it's all in a day's work part 2

Again these are errors or bloopers made by medical transcriptionists and these are from actual transcriptions that I have edited. Part 1 can be found here.

He was recently cutting the grass and breaking (raking) leaves. - Makes sense, cut the grass and break the leaves...

…also saw Dr. X in the past who administered injuries (injections) in the knees with reasonably good relief of symptoms. How can a doctor administer injuries?

... and shared that she has a lot of stress with her kid that have been killed and her daughter has _________ for (kids and her grand kids and her daughter's failed marriages.) - There is only thing I can say...NOSEBLEED!

The pain along the legs (neck) radiates to the shoulders and to the arms with tenderness and weakness of the arms. - This MT should really clean her ears more often.

She still has __________ borrowed from her brother. (She still has good control of bowel and bladder). - Makes me sigh and say....NOSEBLEED again!

my baby is growing up fast

Our litte baby is growing up so fast. It seems like only yesterday that he was dependent on us for everything, but now he wants to do things by himself. He walks fast now, just like his dad, and loves to play "habulan" and hide and seek. He has a contagious laugh that shrieks throughout our house. He knows the types of vendors who pass by our street like the fish vendor, vegetable vendor and suman vendor. He would shout "isda," "gulay" and our favorite "suman" with his toy pail on his arm, walking around our living room as if he was selling them. He has his own chair in the house and would sit infront of the television like a "don." He knows some of the names of the restaurants like Jollibee, McDonald's, Max's and Chowking, and can pronounce SM Megamall like an adult. He says "type" when playing with the computer keyboard and would casually say "work" while typing and looking at the monitor. He would make pa-cute to salesladies and lady waiters waving hello and hi and would shout "guard" with all his might when he sees one. He is becoming more and more a handful and more and more of a growing little boy....

information overload

As early as now, Jeff and I are already planning a major vacation in summer of 2009. Joaqui will be old enough then to come with us on our really first family vacation. We are thinking of going to a beach in Bohol or Boracay or, if our budget permits, a trip out of the country like Hongkong or Thailand. As usual, whenever I am searching for something, I go to the internet first and search different websites - which led me to a hundred different websites that I had an information overload. Sometimes it is really hard to discern if the the information on a certain website is reliable or if I am really getting the facts that I need.

I searched for a site that reviews websites and found talkreviews - which is basically a site where internet users can give opinions about their favorite or least favorite websites in several countries. It is very informative because it also provides traffic stats and page ranks, and it is us users who will give first-hand experience about it. I tried it myself and registered so that I can post a review in their users reviews section. I was able to read descriptions of the websites without having to click all of them, at least I can narrow my search to the sites I think would be most useful for me. I was also able to find out the top websites in the Philippines and in other countries. I was even surprised that Friendster was not on top of the list for the Philippines..hahaha. I thought every Filipino has a friendster account! Anyway it was fun using talkreviews and I even reviewed my own website. You just got to try it for yourself to see how it works. ; )

cosplay

According to Wikipedia, Cosplay is short for "costume play," which is a type of performance art whose participants outfit themselves, with often-elaborate costumes and accessories, as a specific character.

We were in SM Megamall earlier and there was a Cosplay event going on and we ran into a participant preparing his costume as Voltes V. We ended up watching that person complete his costume and I just can't help admiring how they manage to get these costumes and participate in events like this. There were so many participants wearing costumes from characters in different animes, but the Voltes V and the other robot (I forgot the name) were our favorites. Check it out:

searching made easy

We are starting our application for Canada as immigrants and are completing the required documents. I had no idea that it would be so difficult to get birth certificates from the NSO office. My mom also needed my dad's death certificate for the Social Security System and we had to wait in line, which was sooooo long and had to bear the scorching heat. My brother informed us that we can now get birth certificate or death certificate through the NSO Helpline Plus. It would be much more convenient, but then the price would be three or four times than that of getting it from their office.

I hope that our government will continue to improve their service with regard to getting documents. I now wonder how those living in the far away provinces get their important public records. In the U.S., there is a database available which you can use to recover death certificates no matter in which state you live in. It uses a direct data retrieval process and is easily accessible at a cheap price, without the hassles of going through long lines or hurting your pocket. We need something like this which will definitely make public records search a breeze and not a horrible experience for us.

i heart your blog

I got this award from Concon. Thanks for this award sis! This kind of award makes me feel appreciated and I hope it goes around, especially to us moms who are into blogging and sharing our wonderful experiences as a wife and/or mom. It just makes our day knowing that as "virtual sisses," we are supporting each other by taking the time to read our blog posts and what-have-yous that we put in our blogs. ; )

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Previous awardees: Mabelle, Prily, Ate Norma, I Love Philippines Too, Shenga, Nova, WebbieStuffs, Nancy, Webloglearner, Pinay Wahm, and My So Called Life, Let’s Spice Things Up, Beauty and Shop, Idealpinkrose, allin, kimchiland, Korean Food, The Paper Vision, Embrace Simplicity, Me and Mine, A Window To Our World, A Grateful Heart, Can of Thoughts, A Mother’s Stuff, http://housewifeatwork.blogspot.com/, MommaWannabe, Lourdes Mia, Praning’s Shoutout, When Silence Speaks, Etc Atbp, Aeirin’s Collections, Life is What we Make it, Underneath It All, Cellulitic Bliss, My Lavender Fields, Life.Love.us., jengspeaks, YOUR BLOG

Now I am sharing this award to all my fellow Pinay Bloggers ; )

stop annoying me

As a work-at-home mom, it is important for me to have a few hours of quiet time when I can concentrate on my work and focus on tasks at hand, so that I can then take care of my son Joaqui. Sometimes when I was in the middle of transcribing a STAT report, I was interrupted by three phone calls which were not important at all. One was a call center agent from a credit card company offering me a new credit card, the other was a wrong number and the third was a telemarketer from a home TV shopping network. I was really annoyed because I was hurrying to finish that report as it needs to be sent immediately to the doctor.

This has happened to me quite a number of times and even though we have a caller ID, I would still want to know what to expect from a certain number so that I would know if I should answer that call or not. I hope that there is a site where people can report phone numbers and provide comments on a certain number, so that I would know beforehand if it is just a sales call, a wrong number or a telemarketer. It would be a big help especially for busy work-at-home moms like me.

What Color Day Are You Having?

You Are Having a Yellow Day

Today is a pretty great day for you. How could it not be with your optimistic attitude? You are very inspired right now, and your creativity is at its peak. While you are on top of the world today, be careful. You may be more fragile than you think. As long as you don't let yourself get too worked up or over-stimulated, you'll be fine.

What Color Day Are You Having?

Krispy Kreme's irREESE'Stible offer

My favorite Reese’s peanut butter is now on a Krispy Kreme doughnut! I so love Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and I am so happy that Krispy Kreme came up with 3 variants:

NEW Reese’s Peanut Butter & Kreme - an irresistible Reese’s peanut butter mixed with creamy vanilla icing on a Krispy Kreme doughnut.

NEW Reese’s Peanut Butter & Chocolate - a perfect combination of Reese’s peanut butter, vanilla and rich chocolate on a Krispy Kreme doughnut

Reese’s Pieces & Kreme - a chocolate iced Krispy Kreme doughnut topped with crunchy Hershey’s Reese’s peanut butter candies drizzled with creamy caramel.

Got to have these all! Yummy!

Flowers from Popcornthoughts

Thanks Joanne for this tag!

The rules of the award are:
1. The winner can put the logo on her blog.
2. Link the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links of those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs of the girls you've nominated.

I am giving these flowers to Jammy, Emz, Lani, Mel, Sheryll, Sujee and Eds.