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Rich56

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This Week in the AN Calendar World 12/13/09
« on: December 13, 2009, 11:22:51 am »
Monday Lyn (lawmama) is having retrosigmoid surgery.  Lyn, our thoughts and prayers will be with you tomorrow for a successful and uncomplicated surgery.  Draw strength from your Mom, and your children.  Their love, and your AN Family will be there as you recover.

Tuesday Joyce (Jeepers) is having her BAHA implant surgery.  Were sending positive thoughts and prayers your way for a successful procedure, and the count down to your BAHA Gotcha Day.  Have you decided on a processor yet (BP100 or Ponto), we know your were leaning toward the BP100?

Nancy’s (NancyMc) Dave is recovering from a venous aneurysm and blood clot, which required that they put in a stent on 12/4/09.  Nancy, you and Dave will both continue to be in our prayers.  Your AN Journey has been quite a challenge.  You have become the caregiver.  Dave is in good hands, hang in there you’ll get through it.

Continued well wishing to everyone on the road to recovery.

Rich & Scarlett
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Retrosigmoid on 3/18/09 at MGH in Boston, MA. Dr. Barker & Dr. Lee of MGH/MEEI
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Re: This Week in the AN Calendar World 12/13/09
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2009, 02:19:20 pm »
Well, I certainly did not expect to on This Week this week, but thank you for your wishes!  Dave appreciates your good vibes.  His progress is slow, but we are hopeful for an ultimate end to the discomfort.

Lawmama, I hope you have the same euphoria that I did when I graduated to postie status.  Of course, the steroids help.  ;)

Jeepers, Totally cool, so jealous, can't wait to hear what's coming from my right side some day.

Snowing here now AGAIN, so definitely a white Christmas for us.
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Re: This Week in the AN Calendar World 12/13/09
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2009, 02:20:12 pm »
Best wishes for your surgery Lyn.  As Rich said, draw strength from your mom and your children - as well as us.  We're here for you.  See you soon as a postie!

Jeepers, what can I say - other than great choice of doctors and procedures.  I sincerely hope you'll love your BAHA as much as I love mine.  I'll probably get my BP100 a month before you get yours, so we can compare notes on how it works.   As always, please give my best to your surgeon  ;)

Nancy, sorry to hear that Dave is still on the mend.  I'm sure you're taking good care of him and he'll be good as new in no time.

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Re: This Week in the AN Calendar World 12/13/09
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2009, 05:39:04 pm »
Rich ~

Thanks, as always.  Many prayers and good thoughts go out to Lyn on her retro surgery (Monday) and to Joyce on her BAHA implant surgery on Tuesday.  May both be successful surgeries.

Nancy's Dave, who I briefly met at the April ANA brunch in Massachusetts, is also in our thoughts and prayers as he recovers.  With the intrepid Nancy as his caregiver, I'm sure Dave will be fine.  :)

All our recovering AN patients have our best wishes for a good week and a wonderful holiday season. 

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Re: This Week in the AN Calendar World 12/13/09
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2009, 10:04:29 pm »
Best wishes to ALL who are having procedures, implants, etc. this week....
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Re: This Week in the AN Calendar World 12/13/09
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2009, 10:16:06 pm »
Has anyone heard from Lyn? Been thinking about her all day.

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Re: This Week in the AN Calendar World 12/13/09
« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2009, 06:13:35 am »
Rich,

Thank you once again, for a wonderful summary of this week's calendar!

Prayers to Lyn and her family - can't wait to hear an update!
Good luck to Joyce on her BAHA!  I am sure you will be pleased with the results.

Nancy - more prayers to you and Dave.  We are all hoping he feels better real soon!

Have a good week everyone!
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Re: This Week in the AN Calendar World 12/13/09
« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2009, 09:02:10 pm »
I haven't been on so much lately, and am not 'up' on everyone! However, I hope and pray for peace, rest and recovery for those who are dealing with various procedures.

Nancy, I do wonder about how it's going with Dave, but not always sure where to look. It's interesting that some of the Dave posts are on the "Book Club" thread!
Thank you for sharing about his progress. We're concerned about both of you!

Thank you, Rich, for the updates.

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