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I woke up to -18 degrees this morning - it hurt to breathe outside! nm

Posted By: WI MT on 2006-02-18
In Reply to: This is terrible....It was - NCMT

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I woke up this morning with
my right ankle swollen. I didn't do anything to hurt it, and it doesn't really hurt either. It sometimes has this tight sensation when I stand on it. I have no other symptoms, no fever, no warmth, no pain. I am in between doctors right now. What are your thoughts??
Do you all type when you are sick? I woke up this morning with a sore throat and a stiff achy

neck and my body was kind of stiff all over, but I ignored it, got the kids off to school, and went about my usual routine of having my morning coffee and reading the paper.  I don't start work until noon every day.  As the morning wore on, my body got achier and achier and I started having chills and basically had to huddle under three blankets so I would quit shivering.  I took my temperature and it was 102.3 and I'm wonder if I have strep throat or something.  I tend to pick that up about once a year and amy pretty familiar with the symptoms.


I couldn't bare the thought of calling sick especially because I work at home and I always think it's kind of lame to call in sick when you don't physically have to go much farther then down the stairs.  I always feel extremely guilty whenever I have called in for illness in the past.  Do you guys feel that way?  Like we're somehow not entitled to take sick days because we already working from home.  I mean, I have them accrued and I am truly sick, why should I feel bad about taking one when I actually need it?


Anyway, I took a handful of Motrin and the aching has eased up and I'm sweating like a pig so the fever broke for now, and now I just feel really tired and would love to lay down and take a nap, but just feel like I shouldn't and dread the idea of calling my boss.


Oh well, guess I'll suffer through like I always do.  Every once in a while working at home doesn't feel quite fair. 


Absolutely - woke up this morning to a dozen of long stem red roses, box of candy and cards from my
Beautiful day! Everything was sitting out on my dining room table for me when I woke up. Hubby had already left for work and teens getting ready for school. Plus, my coffee was already made and bagel in the toaster for me.

I am blessed!
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.
Yup, just breathe...................... nm
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I have just one question. Does the air breathe better up there in Snobville?
I have never in my life heard such insane and rude comments in my life. The "quality of people drawn to trailers?" Get real. I bet you buy all brand name clothes, foods and everything else, too, because it means you're a better "quality" of person.
let it go, doll....BREATHE... walk away, it's over. NM
sheesh
Morning baby, morning adult. Kids born at 11:30AM (both) are night owls, however. Go figure! :) nm
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Outsourcing topic on Good Morning America this morning....
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We eat, breathe and live transcription. Why can't there be something else to break monotony?

my 17-year-old son woke me up
We sat glued to the TV. Eventually he went back to bed and pulled the covers over his head. I sat and fumed at the perpetrators until I stomped in my son's room and yanked off the covers and yelled at him to go down and sign up to go over there and blow their heads off. Then we just sat and cried. We didn't even know who "they" were. He was only 17. It was just so frustrating.
Wow, I woke up from a nightmare....sm
....in which I had been trying for months to find an MT job, and couldn't because I've been retired for several years. Was I glad to wake up! The good part is that with my back problems, I don't have to work sitting at a keyboard or standing on my feet (even worse for me) all day long. Praise the Lord!
Ok, maybe I should just stay in bed LOL How about "every morning" not everyone morning. Wow. C

Sorry, just woke up, lol. It is Bose, no Boise. lol
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above was "nm" not "sm" -- just woke up. - NM
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I know some lady who woke up w/Bells and

Your other new symptoms sound like maybe (guessing here, I'm not a doctor) - trigeminal neuralgia (?).  I'm not sure - but maybe read up on it and possibly reconsult with your neurologist.  I hope you feel better real soon though!!! 



I just woke up after a 35 minute snooze. Feels like a new day. (nm)
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Grammy Awards!!Feel like I just woke up from a coma..
Guess I'm really getting old now. I know my parents hated the music we listened to in the 60's but PLEASE somebody tell me it's not JUST ME!!! How do they come up with this crap???? Oh, that girl..she's country and I can actually understand what she's saying. "love your baby girl" whoever she is.
degrees
They don't seem to be all that worth it.  I was going to school for a psych degree but got discouraged.  Started buying the Sunday paper just to see jobs out there in my chosen field, social work/clinical psychology.  The average pay is 14-15 an hour, and that is for graduate/master's degree. So they want all those dedicated years of studying, money for college, to get out and earn less than what i'm making as an MT, with two years of college significantly less. 
With those two degrees, why don't
you build career in a more solid profession? MT isn't very stable, IMHO, and making money at it can be a crap shot. Some of us have gotten lucky but most haven't. I don't mean to sound negative, but if I had a degree in something, I'd be outta this profession! (and I'm one of the fortunate transcriptionists with my own clients and am making decent money)
zero degrees
Geez! Where do you live if you don't mind my asking? That is just too cold for me!! I would not go out at all. It was in the 20s here last night (Mississippi) and I thought THAT was cold.
Not me! It's 103 degrees out there!
 
70 degrees day and night
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It is 94 degrees here at 8:21 p.m. in Lincoln, NE--thank God for AC! NT
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It's 10 p.m. and 84 degrees here in Florida.

What are your kids' degrees in?
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35 degrees is above freezing.
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going digital in degrees
Hello,

A hand-held digital recorder (I have a Uher DH-10 but there are many, seems to be a lot of DSS files out there - Olympus) and an image mate if the computer can't accommodate a variety of media or flash cards.

How to move files:
FTP site - commercialy maintained and/or your own with a static IP address through a web hoster - Apache servers are the best

FTP software is out there for free - Core FTP using SSL

CryptoHeaven
HyperSend
DropChute (expensive) Lite (free)
X-Drive
I-Drive (I had a run in with them, not too happy)
Hyperterminal (part of windows)

PC Anywhere and a static IP address that would allow computer-to-computer file transfers pick up dictation, drop off documents

MEP or PGP encryption and just move those babies through the e-mail - there are a bajillion encryption software PGP is free and MEP is commercial for sale. These make self-extracting files all you have to do is use the right password and you're good. There are others, though.

I guess it depends on what the office personnel are willing to do in the way of faciltating the transfers or loading the dictation onto a computer or a FTP site or e-mailing to you.

Having DSL or cable (I have DSL - its never down, ever) is a must because wav files can be large sometimes if the recorder doesn't utilize some sort of compression

and PC Anywhere on a phone line is too slow to download digital files from wav or DSS the phone line can only go about 23 which makes a 56K modem overkill

I have used PCAnywhere without a static IP, you do a start/run ipconfig command (that was for win 98 I can never remember the one for XP)and it gives you the address of that log on - you just put that in the remote PCanywhere set up to dial in - this is kind of a garage sale version but it works

There are also TASPs out there to buy for a penny a line or 10 cents a minute with 800# all set up for you. Sometimes they charge to add doctors a little set up fee

:) Has this helped at all?

If you do go PCAnywhere and set up a host computer at the doc's office or load PCAnywhere on one of theirs, it doesn't HAVE to be an XP comp. And if it does have XP for an OS you MUST use version 10.5 or higher - only one compatible with XP

I know for a fact that version 9 does horrible things to XP ;) Not compatible is not compatible, I thought I could download a patch or an upgrade. ha ha.

winzip is a free software to make many files one nice little package for to be encrypted and then attached to an e-mail
Sunny and 46 degrees
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At 9:03pm it is 81 degrees in VA (near Richmond) - nm
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A billion degrees, but it's a dry heat.

Wichita Kansas 820 pm 93 degrees!
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111 degrees in Mojave Desert
111 degrees in the Mojave Desert..Supposed to have a thunder storm but I doubt it.
Had over 20 days over 100 degrees here. Its simply
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How come you 2 with journalism degrees aren't
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We paid for 2 bachelor's degrees and
that was it. If they want to further their education their employers each pay to do that (government jobs).

I say send your son to a school where he lives in a dorm and then in an apartment. It's time.

You're both adults getting on each other's noives at this point.

You'll be surprised how much they grow up after they move out and live away at school.
whoops - I meant 98 Degrees...LOL..NM
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(giggling). do you even KNOW how many masters degrees are
There are people with huge degrees, disillusiond with their field, their pay, the politics. And they are sitting on their duffs doing medical transcription because the pay is better, the work conditions are better, the people are better. There were some posts in the past month about this very subject. There are a LOT of overeducated people out there, who choose to transcribe.
addendum: chilly = 10 degrees at 7 a.m.
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What does it hurt you if this is
on the word board? Nobody is forcing you to read the post, and especially to reply. If you can't be nice, butt out!!! What a rip!!!
I would be hurt too (sm)
But I would not let them know it. When FD rolls around would not do anything for your DH and I would 'play-down' the birthdays of the older children when they come around... Sounds like this might not be the first time and time they tasted their own medicine... don't hold onto the hurt or anger - let it go for your sake and you don't need to be mean - but at 18 and 21 they are old enough to take responsibility for their behavior!!
I don't think it would hurt
The same thing happened to a friend of mine who questioned the company after failing her test.  There was a glitch in the computer, and she got hired!
Can't hurt to ask.
When I first started hospital stuff I did H&P and DS and then added in the OP notes and then every other type of note under the sun.
There are a lot of mentally ill people out there. No joke. Just different degrees.
Seriously, did you ever talk to someone who you just think might be one step out of reality but not enough to be considered full-blown crazy.  Lots of my friends fall into that category.  Sorry but its true.
Heck yeah! DH and both kids have their degrees,
I'm 47 and am studying Psychology at the University of Massachusetts!
Pacific Time, still sunny and 72 degrees :-) (nm)
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Sorry! Wrists at 180 degrees in same flat plane as
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I got spanked when I was a kid and it never hurt me.
Then when I had children (they're grown now0, they got spanked, too, and it never hurt them. It usually was a last straw, but sometimes it was necessary, and they are none the worse for it, either. However, each of us is entitled to our own opinion and entitled to raise our children the way we see fit as long as we raise them in a loving home.
My neck does hurt too...but...
my wrists usually get super sore when I STOP typing, I guess from not using them so much. If I take a weekend off, I am in severe pain with them, usually the brace works or taking ibuprofen, but now the brace doesn't fit. Thanks for your help!! I have actually thought about trying acupuncture, someone I know did that and they don't have any back pain at all after some sessions, supposed to be covered by my insurance too. Thanks again for your help!
I have the Panasonic behind the ear one, but they hurt.
Waaaaa. I'm looking in to those big ones like we used to use in the 70's with our stereo systems. Does anyone use them?
Whatever. Nothing to hurt and I'm not ashamed.