Scattered by Thursday
Thursday's note is a text you sent yourself and last week's is gone. Nothing lines up by date, so a pattern has no way to show itself.
Dated in one place
One line with a time on it, in the same book each time. Open the last three months and whatever is there lines up by date.
The blank page
Symptom notes are usually kept in whatever is nearest and then lost by the appointment, which is when they would have been useful. A dated record with times and numbers in it is worth more than a good memory.
What it looks like
How to start a health journal
Write the facts first, with times
What changed, when, how bad, and what you had done differently that day.
Keep the questions in the same place
The thing you want to ask, written when you think of it rather than in the waiting room.
Add how it is to live with
The record for your team is one half. The other half is yours, and it belongs here too.
What this journal opens with
- How is your body today?
- What changed, what helped?
- Anything to raise with your team?
A quiet start, never a form. Write past the prompt, ignore it, or make the page your own. The journal holds the shape; the words are yours.
Health Journal Prompts
A health journal is most useful when it is boring and exact: what happened, when, how bad, what you had done differently that day. Precision is what makes a record worth bringing to an appointment.
- How was your body today, in plain terms?
- What changed today, and when exactly?
- What helped, and how quickly?
- What did you do differently today that might be relevant?
- How did you sleep, and what was different about the evening before?
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