{"id":20233,"date":"2022-06-30T02:37:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T02:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/?p=20233"},"modified":"2022-06-30T02:37:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T02:37:10","slug":"announcing-july-2022-nnlm-reading-club-travel-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/announcing-july-2022-nnlm-reading-club-travel-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing July 2022 NNLM Reading Club: Travel Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us never think about sickness or injury while traveling, but it happens. The risk is compounded for those with a chronic health condition, like diabetes or high blood pressure, who must manage their health when far from home. Others travel with a relative who has a serious diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, there\u2019s a lot to think about. Fortunately, some doctors specialize in \u201ctravel medicine.\u201d They have seen <em>and<\/em> heard it all. More importantly, they\u2019ve helped people survive ill health and injuries while traveling. Yes, travel is fun. It opens new horizons, and simply, <em>wonderfully<\/em> brings us closer to those we love. This month, the NNLM Reading Club explores how peace of mind, in terms of health, can be your travel companion. <strong>For information on each of our three featured books, free downloadable book club discussion guides, customizable promotional materials and more <\/strong>visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/nnlm-reading-club\/travel-health\">https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/nnlm-reading-club\/travel-health<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20234\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20234\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20234\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/06\/July-2022-3-Book-Poster-1--1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"Poster with three book covers\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/06\/July-2022-3-Book-Poster-1--1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/06\/July-2022-3-Book-Poster-1--300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/06\/July-2022-3-Book-Poster-1--768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/06\/July-2022-3-Book-Poster-1--1536x768.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/06\/July-2022-3-Book-Poster-1--2048x1024.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Travel 911 by Yvette McQueen, M.D. l Everything Left to Remember by Steph Jagger l Holiday SOS by Ben MacFarlane, M.D.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Emergency Medicine physician and travel doctor Yvette McQueen, M.D., describes everything you need to know to have a pleasant trip: from what to pack, to precautions against traveler\u2019s diarrhea, skin issues and more. A world traveler herself, Yvette offers preventive measures and first aid tips, along with steps to take should you or a loved one experience an unexpected medical event, in <em>Travel 911: A Health Guide for Adventurers<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>After her mother is diagnosed with dementia and she realized the extent of her mother\u2019s waning memory, Steph Jagger proposes the two take a Montana camping trip. In<em> Everything Left to Remember: My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey Through the Rocky Mountains<\/em>, Jagger describes how their adventures of horseback riding, hiking, and \u201ctenting\u201d out West became one woman\u2019s reflection on childhood, motherhood, personhood \u2015 and what it means to love someone who doesn\u2019t quite remember the person she spent her life becoming.<\/li>\n<li>In <em>Holiday SOS: The Life-saving Adventures of a Travelling Doctor,<\/em> author <em>Ben<\/em> MacFarlane, M.D., shares his work bringing people back to Britain after holiday travel disasters, gap year crises, embarrassing business incidents and all the other health-related things that can go wrong on the road. Follow Ben as he grabs his medical bag and flies to pick up the pieces after another travel emergency. Dramatic, wildly unexpected and sometimes hilarious, emergency medicine isn\u2019t restricted to hospitals \u2013 it can happen right across the aisle on your next flight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us never think about sickness or injury while traveling, but it happens. The risk is compounded for those with a chronic health condition, like diabetes or high blood pressure, who must manage their health when far from home. Others travel with a relative who has a serious diagnosis. Yes, there\u2019s a lot to&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/announcing-july-2022-nnlm-reading-club-travel-health\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316,9,58,11],"tags":[119,57,178,124,364],"class_list":["post-20233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-health","category-health-literacy","category-news-from-nnlm","category-public-libraries","tag-consumer-health","tag-health-literacy","tag-nnlm-reading-club","tag-public-library","tag-travel-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20235,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20233\/revisions\/20235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}