Study Abroad with Diabetes
Foreign Healthcare, Insurance, and a First Semester on Your Own
For college students with diabetes spending a semester abroad, and the parents at home who have to trust a plan from an ocean away.
Inside Study Abroad with Diabetes
- The full guide, read online as a book, always current as new issues land
- Six short videos to share before or during the trip, added after launch. Everyone who bought earlier gets each one, and the price goes to $50 once all six are in.
- An overview deck that walks the whole trip in one sitting, for the planning talk at the kitchen table.
- One-page team cards for how your travelers talk and work together: a before-we-leave huddle card, a who-does-what card, a card for when something goes wrong, and one card per issue.
- Printable checklists: packing, an emergency protocol, and a partner discussion guide.
- A 6x9 paperback for the bag, with the team cards, checklists and emergency protocol each on its own page. It comes after the online guide.
A semester abroad means a stack of paperwork, insurance that has to follow you across an ocean, and a semester of supplies in one suitcase. Once you land, you learn how care works in a new country, the word for your medication at the pharmacy counter, and what to do about a first low in a room where nobody knows you have diabetes.
You are on your own for the first time, and your family at home has to trust a plan it cannot see. The team cards set up the emergency plan both of you can see, and help you decide who in your new group of friends needs to know.
Every issue in this guide
The guide, online as a book or a printable PDF, in 10 issues:
- 1. The Semester Conversation Before Anyone Books Anything
- 2. The Paperwork Stack Nobody Lists for You
- 3. Insurance That Follows You Across an Ocean
- 4. A Semester of Supplies in One Suitcase
- 5. The Flight Over, the Devices, and the Clock That Moves
- 6. How Care Actually Works Where You Are Landing
- 7. The Pharmacy Counter and the Word for Your Medication
- 8. The First Low With Nobody in the Room Who Knows
- 9. Weekend Trips, Nights Out, and the Group That Does Not Know
- 10. The Emergency Plan Both of You Can See, and the Week You Come Home
The guide follows one semester that goes well, from the conversation before anyone books anything through the first weeks on your own, to the week you come home.
How it will work
- Sign in free and you'll hear the day it lands.
- On launch day, add it to your cart in the BTD Store and check out for $25.
- Open your access link and read it with everyone traveling, before you go.
BTD Vacation Time: Online Coaching built around your trip
Three months of online sessions with your trip as the syllabus: a planning session with everyone who is traveling, written trip notes your family can take along, a check-in while you are away, and a debrief once you are home. It starts at $8,000, and availability is extremely limited. Family-to-family coaching, never medical advice.
If you're planning a semester abroad and want help fitting it to your family, that's what BTD Vacation Time is for.
If your family wants Trapper on the trip itself, that is Diabetes Concierge: four days is $46,000 plus travel, inside the Diabetes Concierge range of $28,000 to $72,000 plus travel.
See BTD Vacation Time → Complete the intake form →Questions about a BTD Travel Guide or an order: Ask through the question form