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It's all about me...or at least my diseases
At the top of every page this morning is the changes in carry-on rules the FAA has made because of the terror plot in Britain.
So what's the first thing I do?
Click on the link to the FAA's website to see if it affects insulin.
Am I flying anytime soon? Or even this year?
Nope.
I keep doing this. I hear reports from Beirut about the lack of medicines and immediately think "what if I was there". Every disaster or civil unrest or potential pandemic I hear about, the first thing I think about is how I would be screwed. Bird Flu? I'm fucked. Hurricane Hugo part 2? Sucks to be me.
I never thought this way until Katrina. I can pretty much blame it on this post: The dangers for diabetes. Watching that poor woman going through a panic attack and then pass out on national television because she had had no insulin in four days...well, for better or worse that has changed how I react to world events.
I say worse because I don't like the fact that I now frame ever disaster through how much my diseases would screw my chances of surviving. I don't watch the news to think about me, I watch to learn, to know whatever I can about the world. But now, this thought about myself is always in the back of my mind and I don't like it.
So what's the first thing I do?
Click on the link to the FAA's website to see if it affects insulin.
Am I flying anytime soon? Or even this year?
Nope.
I keep doing this. I hear reports from Beirut about the lack of medicines and immediately think "what if I was there". Every disaster or civil unrest or potential pandemic I hear about, the first thing I think about is how I would be screwed. Bird Flu? I'm fucked. Hurricane Hugo part 2? Sucks to be me.
I never thought this way until Katrina. I can pretty much blame it on this post: The dangers for diabetes. Watching that poor woman going through a panic attack and then pass out on national television because she had had no insulin in four days...well, for better or worse that has changed how I react to world events.
I say worse because I don't like the fact that I now frame ever disaster through how much my diseases would screw my chances of surviving. I don't watch the news to think about me, I watch to learn, to know whatever I can about the world. But now, this thought about myself is always in the back of my mind and I don't like it.
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