Jen is a stay-at-home-mom with a 3 year old son who has Type 1, Insulin Dependent Diabetes. Before becoming a stay-at-home mom she started and ran Victrola Coffee, a cafe & coffee roasting business with her husband Chris.   Jen has many more posts on her blog page called: I Am Your Pancrease.  The following blog caught my eye and Jen gave me the "thumbs up" to post.

For some reason, Addison LOVES eating in the car. If we are about to go somewhere, he will hold onto his snacks and wait, literally, until the car pulls out of our non conforming parking space before he starts munching. I know, I know..kids eating in the car poses a major choking hazard. We do it anyway. Ah well. Anyhow, when you are on injections this makes long road trips tricky to say the least. We went down to Portland, OR over the Christmas holiday to see dear friends and family. There was a lot of snacking going on in the backseat and very little of those snacks were carb free. Rather than wait until we got to a rest stop, I opted for climbing in to the backseat, unstrapping Addison's seat belt and giving an injection in the belly while in transit. Does all this sound terribly unsafe? Backseat snacking, undoing of seat belts, climbing between front and back in a moving car, wielding a syringe and aiming into your toddler hoping you don't hit a bump? Hmmm..