One hundred pilgrims with diabetes show that everything is possible

A group of about one hundred people with diabetes, accompanied by health professionals and monitors, has started the Camino de Santiago from Vigo to the Plaza del Obradoiro in Santiago de Compostela.It is a route of more than 100 km that will complete in six days, and that demonstrates once again that diabetes is not a limit, but a challenge that can be faced with preparation, self -care and support.

Dr. Carlos Miranda, a family doctor in Toledo with great experience in Diabetes and Patron of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, summarized it clearly:

"The person with diabetes is absolutely valid for everything, has no limitations, what he needs is training to know what his illness is like and how he can control it."

In addition, he stressed that physical exercise is key to the management of diabetes, and that the Camino de Santiago offers a unique opportunity to learn to combine food, insulin and physical effort.

The project, promoted by the Spanish Diabetes Federation and the Novo Nordisk Health Foundation, is not limited only to the physical challenge.During the route, training talks about nutrition, personal care and other fundamental issues are also organized.As highlighted by the Ferrolano José García, vice president of the Galician Federation of Patient Associations, it is a "playful and didactic" experience at the same time.

Health support is guaranteed: five doctors and two voluntary nurses accompany the group throughout the journey, attentive to any incidence and helping in tasks as practical as feet priests, as necessary in long walks.

In the inauguration, with the presence of local authorities and representatives of the organizing entities, the messages that inspire this project were valued.

Antonio Lavada, president of the Spanish Diabetes Federation, said:

"This project shows that diabetes does not prevent a full life or reaching demanding personal goals. With knowledge, self -care and proper support, it is possible to live with freedom and health."

Silvia Meije, president of Novo Nordisk, stressed that:

"Waying is an experience that transforms: unites knowledge with practice, creates support networks and helps improve the quality of life of people with diabetes in a sustainable and lasting way."

The Camino de Santiago made by these people is a perfect metaphor of what it means living with diabetes: a tour that requires planning, perseverance, knowledge and, above all, company and mutual support.

It reminds us of something fundamental: diabetes does not define us, but it does require us to learn to live with it.Each step counts, either on a Galician path or in our day to day.And the most beautiful thing is that we do not have to do it alone: ​​we have our family, friends, health ... and with communities like this forum, where we share experiences and learning.

👉 What do you think?

Would you like to participate in such an initiative?What role does physical exercise play in your own diabetes management?

These types of news are those that help only 2% of research in type1 diabetes are focused on looking for a cure.

To look for her if we are so happy with her and we can do everything.And as always "casually" the sponsor the largest world insulin producer.

I understand criticism @sherpa41 even if you don't share it at all.🙃

@Fer said:

fer said:

I understand criticism@Sherpa41even if you don't share it at all.🙃

But the mental effort, the control and physical wear that means continuously force you to eat while walking, to take huge amounts of sugar, to be in hiccup or hyper long, it has nothing to do with what a non -diabetic obtains in doing so.They return having disconnected from their routines, more relaxed, healthy and strong.We the opposite, we have to increase control and often atibored to food and sugars.

And on top of how I say that is the vision that is already established in society.People think it is very easy to control it today.Thanks especially news like this.

There are several phrases that refer (more or less) to what you comment @Sherpa41 for example is:

"The Camino de Santiago made by these people is a perfect metaphor of what it means to live with diabetes: a route that requires planning, perseverance, knowledge and, above all, company and mutual support."

I mean, that the news is positive? I buy it, and what diabetes is much more complicated than this?, Too ...

Even so, it seems to me that these types of initiatives serve to make visible our situation, and also to be able to say in public that not everything is what shines, that this is much more complicated than it seems.

In my (humble) opinion, this serves us all, in some way or another.

Sherpa41 said:
@Sherpa41 said:

@fersaid:

fer said:
Fersaid:

I understand criticism@Sherpa41even if you don't share it at all.🙃

This news is absurd and in my counterproductive opinion, we already know that we can do everything, there are diabetics that have gone to Everest or the desert.

But the mental effort, the control and physical wear that means continuously force you to eat while walking, to take huge amounts of sugar, to be in hiccup or hyper long, it has nothing to do with what a non -diabetic obtains in doing so.They return having disconnected from their routines, more relaxed, healthy and strong.We the opposite, we have to increase control and often atibored to food and sugars.

And on top of how I say that is the vision that is already established in society.People think it is very easy to control it today.Thanks especially news like this.

@fer

I almost had a story that I am diabetic to anyone, but the day I do it always tell me good today that is nothing and they tell me about that news that we can go to Everest, to the north pole or the desert.

Obviously the entire news was not read, people never do it, see the holder, the photo and now.They never read that they had a team of doctors helping them 24 hours and with the most exclusive technology.

Although in reality what people think, Núca has cared for anything, what bothers me is that with that image we do not favor the investment in research for a cure.That only 2% of the research in diabetes is the sample.

The news is that a diabetic cannot do anything without being accompanied and without supervision of professionals .......

To me of seeing what it puts is to show more how little a diabetic can do in the eyes of non -diabetics who read the news ......

I live alone, work without problems and I have the reviewable professional driver card every year for being diabetic.A driver colleague has given him two heart attacks and has a bestial asthma and has the driving license of any other person .......

Being diabetic is today, being considered a lower being for many and better do not put insulin or use the glucometer in public ...

Let's see:

1º A person without diabetes can make the path of Santiago without any problem, or risk, it is goodIn mind the fast insulin, bring glucose in case there are hypoglycemia, have the meter well, have mobile coverage in case it had to ask for urgent medical help etc etc etc.

2º A non -diabetic person does not have to have more preparation since the body in case it is responsible for regulating all that automatically (that is, the liver generates glucabon, the pancreas insulin etc etc) The diabetic does not

3rd If the Camino de Santiago is not impediment, for the diabetic, S because in this case, they are accompanied with doctors, nurses, etc., something that a normal diabetic cannot carry a doctor and nurse.

Well, I could extend more but it's not worth it, so of course it is an impediment, another thing is that it can be saved by doing well prepared, of course

Ah I forgot, usually type 1 diabetics autoimmune over time we usually lead, other diseases of immune origin, so what a prize ...

I have made the path of Santiago with other non -diabetic people and here I am alive and running, ahh and none of my companions was a doctor, nor nurse, nor did they know anything about diabetes, the only one who knew it was my wife.

@Alber1 said:

I have made the path of Santiago with other non -diabetic people and here I am alive and running, ahh and none of my companions was a doctor, nor nurse, nor did they know anything about diabetes, the only one who knew it was my wife.

For the rest everything good, of course

Antuam Perez said:
@Antuam Perez said:

alber1 said:
@Alber1said:

I have made the path of Santiago with other non -diabetic people and here I am alive and running, ahh and none of my companions was a doctor, nor nurse, nor did they know anything about diabetes, the only one who knew it was my wife.

True, but we had to be well prepared, good route, normal march, not fast, or excessive increases, with stops, etc., measured every so often, I don't know if you are to wear insulin pump or bowl, etc.

For the rest everything good, of course

Without going into discussion, I have to talk about the very useful of this news / initiatives for any diabetic, the general public gives the same, this is for you as a sickness so that you learn enough for the many battles that await you.

I made a week of these that you comment, with medical equipment, etc ... And that opened a world, I have made two paths of Santiago, with more than 1000 km alone, hundreds of routes through the mountain and many km by mountain bike, and I think there are only positive things to learn, your effort, your glucose, your sensor your mobile, your bowls, you are responsible for your care we can not wait for someone tolocked at home without putting news of what we do ... What would serve?

Let us go back to this ...

Javierlandez said:
@Javierlandez said:

Without going into discussion, I have to talk about the very useful of this news / initiatives for any diabetic, the general public gives the same, this is for you as a sickness so that you learn enough for the many battles that await you.

I made a week of these that you comment, with medical equipment, etc ... And that opened a world, I have made two paths of Santiago, with more than 1000 km alone, hundreds of routes through the mountain and many km by mountain bike, and I think there are only positive things to learn, your effort, your glucose, your sensor your mobile, your bowls, you are responsible for your care we can not wait for someone tolocked at home without putting news of what we do ... What would serve?

Let us go back to this ...