node js: check mysql connection before a query

I use node js with mysql and want to avoid that the app crash on connection errors.At the moment i use this :

function mysql_handleDisconnect() {
  mysql_connection = mysql.createConnection(mysql_config_obj); // Recreate the connection, since
                                                  // the old one cannot be reused.

  mysql_connection.connect(function(err) {              // The server is either down
    if(err) {                                     // or restarting (takes a while sometimes).
      console.log('error when connecting to db:', err);
      mysql_handleDisconnect(); // We introduce a delay before attempting to reconnect,
    }                                     // to avoid a hot loop, and to allow our node script to
  });                                     // process asynchronous requests in the meantime.
                                          // If you're also serving http, display a 503 error.
  mysql_connection.on('error', function(err) {
    console.log('db error', err);
    if(err.code === 'PROTOCOL_CONNECTION_LOST') { // Connection to the MySQL server is usually
      mysql_handleDisconnect();                         // lost due to either server restart, or a
    } else {                                      // connnection idle timeout (the wait_timeout
      throw err;                                  // server variable configures this)
    }
  });
}

 mysql_handleDisconnect(mysql_connection);

so this is blocking because it leads to a hot loop if the connection is closed.my problem is, if i add a setTimeout to reestablish connection just every 2 seconds i could get an fatal error when i do a query with "mysql_connection.query('SELECT ...')".in this case the app crashes.

So my question is,if there's a possibility to check the connection before i do a query?