The First 48 Hours
$5.99
You never think you'll need this... until the moment you desperately do.
The call comes. The ambulance leaves. You're standing in a hallway that smells like antiseptic, holding your mom's purse, trying to remember her insurance number while a nurse asks you questions you weren't ready for.
I've been exactly there. This is the guide I wish someone had handed me that night.
The First 48 Hours is a 27-page companion for the first hours of a hospital emergency - built from my own ER visit and hospital stay with my mom, and everything I wish I'd known walking in.
What's inside:
✔️ A go-bag checklist so you're not scrambling on your way out the door
✔️ Questions to ask at admission, ready to read straight off the page
✔️ A quick guide to who's who on the care team, and what to ask each one
✔️ What to know about programs like Hospital at Home, and what "observation vs. inpatient" means for coverage
✔️ A section for families navigating dementia in the hospital, including a fillable "This Is Me" sheet so you're not re-explaining your loved one's history to every new nurse
✔️ Scripts for advocating and pushing back, gently but firmly
✔️ A fillable contact & medication list
✔️ A discharge-day checklist so you don't leave with unanswered questions
✔️ Text scripts for updating family without writing from scratch while exhausted
✔️ A short page just for you
Print it out and fill in the blanks now, while you have the time to think clearly. Then keep it close. You won't read this front to back on a quiet afternoon. You'll reach for it in a waiting room, a hallway, a parking lot. That's exactly what it's for. Grab it when you need it, and let it carry a little of the weight with you.