Thread: I'm driving myself crazy!!

Originally Posted by Beauts

Oh boy.....I can't imagine how you must feel!!!!! Talk about nervous and sick and helpless and worried sick, all at once!! I am very sure all will be fine and that really isn't too long of a wait time but I bet every day feels like an eternity right now.
About the word...I work every day having to decipher medical conditions/words that doctors write...could you fax it to me or scan it and I can give it a shot? I'm pretty good...PM me if you want me to try. Hugs!

That would be awesome!! This word is driving me crazy, do you want a close up picture of it, I took one today and text'd it to my bff and she couldn't figure it out and he's her ped too lol. I can put it up here for you or anyone else to see.

here's the word, it's the bottom middle word and it's in this sentence...

see for _____ LVP (left ventricular pressure)

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thats a tough one!!!!!! Let me see what I can do with it tomorrow at work!

Ugh. :( I can see how that would be frustrating. I once heard that doctors make their handwriting hard to decipher on purpose so that we don't read what they've written and google it (which we all know is a terrible idea!).

Years of working with teenagers has made me pretty good at deciphering cr@p handwriting, though. Can you take a pic that's a tiny bit less zoomed? I may be able to figure it out for you.

Originally Posted by Jessy

Ugh. :( I can see how that would be frustrating. I once heard that doctors make their handwriting hard to decipher on purpose so that we don't read what they've written and google it (which we all know is a terrible idea!).

Years of working with teenagers has made me pretty good at deciphering cr@p handwriting, though. Can you take a pic that's a tiny bit less zoomed? I may be able to figure it out for you.

yup, will go do that right now!

how about this...

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:( Sorry, Stacey. I've been staring from every direction, and I can't seem to get this one. Looks like either a Cl/ Cli or a U to start with, but I can't think of any words that make sense. Possibly some medical term I'm not familiar with...

If you want to try zooming back a wee bit more, it might help, but I'm not sure- it's a toughie.

Wish I could be of more help.

Ok...so I showed it to DH (who has a talent for decoding people's obituaries when they bring them in written on a paper napkin and we have to figure out what they say..lol)...and the way he does it is he compares the letters to others in the paragraph...so we would have a better shot at it if we could see more of the docs writing....unless it's too personal.
Oh...and we actually asked a few of our doc friends about why they write so horribly and they all agreed it was because when in med school, they had to take so many notes so fast, it looked like a scribble....and they got so used to it that it stuck. I can kind of relate, because when I first started my career, my signature was beautiful...now you couldn't even guess it was my name (looks like a docs signature)...and that came from having to sign my name a thousand times a day..lol....a scribble is faster.
So anyway, if you want to scan more of the letter....and will give it to a doc in the next couple of days too.

Yes Jessy, I first thought UIU...but that doesn't really stand for anything that I know of.