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The Inspired Comforts Toolkit

A growing library of free, printable templates organized by what you’re going through. Find your condition or situation below; everything related to it is in one place. Tap a template title to view it inline, or download the printable PDF.

How to use these. These templates are starting points. The right doctor question is the one that matters to you. The right packing list is the one that fits your specific procedure. Print, fill in by hand, customize, and always confirm with your medical team. Inspired Comforts is not a medical provider.

Mastectomy & breast surgery

Before, during, and after a mastectomy or lumpectomy. Drains, reconstruction decisions, range-of-motion recovery, lymphedema, and the wardrobe transition.

Type of mastectomy, lymph node procedure, drains, pathology, reconstruction coordination.

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Implant vs. flap, immediate vs. delayed, aesthetics, revisions, costs.

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Hospital bag and home prep — what to bring, what to set up before surgery.

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Daily JP / Hemovac drain tracking — volume, color, when to call.

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Organizes your thinking on implant, DIEP, delayed, or going flat.

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Weekly forward flexion, abduction, rotation tracking.

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Track arm circumference and early signs of swelling.

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What you can comfortably wear week by week.

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Fillable at discharge — meds, restrictions, follow-up.

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Notice patterns across recovery weeks.

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Cancer & chemotherapy

From diagnosis through treatment to the year after.

For the visit where chemo regimen, port, fertility get decided.

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Where adjustments get made based on labs and side effects.

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Surveillance, transitions, the survivorship plan.

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Night-before and day-of bag for your first infusion.

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Day-by-day severity grid across cycles.

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Pre-pick 3-4 things to do during a long infusion.

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What’s in the non-phone bag for the chair.

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Cut out and pocket-sized — for chair-time.

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What you took, when, how it worked.

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When the daily med count goes past five.

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Spot patterns across cycles.

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Parking, ride-share, copays, snacks.

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If your team raised this, the timing is often urgent.

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Hip, knee, and shoulder surgery (joint replacement)

Total hip / knee / shoulder, rotator cuff, ACL, meniscus, and other major joint surgeries.

For rotator cuff, total or reverse shoulder, labral repair.

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For total knee, partial, ACL, meniscus.

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Total hip replacement, anterior or posterior, resurfacing.

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Hospital bag and home prep with procedure-specific add-ons.

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Track exercises, walking distance, range of motion.

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Posterior-approach hip patients — the 3 rules in big type.

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When the sling is on/off, sleep position, daily pain.

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Fill in at the bedside on discharge day.

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Spot patterns across recovery weeks.

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Track what you took and how it worked.

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Abdominal surgery, C-section, hysterectomy

For any below-the-rib-cage surgery — open, laparoscopic, or robotic.

Procedure approach, recovery, lifting limits, wound care, hernia risk.

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Hospital bag and home prep — high-rise underwear, soft-waist pants.

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Fillable at discharge — meds, restrictions, follow-ups.

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What you took, when, how it worked.

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Patterns across the 4-6 week recovery.

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Dialysis (hemodialysis & PD)

For three-times-a-week in-center hemodialysis, home hemo, or peritoneal dialysis.

Modality choice, schedule, access, diet, transplant, working and traveling.

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Setting the bag and the routine that will repeat 3x/week.

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Wardrobe, comfort, food, logistics.

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Track creatinine, hemoglobin, phosphorus across months.

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Phosphate binders, BP meds, ESA injections.

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Pre-pick activities for the 3-5 hour chair time.

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What’s in the non-phone bag for the chair.

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For the visitor who comes to dialysis with you.

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Track post-treatment fatigue and recovery patterns.

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Infusion therapy (autoimmune & biologic)

For Crohn’s / IBD, MS, RA, lupus and similar biologic infusions — Remicade, Entyvio, Ocrevus, Tysabri, Rituxan, Benlysta.

Drug specifics, schedule, side effects, long-term outlook, insurance.

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Pre-pick activities for the 1-4 hour chair.

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What’s in the non-phone bag.

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Other meds you take alongside the regimen.

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Patterns across infusion cycles.

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Lab values that determine dose adjustments.

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Urine bag, catheter, urinary diversion

For long-term indwelling catheter or urinary diversion users.

Daily output, color, anything unusual.

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Bathroom map, supply check, emergency kit.

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Print this and tape it inside the supply cabinet.

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Track catheter changes, bag swaps, supply inventory.

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Pregnancy, labor, and postpartum

From the labor-and-delivery bag through the first six weeks with a newborn.

Pack at 36 weeks; have it in the car at 38.

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One page for the L&D team.

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For the first hours of early labor at home.

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Sleep, bleeding, mood, pain — patterns and red flags.

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Feeding, growth, sleep, vaccines.

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What the postpartum nurse said.

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Wheelchair users

For full-time and part-time wheelchair users.

Three-minute daily check — energy, pain, skin, equipment.

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Monthly tire / brake / battery / cushion check.

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Pre-departure, in-transit, at-destination logistics.

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For caregivers (any condition)

For partners, adult children, friends, and extended family helping with treatment or recovery.

Who’s covering what — meals, drives, school pickup.

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If you’re not using mealtrain.com — the analog version.

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For the moments you don’t know what to say.

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When one child is in treatment, the healthy sibling is often under-supported.

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One person tells five; the patient doesn’t have to re-explain.

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Pre-plan the conversations, accommodations, and exits.

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Money, work, and paperwork

The administrative load that runs in parallel to treatment.

Bills come in sporadically — log and reconcile.

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Date, rep, reference number, what they said.

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Eligibility, forms, where to submit.

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For receipts and aid applications.

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For every patient — general tools

Templates that aren’t condition-specific. Useful across cancer, chronic illness, surgical recovery, and beyond.

Spot patterns across any treatment or recovery.

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Tape to the bathroom mirror or kitchen cabinet.

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What you took, when, how it worked.

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Lab values across visits.

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What the nurse said at discharge.

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Pre-pick from a menu before going in.

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The non-phone bag — keep packed, refresh weekly.

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For chair-time with whoever’s there with you.

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988, crisis text, your contacts.

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Heavy topic; worth thinking through.

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