How to Use AI to Reduce Your Mental Load

There's a lot about motherhood that can be especially tiring. And one of those things is taking your kiddo to the doctor. And whether you're taking yourself or your kid, it is the same level or maybe more actually, if you're taking your kid. But either way, it's tiring, it's exhausting, it's emotionally draining. And if something goes wrong, let's say even something that's not major, but, um, maybe you had to go get blood work and they didn't, the doctor didn't send the orders over or they can't find them, or whatever the case may be. It suddenly takes a, an hour long excursion from your day, from your work, from your family, and turns it into three or four hours. And what I found is that by the end of that, it's a church. I'm tired, I'm not in any mood to work, and I feel like I've hit my emotional or mental wall for the day or at least for a little bit of time. But as a mom entrepreneur, you don't often have or don't always have large pockets of time where you can just say, oh, no worries, I'll just come back to it three hours later. Because three hours later you're picking up your kiddo from preschool. Preschool or from school, or you're getting somebody food or a snack. There's always something that's going on. So any pocket of time that you have, you want to really take advantage of it. So on today's episode, we're talking about how to use AI to reduce the mental load of doctor's appointments. And again, whether that's yours or someone else's in your family that you're taking them to, how do we reduce that mental load? The first thing I'm going to use AI for in this situation is to give me an idea of what kind of questions I might ask. When I go into the doctor. I can look at the order that says the different, the different tests that they're going to be doing or the different things they may be asking. And I can have it come up with a list of questions that will help me better understand what we're talking about, what the diagnosis might be, what the next steps or treatment might be, and feel like I can go into it confidently being able to understand at least more than I would have otherwise, what's going on. The doctor's office can be a scary place, especially if you've had some kind of health scare like I have, and can be hard to. It can be hard to kind of think clearly when you're in there because there's, you know, past experience that you've had that you're trying to keep, your brain's trying to keep yourself safe from. And so it's easy to forget the questions that you wanted to ask. So having ChatGPT or Claude help you come up with some of those questions that you maybe wouldn't have thought to ask otherwise, so that you don't go home and think, oh man, I don't know. And then you Google and it looks like, you know, it's just a minor sore throat turns into something that's like life threatening and anxiety ridden and maybe doesn't have to be like that. If you ask the questions you know you need to or that you want to going into the doctors that you would have otherwise forgotten, the next thing is next step. So let's say you have a kiddo that's homesick, take them to the doctor says, oh yeah, you know, bronchitis, here's what you can do. And so you go to do some of those things that they've suggested and your kiddo doesn't want anything to do with them. Do you do then? And so that way when that happens, we can go to ChatGPT or Claude and basically say, doctor suggested we do this, but it's not working. What other things? Like let's say they were like, oh, you need to take this penicillin that we're prescribing. And so you pick up the penicillin, you come home and your 3 year old is like, absolutely not, I'm not gonna, I don't want that. And you can't get it in their mouth and you're like, oh, well, we really need to take this. And so then you may look to ChatGPT or Claude and say some helpful ideas for getting my toddler to take this medicine that's going to help them feel better even though they don't want to, even though they say it tastes gross. Whatever the case is, you may have also tried some of the ideas that it suggests, but I bet you there's some that you haven't tried. We can also look to ChatGPT or Claude to help us as we're preparing to go into the doctor. Some things that we can do, how can we prep our kids so that they feel comfortable going in it? They know what to expect and ask questions if they have them ahead of time. It can also help prepare you for what might be coming. So we, I remember we were going on a trip to New York City. And the doctor when we were there said, oh, yeah, by the way, it's time for your kid to have their shots. And then after the shots were done, they were like, oh, yeah, they'll probably feel sick, know, seven to ten days from now. And that was exactly what we were going to be traveling like an 18 hour road trip that day, coming back home from New York. And so had known that ahead of time, it would have, we would have made some different decisions that day. And so kind of that way as well. Or maybe you have a hard time with how to commute with a doctor. You just can't find the right words to say. Or maybe even you get into the doctor's office and feel a little bit nervous talking. You practice going back and forth with what to say into ChatGPT version and it'll actually go back and forth with you.