ANA Discussion Forum
General Category => AN Issues => Topic started by: Betsy on June 02, 2007, 09:44:29 am
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Hello all,
I come from the generation that didn't learn the metric system in school. And somehow, after all these years I haven't had to learn it either. Never even gave it much thought. While I knew my AN was "about a centimeter", I was picturing it the way it looked on the doctor's monitor...a little corn-chip shaped thing in my head.
Today I used a crescent wrench to tighten up a bolt. You guessed it...it's a metric wrench. Suddenly a centimeter has meaning to me. My AN is something that would fit inside this wrench (which suddenly looks huge). I got out the other wrenches in the set and matched them up with the numbers on my MRI. NOW I get it. Not a corn chip. And of course, my head is bigger than the picture on the doc's monitor...duh! Just a bit of denial there...and I thought I'd worked through all that.
Can we go back to food analogies now? I think I prefer my AN to be "the size of a cocktail olive" or better yet "the size of the cherry in the whiskey sour you get at the airport bar".
Thanks for listening.
Betsy
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Oh I remember the day I figured out what size 2.54 CM was. SHOCKING :o as that was the size of the thing growing in my head not the pea sized thing my dr. led me to believe it was a quarter size.!
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Whether measured in centimeters or inches, AN tumors are relatively small - but located in a place that makes having one a major problem. My neurosurgeon said that if my AN wasn't where it was, I might never know that I had it and removal might not even be necessary. He was stating the obvious, of course, but that is still a valid observation.
I find it interesting that my AN, at less than 2 inches, is considered huge by the medical community. Iinches or centimeters, it's all relative.
Jim