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Post Postie?
« on: May 29, 2008, 06:26:52 am »
This may sound a bit silly but I've never been known to avoid silly so here goes.  If you are a postie after AN surgery what are you after the second AN surgery?
1.5cm left side AN removed Middle Fossa 1996
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Re: Post Postie?
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2008, 06:45:13 am »
Good question.  We should develop a whole new category of postie.  Maybe something like Postie x 2 or Postie Squared.  (I don't know how to type a little exponential number on a computer).

Maybe you should have the honor of choosing your own category name - since you and others like you are so special  :)

Jan
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Re: Post Postie?
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2008, 08:29:17 am »
This may sound a bit silly but I've never been known to avoid silly so here goes.  If you are a postie after AN surgery what are you after the second AN surgery?

Tired?  :D

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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Re: Post Postie?
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2008, 08:58:13 am »
  If you undergo AN Surgery, and then Radiosurgery, are you a Post Toastie?  :)
Rob
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Re: Post Postie?
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2008, 09:06:30 am »
Hi, onceagain:

'Post-postie' sounds about right.  For that matter, so does 'Double-Postie' or even 'tired'.  :)  I like 'Post Toastie' because I qualify for that title.  Lucky me. 

Hey, if we can't laugh (well, chuckle, anyway) we're only making a tough situation harder to deal with.  I choose laughter.  I'm glad you do, too.  ;D

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. 

Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is.  The way we cope with it is what makes the difference.

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Re: Post Postie?
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2008, 11:58:38 am »
I am going to have surgery plus radiosurgery this time so I guess I am a Post Postie Toasty. 
Jim, I agree 100% with you.  You have got to find the humor or you get overwelmed.  My kids just think I am weird.
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Re: Post Postie?
« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2008, 12:56:45 pm »
Post Toastie LOL

What a riot!!!
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Left AN 3.0 cm (1.5 cm @ diagnosis 6 wks prior) SSD. BAHA implant 3/4/08 (Dr. Battista) Divino 6/4/08  BP100 4/2010 BAHA 5 8/2015

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Re: Post Postie?
« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2008, 01:58:28 pm »
So what if you've had two surgeries and then radiation? A "Toastie Post-Postie"?

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Re: Post Postie?
« Reply #8 on: May 29, 2008, 02:02:36 pm »
Whatever you call it, I'm thinking you're highly placed in the bonnet competition!  Especially if you get that really nifty net thing that Phyl got ...  (See my surgery post if you missed the pics ...)

Debbi - just glad to be a solo postie!
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Re: Post Postie?
« Reply #9 on: May 29, 2008, 02:19:10 pm »


"You only have two choices, having fun or freaking out"-Jimmy Buffett
50-ish with a 1x.7x.8cm.AN
Mid-fossa HEI, Jan 03 Friedman & Hitselberger
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Re: Post Postie?
« Reply #10 on: May 29, 2008, 03:11:54 pm »
What if you have surgery, then radiation, then go out and celebrate that it's all over with and that your AN is truly dead dead dead! Are you a Totally Toasted Post Toastie??

What if you stumble into a tattoo parlor?
Tattooed Toasted Post Toastie?  Say that one three times fast, you posties that need some speech therapy!!!

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Re: Post Postie?
« Reply #11 on: May 29, 2008, 03:49:48 pm »
This subject just keeps getting sillier and sillier  :D

I love it!!!  ;D

Jan (uni-postie)
Retrosig 5/31/07 Drs. Battista & Kazan (Hinsdale, Illinois)
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Re: Post Postie?
« Reply #12 on: May 29, 2008, 04:50:47 pm »
Okay, you guys made me laugh out loud.  A Post-Toasty.  That's a keeper.  You guys are great.  See my poem is right -" What good's a tumor if you can't use some humor..." 

And Scott, I'd just call  you "miraculous"!  Because if I had to have gone through what you did, I'd have been lucky to know my name!  I would have just been , "toast", I guess.


Keep on truckin' guys,

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Re: Post Postie?
« Reply #13 on: June 03, 2008, 01:35:09 pm »
Okay, here is my Bonnet for competition. I had CK yesterday.

Mary 8)
Diagnosed March 24, 2008, 1.1cm, right side, "Goldie" - small but mighty!! :-(
Hearing, lottsa balance problems and a few facial twitches before CK
CK June 2, 2008, BNI in PHX, Drs Daspit/Kresl, side effects,steroids helped. Getting "sea legs".
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Re: Post Postie?
« Reply #14 on: June 04, 2008, 11:12:53 am »
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!
That thar be one good-lookin' bonnet!!!!!!


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Turn on the machine,
We are zappin' this wench!

So raise yer glass high,
And shout out a toastie!
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"You only have two choices, having fun or freaking out"-Jimmy Buffett
50-ish with a 1x.7x.8cm.AN
Mid-fossa HEI, Jan 03 Friedman & Hitselberger
Chronic post-op headaches
Captain & Designated Driver of the PBW