Here are 10 things that hurricanes and diabetes have in common:
- Both are able to be tested for.
It is now possible to get highly accurate information on the current status of a person’s blood sugar level as well as the intensity of a hurricane. The same is true for hurricanes, scientists know know the importance of geting drones and airplanes to fly into a hurricane to test and see just how significant the storm really is. By testing early and often in both cases, it helps to determine the best possible actions necessary to sustain a healthy life.
- Emergency preparedness necessities are a MUST!
It is important to have at least a 2-week supply of ALL necessities including all medical related products and medications, food, water and personal information. By being well prepared for a hurricane or other disaster, you will be much better to deal with most disaster situations including those associated with diabetes since your emergency preparedness necessities will already be established.
- Disaster preparedness information is essential to a more safe and comfortable disaster experience.
In both hurricanes and in diabetes health, it is important to have accurate disaster preparedness information early. This is expert advice that can help to ensure that you have the best information possible to manage your particular situation. Guess work is extremely dangerous. Out-dated information or ‘well we have always done it this way’ way of thinking can be life-threatening. By have current, state-of-the-art information on both disaster preparedness and diabetes you can better ensure a healthier outcome.
- Emergency preparedness checklist is a life saving item to have with you at all times!
In a disaster or crisis situation wither it be a hurricane disaster or a medical emergency concerning diabetes, it is important that you and your loved ones have a well thought-out and tested emergency preparedness checklist to ensure that all that can and should be done is achieved for your well-being and safety. Trying to depend on memory during a crisis is not as dependable as we would all like to think our memory recall is. When under stress we so often are less able to recall the most simplest of things or we get the order that important actions need to be followed all messed up.
No matter how many times you have been in a hurricane situation or in a diabetic emergency, it is very wise to have a emergency preapredness checklist to ensure that you have done all you can to address the situation. Better safe than sorry later!
- Every home, work-site and car should have an emergency preparedness kit
A disaster can occur at anytime. By having an emergency preparedness kit available at the locations you are most likely going to be at most times (home, car or work) you are better ensured of having the emergency preparedness necessities that you will use to keep yourself safe and comfortable in a disaster situation. EVERY emergency preparedness kit needs to be custom designed to meet YOUR PERSONAL NEEDS. Get as much disaster preparedness information on what you should consider in your disaster kit for your circumstances and then start to prepare your own kit. In a short period of time the disster kits will be completed and you will be much safer should a diaster occur! This way you are sure that you will have what is necessary to help yourself in a challenging situation. Don’t wait until disaster occurs. Do It NOW!
- Emergency preparedness does not have to be expensive.
Have low cost emergency survival kits - they are easy to make and a great help in disaster situations. Sharing emergency preparedness tips with others can be a great resource and help for everyone involved.
Go to a thrift store and get a small in god condition back-pack or suitcase and use that as your home emergency survival kit. For the car get a plastic water tight container that can fit in the trunk of your car or under the car seat. For the office have a emergency preparedness kit that has a sturdy and easy to carry handle for ease in a get and go disaster situation in a employment setting.
Many items can be purchased at discount or dollar stores as well as online. Remember if you purchase an already packaged kit, that you really are paying for someone else to pick up supplies that you can do your self and for them to guess what it is that YOU need. Creating your own personal emergency preparedness kit ensures that your special needs are best considered. Hey an extra bonus is: it costs loads less!
- Hurricanes and diabetes affect people.
People from all walks of life including every race, age group, gender, and profession can and are affected by hurricanes and diabetes. All at some point in life, many may be directly be affected or know someone that is affected by hurricanes or diabetes. Knowledge is the best resource in addressing both hurricanes and diabetes.
- Hurricanes and diabetes don’t have to be killers!
In the past many did not survive a hurricane - even a mild storm. The same was very true of diabetic crisis. Thank goodness that is not the case now days. So many advances in science and technology have been made to help us have safe and high quality lives. Knowing what to do to prepare for, survive and recover from hurricane and / or diabetes crisis is the major factor in living a comfortable and safer life.
- More information is being learned about both hurricanes and diabetes every day.
Information is the key to both hurricanes and diabetes. By knowing how to deal effectively with a potential hurricane situation or an actual hurricane disaster, one is better prepared to come through it much better. The same is very true for a person with diabetes.
In both cases it is not a death sentence or an anvil to carry around when trying to live a full, enjoyable and productive life. Information can help lift the vail of uncertainty and apprehension as well as deliver the necessary facts to quality living for both diabetes and hurricane. The advances in hurricane science diabetic medicine are making major leaps in resources and response every year.
- There is a great deal of hope for the future in how we will address and live with diabetes and hurricanes.
In the past hurricanes were considered the curse of the gods. Many felt and still feel that way about diabetes. NO so! Now there is great assurance that medical and trauma sciences are and will be addressing more of our needs and concerns in a timely and helpful manner.
We don’t need to be apprehensive instead we need to be proactive in taking control of our lives in dealing with hurricanes and diabetes. Remember, we don’t have to live at the mercy of hurricanes and diabetes – instead those situations can live with us as long as we are well educated and well prepared manner. Harmony and balance is the goal of life in everything including hurricanes and diabetes!
For more information there is an excellent article at the American Diabetes association called: Emergency Preparedness for People With diabetes – ADA Offers tips for People with Diabetes Affected by California Wildfires.
http://www.diabetes.org/diabetesnewsarticle.jsp?storyId=16213758&filename=20071023/comtex20071023pr00003626vaamericandiabetesEDIT.xml&WTLPromo=RSS_IDT
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Terrie
www.trainforahurricane.com
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