324. Awesome New Thoughts On Family Health Quarterbacking

How To Be Awesome At Everything

Lindsay Dickhout

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4.6 • 621 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Over the years, I’ve spent lots of time in hospitals as we navigate keeping Craig healthy despite his genetic heart issues. This past week was another week spent in the hospital for us and even though we’ve done this so many more times than we would like… Every time I come out with a new perspective in someway or a new thoughts on really how to keep your health as the highest priority in life and what I think is the best way to keep all your records and information organized and how to advocate for yourself.

One of my favorite things about podcasting and connecting with friends is sharing experiences because we’re all in different situations every day so we learn different things. I’m grateful to have the opportunity to share our journey and the tips and lessons from being in such extreme situation at times and the take-aways that I think are most valuable to everyone.

We’re talking about keeping good notes, showing gratitude to those helping you, staying calm and not letting overwhelming emotions take over and prioritizing the entire family when anyone is going through something hard.

-Email for health records

-Notes on your phone for each person- one for overall history and one more meds/supplements

-Book with everything printed

-Being realistic but optimistic

-Caring for whole family (Craig kept telling me to go be with the kids)

-Letting people know whats going on in your world so you get the extra support

-Stay strong minded and not weak - people help you more

-Ask questions and take notes

-Know people’s names, show gratitude in anyway you can

-Keep loving & doing normal feeling things through it

-Even if nobody has issues - keep good records as you go

-Even if you have so many years so go through - loop in doctors to help you

-Push for doctors to connect with each other

-Consider concierge if you need it

-Get your team of doctors going before you really need it

-Keep health a top priority by reminding yourself that it is a top priority - on your weekly list of things to do

-Don’t wait when you feel like something is off

-Don’t eat hospital food - it’s not good enough for when you’re healing

-Do your own research for little things that can help- and ask doctors - juicing, supplements etc.

-Lay out clearly who you are the health quarterback for, then do all of this for them. It’s your most important job.

CHEERS to us, the health quarterbacks!

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0:00.0	Over the years, I've spent lots of time in hospitals as we navigate keeping Craig healthy despite his genetic heart issues.
0:08.1	This past week was another week spent in the hospital for us, and even though we've done this so many more times than we would like,
0:14.3	every time I come out with a new perspective in some way and new thoughts on really how to keep your health as the highest priority in life.
0:22.7	And what I think is the best way to keep all your records and information organized and also
0:28.0	how to advocate for yourself. One of my favorite things about podcasting and connecting with
0:33.1	friends is sharing experiences because we're all in different situations every day, so we learn
0:38.8	different things. I'm grateful to have the opportunity to share our journey and the tips and lessons
0:44.5	from being in such extreme situations at times and the takeaways that I think are most valuable
0:50.3	to everyone. We're talking about keeping good notes, showing gratitude to those helping you,
0:55.9	staying calm and not letting overwhelming emotions take over, and prioritizing the entire family
1:01.5	when anyone is going through something hard. Lots to unpack today. Let's go. You're listening to the
1:07.6	How to Be Awesome at Everything podcast, where we're obsessed with life
1:12.1	hacks that make your life more awesome. Your host, Lindsay Dick Hout, is an entrepreneur and business
1:18.1	owner, a mom and wife, and someone who wants to do things over the top at all times. This concept
1:24.3	started as a collection of things Lindsay has learned that she was documenting to give to her kids one day.
1:29.6	And now it's a podcast.
1:31.3	Join us on this journey where we talk about how to be awesome at everything we do.
1:36.0	Here's Lindsay.
1:40.1	Welcome back to the podcast.
1:41.8	Thank you so much for listening.
1:44.1	I have had so many sweet messages over the last, gosh, I guess a couple months about, you know, where are your podcast episodes? Why aren't you uploading as often as usual? And the reality of it is because we've been going through this kind of tricky health phase with Craig.
2:04.2	And sometimes podcasting is what falls off for me, even though it's one of the things that I love
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