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Where in the world did my AN come from?
« on: December 18, 2006, 09:35:22 am »
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Hi People:


With the talk about where we will spend the holiday season, I was thinking about yours and my AN.  

I'm English and Czech!  (with some Polish)  So that equils an English and Czech foreign Acoustic Neuroma!   ::)

That is my last laugh of the year!  So, a white female with an English and Czechoslovakian Acoustic Neuroma.

So a new thread and survey..... :-*



Bye for now,



Palace



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Re: Where in the world did my AN come from?
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2006, 10:14:30 am »
Hmmmmmmmmmmm... ok, mine came from.........oh, heck...


Palace, you got me on this one... :)

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Re: Where in the world did my AN come from?
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2006, 02:14:14 am »
Mine is pretty much Western Europen AN.   Since my hobby is genealogy, I can be much more specific than that...but that might take too long!!  British Isles, some German, a little Swiss, and one molecule of Italian since I found out that my 11th great grandfather was the first Italian immigrant and he arrived about 1632 to New Amsterdam.  He was killed on Long Island by Indians. He has a placque in Battery Park - Pietro Cesare Alberti.  I thought that was sooooo cool. 

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Re: Where in the world did my AN come from?
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2006, 05:54:43 am »
Irish, Irish, Irish, Irish with a speck of German.  Good grief, no wonder it took me forever to go to the doctor. 

Me, stubborn?  How could I not be?

Sue:  That is SO neat.  I too, am into genealogy big time.  I needed something to do while on my AN disability leave and got hooked for good. 
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Re: Where in the world did my AN come from?
« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2006, 04:02:21 pm »
3/4 Russian - 1/4 German :D
1.2 x .6 cm rt side AN diagnosed July 2005
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Re: Where in the world did my AN come from?
« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2006, 04:51:23 pm »
Scottish and German with a smattering of Irish and Swiss (my last name is Swiss), in other words, completely American.   ;D
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Re: Where in the world did my AN come from?
« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2006, 05:48:33 pm »
norwegian, german and irish with a bit of welsh and some other unknowns. :)
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Re: Where in the world did my AN come from?
« Reply #7 on: December 20, 2006, 07:19:17 pm »
Ok,  I'm 50% Italian, and 50% Finnish. My parents were born in this country, 1912, 1915, but their siblings were born in Finland and Sicily, so I'm part Sicilian, Itialian. Would like to research my genealogy too some day.

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Re: Where in the world did my AN come from?
« Reply #8 on: December 20, 2006, 07:33:02 pm »
 The darned thing came from Outer Space I reckon. Kinda like the Blob.


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Re: Where in the world did my AN come from?
« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2007, 05:10:23 pm »
I like your answer Bruce!  I am fifth generation German both sides came from same area...very boring.
Settled in same part of Pa.  Third , fourth and fifth generation migrated allover the U.S.
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Re: Where in the world did my AN come from?
« Reply #10 on: January 16, 2007, 03:02:49 pm »
For whatever interest it may hold for anyone, my ancestry is pure Anglo-Saxon (British/German) going back many generations.  However, all of my ancestors were settled in the U.S. well over a hundred years ago, some far longer than that.   To the best of my knowledge, I'm the first one in my family to develop a vestibular schwannoma  (acoustic neuroma).   What an 'honor'!

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Re: Where in the world did my AN come from?
« Reply #11 on: January 16, 2007, 03:09:20 pm »
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm...5th generation back maternal side from Russia.... 2 generations back Paternal side from Middle East (both my folks first generation Americans)....... as for my AN... heck, it just showed up out of the blue to keep me on my toes... as if I didn't already have enough going on... geeze!  :o

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Re: Where in the world did my AN come from?
« Reply #12 on: January 16, 2007, 08:42:49 pm »
Irish and German here! Stubborn, Heck yeah I am!  ;D
4 cm left side AN. Translab Sept 20th 06 at virginia mason w/Dr. Backous & Dr. Nussbaum. Second surgery Oct 15th 06 to repair CFS leak.

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Re: Where in the world did my AN come from?
« Reply #13 on: January 17, 2007, 02:54:28 am »
 

    3/4 Italian & 1/4 French descent.   I think it's the French side that caused the AN    lol......
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Re: Where in the world did my AN come from?
« Reply #14 on: January 21, 2007, 11:32:52 pm »
 ;D ::) I have no idea! I was just going to the doctor for congestion! Irish, Welsh, with bits of french and german...maybe from my love of mojitos and drunken spanish dialect. who knows? take care, Annie
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