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Re: My 8 year ANniversary!
« Reply #15 on: January 21, 2011, 09:15:28 am »
Congratulations on your 8 year anniversary! Thanks for all your help, knowledge and humor! Wishing you (and all the rest of us) continued healing and humor in our AN journeys!

Scarlett
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1.5 cm x 2.5 cm Cystic AN - Right side
Retrosigmoid 3/18/09 at MGH in Boston,MA.
Dr. Barker - Neurosurgeon, MGH - Dr. Lee - Neuro-Otology, MEEI
no facial issues, SSD right side, balance issues to work on.
Outstanding Surgeons, I'm very happy with the results.

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Re: My 8 year ANniversary!
« Reply #16 on: January 21, 2011, 10:20:37 am »
Happy ANniversary!
Love your clip art! Is that hard to do?
Moe
06/06-Translab 3x2.5 vascular L AN- MAMC,Tacoma WA
Facial nerve cut,reanastomosed.Tarsorrhaphy
11/06. Gold weight,tarsorrhaphy reversed
01/08- nerve transposition-(12/7) UW Hospital, Seattle
5/13/10 Gracilis flap surgery UW for smile restoration :)
11/10/10 BAHA 2/23/11 brow lift/canthoplasty

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Re: My 8 year ANniversary!
« Reply #17 on: January 22, 2011, 11:41:43 am »
Capt. Deb,

Congratulations on your 8th ANniversary! 

Wendy
1.3 cm at time of diagnosis -  April 9, 2008
2 cm at time of surgery
SSD right side translabyrinthine July 25, 2008
Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
Extremely grateful for the wonderful Dr. Choe & Dr. Chen
BAHA surgery 1/5/09
Doing great!

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Re: My 8 year ANniversary!
« Reply #18 on: January 22, 2011, 12:44:49 pm »
Hi Capt. Deb:  LOVE THE PIRATE PENGUINS !!  Congrats on 8 years out,  I'm at 4 1/2.  It HAS been a journey, hasn't it ?  & like you said,  thank God for this forum of friends we have.  Always good thoughts,  Love, Nancy
2.2cm length x 1.7cm width x 1.3cm  depth
retrosigmoid 6/19/06
Gold weight 7/19/06, removed 3/07
lateral tarsel strip X3
T3 procedure 11/20/07
1.6 Gm platinum weight 7/10/08
lateral canthal sling 11/14/08
Jones tube insert right inner eye 2/27/09
2.4 Gm. Platinum chain 2017
right facial paralysis

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Re: My 8 year ANniversary!
« Reply #19 on: January 25, 2011, 09:51:39 am »
Congrats on your ANniversary, Capt. Deb!  :)  (Yes, I'm still here lurking in the shadows occasionally.)

Brian
Diagnosed 4/10/08 - 3cm Right AN
12hr retrosig 5/8/08 w/Drs Vrabec and Trask in Houston, Tx
Some facial paralysis post-op but most movement is back, some tinitus.  SSD on right.
Story documented here:  http://briansbrainbooger.blogspot.com/

"I must be having fun all wrong!"  - Roger Creager

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Re: My 8 year ANniversary!
« Reply #20 on: January 25, 2011, 10:01:18 am »
Congratulations! and many more happy ANiversarys. You have meant alot to so many here just being your charming self. Best wishes, Mickey

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Re: My 8 year ANniversary!
« Reply #21 on: January 25, 2011, 11:35:08 am »
 Congratulations for not only surviving, but thriving!  Your "unsinkable Mollie Brown" outlook cheers up all of us.  Here's hoping that the last few remaining  "souvenirs" of your surgeries soon fade into oblivion!

Love the pirate penguins  :D :D

Priscilla
Diagnosed  left AN 8/07/08, 1.9 CM
Surgery 12/10/08 at Methodist Hospital w/Vrabec and Trask for what turned out to be a cpa meningioma.

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Re: My 8 year ANniversary!
« Reply #22 on: January 25, 2011, 12:22:36 pm »
Captn Deb:

CONGATULATIONS!!! I hope you can one day be free from those darned headaches.
You have been a source of inspirations, which has helped me to keep the headaches from dominating my life.

Syl 
1.5cm AN rt side; Retrosig June 16, 2008; preserved facial and hearing nerves;
FINALLY FREE OF CHRONIC HEADACHES 4.5 years post-op!!!!!!!
Drs. Kato, Blumenfeld, and Cheung.

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Re: My 8 year ANniversary!
« Reply #23 on: January 27, 2011, 07:44:04 pm »
Congrats to you!!!!  We've got lots of milestones to celebrate with much gusto!!!!!!  8 years is a doozey and I'll just bet you're celebratin' in style.  Although I don't post a lot, I have looked to you through this forum to keep me smiling many many times - and you are always demonstrating to me that things can be downright crappy...and yet there are still ways to snicker.

Love to you!

Kathy
AN diagnosed 11/14/08, 3+cm, Retrosigmoid 1/13/09, Univ. Hosp., Cincinnati, Drs. Tew and Pensak
no facial nerve or eye issues!
3 more surgeries related to staph infections & osteomylitis over next 13 months.  New diagnosis of breast cancer.  Treatment completed 08/27/10.  Moving on!!!

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Re: My 8 year ANniversary!
« Reply #24 on: February 08, 2011, 07:39:13 am »
Ahoy Capt'n Deb!

I am fashionably late is sending you ...

  GINORMOUS HUGGLES!!!!! [/size]

Debbi
Debbi - diagnosed March 4, 2008 
2.4 cm Right Side AN
Translab April 30, 2008 at NYU with Drs. Golfinos and Roland
SSD Right ear, Mild synkinesis and facial nerve damage
BAHA "installed" Feb 2011 by Dr. Cosetti @ NYU

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Re: My 8 year ANniversary!
« Reply #25 on: February 09, 2011, 03:43:17 pm »
Even with all those headaches you've never lost that great sense of humor. Now that's inspiration! Sure you're out of your mind a little but what pirate isn't, right? I'm sorry to say I can't remember the pirate name you gave me a long time ago but I did have brain surgery so I'm excused. :) Here's to another (tumor free) eight years and hopefully no more headaches.