Begin a Medical Notebook
An early step to help your child who is depending on you is to begin a medical notebook. I didn’t do this at first, and I greatly regret it. Begin now and build a comprehensive medical notebook of everything related your child’s health.
If you get blood work done, get copies of the lab reports for yourself. On the lab sheet, or in a dated format correlated to it, record dosages of any drugs or supplements he was taking at the time those labs were drawn. If you see a specialist, get copies the those records. Specialists seldom tell you all that they observe. But it is in their notes.
Keep a sickness/symptom log. Write down the duration of any sickness. Write down what treatments you used.
Record milestones or changes in ability and learning. Later you’ll be able to see patterns, and correlate those with supplements, or treatments or therapies.
To prosper in this new world, you the Professor Parent PhD need to keep the records people used to trust the professionals to keep for them. Those records give you, the expert case manager, important data for making wise choices.
