HOLY CRAP!!!! Here's what I'd do:

• Help! Snakes! - scared to sleep
  • I absolutely hate snakes. - mtmtmtmt
  • Hire my kid--he'll catch it for you! sm - mlstoo
    • what a brave son (and parents) - giving me chills
      • He was 13 and had quite a profitable sm - mlstoo
        • Well, I guess somebody has to do it. (sm) - scared to sleep
  • Was gonna post, then decided not to. Opened - SnakesinNJ
    • I think that Health Dept needs a class in black widows - native to eastern, western and northern US
    • Not funny but what a FUN POST!!!....sm - I so appreciate your *tone* of humor!!
  • Odds are its a harmless snake, open up then vent but capture it - sm - XXX
    • I'm in total agreement with you.....sm - most snakes are harmless.......
    • It's still a SNAKE! - MTTomb
      • Okay then, should you kill every animal that scares you be it a dog or - sm - XXX
        • What do you do when a mosquito lands on you? - Buy it lunch? nm
          • No--she is lunch!!!! - hehe
        • Oh, and rats/mice----Eeeek!!!! nm - Dogs/cats okay by me :-)
        • nah, just snakes.....and spiders.....and roaches - Dogs/cats okay by me :-)
  • How do you know the snake is a HE?...sm - do you have a serpentarium in your city?
    • Actually, you can tell a male from a female by the tail. - Misha
  • HOLY CRAP!!!! Here's what I'd do: - fatty
  • Got Snakes - GET LIME!!!!! Sprinkle generously! Burns their bellys. - Old Country Gal
    • and your kids skin or anything else that - yup
      • We live in the country in the south - been using it for years with kids and pets - no worries or pro - Old Country Gal
  • How big? Where do you live? - Misha
    • snake in NC - scared to sleep
      • I'm in NC too! We have good & bad snakes, unfortunately. - Misha
      • could be a harmless snake...nm - can you see what colors it has?
        • I would call it "muddy brown" - scared to sleep
          • Muddy brown is not good. Could be a cotton mouth. - Misha
            • CMs are olive, brown or black - not in NC, but in SC - sm - XXX
              • Here's a site for NC cottonmouth colors: - Misha
                • Thanks. (sm) - scared to sleep
                  • Maybe it's this one. It's nonpoisonous and the site says it is often found in houses when you - Misha
                    • nope, that's not it (sm) - scared to sleep
                      • Hehehe. Just as well. It can get pretty big! - Misha
            • I believe cottonmouths are black, though not sure on that - sm - XXX
          • thanks for responding......sm - can you see what colors it has?
  • Sulfer or moth balls. - g
  • Hating Snakes - I hate snakes!
  • Call Animal control - Yikes!

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I type ortho all day. So for some reason, just for fun???? I decided to give myself a Phalen's test.  (If you aren't familiar, Google it and you will find tons of info, picutres and instructions) Yow, I did not feel it at first but now I am all tingly in the palm and ulnar nerve distribution in my hand.  Probably not a good thing to do when you still have to type another hour. 

Don't try this at home....or at least when you want good use of your hands. Guess I need to review my ergonomic, or not so ergonomic, positioning of my equipment. 

Unless I want to totally ignore my family, housework and total sense of well being!

I only signed on part time because I get at least 4000 lines a week from a local employer.  These are tapes with day sheets and you can pretty much pace yourself if you want to.  No schedule with local.  Sure I might have to work at night sometimes.  It's 8:00 on a Saturday night right now, but I'll have all day tomorrow off.  A WHOLE DAY! I'm finishing up because my kids have gone to the movies.

If I am "required" to do 4000 lines a week on top of my local (and I'm already getting tired of having to have a "scheduled online time" with the national, work available from them or not) I think my hubby and kids will just move out and leave me in my little "hole of an office." :)

I bragged and bragged nearly a year ago about how wonderful it was to work at home, but I'm rethinking.

...but cheaper crap.  Maybe as long as hospitals and MTSOs figure they are going to get schlock work anyway, they would prefer it to be cheaper offshore work, and go through the many layers of QA and proofing?

Insurance companies are one thing, but I have to wonder what happens when a report with serious medical errors ends up in court as part of a megabucks malpractice suit.  I mean if the doc dictates something like "50 mg of potassium" which the MT does not question, or some other horrible boo-boo that QA or the doc never catches.   We are at the bottom of the pyramid, with QA and the doctor himself also responsible for catching mistakes before he signs. Anybody know of any histories of this? 

I think things started going downhill when impersonal MTSOs took over the transcription business, then started buying and trading us like cattle.  We truly don't know our coworkers or bosses.  We're all just faceless typing machines out here.  I don't know about any of you, but I did not get a raise the last five years I was with one MTSO, only 1 raise during the entire 10 years, and certainly no praise for a job well done - ever. 

Yeah, I know, we still all should do our best all the time.  But motivation is sometimes lacking when you feel depersonalized and as though at any moment your company will be sold, your job sent overseas, or you will be turned into a VR Editor against your will.  Maybe some MTs are all about just typing as fast as possible while it lasts. 

Did the MTSOs start this by going overseas for cheap, causing us to say 'what the heck' and become low quality?  Or did we start this by being low quality, causing the MTSOs to go overseas since they were going to get bad work anyway?  Opinions?

Both parents are mid-60s now and for the most part quite healthy, though mom has had Parkinson's for a few years, which is thankfully very slow in its progression thus far. My biggest fear is that she progresses to mental decompensation from it.

I think my brother would shoulder as much responsbility as he could along with me for our parents. I'm already thinking about my next house being larger than we need just in case we have to accommodate one or both of our parents later. Neither my bro nor I live particularly close to our parents, either.

It's a daunting thought from all angles.