a nice talk on the subject I was there. No control at all! And for that I had all that stress and all that puzzling work. Seems that they treated me as a diplomat becuase of the connection with the ex-minister and the unesco meeting and as result off that you have not to do all the cheques of lugage and so on.

[@dwightl5863]

I carry fruit snacks. I prefer snacks that are in pieces. Easy to count out if you don't need the whole 17 carbs worth.

[@kg6sxy]

Travel + Insulin always stresses me out. I've been using Walkers shortbread cookies to treat lows successfully for the past six months, they are easy to carry and a 2 cookie pack is 17 carbs / 150 calories.

[@kranjskakr7657]

Merry Xmas A! 🎉🎉🎉

[@marinakiell1069]

Will the Q&A Pt2 be posted after the holidays The first half was posted 11/17

[@osvaldoalvarez1926]

Phsss 70? I have gotten home from work and thst is a 30 to 40 minute drive and when i checked, this was before i got a CGM I was on 45 and got home to clean the dogs dishes and feeding them while I waited for the Rootbeer to kick in. 😅

[@marinakiell1069]

🎅🏼🎄

[@ShesDiabetic]

Happy Holidays Marina!! You're such a special part of the channel!!! 🎅🏻❤️

[@sarahbannon4752]

Do you live back in the US now, or are you still in London? x

[@dwightl5863]

Andrea is in the US, thinking Denver?.?.

[@ForgottenCovers]

Let’s be real, it’s not the diabetes supplies… it’s the shoes 😂 And yet somehow my suitcase was heavier 😅

[@ShesDiabetic]

I mean...could it be that you had to carry ALL our joint cruise supplies? 🏴‍☠️🐭😅🥹❤️

[@osvaldoalvarez1926]

I was remunded of Andrea when yesterday I somehow screwed up with my pump that instead of puting 12 carbs i set 12 units... the dexcom beeping and i chalk it up to crompresuon lows, when it said 50 i finger prick in front of my wife and she was just staring at the number when i did it twice. It was 34 and 32, Well I got to enjoy a frosty Root Beer in full and 20 minutes later a burito al pastor. For the next 2 to 3 hours it would not go past 105, lesson learn 😅

[@patriciac4562]

Omgoodness your low was so hard to watch, I wanted to help you through the screen! Could your insulin sensitivity be connected to your period? Insulin is a hormone, as are estrogen/progesterone. I had to plan in advance for my periods and make sure carbs were ready. Anyway! I agree, packing with DM is challenging! So many supplies and planning...

[@brucebrotman]

Just go back to finger sticking! No need to take ALL those CGMs besides it'll take up too much space! 😂🤪

[@theresa8697]

Ha ha, do you work for my insurance company?

[@marinakiell1069]

Must have been too much editing to cram for a Sunday lol This is 27hrs 15 min l8r😂

[@ShesDiabetic]

I'm curious about this figure you've written below? But yes...you are correct!! 😅

[@marinakiell1069]

@@ShesDiabetic that the video is posted today (Monday) and it’s 27hours 15min after the usual Sunday 10am/9c

[@jenniferrice8099]

You have self restraint to not eat the whole package of fruit snack!