Ulises Caula: "Diabetes is not an impediment to travel, but one more reason"

Movies, documentaries, paintings or books.Any format is valid to let our imagination transport us to extraordinary places, bring us closer to cultures and allow us, even strip us of many prejudices.

However, this way of exploring the world is nothing more than a sketch that allows you to compare, in broad strokes, the contrasts of nature.

To see things as they are, instead of thinking about what more than a good book and an inquisitive mind is needed.San Agustín said that "the world is a book and that those who do not travel only read one page."

But it happens that unleashing moorings and sailing away from known ports usually disturb us.Travel forces you to trust strangers, to lose sight of everything that is familiar and comfortable to your friends and your house ... You are all the time in imbalance ... Nothing is yours ...

If you add that you suffer from a chronic disease such as diabetes, the decision to mobilize and travel is complicated.To neglect the control of blood glucose levels can have dramatic consequences.But who has said that traveling is synonymous with health complications?If the patient takes care of, could peaks like Everest climb?

Ulises Caula is an insoluous -dependent person who affirms that "there are no people who can more or less, but people who believe more or less in themselves."Accompanied by Alina Genesio and a very special pet, he has undertaken an exciting adventure: the project "Bike for diabetes".

This challenge has consisted of traveling part of Europe by bicycle to help provide information about diabetes to all people suffering from the disease and, in some cases depression.

"We have traveled eleven countries trying to demonstrate to people with diabetes that with the necessary care it is possible to take the type of life they want, but we also wanted motives to the little ones," they explain.

And, as Alina Genesio comments, "the problem we face is not diabetes itself as chronic disease, but misinformation."

The protagonists of the blog "Chronic Travelers" indicate that at the beginning of their adventure, in which the priority was at all times the health of Ulysses, the doubts emerged: "They asked us how we were going to do it to travel with type 1 diabetes: byInsulin, for care ...

But we decided that it was not going to be any impediment, but one more reason to travel.In fact, it was also what promoted us to tell it in a blog. ”

Ulises Caula acknowledges that the first weeks were hard for the abrupt change he meant and because he had to learn "to listen to the body";But he always had tools to resort to the case of suffering any unforeseen.

In an interview issued digitally healthy, with the collaboration of Sanofi Iberia, some of the most curious anecdotes that have lived in these eleven countries and reveal the identity of the third travel companion: “In May 2015, one month, one monthBefore embarking on our trip, Diguan waded us and joined the trip.

Diguan encouraged us in each mountain climb and in each descent of glycemia;But in addition, he helped encourage the little ones with the company that many did not have at the beginning and made them understand that it is worth taking care. ”

fer
12/25/2015 11:50 a.m.

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I wish I had time to travel.What a healthy envy.Knowing the world what pleasure, and today with social networks, surely where you would find people who encourage and help you.

jconegar
12/25/2015 10:33 p.m.

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Great article!

Thanks for sharing it @Fer

Now to read the blog;)