Agenda

I figured I'd share my latest health strategy with the blog world. When it seems that no plan is permanent, perfectly effective, or enjoyable, you gotta go with something that you just plain enjoy and merge it in.

My new strategy is a health/life agenda. I always loved getting a new agenda/planner each year in school, and would start out with a goal of perfectly neat writing, using colour-coded pens, and seeing each page stacked with both school work (accomplishments once they had passed) and exciting social plans. Sort of like a record of how cool my life was. This of course never seemed to pan out. Life got in the way, as it always does and there would be empty pages followed by some doodles and scrawled lyrics (while bored in class usually) and scribbled out plans. Still, I never stopped loving starting anew the next year.

Last year I actually bought my first post-academic agenda from staples for fun. At that time I purely just wanted the enjoyment of it back, and was off and on with using it to its full potential. A few weeks ago I replaced it and started over, with a defined plan to write every solitary health/life record I felt important in each day. Its been going good for the couple of weeks I've had it. And, by good I mean both that I've been writing very close to every single day, and that it has made me remember to do all my CF stuff flawlessly on those days. I think it will prove a useful tool for clinic as well (I've mentioned this idea before to the docs but never brought the planner in) since sometimes when they ask how things have been, I can't fully recall. Its also a good way to be accountable to yourself with med-taking, exercise, food intake (ive been recording when i have smoothies), etc.

2 weeks from today I have what I consider to be a "big" clinic. It will be my first clinic at my regular hospital since June (I haven't been away from it this long in years), I will get the results of Mike's genetic testing for the CF gene (!!!), and will be addressing why I was not allowed to complete the transplant assessment. Until then, I am trying to lay low, and appreciate the stability my CF seems to grant me. I'm very grateful for that.