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Your Tips on How to Get Off to the Best Start with a New Specialist
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Ginger you are awesome, I do the notebook thing, LARGE notebook for my husband, smaller notebook for my brother. It just keeps my thoughts organized. Especially if there is a risk of any bad news that could derail them.
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@auntieoakley Hi, my friend! Jotting comments and notes down is important. In these days when you cannot have a second person along to also hear what is said, I can ask questions and write things down.
I also have "my bag". There are several polystyrene folders that can be tossed in: Older office visits/note up to 2018, miscellaneous forms, biopsies/scans/reports/CDs to 1/16/19, cancer center and nephrology, biopsies/scans/reports from 7/2019 forward, lab results 7/2017 forward. Inside each folder is a chronological listing of what is there, to be able to grab it easily if needed. I recently [with help from my techno-husband] created an Excel spreadsheet, each year a new page, of blood test results, for quick reference. Okay, perhaps overkill, but it has been good to have these along when queried.
Ginger