I started looking at the first month after a New York work injury like a countdown. Right at the start, the practical things seem to be writing down what happened, while the date and time are still easy to pin down. Once the injury date was marked down, I started noting the first week away from work and what the doctor said about work status. Where the calendar can get annoying is the notice cutoff, since the difference between the start and the cutoff is easy to mix up. A deadline feels much safer when there is some record attached to it: a timestamp helps keep the first-month story organized. The thing I saved with the Day 0 / first-week / first-month notes was the First Claim Steps website because it dealt with one part of the first-days / first-month sequence.
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