Every time I spend ages translating someone’s MRI report into simple English, I think, “I must write something that I can copy and paste from” but then don’t do it. Well, I finally have!
One problem: it’s not exactly short. Actually, it is 1665 words long and I haven’t covered everything!
Apart from using it to copy and paste bits when answering posts, I thought I might post the whole thing here so that anyone who was interested could copy and save it to their computer and use it whenever they wanted or to maybe ask for it to be made a Sticky so that anyone could read it when they wanted, but I suspect it might be a bit big for a post.
What do you think everyone? Would you be interested in a brief(!) introduction to the brain and MRI so you might be able to understand your own reports a bit more easily in future? Would you actually read it?!
Mods/Stewart - would the system cope with a 1665 word long post?? (Which I suspect might need adding to when people ask for other things to be included or be better explained.)
Thanks Karen, This will be so helpful to so many people and very interesting no doubt. I’m sure loads of us will be glad to have it to hand. Well done you! Teresa xx
Sounds like a great idea! After flunking school and college I’ve decided at 26 that I like learning, so would love to read it. You have kindly translated for me, and I always read what you do for others. Also, if it means you get to spend a little less time translating, that’s got to be a winner!
Warning to everyone though - I thought of a few things more that I should include and although I’ve tried to make it easy to follow, it almost certainly won’t be easy in one go, especially if you are a complete newbie to it.
I’ll do a bit more work on it today and hopefully post it later.
I hope it’s worth the wait now! (Talk about raising expectations!) LOL
Fantastic idea…I fear a pleb like me will still be completely lost !! And may still need to bug the life out of you for a very basic speak interpretation !! I apologise in advance…just tell me to nick off !! Xx
Karen, why did you not say this a few weeks ago, I have spent hours wading through the net looking for something like this, just one thing though. Please can you write a simpler version to explain the simple version.
Karen, that sounds an amazing idea. Maybe the administrators would allow it to stay in a sticky, obviously with a ‘contributor’ label. check out the US site Medhelp MS forum they have Health Pages attached to their forum which are very useful. You can raise expectations whenever you lie as I don’t believe anyone would be disappointed with your honest and knowledgable approach. Pat x
