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Sue

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Re: An Acoustic Neuroma Christmas
« Reply #30 on: December 17, 2008, 05:15:33 pm »
ooo, I'm sooooo glad I actually REMEMBERED something!  I'm happy to drag this out of the bottom of the barrel so that everyone could enjoy this again, or see it for the first time.  Steve probably wouldn't have done it, shy, retiring, modest man that he is!  ;)

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Re: An Acoustic Neuroma Christmas
« Reply #31 on: December 17, 2008, 05:21:40 pm »
Brilliant Steve!
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Re: An Acoustic Neuroma Christmas
« Reply #32 on: December 17, 2008, 05:36:56 pm »
What great fun that was!!  You really hit the humor button on that one, Steve!
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Re: An Acoustic Neuroma Christmas
« Reply #33 on: December 17, 2008, 06:05:01 pm »
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Re: An Acoustic Neuroma Christmas
« Reply #34 on: December 17, 2008, 07:33:58 pm »
Steve,

I loved your poem -- it was hilarious --thanks for the laugh! You truly are multitalented!!!   Wishing you a great Christmas/Hannakah and a Happy and Health New Year!

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Re: An Acoustic Neuroma Christmas
« Reply #35 on: December 17, 2008, 10:01:58 pm »
OMG that was funny! I think that one is a "printer" to hang in my cube. No one but me will know what the heck it means though.

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Re: An Acoustic Neuroma Christmas
« Reply #36 on: December 17, 2008, 10:32:15 pm »
That was such an AWESOME poem. You are the light at the end of the tunnel for me today.
Thanks!
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Re: An Acoustic Neuroma Christmas
« Reply #37 on: December 18, 2008, 01:48:39 am »
Steve,

Yesterday, I bought a Christmas tree and decorated it, and today I read your poem.  Christmas can come now I've got the Christmas Spirit.

THANKS

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Re: An Acoustic Neuroma Christmas
« Reply #38 on: December 18, 2008, 08:02:01 am »
Bravisimo!  *clap*clap*clap*  I LOVED it!  Good job!

Regards,
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Re: An Acoustic Neuroma Christmas
« Reply #39 on: December 18, 2008, 08:54:27 am »

"Your Poem totally rocks!!!!"

                                                                                 --Santa


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Re: An Acoustic Neuroma Christmas
« Reply #40 on: December 18, 2008, 11:02:05 am »
Quote from: NL on December 17, 2008, 02:51:21 pm
Yes, Sue...thanks for reviving this holiday gem! There are quite a few of us that missed it the first time around!

(Jan - I like the Christmas card fundraiser idea!)

Great job, Steve!  :D

Nancy


I dropped the ball here; never did bring this to the attention of the ANA.  Perhaps we can ask about making it into a Christmas card for next year.  Phyl, you're got influence with the "powers that be".  Can you help us out here?

Glad Sue thought enough to "resurrect" this post from last year.  IMO we don't need a new rendition each year; this one will do quite nicely.

Many thanks, Steve  ;D

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I don't actually "make" trouble..just kind of attract it, fine tune it, and apply it in new and exciting ways

Sue

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Re: An Acoustic Neuroma Christmas
« Reply #41 on: December 18, 2008, 11:49:10 am »
Yep, why mess with a "Classic"?

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Re: An Acoustic Neuroma Christmas
« Reply #42 on: December 18, 2008, 12:35:36 pm »
Thank you so much for the laughs.  That is a classic for us ANers.  Bring it back yearly.  Great job!!!

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MRI 12/08- AN size has reduced 50%
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Re: An Acoustic Neuroma Christmas
« Reply #43 on: December 18, 2008, 06:54:44 pm »
Steve,
That's hilarious---and I'm Jewish!   ;D ;D ;D
Many thanks for these and previous laughs.
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Re: An Acoustic Neuroma Christmas
« Reply #44 on: December 20, 2008, 11:58:51 am »
Thanks again everyone for the kind words, and thanks Sue for reviving the poem. I did have an email exchange with the ANA director last January about putting it in the Dec 2008 newsletter. I guess it got lost in the shuffle since then, with the recent newsletter mainly focused on the big conference next summer. The main thing is that it is here for all our forum friends.

Happy Holidays to all.

Steve
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Hearing lasted a while, but left side is deaf now.
Right side is weak too. Life is quiet.
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