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Re: Just when I was relaxing .....
« Reply #105 on: May 11, 2011, 09:14:02 pm »
Clarice...I have been thinking about you all day.  SO GLAD to read that surgery went well!  Good things!
Translab 6/4/10 for 4+ cm left AN.  Drs Friedman and Schwartz at HEI saved my life!
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Re: Just when I was relaxing .....
« Reply #106 on: May 12, 2011, 04:00:47 am »
Kaybo,

THANK YOU for the update on Clarice - i had an all-day meeting yesterday, and my personal webmail/email was all messed up, so I am just now reading the news.

Clarice & Truman - continued prayers for healing during this time.


Sincerely,
Sue
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Re: Just when I was relaxing .....
« Reply #107 on: May 12, 2011, 07:23:24 am »
Excellent!

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Re: Just when I was relaxing .....
« Reply #108 on: May 12, 2011, 12:34:00 pm »
Truman for Clarice here (hope I get this right).  Her surgery went well. Thanks for posting, Kaybo.  She is in ICU and will move to a private room this afternoon.  The docs report complete AN removal, no facial nerve involvement, and BAHA abutment "installation".  We could not have asked for a better result.  Thanks to all of her dear friends on the Forum for your love, support, prayers, etc.  It is palpable to us.
Truman
Right MVD for trigeminal neuralgia, 1994, Pittsburgh, PA
Left retrosigmoid 2.6 cm AN removal, February, 2008, Duke U
Tumor regrew to 1.3 cm in February, 2011
Translab AN removal, May, 2011 at HEI, Friedman & Schwartz
Oticon Ponto Pro abutment implant at same time; processor added August, 2011

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Re: Just when I was relaxing .....
« Reply #109 on: May 12, 2011, 12:53:07 pm »
Great, thank you for the update. I am so glad that everything went well, as you already know the first couple of days are rough but the worse will be over soon. Give Clarice all our love.

Marianna
GK on April 23rd 2008 for 2.9 cm AN at Toronto Western Hospital. Subsequent MRIs showed darkening initially, then growth. Retrosigmoid surgery on April 26th, 2011 with Drs. Akagami and Westerberg at Vancouver General Hospital. Graduallly lost hearing after GK and now SSD but no other issues.

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Re: Just when I was relaxing .....
« Reply #110 on: May 12, 2011, 02:50:08 pm »
Whew!  I have been waiting for an update.  I am so glad everything is going well!! :D :D :D Hope it continues to do the same.

Priscilla
Diagnosed  left AN 8/07/08, 1.9 CM
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Re: Just when I was relaxing .....
« Reply #111 on: May 12, 2011, 03:18:59 pm »
Truman ~

Thanks for that splendidly positive update on your wife, Clarice.  

She is a much respected and admired member of these forums and her contributions have been invaluable.  I trust that will continue.   For now, though, we're delighted to learn that everything went so smoothly.  I believe that prayers were definitely answered.  I know you'll pass along our collective 'high-fives' and wishes for a speedy recovery (and quick hospital discharge) to Clarice and let her know that our thoughts remain with her.  You can tell her that you were able to post just fine, too.  :)

Jim
4.5 cm AN diagnosed 5/06.  Retrosigmoid surgery 6/06.  Follow-up FSR completed 10/06.  Tumor shrinkage & necrosis noted on last MRI.  Life is good. 

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Re: Just when I was relaxing .....
« Reply #112 on: May 12, 2011, 03:49:43 pm »
What wonderful news :D :D :D
Retrosigmoid 9/24/09
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Re: Just when I was relaxing .....
« Reply #113 on: May 12, 2011, 05:50:35 pm »
Thanks Truman for the update.

All I have to say is way to go Clarice  :-*

Anne Marie
Sept 8/06 Translab
Post surgical headaches, hemifacial spasms and a scar neuroma. 
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Re: Just when I was relaxing .....
« Reply #114 on: May 12, 2011, 09:41:22 pm »
I think Truman might give Jim Scott a run for his money in the vocabulary department!! ::) Jan, we are in trouble!!

K  ;D

Fixed the mis-spelling.
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Re: Just when I was relaxing .....
« Reply #115 on: May 12, 2011, 09:52:59 pm »
i like hearing, 'we could have not asked for a better result.'  great news!! tell clarice hello!!

kay - that's funny!

keri
1.5 left side; hearing loss; translab scheduled for 1/29/09 at Univ of MD at Baltimore
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Re: Just when I was relaxing .....
« Reply #116 on: May 12, 2011, 10:07:16 pm »
Mobey...like Mobey d***? Stupid phone, I meant $MONEY$!!!
Translab 12/95@Houston Methodist(Baylor College of Medicine)for "HUGE" tumor-no size specified
25 yrs then-14 hour surgery-stroke
12/7 Graft 1/97
Gold Weight x 5
SSD
Facial Paralysis-R(no movement or feelings in face,mouth,eye)
T3-3/08
Great life!

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Re: Just when I was relaxing .....
« Reply #117 on: May 13, 2011, 04:14:47 am »
Truman (Clarice),

Thank you SO very much for this update! Thrilled to hear that wellness wishes from all of us here (as you can see, there are MANY!) are working.  Speedy recovery to Clarice......

Sending MAJOR healing hugglez!
xo
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Re: Just when I was relaxing .....
« Reply #118 on: May 13, 2011, 04:45:26 am »
So happy that things went so well for Clarice.  What a relief to hear such great news  ;D

Give her our best, Truman.

Jan

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Re: Just when I was relaxing .....
« Reply #119 on: May 13, 2011, 05:38:35 am »
So happy to hear the good news.

Kenneth