Seasonal Health Preparations

What's it like for you? It looks like this. Getting ready for the cool weather, thinking about the holidays and stuff like that. I was born in winter, so my birthday is in December, so that doesn't mean I like it any better. Alright, fair enough. Are there any changes in how you care for yourself or engage with health services during the fall? I'm talking about checkups, vaccinations, changes in habits. I make sure that I get all my immunizations in the fall, the update on the flu, and I guess there's going to be a new COVID coming out this year, too. So, I mean, those are things that I have I have to plan on doing, and I will. I wish people would leave me alone. No, so that's, pretty much that's it. Yeah, fair enough, okay. Can I ask you what kind of support or guidance would be helpful from a healthcare professional during the fall? I'm thinking practically emotionally or seasonal planning, anything like that. It probably would be helpful to be able to have somebody to talk with, not necessarily a mental health person or a psychiatrist kind of person. I think it would be helpful to have somebody like, something like that. Yeah, yeah, makes sense. Okay. If you were encouraging someone else to prioritize their to help in the fall, what advice would you give them? You can draw on your own insights or your own lived experience. Well, I'm not one to give advice because I don't take it very well. I think people just need to be aware of themselves and what they're doing and what's around them and what they wanna do and make up their minds and do it rather than worry about what anybody else thinks or what you think is expected of you. Live your life, live it yourself. Don't live it to somebody else's expectations. Yeah, perfect. All right, another question. How do you stay motivated or connected to healthy habits during the fall? Is there a behavior or mindset at all or something? No, not really. Okay, that was short, but let's go on. It is what it is. It is what it is. Okay, so we're setting up a health shared community where people share their experiences, healthcare providers share their expertise. So what could a health-shared community, when we're setting up here, that your kind is contributing to, what could it do to support you or others through the fall and into winter? Just be there. I don't think I can think of anything they should do specifically. you