Simply this: I appreciate this site IMMENSELY !!!... But we now seem to live in an "ABBREVIATED' age... Yet not everyone who reads this site knows what every abbreviation used in Questions means... I think most readers who do not know the used Abbreviation, will just not bother to read further or react to it.!
"Aging-Care" -personnel: Could you please have a permanent request printed on your site for "questioners" to have the courtesy to fully write out the word, the 1st time it is used, then put the Abbreviation in parenthesis next to the word. Thereafter the meaning of the abbreviation is known to the reader throughout the rest of the text. ...
This has become "courtesy protocol" in business correspondence and here it should be required, because your readers live in such a large country that terminology and names can be different in Alaska, compared to the same thing in Texas....... Your Attention to this matter would surely be appreciated by many readers, as your subject matter discussed here is becoming ever more important and the help you offer is needed by many elderly
I am now asking for an explanation for " APS " - it is not found in Google either.... Thank you for listening ! DHilBe.
She is in IL. at a N.H. She does not qualify for I.L. or A.L. She talks of moving to AZ., with me. I said "NWIH."
CIC: Crazy is contagious
Christine
These could be used in succession....
FML - (expletive) My Life
INA - In Need of Alcohol
ARMS - Awaiting Return of Mother Ship
AgingCare.
WBRA = Washing Bathroom Rug AGAIN
MYPE = Must You Pee Everywhere?
INOMCI= In Need of Massive Coffee Infusion (or IV)
WTHIML = Where The H*ll Is My Life??
Ahhh sh**, is that water I hear?
Yup, midnight, hose on washing machine decided to start gushing and not into the washer. TGFTH, thank goodness for this thread, I heard it got it turned off and mopped up in about twenty minutes. Who knows if I had been asleep.
Why do some people have more than one identity?
I have discovered several and know their altered egos as well. Are these people just internet trolls? Or are they actually caregivers that have maybe been pushed over the edge? Or they find pleasure in being mean and rude to others that are experiencing challenges in their care giving roles.
Gladimhere?
I feel your concern about trolls.. It gives me the creeps at times, it matters what my mood is..
And the PO. Sorry, no, the OP. Oh crumbs I'm so confused…
Anyway. That person is correct, in that life would be so much simpler in our bureaucratic world if the protocol were followed.
And, as you say, this is terrific fun. And has enlightened me about quite a few I'd been puzzling over but never quite worked out…
gladimhere - re: the trolls...IKWOYS (I know what of you speak) and I share your concerns. Weird. Just very weird.
TTOM = That Time of Month
Granted, it only works for females, and many of us are (thankfully) past having to deal with it, either by nature's design or by man's (surgery)....but I think it definitely has its place here! :-)
Saying p.u.'d (for 'passed urine' in case anybody's wondering) doesn't even save any time, and it isn't obvious, so what the h*ll was the point? - apart from being either lazy communication or an opportunity to patronise the parent en passant? I thought that was a real shibboleth at work, there. It's different when you're typing on line; and anyway in a forum you can always ask, or just pick it up as you go along.
Nope.
The medical world is riddled with them. some are even derived from the latin so there is no way of working them out.
Here are a few, not Latin.
HNPU has not passed urine
TPR temperature pulse and respiration.
BO bowells open
NPO nothing by mouth.
NV not vomited
MDA manual dilation of anus
PR per rectum
Nothing to do with medicine but I have one for Rolo
Roll over loved one
GOAT grouchy old angry toad.
No disprespect for OP but we can keep this going for ever.