One thing I have never let my diabetes do is to prevent me from doing crazy things. However, given that a vast majority of injuries in fun sports are often caused to people trying to save somebody else who has gotten themselves into difficulty, since I've been diabetic I've tried not to put others at risk for my stupidities.
Free-fall Parachuting is fun but, as we diabetics know if your sick it could be a bit of a problem trying to consume a large amount of glucose in the back of a bobbing light aircraft whilst still throwing up... I haven't done that by the way I just like to plan ahead ;-)
Also, in reality as a newbie the amount of time you actually free-fall for yourself is pretty short, then a lot of dangling.
So here's a great way I got the flying free-fall fun of the wind in my face in a serious vertical Airkix wind tunnel. Nothing got hurt (not even my pride with the silly hat they made me wear), and if I need to stop, I could just step out of the airflow.
If you have a recently diagnosed young diabetic (or oldie young at heart) who thinks he'll never be able to do anything remotely silly again, I thoroughly recommend it and I've been diabetic for 32 years and it hasn't stopped me.
My Diabetes - Safe Airkix Free-fall Flying Fun
Malcolm
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