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Follow-up on post - had my 2nd HCG test today..sm

Posted By: Scared but praying on 2006-03-28
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Well 2 days ago my levels were 154 - today dropped to 153.  My OB/GYN thinks I am miscarrying, which I am sure I am too.  No pain though, just still spotting.  I asked her what if my levels went up by Monday, she said it is possible, but NOT REALLY....I don't guess there is anyone out there that had their levels drop then raise back up?  I know it sounds crazy.  I do, however, honestly understand and believe that I am miscarrying.  But I really would like to thank each one of you who gave me encouragement from the previous post.  I know God only puts on us what we can handle and even though I don't know the reason now, God has a reason and plan for everything in our lives.  Thank you for all of your support! 


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I took a test like this today (sm)
and I don't think I did as well as I would have liked. I have 10+ years experience and I know my stuff, but when someone puts you on the spot and says, "What does this abbreviation mean" - especially when it can mean more than one thing - I think I kind of choked!
Follow up regarding C phone dictation post below sm

Went to the Urology Clinic this morning.  The doctors are dictating on a C-phone to a transcription service and they are transcribing the reports and sending them back to the office for me to QA.  I download the files, check them, print and save.  My questions is how can I have them route these files to  my home computer.    Wouldn't the transcription service have to send the files to me so that I can access the site on online with a user name and password?  Can I do this through AOL or do I need to use Internet Explorer.  Anything else I would need?  Just need some input, because this current Editor may not come back and I may be taking on their actual transcription also.  Big Company.  Don't want to loose this one.  Any ideas would be appreciated. 


dude, your educational level means nothing when you post irrelevant drivel and you don't follow
a logical train of thought. "ROCK ON"???? OMG!

BTW, YOU CALLED THE NAMES DEAR POSTER. READ YOUR OWN POST AND THEN READ MINE. See that's what I'm talking about. The masses aren't all that bright and knowing that does not "empower" me. And with you bragging about a "degree" and "education" is even more depressing. imagine an educated person bragging about it after screwing up on two posts and not understanding the concept of the original post STILL! Scary stuff.
Followup (or follow-up) for noun/adj. Follow up for verb. nm
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Bravo! 1 cm no 1-cm. Follow-up no follow up. 1 mg no 1mg. 1 space after period, no 2. S
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Oh please. I forgot the "are". If I had known this was a typing test instead of a post
You got the meaning anyway, which is why you got so sensitive and tried to change the subject.
where's my post from today??

 I wrote a post regarding some QA issues. I saw it had a few 'views' - but now it's gone!  Help me find it - thanks !


 


Saw post today about meeting typing
These can be horrific. The problem is not the typing--if you could straight type you'd be able to calculate it closely. These recordings require you to set up some way to identify the speakers in maybe a QA format. The challenge is to pick out voices, which normally groups who want this stuff transcribed want that done. You may have to code the speakers if you weren't given their names. And, it's maybe not that tough if it's one person moderating and calling responders by name--you can maybe get a good flow that way, but the roughest is when they "open the panel" for questions or cross-talk. I have done these and believe me it's nothing like MT. If I ever do these again I'm going with my hourly rate--I've found most larger companies don't really care what you quote, they need to get it done and this is very hard work. And, I never had an easy time getting other transcriptionists to help out. Tough, tough. But, some people make a good living typing focus groups, meetings, etc. Just have to find the format and not do it for charity. My thoughts. Best of luck to you. By the way, I've always tried to fool myself into thinking I can type 1 hour of recording in less than 3 hours--hardly ever.
HP desktop, I need XP, shipped out today; thanks to post below -
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Well, collectively it probably took 20 minutes of my time to post today.
My kids are out and about. I did all my work. I'm a good girl, you see! I don't really get your perceived "jab" at me at all.  Why do you think that because I am in favor of someone being an MT and keeping their precious baby at home as opposed to in day care, that somehow that means I say I spend every minute of my life focused on my kids? I really think when you respond like this, its because you are not confident in your own life - I won't delve deeper, but you feel guilty. Guilty enough to have to make fun of me and put imaginary words in my mouth.  I never said a whisper or innuendo that MT mothers with kids at home have to focus every second of their lives on their kids. That's ridiculous! We all know that!  And I assume you're the same poster above about camp? You use the same SM.  I am sorry to disappoint you that I don't understand your "revelation" about my identity! I never said a word here about camp, and don't follow that thought at all.  The OP asked if she could do it - be an MT and have a baby at home. I recognize another poster from below, childfree by choice. She and I have had some wonderful debates in the past, and I think we usually agree to disagree! But certainly nice meeting you, I think??
Did anyone find the post for the scavenger hunt today? Was there one?
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It's a test in progress to measure what MTs know and what type of test to give for the SM
different levels of MTs.  It's over $90.  That's a lot of money to pay to someone who is giving these tests for research as to what type of testing should be done for the different levels of MT.  The AAMT will probably take the results and make a test that they can give in India or the Phillipines or some other foreign country. 
tuning fork test: Is it about a hearing test? .See inside
A whisper is about 20 dB
Loud music (some concerts) is around 80 to 120 dB
A jet engine is about 140 to 180 dB

Hope I could help
Not a medical typing test but this website can test you..

It's called www.typingtest.com


Atleast it will give you an idea.. Sadly, I had to take it twice before I passed it LOL


Why would they do a microalbumin test when she has the period? A lot of test s will come out wrong
Why would they do a microalbumin test when she has the period? A lot of tests will come out wrong.
Neer's test is a shoulder impingement test

Don't think that has to do with the knee.  How about "bucket handle tear" of the knee?  Never heard of Neer having anything to do with the knee. 


happens quite often i would test again or go see your GYN for blood test which is more accurate
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HELP with Shorthand. Suddenly today when I tried to start work today.sm

my ShortHand would type only the first letter of an expansion and then take all the letters away!  I checked and the Type It button is grayed out!  I have restarted the computer and looked on the Shorthand Help menu but can find nothing that applies.  Can anyone please help me ASAP?  I am lost without it!  TIA


Perhaps you are right. This one is dated today. The original article was on Yahoo today also with

But this article states it would only affect new customers right now.  So I am upset over nothing.  I went through heck with BellSouth when they charged me a surcharge of an extra 50 a month and then would write a letter saying I had to switch to a long distance service and pay by the minute because of my "excessive" use. They told me the unlimited charge was for an average of an hour a day not somebody who worked out of their home and I needed to switch a business plan at over 200 a month charge.  I switched over to cable because of that and then to read that cable was going to charging on a per use fee and not a flat monthly fee it upset me.  It is the nature of our work, VR, only paying for VBC, having headers and footers taken away, now being charged for being on line, etc.  It just seems that everything is done to keep to insure less money.


Yeah a 30 minute test---work for free, he gets enough to test, his work is done - nm
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Or maybe that in itself IS the test! It's really an ethics test, LOL. nm
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Blasted cold out today. It was 104 degrees last week, but it's 40 degrees today with rain.
However, I do like cozy days like today when I don't have to go anywhere.  I'm done working, the house is clean, there's chili on the stove for dinner already, and I'm just putzing around.  I think I'll go bake some jalapeno cheese bread to go with the chili.
just to follow up
To get 250 per hour...you really have to have your short cuts in place and be using them frequently, this is what I have to do anyway, and since switching jobs it has been hard to keep up due to the "newness" of the dictators, so my butt better be in that chair typing to make these kinds of results.
what? huh? can't follow...sm
talk about an inane message...
FOLLOW UP

When she came home from school , bussing it I would not allow her to go to her room and nap.  She was exhausted from the night before. I told her you are not going to stay on the phone until 1:30 and then sleep and then do the same thing over again. I took the cell phone away for a while and told her she can use the house phone and the phone better not ring after 9 p.m and she is off at 10 p.m.   Kids are tricky though.  I am going to take the portable phone to my bed room at night.   In the middle of the night my other daughter use to take the phone in her room.  Her boyfriend has no rules or curfews and this is part of the problem.  He told her that his mom feels bad that they are divorced so she gives into him.  Until now she respected our wishes.  She is a great , smart and talented kid.  This is the first time I really has disrespect from her.   


Thanks again


follow up
In my class we did learn on the 250's also. The class included 2 class sessions and 2 range riding sessions. Good luck...
I don't follow, what exactly is sad?
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Follow-up....
I thought I would let you all know I received the keyboard and so far I really like it.  There are so many things it and the mouse can do, that I'll be busy for a long time figuring it all out.  The touch is quiet (which is good with small sleeping children).  It is considered ergonomic, even though is not a split keyboard.  The mouse can be programmed to do all kinds of things (there are like 56 commands you can program it to do if you want).  The receiver for the wireless keyboard and mouse also works as a battery charger.  They send you two sets of rechargeable batteries so one is always ready to go when the others need charging.  Quick and simple to install driver and set up.  I ordered mine off Directron.com and got it for 34.99.  I ordered it on Monday and got it Wednesday and that was with ground delivery by UPS, I was impressed.  If anyone has any questions about it, just ask.  I'm still figuring it out as I go along. 
Follow=up
thanks for the quick response
follow up again...

My QA is just great thank you - have never had a problem with it.  I just have a gift with typing, my sister is a Transcriptionist and she types just as much as I do in a day, my daughter won every keyboarding award her school ever gave for 6 years straight, my son won it for 2 of his 4 years at that same school.  My mother was an exceptionally fast typist back when there were only typewriters.  It is just a gift that we have...


However, I did not say that every hour would be 410 LPH.  I did not say that everyone could achieve it.  My point was that my production had slipped really low and that obviously a lot of it was my "extracurricular things" that did not involve transcription.


I am just like everyone else - I have to stop and look up words, I have hard dictators, I have gibberish to decipher... I am not backing myself into a corner expecting 400 lines an hour every hour.  That is not reasonable - some hours I may have harder times than others.  I may have to look up more, I may have a slow time on the computer, I may have horrible dictators... that is the nature of the job.  People want to be a transcriptionist and then when they have to actually do it they complain about what is involved in it.   


My post was only to encourage people to work to their potential - not just complain that they cannot do it and name 100s of reasons why it can't be done.  I am sorry if I stepped on a nerve...  Some people obviously just cannot be happy no matter what...


Follow the BOS.
I sent you an email regarding the BOS.
I follow these
Never ever click on (or open) an email which you don't recognize the sender. I read that spammers have a thing (forget what it's called) that lets them know when an email has been read and thus that it's an active account. Click the square to the left of the email to select it and then click the spam button. Then go to the spam folder and click the square at the top and hit Delete. There is a disclaimer on this website that internet spiders can harvest email addresses from this site.

Spammers can send messages to random email addresses, not even knowing if they are valid, then as soon as the email is opened, they know it's an active account, and they're off to the races.

This takes a while, but they do slowly stop coming to you as long as you're vigilant.
Let me follow this up by saying
I probably would laugh at his leaving a $5.00 card because he is such a cheapie, returns something across town if not what it should be and that would be keeping in with who he is. The only thing he does not get cheap on is a really good vehicle for me that he buys.
More follow-up...

Thanks for your responses so far.


One huge worry for me is VR totally taking over my job.  In what I know and what I've read here, it seems the more you 'correct' any VR system, the more it seems to work against you (less editing).  I would look for a second job but I'm afraid of biting off more than I can chew.  Again, I don't know if getting paid per report is the norm.  It is the way it is, I suppose.  There is no per line pay option here, which is why I'm not sure if I'm making substantially less.  Obviously, before our official pay cut, I was making twice what I'm making now per page and I was doing just fine financially.  At that time, I had no complaints.  Also, there has been a drop in the workload because the residents are editing their own work, so we have lost them.  That hurt.  It has also been slower than usual and we have our friendly neighborhood 'cherry picker' on top of it all.  We also use Lanier intermittently, which is paid per line, so there are still times that I can make extra money doing ST.  Oh the dilemma.  Do I ride the wave again?  I've been here before and the only difference was is that my old account didn't feel the need for keeping us on for editing.  The docs edited the reports themselves.  Again, if anyone has insight or their experiences, I'd love to hear them and thanks to those who already posted.


The key to doing this is you have to have a routine and follow it. (sm)
What might work for one person may not work for the next, but f you make it YOUR routine it will become a regular part of your day. For me (and I've been at this for a long, long time) my best hours are in the early morning. I get up, shower, get dressed, put the coffee on, take care of whatever needs taken care of so it won't interfere with your day (feed the cat, let the dog out, whatever you would normally do if you had to leave your house for the day and go out and work). Then sit and work for 2 hours, take a short break, work another 2 hours, break for lunch, and so on until your work day is finished. It also helps if you keep your work area clean so you can have a fresh desk to start off with. NO TV. Don't answer the phone while you're working to take personal calls. Do that on your break. These are just some ideas that work for me.
Follow up is needed.
I responded to a job this morning and at their request sent my resume and did not receive a reply until I saw another posting for the same job on this board. I just dont think this is good business.
follow the rules
I too thought crepitus was the only correct form -- until the pediatric rheumatologist "corrected" me and insisted on crepitance. (As the Red Queen says, "All ways here are MY ways.")
follow up on bifocals

I actually have three stage progressive lenses due to 80% blindness in one eye and peripheral problems in the good one. 


Main part for distance, middle part on one eye for computer work, then bifocal at bottom for reading books, etc.  Dang expensive but much easier than the 3 different pair I was using.


If you follow comments by a well known (sm)
senator, Pat Robertson, this is probably happening because you are all such evil people. If you would straighten your act up, quit taking vacations, work 24/7, quote the Bible all day long, and make sure you invest all your money in countries that promote torture (i.e., his diamond mine investments in Africa), then none of this would ever happen to any of you.

But if that is how I would have to live to avoid bad weather, I will take the bad weather any day.
ok now I follow what you're saying
Guess we'll have to wait and see what happens next week. I'd hate to Terry win it, definitely not Danielle. I'm not even sure how she made it this far. She's done nothing. Hopefully the winner is Cirie and if not, then Aras.

Happy mother's day mom of 3 (I too am a mom of 3 !)
Follow these steps....
You have 3 keys at the top of your C-phone, press the one on the far left with PROGM above it.  Then press KEYS (far left button also).  Select progm key comes up, press the button you are wanting to change (the one causing you to disconnect).  It then will ask you if you want to revise, answer yes.  Then press the multiplication sign X on the far right of your keypad (also labeled select).  Then press the Stop button located on the bottom section of your C-phone.  This is what works for me, hopefully this will help you too.
ah, but just because your clients don't follow BOS,
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follow up letter
I know if you go onto Microsoft.Com they have templates for resume follow up letters. Good luck.
I would follow up with another e-mail, and
if no response in a day or two call them.
Follow-up per BOS2 is not to be used.
Followup is noun, follow up is adjective or verb.
No more hyphenated follow-up. sm
#1. Follow up (verb): I will follow up with the patient next week.
#2. Followup (noun or adjective): The patient will come in for a followup next week, or the patient will come in for a followup examination next week.
You should always follow guidelines
set up by your MTSO/client. If expanding when not allowed to, that could be considered line padding and a quick way to lose your job.
s/l follow progrssion not really sure

We are going to place her in a Jewett hyperextension brace, (follow progression) and continue the same anti-osteoporosis measures afforded.


A follow up here. Appreciate these posts.
The computer guy yesterday showed me several Trojan virsues on my machine, 3 or 4 so would AVG work with those or not? I have McAfee now but will try something else. I have taken all into consideration on here and made notes of what I should do.
Did you follow BOS guidelines??? That could
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