Hemiplegic Migraine Navigator

MONTH 1

Part 3. Assemble your Pattern Map

Today you assemble your Pattern Map. It draws from the seed and anchor captures you saved in Part 1, shaped by the system-lens patterns from Part 2. This is the first artifact of your Navigator Framework.

FOCUS

This part brings together what you have captured so far. It frames the Pattern Map as a recognition tool you carry forward. It defines what "done" looks like for Month 1.


WHAT THIS PART DOES

What this changes

Before this part, your recognition work is scattered. It exists across two interactives and a system-lens exercise. The patterns are identified but not brought together.

After this part, those inputs become a single artifact: your Pattern Map.

It holds what repeats in your body and what repeats in system response. Captured in your language. Stored in one place. Reusable across encounters.


PATTERN

What the Pattern Map holds

The Pattern Map holds two kinds of recurrence side by side:

Body patterns. How your episodes begin, what changes during them, and how your recovery unfolds. These come from the seed and anchor captures you saved in Part 1: body repeat feature, early signal, recovery signature.

System patterns. How different care settings tend to respond when your episodes appear. You recognized these in the system-lens patterns you reviewed in Part 2: what each setting optimizes for, documents, and deprioritizes.

Together, they give you a stable reference. It separates what your body does from what the system does.

This separation prevents you from absorbing system behavior as personal failure. It prevents the system from treating structural gaps as your communication problem.


BUILD NOW

Open your Pattern Map

Your seed and anchor captures from Part 1 are saved in your browser. When you open the Pattern Map, they load automatically.

The system-lens patterns you reviewed in Part 2 do not load as data. They provide context for reading what appears: which patterns come from your body, and which reflect system behavior.

Open the Pattern Map now. Review what loaded. You can edit labels, reorder entries, or add new ones. If this feels like heavy cognitive work, you can return to it across sessions.

You are not expected to build a complete map. A few reliable patterns are enough to begin. The map grows as recognition sharpens and experience accumulates. It feeds your Navigator Framework.

WHAT YOU WILL SEE

Your body patterns and system patterns displayed side by side. Entries from Part 1 appear pre-loaded. Empty sections are normal.

Open your Pattern Map

BOUNDARY

What the Pattern Map does not do

The Pattern Map does not diagnose, predict, or prescribe. It holds what you have recognized so you do not have to reconstruct it under pressure. It is a recognition tool, not a medical document.

If your map stays consistent over months, that is success. It means your patterns are not shifting chaotically. The infrastructure you built is working.

Nothing here asks you to feel resolved or confident. Orientation is sufficient. Uncertainty can persist even with clearer recognition. That persistence reflects the limits of available evidence — not personal failure.

Minimum viable action: Open the Pattern Map and confirm that at least one entry loaded. That is enough to carry into Month 2.


WHAT YOU NOW HAVE

What you now have

Permanent names for what repeats in your body: how episodes begin, what changes during them, and how recovery unfolds.

A structural model of how different care settings see the same episode differently, so inconsistent system responses stop feeling personal.

A responsibility boundary that separates what the system owns from what you own.

A Pattern Map that holds all of this in one place and feeds your Navigator Framework.


WHAT'S AHEAD

Navigator Framework View

You just built your first artifact—the Pattern Map. Over the coming months, you will build three more: Documentation Priority Filter, Engagement Threshold Guide, and Continuity Anchor. The Framework View shows how these assemble into a single permanent system. You are building infrastructure, not isolated documents.

Preview the Framework

DONE WHEN

You have opened the Pattern Map and reviewed the entries that loaded from Part 1. The map does not need to be complete. A few reliable patterns are enough to carry into Month 2.


NEXT

Moving into Month 2

Month 2 shifts from system response to the medical record itself. You learn how documentation functions as institutional memory, why records diverge from lived experience, and how to build the Documentation Priority Filter — the tool that identifies what must be visible in your chart because it affects future care. You can begin whenever you are ready.


Glossary | References

Month 2