Acronyms and Advice -- Help the Newbies!
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Thanks Marie I was thinking maybe it meant Accute but I've been wrong before!
FWS-52 Carpal Tunnel both hands and Acid Reflux. Beloved husband Rick age 53 passed away November 6, 2009. End Stage MS, plus complications from pneumonia
The "A" in ABI stands for acquired.
TBI is traumatic brain injury. For a distinction between the two, you'd probably be better off googling than listening to my definition. 
Linda Married and divorced twice from IS who had small strokes and bipolar disorder. Back in college to finish my degree and making a life for myself.
My IS has ABI "Acquired Brain Injury" as a result of damaged done from a Pituitary tumor, subsequent radiation & lack of O2 from sleep apnea & respitory failure while in the hospital for an artery rupture. ABI is the gradual damage as opposed to sudden as in an accident. I only recent found out the difference on a Brain Injury website.
Actually acquired brain injury can be sudden too as in my IS who had a cardiac arrest so got no oxygen to his brain for a few minutes, but that is all it took for the injury to occur. I think the difference between ABI and TBI is lack of physical trauma in the former so things like stroke and cardiac arrest fall into the acquired category while car accidents and falls would be traumatic. Actually here in Australia the traumatic tag is not used at all and they are all referred to as acquired, because the person was not born with the injury but acquired it sometime after.
33 yr old with 5 year old son, IS 38 with hypoxic brain injury from cardiac arrest in 2004, separated September 2006, divorced December 2007.
'Moving forward, not back'
A couple more acronyms defined
SLE=Systemic lupus erythematosus
MCTD=Mixed Connective Tissue Disease  40 year-old male. Married since 2003. Primary caregiver for IS who has MCTD and all the lovely little ailments that go with it. She is a fiesty little gal, though...who won't let the illness win.
Acronyms
 Has anyone mentioned HOH? (hard of hearing). It may be that I am more familiar with this since my husband is almost 84 and I heard this acronym at the health care center. The staff have lots of acronyms and I find myself frequently asking for translations.
Shirley H. Getting used to being single again, but missing my dear husband.
Acronyms and Advice -- Help the Newbies!
TLC = Tender Loving Care DS = Disabled Spouse 
HPBI= HYPOXIC BRAIN INJURY
me 41;full time carer of 34 year old wife who has hypoxic brain damage,lupus,fibra mialga,shergrains deases,arthritis ,incontence of bowl and urine,can no longer walk talk or use hands
Erin,
Just wondered if this was an ongoing thread, and if a complete list of acronyms ever got put together? CHF- Congestive Heart Failure TIA- Transient Ischemic Attack (Mini Strokes) CP- Cerebral Palsy FIBRO- for Fibromyalgia I remember when the only acronyms I had to worry about were IRS and the DMV (Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Motor Vehicles). I think I am becoming AP- Acronym Phobic since becoming a WS. Eric I am (61) FWS. Late Wife (Fran) had CHF, Diabetes, COPD, Nueropathy, and Fibromyalgia No longer in pain. She died 7-28-08 @64. We were together since 1984. dx w/Fibro around 1991 dx Brain lesion & seizures 4/08 dx as an aneurysm 6/08 IS was DNR
Eric,
Now I'm LOL with appreciation of your humor. Yeah, the list of acronyms in my life keeps growing. You really cracked me up! LOL (the other interpretation) and PEACE' Tchuparosa IS 60, T9 para in powerchair for 30+yrs.TBI, SCI pain, cognitive and physical decline, premature aging, anxiety, major depression. Majority of time horizontal though fairly independent, still drives. Pain Pump Implant moderately successful. Separated.
Anew acronym
Oh yah I have one ; STOT- is so tired of this . Ok; this is a rather personal type of an acronynimical personilized screen name abbreviation Ie ; MINE = sotiredofthis .
MY husband has ms/ dxd in 1989 has cognitive issues and uses walker powerchair for distance/ enjoys being a grandpa;we live separately and it is evolving/ a process. We have things in our lives we share kids, grandkids and pets.
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