Today I am inspired by a visit to the ER with my son who had a seizure.
What is to be organized with an emergency visit to the hospital? Well, everything runs much smoother when you have all your important medical information in one place. My son visits the doctor often. I keep all his information in my purse. I keep it there because of emergency visits like the one we had today are far too frequent. My girls have a separate file that is at home, but easy to grab.
What is in their file? Doctor cards, shot records, information about significant past visits to the doctor, and lists of all medication that is being taken. My son's shot record is actually in that file at home with the girl's stuff, I have the doctor cards and medication information in my purse as well as a list of all important dates (date and time of last seizure, last time he got a shot, last doctor visits, etc). It's the abbreviated version for ER doctors who can look up most things on the computer.
Going to a regular office visit, I bring the entire file, a list of any questions or concerns that I have, and about 5 things for my child(ren) to do in case we have to wait a while. That means a video game, a small pack of crayons and paper, stickers, an MP3 player, or anything else that is small and doesn't have a lot of pieces. All this goes in a little bag for them to carry. I like to use reusable shopping bags because they ar easy for the kids to carry and hold a lot of stuff conveniently.
I know most parents have this down after the first year and all those doctor visits, but since I'm blogging every day and visiting the doctor is obviously on my mind, I figured I'd share that. Tomorrow is going to be fun...I have an IEP (it's a school thing for special needs kids...I'll explain better tomorrow) so I'll be talking about being organized for school meetings.
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