I worked with a woman in her mid 80s. Did your friend/coworker live in Calif. by chance?

• 80+ and still typing. - x
  • I worked with a woman in her mid 80s. Did your friend/coworker live in Calif. by chance? - I hope I can do it!
  • 80 and still typing - janett
    • Sorry, but this kind and wonderful woman - is from Wyoming.
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    • You shouldn't feel that way! No one has even ASKED - my age when I applied for MT jobs
  • That is something... - k
    • My grandmother transcribed part time into her mid 70s. - nm

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party at her home.  Low and behold she had a whole room full of toilet tissue she has spirited away from the office over the 30 years!!!!  She had grown up in the depression and I guess it was a big deal to have toilet tissue.  She sure hoarded it. 

her shipment from home came, she changed into spandex shorts and a halter top, rode her bike right out the gate of the compound to "work on her tan" and was rescued by one of the doctors at the hospital pulling up next to her in a van and whisking her inside. She thought she was being kidnapped!

This was 20 years ago though.

and talked about them after they left.  Requirement for working there:  You had to be very thin and attractive.  She was shocked that they made fun of the people who came there for help.

And you fall into the "therapy" or drug routine?  Why not address the issues.  You want women to support women no matter how ridiculous the idea is or you want to support a truth, no matter who tells it.  The rest of the "therapy" crap you post is BS.  You must know that by now.

Read the following report that a co-worker of mine typed for a company I used to work for.   Our job was read office notes on a patient and summarize their history for the insurance company.  Our MDs would then agree or deny with the request (in this case a motorized scooter) that another MD made.   Is this hysterical or what?  I just ran across this on an old floppy disk from 2 years ago.  I eventually quit this job even though the pay was amazing because I couldn't deal with the incompentance any longer.  It drove me crazy. 

This coworker was my manager's "teacher's pet".  Of course, my manager didn't have a clue what one medical word meant.  LOL  My coworker had this job for over 5 years and didn't have a clue either.  I think if they would have outsourced to India they would have have had more accuracy. LOL

The following report was actually sent to the insurance company with the physican's recommendation.  

 The patient is a ____year old male with an inguinal hernia of the thoracic or lumbar spine.  The date of injury was noted as ______  The case manager noted a history of multiple abdominal surgeries, last being in _____ The physician noted that he had chronic intractable somatic pain and had been certified for a narcotic pump, which gave him some relief.

The ______ office note from Dr. X noted refilled of pain pump under fluoroscopy.  The physician noted that the claimant was having difficulty with different activities with family outside in his abdomen and pain in the legs.  He could not support his weight.  He had been having difficulty going beyond a 15-minute period.  The physician recommended a scooter and stated he was not able to return to work.

I am a radiology MT and worked at the hospital who did my chest x-ray and lab work after I was given a dx of breast CA on Tuesday.  I had been given Xanax which I took and was in a sheer panic because I am afraid .

The woman MT I worked with at the radiology dept and I have kept in touch.  I told her as I was being worked up (did not tell her I had CA as she has a big mouth) to let me know if she does my chest x-ray and let me know if it is abnormal.  I then went into the surgeons office where he had been a faxed of the chest x-ray with the CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS:  Breast cancer.  on the top.  When I returned home, I had an e-mail from her that was an exact cut and paste of my chest x-ray with the exception that CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS:  Breast cancer. had been cut from the copy.  She has since stopped all contact with me and now I fear that the entire MT dept and hospital I worked in for two years with know I am suffering from this without my telling them.

I feel hurt and violated because she knew before I wanted her to (she typed the report I saw but mostly because she has stopped corresponding with me after seeing that I had breast CA.  When I was being worked up, she said my bad lifestyle was the culprit.  She herself has never had a mammogram and refused to see doctors (7th Day Adventist). 

Am I wrong for feeling this way?  Have rules been broken?  Shouldn't she have asked for my wrritten authorization before placing my chest x-ray report in an e-mail. and saying "good job" with reference to teh normal chest I guess (although the words "Breast CA" definitely negated that - it was almost as if she did not want me to know she knew. 

I am so confused right now and have no family members or even close friends so I cannot tell if what I am thinking is even accurate.  The Xanax and Prozac are not helping along with major anxiety.

Any feedback from astute MTs would be appreciated.  Thank you.

Am curious if anyone's else is outrageously high.  Mine typically is $150-200 for summer months. 

I keep temp at 82 during day, 78 at night.  Temperatures here soar to 95-100 though.  But, I live alone and have gas hot water, gas stove.

Working at home has its pluses and minuses!  Leaving the air off for 8-10 hours a day while I was at the hospital working saved me a lot of cash in this utility bills.

You have to be disciplined to make yourself work when baby is napping instead of maybe watching TV or doing housework, etc.   

I might also go the route of having a teen come into your home, or either trying a mother's morning out program at a local church/daycare.   I've been home since my youngest was born and he has never been in all-day daycare, but I did have him in a mother's morning out program 15 hours a week at a local church.   It didn't help a lot with my work schedule because I had an older son in school and was a room mom and tutored other kids, but that might be an option.  The only problem with the mother's morning out program is they are around other kids and tend to pick up every germ.  I finally took my DS out of the program because he stayed sick.  You were supposed to keep them off if they had green nasal discharge and I did, but no one else did.  Every time I got him well after 2 to 3 days back he would be sick again.  Other than that it was very good for him because he would not have had a chance to be around kids his age otherwise. 

Or do you mean just because it gets dark early because of the time change.  I've heard of people in Alaska with the night being so long using that light for depression, but that's really the only time I've heard of it.