Jargon

[ManjiB]

Hi Trish - you have made an excellent point and your request is not at all unreasonable. In an ideal world people would go and explain any jargon or abbreviations they use, but alas, it is unlikely to happen. The reason for this is that for some stroke survivors it is actually difficult to even type the messages. In addition, sometimes we are in autopilot and don’t stop to think and even the medical professionals slip into this.

I remember we had a discussion on this back in April.

Plain English please

I have been on this forum since last September when I had my stroke , I find it useful and sometimes humbling to read of other peoples experiences, but I have one major request, please when people’s experiences and events are reported, could you please use plain English, I for one don’t understand what is being described due to my lack of understanding medical terms,

You might want to try to request this by creating a new post and see if others will join in supporting this request. I think Michelle @Mich-mm has made a great start and perhaps between you you can come up with a way of getting this message to a wider audience.

The difficulty we face is addressing a wider audience.

Michelle’s post has been viewed 75 times as at the time of writing and a high proportion of that may have been read before your request was added.

If my investigation is good then there are nearly 4500 members but we don’t know how many are active as at now.

So even if 1000 were active, so far only 75/1000 are reading this which equates to 7.5% which is not very high in this context.

I am sorry that I am painting a bleak picture
I wish there was something I could think of to help with this cause.

I have a feeling Michelle @Mich-mm might come up with something - she did come up with the jargon buster after all

As a footnote, Trish, I should say you did very well in working out HC was Health Care and then the A was something you might have had a stab at guessing. But whenever, I find myself troubled in this way, I go to our trusty friend “Google” and ask “What does HCA” stand for and more often than not, it will help.

Here’s one I did earlier …

Maybe I was lucky on this occasion, but usually it helps.

Lastly and this is an absolute sure fire thing and that is just reply to the poster and say “Hey Michelle, What does the A in HCA stand for or what does HCA stand for?”, or even as you did make a plea as you did and that which got the response you wanted (and more - my rather longer than needed ramble )

@Trishk

It would also be nice, if others who post in this forum could explain when they use letters, such as the HCA you used in your post.

I am sorry, but I just can’t help rambling on and on and on and on. I guess I’m a born rambler