Re: Filing Paperwork Question:

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Hi Beth: I have been away for a few days,and I have over 250 messages to read,

but well I was away its so funny that we were talking about filing systems. My

mother is 83 years old, and I tryed to set up a system for her. She did not do

what I told her, and what a mess of paperwork we had to go through.

When I was diagnosed I started keeping a folder of all my tests etc. Then

I was going all over the place for opinions regarding a BMT.

I kept all of that also. Never got the BMT, but I still have it all

in the folder they gave me. Then after a few years, I pulled out all the old

stuff and put it in a big brown folder with the elastic around it. I labeled it

as my old paperwork. Then I started a new folder for more current reports etc.

Its kind of set up like the stages of my CML and my progress. Its so much

easier. I also get copies of every test any doctor does on me. If something

comes up, I refer back to those copies. If I am going to see a new doctor, I

make a copy of my copy and bring it with me so they have some definite answers

to some of my problems. Hope you can get a system out of everybody's answers.