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Name your AN! (fun thread)
« on: March 24, 2008, 01:41:39 pm »
well, been seeing a lot of you all name your AN (present or former).... so, why not list it here!

Now, as many here have known for a long time, I named mine the "brain booger"...

what did you name your's?

(keep it clean folks....)

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Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2008, 02:01:46 pm »
Usually, Phyl, I just say, "Stupid, dumb AN thing.."

I remember the doctor at the GK center looked at me funny when I mentioned some name I'd given it early on...and he said..."Oh, don't name it!"  He thought that was too much, I guess.  I was a little embarrassed, but I think if people want to name their stupid, dumb AN thing, then go for it.  I have a hard time saying "tumor".  I suppose because it sounds so cancerish, I guess. 

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Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2008, 02:42:19 pm »
mylump
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Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2008, 02:54:58 pm »
OH...I missed out...mine was done so fast, I didn't have a chance to name it!!  However, I am SURE I would have come up with something, given more time, I have a thing about giving EVERYONE nicknames (& I hate to say, they're not always nice)!!   ;D

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Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2008, 04:11:33 pm »
Mine started as "my mummy" cuz I hope the GammaKnife kills it, but I know it'll be there forever, like a mummy.  She's evolved into "Hatshepsut", a queen of Egypt who is one of my favorites.  She built an artistically gorgeous palace, with an architect who was her lover....
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Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2008, 04:42:07 pm »
THE TWINS...............my bilateral ANs were almost exactly the same size.

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Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2008, 04:44:03 pm »
^*%*&^(^&()*&()*&_)(*)(*()


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Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2008, 05:17:35 pm »
As many of you know, 3 days after diagnosis, my hubby and I decided that calling it "the tumor" was just too darned scary.  So, we kicked aroudn some ideas and came up with Ethel.  Why?  Well, we didn't know anyone named Ethel, so it would be okay to wish her dead.  Also, Ethel isn't a particularly menacing name - I didn't want to give her more power than she deserves.  My brother in law came up with a catchy little sign with a picture of a henchman, accompanied by the words "Death-el to Ethel."  I have it haning in my office and chuckle every time I look at it.

Part of the "therapy" here is that we can maybe make this all a little less scary.  BTW, my husband first came up with "Spot" but it reminded me of a dog and I love dogs, so that wasn't going to work. 

Let's have a few laughs with this - I think we can all use it! ;D
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Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2008, 05:14:48 am »
I named mine Dexter, long before the TV program.........................
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Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2008, 05:15:18 am »
The new one is Boris
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Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2008, 05:23:45 am »
i should have called mine by it's full name:   mylump . org  but now this sound so ordinary and pedestrian... Williams could be another one I use from time to time, as in Pear Williams, more or less the same shape. Or Morello is another one that comes to mind as an option considering that it's about the same size. And seen that it's now shrunk, maybe I could call it prune, and think of it as shriveled. A N Other is also an option, as we usually call unknowns.

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Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2008, 07:30:22 am »
I named mine Timmy for the same reasons "Debbi" did--the word "tumor" seemed too negative for me.  Lorenzo, I just love your name--lump I mean.  Laz, knowing your history your name is most approriate.  This is going to be a great "thread" guys.
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Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
« Reply #12 on: March 25, 2008, 07:40:51 am »
Thanks Karen, I was feeling lumpy the day i came up with that one. Didn't like to be lumped with it, and it was going to cost a considerable lumpsum to take care of it. Then the jokes about ANs and lumps started...

Timmy is good, sound appropriate. They sort of look like a 'Timmy' somehow.

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Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
« Reply #13 on: March 25, 2008, 08:09:48 am »
I suppose since I am on my 3rd tumor that I can call mine the 3 Stooges!             I don't know which guy would be the best name for which tumor.   
Or I could go with Tom,d*** and Harry.     I could really get going with this.
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Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
« Reply #14 on: March 25, 2008, 08:34:52 am »
My son named his tumor (not an AN) the littlest Siege due to the nickname his friends had given him.  The neurosurgeon named him the little Harry Potter dude.  My husband and I called him the evil twin since my son always wanted a brother and he thought a twin would be great since his Mother is a twin.  They thought it could have been a Teratoma at first so it could have been a twin kind of.  Of course this was said in private between the two of us.

That reminds me we nicknamed all of the Drs and Residents my son had.  We could not remember all of their names and we would say for instance the "Wonder Boy" resident came by and said......and we would all know who he was by the descriptive nickname.  Did anyone else do this? 

It is very interesting to find out these things from others.  Good thread Phyl.  :D
« Last Edit: March 25, 2008, 08:38:58 am by OMG16 »
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