Whether you are healthy or have chronic illness, keeping a medical binder for yourself and for your family is such an important resource! ALWAYS ask your dr. for copies of your tests/their notes and you can keep your own notes in it as well. Ā Mine is organized with tabs for different types of testing and has all of my docs notes and all of my notes. I have it in chronological order with the newest paperwork on top. If you have a family it would be smart to have a large binder and divide it into a section for each family member. You might also keep 1 binder per family member-whatever works. This is so important because you can: -Bring this to new dr. appointments and to all dr. appointments so you have it to refer to-May prevent you from having unnecessary testing -Makes it easier to track your progress if you have chronic issues-Helps you keep track of the dates you took different meds/supplements/herbs-Helps you keep track of different doctors you have seen over the years-Helps you track diet and exercise plans-Helps you keep track of symptoms-Can help you see health patterns-like how many times a year your kid gets an ear infection or strep throat-In an emergency this information could be invaluable Side note: So many docs say āyour lyme test is negativeā but what they may mean is that not enough bands show up to consider it a positive from their trainingā¦if 1 band shows up it is positive and you may have many re-tests before a positive even shows up. Many people have positive test results show up for lyme/co-infections/EBV AFTER being treated for a little while. By them not giving you a copy of these tests they may be doing you a disservice. So you need copies of tests for yourself because sometimes you are your own best detective and sometimes you may just need another opinion to look over your results.
Humans are a communal species that have banded together and cared for their sick, disabled, and elderly since before we were ever modern man. Resources were shared even as skills specialized.Ā
Capitalism isnāt natural. A community should not have members dying of starvation or exposure while there is an abundance of resources. That isnāt how it works. That isnāt how itās supposed to work.
ok so my roommates are anthropology students and their favorite example for debunking theĀ āsurvival of the fittestā bs is shanidar 1. (x, x, x)
shanidar 1 is a neanderthal who, at a pretty young age, was hit in the head hard enough to blind him. this also led to that side of his brain shutting down and withering his right arm, and possibly crippling his entire right side. not only that but his skeleton also shows that at some point, he broke a bone in his foot and, in addition to the other factors, resulted in a noticeable limp. there are some sources which say he likely had degenerative diseases. (arthritis was really common in neanderthals)Ā
going off of widespread ideas of āāprimitiveāā (no longer the word used in anthropology/academia to describe early-modern humans) societies, shanidar probably died really young, deliberately abandoned or killed. i mean, he was severely crippled, blind, etc., he couldnāt contribute anything, he would have been a āāburden to societyāā, right?Ā
except he lived to be between 40 and 50 years old. (about ~80 in human years)
this means that his social group had to have taken care of him for a minimum of two or three decades without hisĀ ācontributingā anything significant to the group. this discovery (and Shanidar IIIās) was hugeĀ because it basically proves that early humans had a concept of hospice. early modern humans cared for the sick and the elderly, greatly extending their lifespan, simply because they cared.Ā
tl;dr: the concept of someone needing to be āāusefulāā orĀ āāāproductiveāāā in society in order to be valued and cared for is a very modern concept and our quasi-predecessors would be ashamedĀ
Also, Shanidar I was buried with flowers. They cared about him afterĀ he was dead, too.
āļø House Targaryen is gone. Not a single person who shares your blood is alive to support you. The Starks are gone as well. Our two terrible fathers saw to that. The remaining members of House Lannisters will never back you, not ever. Stannis Baratheon wonāt back you either. His entire claim to the throne rests on the illegitimacy of yours. That leaves the Tyrells: not impossible, not enough.
Hey folks just a fun reminder that you have a legal right to read your entire medical record, including your entire psychiatric record, including everything theyāve observed during an appointment and every test theyāve ever ordered and every note they have written to another person on your care team.
Everything that any medical practitioner has ever committed to paper about you, you have a legal right to hold in your hand.
š„ There is beauty in destructionš„ 