Medicine journeling
Dec. 2nd, 2025 08:08Sometimes (probably more frequently than I'd like to think) I need someone to point out the obvious. After listing another of Dana's medical incidents last week, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
anais_pf replied that she used a journal to track her husband's medical journey. It was like being slapped on the head for me.
When I had my own company I went to lots of networking meetings. Of course I did a crappy job networking with people but I did keep track of them all and what happened and what I was thinking with a nice faux leather bound journal. I had it with me all the time and it is so much easier to keep notes by hand and transfer the ones worth keeping to online.
A couple of days ago I bought a new journal. There are a lot of 'medical' journals with tabs and places to enter blood pressure and such. But I bought a blank page one and a set of nice mechanical pencils (what is now days known in my head as a lifetime supply) for less than $20. Yesterday I went through my wife's medical info online and extracted time lines and problems and procedures and organized them in the book. I feel like I've got a lot better control now. We're on our way shortly to get her a shot for a nerve issue she has. I'm her driver so I'll be there and if questions come up I won't be fumbling for my phone and Google Drive but will have the book. The information in it will only get better over time, more efficient, more thorough. And with AI I'll likely be able to easily import the written entries to online if I need to do so. I feel more in control.
Things will keep happening and I'll only become increasingly in charge of her medical outcomes. Such a simple idea will help and, should it become necessary, will help anyone else involved.
The back third of the book will have my own info. Not nearly as much or as complicated but still, there are dates I no longer care enough about remembering but still get asked about.
anais_pf replied that she used a journal to track her husband's medical journey. It was like being slapped on the head for me. When I had my own company I went to lots of networking meetings. Of course I did a crappy job networking with people but I did keep track of them all and what happened and what I was thinking with a nice faux leather bound journal. I had it with me all the time and it is so much easier to keep notes by hand and transfer the ones worth keeping to online.
A couple of days ago I bought a new journal. There are a lot of 'medical' journals with tabs and places to enter blood pressure and such. But I bought a blank page one and a set of nice mechanical pencils (what is now days known in my head as a lifetime supply) for less than $20. Yesterday I went through my wife's medical info online and extracted time lines and problems and procedures and organized them in the book. I feel like I've got a lot better control now. We're on our way shortly to get her a shot for a nerve issue she has. I'm her driver so I'll be there and if questions come up I won't be fumbling for my phone and Google Drive but will have the book. The information in it will only get better over time, more efficient, more thorough. And with AI I'll likely be able to easily import the written entries to online if I need to do so. I feel more in control.
Things will keep happening and I'll only become increasingly in charge of her medical outcomes. Such a simple idea will help and, should it become necessary, will help anyone else involved.
The back third of the book will have my own info. Not nearly as much or as complicated but still, there are dates I no longer care enough about remembering but still get asked about.