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I would feel like people would think I was an infertile woman turning my cat into a baby.

Posted By: LOL on 2005-07-07
In Reply to: no wonder - romey

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    Then to have to deal with all that! If you can't fix it (try) and decide you can't live with it, don't quit the industry--take the experience you've already invested in and look for a small operation to train further with, either local or on-line. I started with a small office owned and run by two sisters, lovely sweet women who made the amazing experience of struggling to get good enough to bring in minimum wage (!) endurable. Best wishes!
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    I feel people who feel like this post
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    Troubles with Teething - Baby, Baby, Baby
    Hi. My little guy is teething soooooo bad and I am wondering if any of you have some ideas that I can try, to hopefully make his life (and my life) a little easier to deal with? lol. We've tried Tylenol - with little pain relief, but much diarreha! We've tried Orajel - it seems to wear off too fast to make a difference. We've tried teething toys - help for only a few minutes (not nearly enough time for me to get any work done!). His appetite is normal, but his sleep schedule has been totally disrupted (as has mine). For the last 2 nights, he has woke up every couple hours. I would think he would be exhausted during the day....but he never goes to sleep. He is more fussy than usual and alittle more clingy, but overall he is very playful. His pediatrician gave me some suggestions (the above) that I have tried with little to no help, so I am desperate for new ideas! He is cutting multiple teeth right now (and just got a few new ones last week too) so he is in a lot of pain. Poor little guy. I appreciate all ideas that anyone has. Thanks in advance.  :)
    Therapy for what? Because I don't support any woman who spouts an idea because she is a woman?

    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.


    Wow...now I don't feel so bad! People...
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    Why do people on here feel the need to be
    Maybe, just maybe, there are people who just want to vent after hours of ignorant statements and horrific grammar.
    Nah, some people just feel the need to show off. sm
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    I think that when people feel the need to exalt themselves
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    what some people have to do to feel good about themselves

    "What do you all do when you have to type an expletive?  I am working on an account where this comes up often.  I refuse to type the actual expletive so I usually just put (expletive) and go on.  No one has ever said anything, but I was curious as to what everyone else does."


    That was my ORIGINAL POST.  I wanted to know what any other MT in the field did regarding expletives.  I didn't ask you to judge my character.  I didn't need anyone telling me to "put my big girl panties on."  All I was looking for was for you all to tell me what you did in that situation.  I guess it makes you feel good to pound on a person rather than address the inital question - if that's what you need to do, then so be it.  I am not new to the field.  Been an MT for over 10 years and have never typed an expletive, though it hasn't come up often.  Found this board and am mostly a lurker and thought I would finally run it by some others.  Should have just kept it to myself.  No wonder I like being an MT - you don't have to deal with other people very often.


    Go ahead and feed the piranhas if that's what gets you through your day.


    My great-nephew standing in his baby bed in his beautiful nursey - he is the most adorable baby in t
    nm
    It is going to be very interesting to see how you people feel once your office is closed and you are
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    I feel for them but more so for the people on the MS Gulf Coast who are still in tents sm
    its cold here now (27 degrees this a.m.) and some people are STILL sleeping in tents behind the truck stops. :(
    I think people with higher IQs actually frequently feel insecure,
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    hey, psychic is in your mind and your posts. i'm an mt. i just feel when people ramble about th
    they usually have tried to relax and don't realize how crazy they sound. no i don't have a clue. i am reading between your lines which aren't making sense. i pretend nothing. magic 8 balls and psychic is your area of "expertise", not mine.
    I feel bad for the people in Colorado and Wyoming who had so much wind and cold
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    People expect the groomer to do anal glands. They feel that is part of what they are paying for.
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    No, not offended and not turning on you sm
    I think some of us are frustrated and concerned for you because we know it will happen again--and there's nothing we can do.

    We also see the things that you're saying and see them as typical problematic statements, classical of someone who's being abused and will be abused again.

    Statements like these:

    "I have neglected to mention that when he is calm, he is actually okay." What? What difference does that make? He's probably very sweet and wonderful when he's not hitting you, yes.

    and

    "The incident two weeks ago was because I was forcing a trip to see my daughter's family." In other words, you caused it, right? That's so typical of an abused woman. "I made him mad" or "I egged him on." See, we on this board read things like this and see what you're not seeing, which is why we are SCARED for you and urging you firmly to see them. You're interpreting this as turning on you or that we're offended. No -- we are seeing something and trying to get you to see it, and really worried that you're not. And yes, frustrated that you're going to live with this man under the same roof while you try counseling and religion.
    things are turning around?

    I have some relatively good news fellow transcriptionists!  I am seeing a change for us in small doses.  Seems several of the larger hospitals who have outsourced to "companies" are now bringing back in the MT and paying decent wages with all benefits.  Look around, they are popping up everywhere.  I know of several "compaines" that I have worked part time for that the hospitals are dropping like flies because of various reasons, but the truth of the matter is that it is always better to have regular typists working for the same doctors as we "learn their lingo" and know how to baby them, which in a nutshell is what gives us the job security that we look for.  I work for a hospital as an IC that now is having big problems because they dont want to give raises or benefits(therefore people are quitting), but they are finding out very fast that no one else can or wants to do their work.  I can't wait for them to try the offshore companies.. will just be too rich...  As fussy as my group of doctors are, well, I smell raise on the horizon and benefits to boot.  they will just have to fall flat on the ground before they can walk the walk!! 


    Just remember, what goes around comes around.  I have a new job with a hosptial that has made me full employee and decent wage.  I am so looking forward to seeing this change that has been long coming. 


    I am just glad that it really is starting to turn around.  Just goes to show these offshore cheaper prices are not being "bought" for long by many.   I know of one hospital that had outsorced all their work, after a while (maybe a couple of years) they found that it was CHEAPER to bring the Transcriptionist back in and train to send home with all equipment and benefits and really decent pay, I am talking more than what any "company" has ever offered me, except for opt notes.. Just too cool.  I am so excited..  


    Will keep you posted as I start my new job - really belonging again!  :)


     


     


    Maybe you are accidentally turning it
    on by hitting Ctrl-B or a combination of keys to turn it on. I am always accidentally making words all CAPS.
    Have you tried turning it off and then back on? nm
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    turning off computer at night

    I leave mine on -- just do a "control, Alt, delete" and "log off" instead of shut down.  It works fine.  I have to enter my password the next day, but thats okay. 


    I've heard the machine will not last as long if it's turned off every night.


     


     


    Yes, turning Celine OFF works even better! LOL

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    You're stoked right now, which is great, but don't let it fizzle out with husband's pleas and lack of abuse in the meantime. It WILL happen again if you stay. Anybody who knows anything about abuse will tell you that. The center you contacted will tell you that, too. Listen to the experts.

    Bravo on actually contacting your parents and Swan. However, you said they can hide you out if you actually need to go. Hello? You actually need to go. Now. You were just hit 2 weeks ago. You're feeling in control and all, but it WILL happen again. Yes, you are in danger. Your husband is scared right now. He senses the loss of control. However, this is a cycle. When you stay, and things get a bit more distant, they'll resume some sort of normalcy. It'll build up, and he'll blow. What will happen next? You know you've got someone who has abused you as recently as 2 WEEKS ago, and you say you're not in danger and you're willing to let your CHILDREN LIVE under the same roof as someone who WILL eventually blow again, and maybe hurt them next time?

    It's not just about being hid out when (not if) things get ugly again. You need to work toward a permanent plan, not just a crisis plan. There are other places besides this one you've called, ones who can give you some counseling and advice on how to leave and make it on your own with your children.

    I wish you would listen and leave, but I have a feeling you're going to wait til next time. Do you know it takes women an average of SEVEN times leaving their abusive spouses before they finally leave for good? How many times will you let it take you? And what will be the cost to you and your children before you finally "get it?"
    Turning numbering on and off for lists
    Does anyone know the keystroke commands or if they even exist to turn numbering off and on for lists?  I hate having to use the mouse to point at the menu and going that route!
    Turning the control off did the trick. sm

    I don't even need the convertor now.  The plug-in downloaded and my GP plays the dvf files just fine.  Wow!!!  I can't thank you enough. 


    Thanks, thanks, thanks!!!!


    It seems turning that off sorta turns it into XP. LOL! nm
    x
    You might also try turning off the suggestion window SM
    or whatever it is you have for a while. I use Shorthand, but it's pretty much the same thing. That way you could give yourself a list of often-used abbreviations to memorize and get very comfortable with and/or a rule that tells you what a lot of your abbreviations are going to be. As you get comfortable with those few, you'll end up loving them and wanting MORE, MORE, MORE. With that attitude, you can turn the window back on or give yourself yet another list and another rule or two to get used to.

    Just think, if you only used abbreciations for the words "the patient" (tp or ?), "hydrochlorothiazide" (hycx or ?), and "blood pressure" (bp or ?) you'd never type those three out again and would be saving that much time with each of them. Start small and unspook yourself.
    Join the club on being confused. With turning us

    things are charged, billed, or anything any more.


    It just seems like they wanted me to work for nothing to clean up ASR reports.  It was pitiful what they wanted, considering what they needed me to clean up.  I could have typed it faster and better using my word expanders.


    Go with your gut, Patti - my gut is turning and screaming Indian - sm
    but then again, it could just be increased peristaltic activity... but I doubt it
    Try turning off the User Account Control. nm
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    Are you turning the volume using the home typist icon
    or your regular volume control icon on the tool bar?

    I have had that problem with some whispering dictators, so I mute the program itself just for that dictator.

    It's a shame if you can't use it. I get a real rhythm going and my day just flies. I don't think I can type without it now.
    I hear ya. I'm a natural blonde turning white sm

    At first the box stuff worked pretty good. Now I have a huge "skunk stripe" on the left side of my forehead and I'm starting to grow another "skunk stripe" on the left side.


    After a while the box stuff only calms down the different texture of the white stuff for a few weeks so if you wear a few bangs, you need to cut them to match after dying. 3 weeks later the bangs with the white stuff are suddenly a good half inch shorter again.


    Needless to say, for the time being I have the "off the forehead"  look that makes my head look like two breakdown lanes on a highway.


    I'm saving my money. The initial shock for the "makeover" is scary, but my 2 sisters told me to go for it as the upkeep isn't too bad at all. They would both be snow white in their late 40's if it weren't for visits to the salon.


    I'm headed in the same direction and I'm early 40's. My husband, who went white by 38, told me to just go natural.


    I told him to kiss my natural behind.


     


    Try turning off User Account Control in Vista. (nm)
    x
    Mine is working fine and turning purple...
    .
    Turning off Indexing will drastically improve speed.
    Vista loads a ton of "services" that you won't ever use so turn those off as well. A Google search will give you exact instructions on the ones you don't need.
    You're turning this lighthearted thread into something entirely too deep. Lighten up.
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    Try turning the volume down, it works. Celine is superior by far. No contest. NM

    Raintree County, Cross Creek, The Turning Point nm
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    if you live among trashy people, low income people, people w/o goals or direction,
    content to just get by, you by default become a part of a group. "people" have decided to group trailer people as trash. that is because there are enough people in that group to earn the title and even if you aren't trash, you are categorized by others. did i think i was trash in lower class neighborhood surrounded by people who drank and fought all weekend? no but i knew i wasn't staying and did not try to pretend that all the fools in the neighborhood were just nice folks who ended up where they were because high horse snobs deemed their neighborhood low class. people for the most part live exactly where they belong because they don't want to educate themselves, they don't mind "trash" around them and they don't want to be bothered trying just a bit hard to extract themselves from that world. they justify everything to themselves i guess saying everyone who doesn't like their lifestyle is a snob and the comedians (Jeff Foxworthy/Chris Rock, etc) who make fun of them are just ill-informed.

    As for me, I fought hard to get out and don't even want to look back. It amazes me people stay for generations.
    if you feel like that after 12 years, and I feel like that after six months
    what hope is there?
    maybe she wants to be the woman.

    Seems to me, this is about those woman who only think they look like that...
    and unfortunately do not.

    Even young girls do this - I have seen young girls more and more, bellies out, cracks out (pardon me, do not know what else to call it- smile), and maybe 2 out of 10 have the bodies for it. The rest are overweight and have bulges and cellulite, etc.

    I think almost everyone would agree, if a woman can wear something (or nearly nothing) and look good, more power to them. If they do not have a body like a model, or even close, best to hide the cleavage in public, in my opinion...
    Done 2! Come on MTs....help this woman win!
    Staples inventors contest. Vote for Julie Savage.
    Can't we get this woman out of here?
    I would sooner see your Avon and candles! This woman has been over on MT Chat, now here, who knows where else. I don't even believe she is an MT. How could she be when she is so busy with her "company"? Can't we get these types of "free advertisers" off here? Makes me mad!  If fshe is free to advertise, then I think the rest of us should be able to, as well!
    Yep, that's right, it was to a woman.nm
    x
    One woman actually said she (sm)
    spent so much time at the pediatrician's office, she KNEW she could do it.  NO KIDDING.  She really said that.
    She is more woman than you could ever-sm
    hope to be in your wildest dreams. What did she ever do to you anyway? come on, take my one on one challenge...make my day. lol
    Probably every woman on here has done the same or more
    than this person is saying she had to do in order to take care of grandchildren. Most women here work and take care of children every day. She asked did I have grandchildren like you just could not work and take care of them. I did - others have here also- no bashing- just truthful, sounds like a cop out to me and probably others here.
    Seems that woman
    had some issues. Okay ... I can see being a little irritated, but really! Your director had the right attitude, and now you have your funny little story you can share. : )