Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve written anything here! The last few months have been pretty busy between being diagnosed with POTS at the end of May, starting a new medication in June, and then going on three different trips with family and/or friends over the summer (and getting a cold shortly after getting back from the last one which drew out the travel recovery). I’ll write more later about how I treat and manage my POTS as I continue figuring it out with my doctors (also keeping me busy and away from the blog), but for now I want to share some tips and tricks I used while traveling to balance participating in activities and controlling my symptoms. As I already admitted, I did get a cold when it was all done, so I probably could have paced myself a bit better. On the other hand, I made it through all the trips without bringing on too bad of a symptom flare, so I call it a win!