Hello and welcome to best laid plans.

This is your host Sarah Hart Unger and this is the podcast where we talk about all things planning and planning adjacent.

If I do not sound like my usable self today, and I do not think that I do,

it is because I am sick, a little sick anyway.

And this episode is all about things related to being sick,

because I know that I am not the only one having this experience right now.

I currently am positive for multiple viruses, and I'm not even going to get

into specifics, but let's just say it's kind of gross and I know I'm not alone out there. So I thought

this would be a relevant topic for many of us. And it's going to be a shorter episode as well

because I'm going to give myself a break this week and get some more rest so that I can

practice what I am preaching in this episode. However, I do think it's worth taking some time

if you haven't been sick yet this season to maybe take some time and think about what you will do

when it inevitably, probably inevitably does occur. It makes sense to plan ahead for getting sick

because for most of us it's likely going to happen. And if it doesn't happen, amazing. The things

you have to do to plan aren't that hard. So if it's wasted efforts and you never have to use

these plans, I think you will not have lost out on anything. So the first thing I was thinking about is having

medications in the house. If you are somebody that has kids and likes to use certain liquid

medications like perhaps children's ibuprofen or Tylenol or various supplements like

elderberry or other things, make sure that you have everything on hand rather than scrambling

to get these things when you're already sick or you already have a sick kid.

Have kind of a minimal baseline pharmacy that you keep in your house either for your kids,

maybe even for your pets, and also for yourself.

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