Earthquakes, floods, tornadoes – they’ve been all over the news! What’s a chronically ill girl (and coach who speaks about planning and action) like me to do but think “OMG…am I READY??!! What do I do??”. That got me thinking, so away on the internet I flew. I couldn’t find anything readily available. Maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough, I don’t know. I mean I found a few things, but I decided to know for myself. So I did some phone calls.

As a chronic patient, you know how near and dear our medicines are. Most times, they are our connection to healthy living, hospitalization, or sometimes – death if we don’t take them. So what do we do when a tornado blows them away? What if a hurricane comes and washes them out to sea? What if the earth opens up and swallows them whole??? Ok, I’m exaggerating here, but you get my point. What do we do? Read the rest of this entry →