I went to my first chemo in jeans. Here’s what I wish I’d worn.
A practical, hour-by-hour guide for the days surrounding a chemotherapy infusion — what to pack, what to wear, what nobody at the discharge desk has time to explain. Built on guidance from MSK, ACS, breastcancer.org, and patterns we hear from real customers and oncology nurses on YouTube.
Surgery is in 14 days: the 9-item shopping list nobody handed you
Most pre-op shopping lists are aspirational. Real surgeons, physical therapists, and orthopedic specialists recommend a much shorter, much more boring set of items. Here is what to put in your house this week — drawn from published guidance from AAOS, ACS, Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, and MSK.
What nobody tells you about the first 14 days after a mastectomy
The hospital sends you home with two pages of paper, three prescriptions, and a small foam wedge. None of it tells you what the first night actually feels like. This is what we have learned from customer reviews, conversations with mastectomy survivors, and our own founder’s family — about th…
The Care Team Partner program: how independent practitioners work with Inspired Comforts
For doulas, independent PTs and OTs, lactation consultants, midwives, peer mentors, support-group leaders, and content-creating nurses with their own practices: how the partnership program works, who qualifies, and the legal lines we’re careful about.
How to use ChatGPT during cancer treatment: a real workflow
A practical guide to using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and similar tools during a medical event — to translate bloodwork, draft hard family conversations, prep questions for appointments, and keep your appointment schedule from collapsing. With explicit caveats about what they can’t do.
The financial side of medical recovery (the part nobody warns you about)
Surgeons explain the procedure. Nurses explain the recovery. Almost nobody explains the bills, the time off, the insurance phone calls, or the financial-aid orgs that will quietly cover what your insurance won’t. The practical guide we wish someone had handed every customer.
Pediatric surgery wardrobe: a parent’s complete guide
If your child is going into surgery — tonsillectomy, hernia repair, orthopedic, cardiac, anything — you have been told the medical part. You haven’t been told the wardrobe and comfort part. This is the practical guide written for the parent at the bedside, drawn from CHOP, Boston ChildrenR…
The labor & delivery hospital bag that no Pinterest post gets right
Most labor-bag lists are written by people selling baby products. This one is written from the patient’s side — what real OB-GYNs, doulas, and hundreds of postpartum women keep coming back to. The short list, the things to skip, and the gown question nobody answers honestly.
What to wear to an IV infusion: a complete comfort guide that isn’t about cancer
Most adaptive-wear writing assumes you are being treated for cancer. Roughly half the people sitting in infusion chairs in the US are not. They are managing MS, Crohn’s, ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, iron deficiency, immunoglobulin deficiency, or simply getting an IV vitami…
