If you're traveling any time soon and will be sleeping on different beds, managing suitcases and various bags, maneuvering airports, taxies, buses, or cars, it's easy to become overwhelmed, grouchy or downright mad. You must plan carefully. This is especially appropriate if you suffer with a chronic illness like Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which already has turned your life upside down.
That makes these tips that much more valuable. Truly, the key to making your next excursion work well and getting back home safely and in good shape is plan, plan, and then do more planning.
- 1) Take your favorite pillow or something to snuggle with. On my last trip I took my smallest pillow. Sticky airline luggage requirements meant my big fluffy pillow had to be left at home, unless I wanted to pay $15.00 to transport it in its own suitcase. The small one worked fine because I could stuff it in a big purse.
- 2) Plan your prescription and over-the-counter medicine needs carefully and take what you think you'll need with you. Planning ahead will keep you from either doing without and suffering- or -having to find drug stores in unfamiliar locales. Those last minute, late night trips can be unpleasant and sometimes dangerous.
- 3) Consider taking a sleeping mask and ear plugs to use. You can buy them at most drug stores ahead of time and they are easy to pack. They will encourage your body to fall into a deeper and more restful sleep, which is not necessarily an easy task if you're not feeling well. Select the soft, spongy kind that is ranked efficient at keeping out high decibel noise. (Note: The best ones will mold to the shape of your ear without causing pain.)
- 4) Take only carrying cases (suitcases) with wheels and easy grip handles. Using those does not completely save the shoulders, but they help a lot. Recently after a 10-hour trip, I felt really tired. I looked for my car in vain throughout an immense parking lot. I walked and walked, dragging my wheeled cases behind me, ready to leave them in the street if necessary. If they had not been so maneuverable, I would have done it, too! (...possibly ruining a vacation and homecoming!)
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to learn more about Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, how to manage symptoms and how to discover the best way to heal from these conditions and more. Feel free to sign up for a teleseminar and submit you most perplexing question. Take action and start enjoying your life. Reclaim it today! I did and you can, too. Cinda Crawford, host of the Health Matters Show and an ELT Health Practitioner
to learn more about Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, how to manage symptoms and how to discover the best way to heal from these conditions and more. Feel free to sign up for a teleseminar and submit you most perplexing question. Take action and start enjoying your life. Reclaim it today! I did and you can, too. Cinda Crawford, host of the Health Matters Show and an ELT Health Practitioner
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