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  • the worst thing that ever happened at school was - anonymous MT
  • SADDLE OXFORDS! I was young when I - wore 'em
  • The first breakfast convenience foods -- - chocolate "space" bars like the astronauts a
  • Drive in Movies sm - Young'ng
    • We still have a Drive In movie theater. sm - Mainer
      • in florida.......................nm - We have 13 drive-in screens at one place
  • Anyone remember Pssssst? - omt
    • Only "bath night" in our house was Saturday - Yeah, I remember that
    • Geez, and I also remember Mini-Poo, which was the same thing. nm - And Dipidee-Doo, too. We're so old :)
  • does anybody remember the name of Kresge's? - holy cow
    • nm......... - I remember Kresge's - a 5 and dime....
  • I remember 5 cent pay phone calls. nm - One ringy-dingy
    • Penny candy that really cost a penny a piece! - LOL
  • Driving a van was actually considered "cool" - Yuck!
    • And convenient. Just like the commercial says ' Some families - were started in one!'
  • a guy with a mule and wagon delivering fresh eggs to - my grandmother every week.
  • candy - janett
  • television came on at 4 p.m. with a - oh, my
    • Million Dollar Movie? Was on every night...sm - anyone remember....
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  • Peach Thrill dishwashing liquid and Bonomo's Turkish Taffy? - Anybody remember
  • Woolworth's 5&10, Sat.afternoon at the movies - 2 movies for the price of 1 - me again
  • I remember when... - Introvert
    • Putting a real penny in those penny loafers! nm - mlstoo
  • when most dictators were from the USA. nm - CL
    • Wow! I always thought that was an urban legend. nm - Mama, tell me 'bout the good ole days.....
    • Now that was a long time ago - Whoa!!!
  • Penny Candy really cost just a penny! nm - Feeling Old Now...
  • I remember when mirowaves were very big ... - dls
    • You remember? I have one of those microwaves. Have one of Sears 1st models that DH bought for - MIL long ago. Still use it. Am I glowing green? nm
    • Oh, me too!!! When I got my first microwave (very expensive) we all watched the bacon cooking. - Introvert
      • I remember our 1st microwave too...thought we were *uptown* - nostalgia is great! sm
        • hahah, just got my 1st microwave - sm
      • I still have my first microwave--big thing. sm - mlstoo
    • LOL, we used to go downtown to Minute Man because they had that "Radar Range" that they used S - Blu
  • You could get - notplaytim
    • Sure could. It was a nickel and a penny. Then they made King Size Cokes that you SM - Blu
  • Rexall Drug Stores all had jukeboxes sm - mlstoo
  • Wow, let's see, I remember when we could play outside without fear SM - Scorpio
    • Gotta find a good place to live. My kids play outside. - Mainer
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      • Heh - I was already a mother, tch-tching over the fashion of the day. :) nm - Blu
      • AAAAAAH! To I'm 36... - The Singing MT
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          • I remember my Dad using VITALIS! For you young ones, that was not an impotence drug, it was for thei - They would slick it back and it was
            • My grandpaw used Vitalis up until he passed away... - I'm 36...sm
          • Remember when there was no conditioner, then Tame came out. What a thrill. - speaking of hair care
            • I thought it was Breck........nm - TAME was the 1st hair conditioner?
              • I'm positive - maybe if I "google" it (sm) - Tame
                • Breck/Tame-around the same time?? SM - google yielded this..........
            • Hair products... - The Singing MT
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    • I remember in Weekly Reader the article discussing "pay TV" and how we didn't see that anyb - Blu
    • Hey, my old cable remote had a remote! sm - mlstoo
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      • i remember those - and more
        • My mom had a rambler. We used to go to the drive-in in our pajama's. Seatbelts were not require - nm
        • WHAT I REMEMBER - REMEMBERING
    • Yeah! We would go to the movies for 75c - triple feature horror flicks - - the REAL horror movies with
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Right now they have no idea when it will be back up and they're warning everyone in Georgia about potential $3.00 and above for gas by the weekend as well as possible gas shortages.   The governor and energy officials are working on trying to get emergency shipments from other sources. 

I'm glad I have a full tank and work from home - hopefully I can ride this crisis out but I know others don't have the work at home luxury.

mom having an allergic/anaphylactic reaction.

Heart can't push the goo through.

Body went into shock.

She couldn't breathe.

Her blood began to clot.

Docs did emergency C-section in 6 minutes.

Then mom went to cardiac arrest.

Then another catastrophic thing happened.

Paula began hemorrhaging massively from every part of her body....from eyes, ears, nose, every incision, every bump and bruise.  All her blood clotting factors had been used up.

Docs poured blood clotting factors into her.

The baby's chances of survival were at 50/50. 

Mom was then noted to have unusual swelling in upper abdomen.

Surgeons reopened c-section.

Astonished to find 1 gal of clot-filled blood.  With the clots removed, her blood quit clotting.

Of the 10% of women who survive, most are brain-damaged. Only 1% survive without any damage.  She turned out to be in the 1% luckily.

A day later she was holding her baby and was OK.

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All this started with her first labor pain of her second child.  It was the leak of the amniotic fluid into her blood stream that caused her to immediately start to feel like her throat was "closing up" and she couldn't breathe (anaphylactic allergic reaction).  She passed out pretty quickly. 

Flexibility is the "key" in this profession, and also you have the type of job that not just anyone can do and be good at it.  Schools promise you the world, but they do in all professions.  Life is what you make of it, and that is the true bottom line!  Have fun, and keep typing!  There are so many doctors that like to have a Transcriptionist they can rely on.  Most offices decide once they send it out, to bring it back actually because they don't want to edit their own work!  We spoil them, not the EMRs, and believe me they like that!

well, my chicken's eggs really.  Although now that I rethink that, perhaps selling various pieces parts would pay a few more bills....hmmm....

Seasonal things make good spare cash too like an honor-system veggie table  parked at the end of the driveway and homemade wreaths and x-mas centerpieces made from local greenery. 

Oh the possibilities are endless if you posess a certain moral flexibility!   I've been thinking of rigging up a pay-per-view "boobie cam" pointed my way to make some extra cash while I type away.  "PayPal Accepted!"   

Hi,

I need help as I don't want to make anyone sick LOL.  Baby shower tomorrow night, my co-host who was making the deviled eggs along with other things broke her wrist this morning...soooo, I am in a time crunch and would like to know if I can make these things tonight (36), just boil them tonight, maybe do the prep just fill them tomorrow??  I usually make them & take them or serve them, but don't know about preparing them this 24 hrs ahead of time.

Thank any of you experts in advance for your opinions..this is so much easier than trying to call Betty Crocker

Now, no more odors from the mushroom house, please.

in my mind.  Maybe after I've been out of the loop for a few more years, I might start to forget what it was like.  But I highly doubt it, because all I have to do is go to any store, hospital, bank, restaurant, heck even a traffic light and just watch...watch the angry, impatient, "me me me me me me" people out there.

Working at home...I kinda feel like I'm my own boss.  Sure there are e-mails and TAT issues, but I actually have control over most of that stuff.  I get out of my job what I put into it.  Yeah, some days are harder than others, but that's just life.

Fresh in my mind are the 8+ hour days of standing on my feet ALL DAY LONG at a register on Mother's Day in a sweltering hot greenhouse putting foil and bows on potted plants, or answering phones at an answering service that were so busy that at the end of 4 hours my voice would be hoarse, or being unable to pee because there was a line of ornery patient's waiting with scowls on their face because THEY needed their outpatient tests booked RIGHT NOW because THEY were on their lunch break and their time is money!  (and then when you finally do get the chance to pee, some nasty-a$$ crotch-cricket-ridden patient decided to leave a floater or pee on the seat!)  And all of this was at least 10 years ago now and still painfully vivid. 

So yeah, go ahead and work in the real trenches and then make a fair comparison of working at home versus working somewhere else.  Whackin' on keys and having to repeatedly playback some ESL now and again ain't nuthin' compared to putting up with a bunch of crap that you can only imagine if you haven't experienced it first hand.

experience you have no clue.  You don't know about various platforms, equipment needed, insurance, taxes, contracts, not to mention your transcription skills are limited and you have no QA skills.  

Unfortunately there are many like you who seemed to have not investigated this business and how hard it is to get a job before taking classes and then end up in the same position as you, graduating and no chances of a job. 

I appreciate your experience and insight!  I agree about clinic work being boring; so is radiology.  And VR/speech rec has really taken over radiology and clinic, the same for EMR.  I know it's going to be a huge challenge for a few months, but I'm up for the challenge!  Plus I've done interventional radiology-type transcription (minimally invasive procedures) with really tough dictators, so I have a bit of a heads up. 

Thanks again!  I'd like to update you in my transition late this summer.

x

on her own and definitely cannot expect to earn $50k! 

EMR is coming whether you like it not and whether your doctors are older or not.  Eventually the older doctors will retire and the new generation coming out of medical school are products of this technological age.  There is no stopping it.