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🤝 Side by Side Health Advocacy
When you are facing a new diagnosis, a health scare, or a medical crisis, it can feel like you are doing it all alone. You do not have to.
I am Lynne, a retired Registered Practical Nurse and medical transcriptionist. I will walk beside you, one on one, to help you understand what is happening, get ready for your appointments, and plan your next steps.
💬 Side by Side Starter Chat (free)
A free 15 to 30 minute phone or video call to see if we are a good fit to work together.
As client and advocate, working toward goals, decided together, a personality fit is important.
📅 Your First Month: Through the Crisis
Four one hour sessions (if needed), one each week, plus support by WhatsApp in between.
As a team we will:
🔍 1. Understand
We start by reviewing your diagnosis, tests, treatment options, and medical records, so you know exactly what you are dealing with, in plain language.
📝 2. Prepare
Once we have a clear picture, we get you ready for your appointments, with the right questions and everything you need to bring.
🌱 3. Plan
Together we build your care plan: your self care, your personal health goals, and your end of life wishes, if that fits your situation.
🧭 4. Find Support
Along the way, we will spot problems and barriers, and I will help you find the resources you need, from government programs and beyond.
📚 Tools at Your Fingertips
You will have full access to the Ask Lynne’s Health Exchange classroom, with tools to use alongside our sessions:
- Appointment checklist and questions for your doctor
- Decision making tools
- Chronic illness management
- Advocacy tools
🔁 Continuing Support - After your first month, if you would like to keep going, a lighter monthly package keeps me by your side as your needs change.
📱 WhatsApp Support - I am available within reason. Messages are answered Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. To keep things fair for everyone, I may limit messaging if it becomes too frequent.
⚠️ Please note - Side by Side Health Advocacy is advocacy and education. It is not nursing care or medical advice, and I am not a doctor. Always follow the advice of your health care providers.
This is first draft. Feels clinical, should it be or warmer? This is one of my questions!
Fee info Claude found - I will dig myself.
- Nurse On Board (Ottawa): about $250, $400, or $675 a month for senior packages with nurse home visits and calls, plus a one time intake fee, or an hourly rate in 15 minute blocks
- Pro Health Navigators (Niagara area): no prices listed; a 2017 news story mentioned a $1,000 retainer
- Nightingale (BC): no prices listed; fees based on hours
- Free 30 minute first consult is common (Nurse On Board, Nightingale)
- 2017 estimate: about $80 to $100 an hour
I am thinking $299 1st month and $99/month contingency with revised access limits.
Input appreciated!
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