Navigating Passover: Health and Community Strategies

In the springtime, one of the things in the Jewish community that is a challenge, as I mentioned before, is the Passover holiday. There's a lot of stress going into it, coming out of it. It's a long time, and as beautiful as it is and as much as everybody loves it, the food issue and also maybe not having your typical workouts or getting outside can also be problematic if you're dealing with diabetes. So this is something that needs to be solved. So within our own health care system, we try to stave that off by bringing programs before the holiday starts, you know, how are you going to manage it? You know, it's a big thing over Passover, the four questions are a hallmark of the Seder. So we're always kind of like, this is the fifth question, you know, how am I going to deal with all this? So we want to bring the programs to them. But it's so challenging if someone doesn't see our ad or doesn't look at social media, then the healthcare professional needs to be the one to bring this to them. So how do they do that? If you have an appointment, then they might say, here's how to manage. If a patient doesn't have an appointment, what I'd like to see, and maybe this is a program that I'd like to see started, is a health care professional, you know, communicating steadily with their patients with, you know, emails or texts or something or even coming in, something like that. Some do do it, but I think it'd be great if across the board it was done. So the other program would be having these programs that people sign into through their healthcare professional that maybe other organizations handle and send out these messages and help them cope with things like this.