Thank you so much! xoxo - lots of hugs! nm

• To all you parents of student athletes - sm - Heartbroken!
  • Only your son knows what it's like.... - Not quite been there..
  • High School Sports - I feel your pain!
  • School sports - Misha
  • My son has played since 2nd grade, quit last year and sm - football mom
  • It's his decision to make so you have to respect that. - I admire him for putting academics first!
  • This is part of growing up - lm
  • Be Happy about it - sm
  • My husband did this, only he waited until - sm
    • Thank you so much! xoxo - lots of hugs! nm - Heartbroken
  • just try to help him be sure its for the right reasons - sm
  • Will regret -sm - Coach's wife
    • I think he will regret it also, but that is his choice and if he does regret it, sm - Heartbroken
    • Pushing them to play a sport is not always - sm
    • my experience.... - with son in soccer
      • but here are my thoughts - not your fault
        • my experience - with son in soccer
  • My son just did the same thing... - football was everything....(sm)
  • Been there.. know the feeling - They burn out!
    • hearing same from mine. - sdmt
  • To all you parents of student athletes - sm - Hope
  • It is a hard thing..... - andromeda
    • That is just it, I am not putting pressure on him at all and support him, - Heartbroken
      • You have to let it go!! - andromeda
    • SORRY about the typos!!!! nm - andromeda
  • Why is this so upsetting to you? He sounds very responsible and aware to me. sm - R
    • Thanks, I agree......I am okay with his decision, but will - Heartbroken
  • As a parent of 3 grown men, I'd be real clear with him - Mom o' 3
  • My son did the same thing. - I can relate!
    • I agree - his dreams are more important than mine; however, sm - Heartbroken!

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I am so sorry you are going through this.  It's not easy to be in that situation.  I have been under a mountain of debt and staring at bankrupty before, with two small children and no money for food, and no help in sight.

I second the suggestion to talk with your creditors.  Also, pay the necessities first, which of course you know already.  I am going to look into Dave Ramsey myself, after that suggestion. 

One thing I have leared is that change is constant.  Things will keep changing and this will get better with time. 

I do know people who have downsized from owning a home to moving into an apt. for a season in order to get out of debt.  That may sound crazy, but in THEIR position it helped them with utility costs, commute costs, etc.  I am not telling you to do that at all, but perhaps there are other options that would make things easier for you to pay everything right now. 

Sometimes I feel like I would like to take just my laptop and a change of clothes and buy an RV and hit the road. 

Wish we could have a big yard sale together. 

My sister who is a CNA at a nursing home is constantly saying I 'just type what people say'.  Yeah, OK... I'd like her to even TRY to do this!!  My other sister thought that way too until I played a dictation for her and she put the headset down and said he couldn't understand a word said.  Wish I could get the older sister to try it, but she'd not admit defeat anyway.   

Or how it isn't a real job because I don't go to an office everyday.  Yeah, I'd like to see them work with a toddler underfoot and still do a good job. 

I'm happy with my career choice though and I'm proud of myself and my husband is proud of me so I'm happy with that!    Plus I get to have this great job and still never have to miss any of my daughter's firsts.

Hello!  Email me if you still need sites for OP notes - I have quite a few good ones I can send you...

Laura

On one of my personal computers where I had (as usual) TONS of AutoCorrects and AutoTexts stored every once in a while Word would freeze up or close down (I forget now which) and everything would be lost.  So, I made sure to back up the normal.dot and the .acl (I haven't had to do this for a few years so I'm not sure I have that 100% correct) often so I could reinstall them.   I also saved the documents I was working on every few minutes and made that easier by changing the F12 button to a "Save" button.  One day I had a brilliant idea and went in to AutoCorrect Options and unchecked everything I could that was not important to me and it stopped happening!  I only mention this in case someone else out there has this problem.   

But I have TONS and TONS of entries and I have never had one just disappear without some other reason for it other than I had too many in there. 

Acute care is so much broader as far as need for knowledge of terminology in many different specialities.  Clinic transcription can be of any specialty, but usually if you have a clinic account it will be limited to one or two specialties. 

There are many different work types in acute care.  Clinic work consists of mostly a history, physical exam, and plan.   Acute care includes things such as operative notes, consultations, etc.  which are "a whole different ballgame" as far as terminology.          

No consistency!

what you get a degree in.  Something like sociology, anthropology, etc. - no, probably not many jobs.  Psychology you really need a graduate degree.  Social work you can find jobs with a bachelor's but not that well paying, so would need a graduate degree.

But look at a lot of the medical professions - heck, nursing, physical therapy, respiratory therapy, medical technology (except they call it something else now), radiology, pharmacy, etc. etc. - all are BOOMING.  Just gotta be smart about what you get your degree in.

It took me approximately two weeks to really get the specifics down on the account I am currently working on.  That is just the account specs.  The DO's and DONT'S.  It is about 75 pages long.  I still am not used to all of the doctors yet because I have not had the opportunity to transcribe for all of them enough to be able to get used to them.  I work for a national, but my account is for a large hospital, so there are doctors there that I have not even come across yet.  I have been on this particular account now for 3 months.  I have the specifics down cold, and like I said, that only took a couple of weeks to get.

I have had other accounts that only took a few days to get used to because they were smaller and didn't have that many specifics.

The bottom line is that it depends on the account itself.  The client is going to be the one that will determine how long it will take you to get used to an account based on how many instructions, etc. they dish out for their accounts.  Each and every account will be different.  You may notice a pattern at some point, but you can't really count on a set amount of time or categorize it into a specific time frame.

Just my opinion.

have, including my DH.  I have never known anyone to keep the weight off once they come off the diet.  While there have been various studies as to healthiness/unhealthiness of the diet, I don't see how eating high fat foods came be healthy.  I do know that the diet throws your body into a ketosis, which gives you terrible breath.  When my DH was on the diet I asked him not to talk while in the car because his breath smelled so bad.  He worked with a woman who said she wondered why people would back away from her when she talked.

I think low carb is a good idea, but I don't think high fat is a good idea.  I'm not a nutritionist, just makes sense.