Encourages scheduling annual appointments and knowing your body to effectively communicate with doctors. Documenting health changes ensures better dialogues and prioritizes personal health over the fall and beyond.
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Yeah, really interesting words. If you were encouraging someone else to prioritize their health over the fall, what advice would you give? And maybe you can draw on your own insights or experiences. Know your body and schedule your appointments right on your calendar. Like every year I I know when my physical is due, when my mammogram is due. I have all of that scheduled on my calendar. So usually, um, my new year start on my birthday instead of January. My birthday is in August. So my new year, I schedule all of my appointments for that year. And that's what I encourage all my family members to do. What I'm talking about. How do you keep up with all this stuff? I skip my new year's actually on my birthday. So I start my new calendar. I make all my doctor's appointments and that's what I do. And that's what I encourage other people to do. And also just to know your body, you know, oftentimes we go to the doctors like, oh, everything is fine. You'd be like, I'm not feeling fine. Something's just not right. Just know your body and know what's going on. So when you get to your doctor, you're able to, to communicate with them exactly what's going on and give them your symptoms and things like that because they, they are the professionals. Of course, science prove, you know, what's going on with you and everything like that. But at the end of the day, you know yourself, you know, when something is not right. And just to keep up with your appointments and make sure you're doing what you're supposed to do and document. Like I learned this last year, just documenting things that are not usually normal as far as my health. So when I go to the doctor, I can say on this such and date, you know, I felt a little off. This was going on, you know, just document. I just started a journey, a journal just to document all of the abnormalities that I thought that I was experiencing within my body. you
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