Almost 10 years ago I traveled to France and Italy with my ex-husband and Andrew & Catherine–long-time friends who have traveled with me many times to many places over the years. Andrew has severe Crohn’s Disease. Catherine has moderate to severe asthma. This was my last big trip before I got sick myself. (Wow. I’d [...]
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Honeymooning With Pain
Posted in Accommodations, California travel, Spas and Luxury Travel, Travel Tips, tagged Big Sur, chronic pain travel, Esalen, honeymoon, vacation, Ventana Inn, wedding on October 7, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I just got back from the Best Honeymoon Ever! It’s possible that I may be prejudiced…really, every newlywed should think her or his honeymoon is the Best. But how did I create the Best Honeymoon Ever, with pain? 1. I got my spouse-to-be into the honeymoon with pain planning process. Because my sweetie and I [...]
Essential Packing List for Travel With Pain
Posted in Packing and Preparing, Travel Products, Travel Tips, tagged chronic pain travel items, Matador, packing list, travel pillow, traveling with pain on September 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Leaving home at home” is fashionable for travelers right now. But I can’t drop my pain in a corner of my bedroom and leave it there when I walk out the door. (Oh, how I wish I could!) Without some basic self-care gear, my pain will spike and ruin my trip. Here’s a list of [...]
My Destination Wedding With Pain
Posted in Accommodations, California travel, Travel Tips, tagged chronic pain wedding, destination wedding, honeymoon, La Selva Beach, Liz Hamill, Manresa State Beach on September 25, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I got married last weekend! Despite building up to a massive stress flare in the two weeks before the wedding, I had a wonderful and pain-minimal Big Day. After experiencing it, I can safely say that a destination wedding worked out nicely for me as a traveler with pain on a limited but not miniscule [...]
Traveling & Weight Management, Part 2: Business Travel
Posted in Business Travel, Food, Travel Tips, tagged business travel, food choices, travel diet, weight management on September 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Note from Liz: Here follows the second part of Laina’s post about traveling while managing her weight. I find it fascinating how similar some of the problems of traveling with pain are to traveling with weight issues. Just like Laina—I have a much harder time traveling for business than I do for pleasure. And the [...]
How To Travel While Managing Your Weight, Part 1: Vacationing
Posted in Food, Travel Tips, tagged eating on the road, food vacation, healthy travel, weight management travel on September 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Note from Liz: My friend Laina blogs about one of the trickiest of hidden health problems–weight management–at Keeping Off 200 Pounds. I’ve asked her to write a couple of guest posts to help people manage their weight on the road. Without further ado, heeeeere’s Laina: Travel is one of the biggest challenges to weight management. I’ve [...]
Keeping Off 200 Pounds – A Friend’s New Blog About Weight Management
Posted in Travel Tips, tagged keepingoff200, travel losing weight, travel weight management on September 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
So what does my friend Laina’s new blog about weight management have to do with traveling with pain? Everything. Reading her first couple of posts, I see the same tools I use for managing my pain condition (especially on the road) in the toolbox she maintains for weight management. Planning, flexibility…heck, regular exercise. Read Keeping [...]
Minute Clinic at CVS Pharmacies – A Good Idea for Travelers With Pain
Posted in Travel Tips, tagged asthma test, CVS, diabetes test, medical care travel, minor care clinic, Minute Clinic on September 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Another thing I discovered at BlogHer 2011 was the CVS Minute Clinic. These are useful little low-end, minimal-service medical clinics staffed by Nurse Practitioners inside some (not all) CVS pharmacies. They’re not full-service Emergency Rooms, nor are they Urgent Care clinics. For the most part, Minute Clinic staff can diagnose and treat simple ailments and [...]
Traveling with Disabled Kids
Posted in Travel Tips, tagged accessible travel, autism travel, children accessible trips, CNN.com, hidden disability travel, traveling disabled kids on August 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
If you haven’t already, check out this fabulous article about Travel with Disabled Kids on CNN.com. I’m so excited to see a piece like this pop up on a major international news site. It’s filled with quotes and tips from friends and colleagues of mine. Most of the [...]
Fear of Traveling With Pain
Posted in Misadventures, Travel Tips, tagged chronic pain travel, fear travel, travel chronic illness, travel hidden disability, why travel on August 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Traveling with pain is scary. No doubt about it. Stuff happens on the road. In Amsterdam, my hotel room was robbed while I slept. On the balmy island of Moorea, a roach crawled into my ear and got stuck. I starved for five days in Tuscany. All that (and more) happened back when I was [...]
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