When our eight-year-old Lily was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) a little over a year ago, I grieved the potential losses to her freedom, such as her being able to go on a month-long backpacking trip for fear her insulin might spoil.
And then at a weekend camping trip with Diabetes Youth Families (DYF), I met outdoor adventurers, Patrick Mertes and Michael Shelver, who proceeded to blast the lid off presumptions about what people with Type 1 Diabetes can and cannot do.
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We never intended to stay in Santa Cruz, California long before pushing on, back to our travel life. We’re just making a fuel stop, we told ourselves and anyone who asked. We needed one or two years to put money back in the bank, take a break from homeschooling our kids, and rest from our oftentimes seat-of-the-pants style of travel. We needed to hunker down and plan for longer, slower, more purposeful travels. That was the intention, anyway.