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    I found just what I wanted on Google. Maybe I am just a slowpoke but...
    "Medical abbreviations", a lot of them.

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    Google is my friend.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sangye View Post
    Google is my friend.
    Mine too. When Chris was little I said I love green beans and he said "Hey grandma, do you want to marry them??" So now whenever I love something I say I want to marry it. SO......I want to marry google. (lol)

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    LOL-- A couple years before I got diagnosed, I got a new commuter bike. It's a hybrid mountain bike/street bike. I'd had a mountain bike for years and was always uncomfortable on it, like pushing lead. The new bike was awesome. I had so much fun riding it everywhere and couldn't stop telling my friends about it the first couple weeks. One day I told a friend, "I love my bike soooo much!" He answered, "Then why don't you marry it?"

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    I drive my daughter and a little boy to preschool and they sit in the back seat and say, " Hey do you want to marry that tree? Do you want to marry that Stop sign? Do you want to marry my mom? Do you want to marry that dog poop?"

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    LOL-- priceless.

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    This is interesting, and quite timely because I was intending to ask a question about the use of abbreviations on this forum. I know it must get tedious typing out the full medical names ( I am already finding that myself) but for people who are just starting off with Wegener's the abbreviations on this forum get kind of confusing. Would it be possible to have a sticky with all the more common ones on it?

    One example...CTX is listed on Wiki Medical abbreviations as "ceftriaxone, a third generation cephalosporin antibiotic"(?) and the correct abbreviation for cyclophosphamide seems to be listed as "CHOP" .......(?) There is no medication listed under the abbreviation "RTX".

    I worked out "DX" ( diagnosis) for myself! - I suppose eventually I'll get the hang of all these informal abbreviations but given my limited mental capacity, the abbreviations can be difficult for a newcomer.

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    I agree with you .
    Most of these abbreviations are informal and have been adopted on the forum over time. It must be very confusing to newcomers. Would a request not to use them be effective or are they too firmly entrenched now?

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    I have no problem using the full names.

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    I'd rather use the abbreviations! I listed most of the ones we use recently. I don't remember if I started a thread or added to an existing one. It'd be great to make it a sticky. Can someone search for it?

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