Diabetes Can Be Wild! Navigating Type One and Big 5 on South African Safari

Love to hear your feedback, text us!EPISODE 6 PART 4 “Diabetes Can Be Wild:  Navigating Type One and the Big 5 while on Safari and in Capetown South Africa” In this podcast, I reflect on 10 days of personal experience as a Type One Diabetic in South Africa.   My 10 day family vacation occurred during the Xmas season in South Africa, their Springtime to be exact.  The experience was truly an adventure.   I was reminded how I navigated my earliest days as a Type One, 56 years earlier.  It was an entirely new frontier back then, as it turned out to be recently in South Africa.  Fast forward to today, South Africa served as the backdrop for an experience in which I relied on family, along with a network of “frontier” professionals to navigate the daily, sometimes anxious and tense encounters with the Big 5 and other challenges of the South African Bush. Like my support back in 1968, this network was multi-skilled and multi-disciplinary, for sure, but with a key difference. They were not health care professionals.  Instead they were highly experienced in veterinary medicine, environmental sciences, natural resource management, South African healthy cuisine, and sincerely nice people from the land down under. All of this combined to help my family and I to NOT just survive, but to MINGLE with the Big 5 in a very profound, personal and dramatic manner.  Yes, “Diabetes CAN be Wild” in the South African Bush.  Check out the podcast.   Let me know any comments you have about my wild adventure, and of course, and any of your own.   Leave them at @BrianBalicki-type1-1953 or “fanlist.com/the juice”.  Happy Holidays !   Support the show