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Go-bag to the rescue!

14 June 2021

One of the tiny projects I included in my November Tiny Projects challenge was putting together a hospital go-bag. My husband had been hospitalized in October and then again in November with heart issues, so I took the time after that second hospitalization to create a go-bag that I could grab in the event of a sudden trip to the hospital.

I had clipped to the front of the bag a list of the contents of the bag, plus a second list of things I needed to add to the bag that he didn’t have duplicates of (like noise-canceling headphones and prescription reading glasses).

About a week ago, we made the decision to go to the emergency room. (I drove Barry this time, no ambulance necessary.) While he got dressed, I grabbed the go bag, consulted the list clipped to it and added a few things. It was so nice not to feel frantic about what to bring! It was a moment of calm in an otherwise disrupted day. When he was admitted to the hospital from the emergency room, he had everything he needed.

I felt so smart to have clipped the hospital parking pass I’d purchased to the bag itself. It offers significant parking savings ($4 vs $15 for a single parking session) and it was so great not to have to look for it.

Barry was in the hospital for two nights this time and when I got home, I replenished the go-bag and updated the list that’s clipped to the front. If you have someone in your life who is occasionally hospitalized, I encourage you to take 15 minutes and put something like this together. I am so glad I did!

Tagged with: 15 minutes, emergencies, emergency preparedness, organizing

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