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  1. For the one waiting / guide
    • Why you have not heard from them

      Expect several days before you hear from them. They arrive with no phone account, no contact list, and no messaging access, and setting all of that up depends on staff who are not in a hurry. A week is normal. Longer is common. Meanwhile

    • They reported, and then nothing. This is the part that frightens people most and it is almost always ordinary. The silence

    • The call not to make

      Do not call the institution during this period asking whether they are all right. You will not get an answer, and it is the one call that reliably annoys people you will need later.

  2. For the one going in / getting out
    • Sequencing is the whole thing

      None of this is complicated. All of it takes longer than it should, and the sequencing is what determines whether the first month is manageable or miserable. The time passes either way. What varies is what you have built by the end of it.

    • In rough order. None of it is complicated, all of it takes longer than it should, and the sequencing is what decides how the month goes. The list

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    For the one going in / getting out
    • What to handle, and when

      care provider in the first month, not the first year; and handle dental early, because it is usually the thing that got worst inside. If you have a condition requiring continuous medication, this is the most urgent item in this entire...

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