Tuesday, April 27, 2021
daily actions toward becoming better prepared for societal collapse
When things fall apart, the physicians and clinics you are accustomed to
using may not be open. If things have truly deteriorated, they will
not have the means to maintain your records for you. There won’t be any
connecting to the cloud or the internet or whatever. There probably
won’t be supplies for the Xerox to provide you copies of your medical
records. You are going to have to maintain your own records.
You may as well get started now while you have a clear mind and others
around you to help you remember and document everything. You definitely
do not want to be doing this in a crisis.
There are dozens of templates for medical health history forms online
and available for downloading, and you can certainly use one of these to
create your own if you don’t want to trouble your doctor (or you don’t
have one). But unless you’re a pretty sickly person, most of the
answers to questions on those forms is no, right? You check hundreds of
boxes indicating that you don’t have that disease or condition, and
neither has your father, mother, siblings, children, … dogs,
whatever. And you have a lot of papers that the doctor then has to flip
through.
Future caregivers need to know what illnesses or conditions you (and your blood relatives as best you know) have
had. Plain paper will work just fine to maintain your records. The
information you need to include in your records is the same information
you provide when you fill out those forms in the doctor offices.
First off, especially for preparedness purposes, is the vaccines you’ve received and the dates they were administered.
Next, your family health history as best you know it, for your blood
relatives. Cancer, diabetes, heart disease, dementia, arthritis,
whatever it is, document it. Also the age of death. Many of these
conditions are genetic and if your caregiver is aware of any greater
risk you may have due to your family history, better care and
suggestions can be offered.
Follow that up with your personal history. What injuries and surgeries
have you had? Why? For women, provide the number of children as well
as the number still living. Number of miscarriages and/or abortions.
Document everything about your illnesses. The dates, medications
administered, duration. List all your allergies. Very clearly
somewhere, perhaps on the top of every page even, note your blood type.
Note things that are “normal” for you that are not normal for everyone
else. For example, if you’re in the 10% of the population that has one
pupil more dilated than the other, that better be noted in your records
or you’re going to have care providers thinking that you’ve got brain
damage. I’ve got a son whose eyes will occasionally become very
dilated. We’ve never been able to figure out why, and no, he’s not on
drugs.
It’s a hassle, but start documenting every fall, every illness, and
every injury. The more information you can provide a caregiver, the
better. Without laboratories to assist in diagnosing illnesses, paper
records are going to become invaluable. And things you might dismiss as
insignificant may actually provide valuable clues.
Case in point: I was visiting with a friend who was concerned about her
fourteen-year-old son. He had Down’s syndrome which of course
sometimes made communication a little difficult. He hadn’t been feeling
well for several days, was always thirsty, always going to the
bathroom, and pretty lethargic. I remarked that it sounded a lot like
my husband, who became a type-1 diabetic as a high school senior. After
he’d spent a few nights sleeping by the bathroom door, his parents got
him into a doctor (who then immediately got him into the hospital). And
I mentioned that this all started shortly after he’d had influenza. At
this point my friend got a bit of a worried look on her face and
replied that her son, too, had just recently had the flu. There is a
lot that is not understood about type-1 diabetes, but one little bit of
trivia for you to keep in mind is that when some strains of influenza go
through a community, the incidence of new cases of type-1 diabetes
increases by 25%. My friend had her son into the doctor the next day,
and indeed, he had become a type-1 diabetic.
The caregiver needs to know all drugs you have been taking and are
currently taking–every prescription and OTC medication. Illegal
drugs. Coffee, tea, alcohol, and tobacco use. Or whether you
used/abused in the past and have quit. Every supplement you are taking
and how much, all herbal remedies, and probably whether you are
harvesting your own. S/he’s going to want to know dietary changes.
Have you made a rapid transition from a diet high in processed foods to
whole grains and high fiber? Yeah, stuff like that can cause serious
problems.
Keep your medical records in a heavy duty Ziploc bag and take it with
you to each and every visit with your doctor. And be sure to include
enough blank paper for notes to be made. Make Murphy’s law work for
you–you know, perhaps if you have plenty of blank paper in your medical
records the doctor will never have need to use it.
never heard this before >>>>
“There is a lot that is not understood about type-1 diabetes, but one little bit of trivia for you to keep in mind is that when some strains of influenza go through a community, the incidence of new cases of type-1 diabetes increases by 25%. My friend had her son into the doctor the next day, and indeed, he had become a type-1 diabetic.”
Type-1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease. The body’s response to an influenza infection sometimes goes overboard or haywire and starts attacking the pancreas, resulting in T1D. Lots of other interesting things about T1D:
It’s partially genetic. One would think it would be entirely genetic or not at all. But with identical twins, if one becomes T1D, the other has a 33% chance of developing T1D also. Children of T1D mothers are 5 times more likely to become T1D than children of fathers with T1D.
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