Your surgery will generate a pile of paper. You’ll get paper from your insurance company, the surgeon’s office, the hospital from registration to discharge and bills from anesthesia and perhaps pathology.

As those papers arrive or you come home from the hospital with them, be aware they can be very important to you – even if they mean little to you at the moment.

Keep track of them by purposefully putting them in one location. A file box. A folder. A particular drawer in your kitchen. Your bedside table.

At some point you may have questions and need to reference a piece of paperwork and you will know where it is.

Keep your paperwork in one spot.