Day 22:
What was it like for you to travel
outside the US having CF??
In
all honesty it was not bad at all. I had
my doctor write me some notes for all my medications and in case I needed to be
seen at a local hospital. I had
researched hospitals in the cities we were visiting to see if they had CF
centers and wrote them all down. Just in
case of course. I had to pack extra
medications in case we were stranded there longer. I had to be sure I had conversion plugs since
the sockets over there are different, though you have to check with the
specific hotels since I think some voltage might be different. It’s been a while lol. I took fewer medications then too. I didn’t do my vest so I didn’t have to
travel with that which made it easier for me. I had all my medications in one
bag in a carry on so that nothing would be lost. Plus a medication bag does not count as
luggage!
As
far as the trip itself, I was much healthier then and was able to do a lot of
walking which we did. Now I look back
and the thought of doing all that walking makes me want to sleep for days! We also scheduled some down time. In Florence we were there for 6 days and we
have activities planned for 4.5 of them.
So one day we had nothing planned at all and we lounged at the hotel and
relaxed. It was good for both my mom and
I to rest. We did 5 cities in three
weeks which was perfect. Two of those
days were for travelling to and from Europe.
We took the train in Italy and planes from Paris to Rome and Florence (I
think we took it from Florence, we may have traveled to get to the airport I
cannot remember) to Prague.
All
in all, as long as you know your limitations and you can fly then it is worth
the trip. Of course this was to
Europe. I don’t know how it would be
traveling to a third world country the Americas (Latin and South).
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