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Title: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: ppearl214 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....)

Phyl
your PBW Cursed Cruise Director
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: Sue 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.

Bye for now!

Sue in Vancouver
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: Lorenzo on March 24, 2008, 02:42:19 pm: mylump
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: Kaybo 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

K
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: Dana 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....
:-)
Dana
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: Raven on March 24, 2008, 04:42:07 pm: THE TWINS...............my bilateral ANs were almost exactly the same size.

John
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: Larry on March 24, 2008, 04:44:03 pm: ^*%*&^(^&()*&()*&_)(*)(*()

Laz
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: Debbi 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
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: Brendalu on March 25, 2008, 05:14:48 am: I named mine Dexter, long before the TV program.........................
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: Brendalu on March 25, 2008, 05:15:18 am: The new one is Boris
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: Lorenzo 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.

Ciao, Lorenzo
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: Omaschwannoma 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.
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: Lorenzo 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.

Ciao

Lorenzo
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: Cheryl R 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.
Cheryl R
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: OMG16 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
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: lori67 on March 25, 2008, 09:51:59 am: I call mine "GONE". :D

Lori
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: jtd71465 on March 25, 2008, 11:06:35 am: SOB - Son of a Booger
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: Omaschwannoma on March 25, 2008, 12:40:42 pm: Quote from: Cheryl R 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.
Cheryl R

The Three Stooges what a HOOT! ;D Glad you still have a sense of humor Cheryl, it seems to keep me going.
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: Captain Deb on March 25, 2008, 01:34:01 pm: Not only do I have a name I gotta picture of the nasty lil bloke!
(http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee60/Captdeb_photos/PirateMRIPirateMRIjpPirateMRIjpP-1.jpg)

He's called " Ye Olde Dirty Pox-Ridden Son of a Bilge Rat's Arse-Wart!" And he's now swimming around in the Bay of Los Angeles where them nice fellers at House a' flushed him down the head after they mellon-balled him outta me noggin'. Hope he don't find another ear to crawl inta!!!! Yo-ho-ho!!!! AAAARRRRR!!!!!

Capt Deb(http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee60/Captdeb_photos/pirateface_laughing_sm_wht.gif)
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: ppearl214 on March 25, 2008, 02:42:20 pm: you guys rawk! :) too funny!

waiting on okiesandy to show up on this one... .I love her named AN! :)

btw, Lori67.... LOL! :) Aye-men!

Phyl
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: Debbi on March 25, 2008, 03:01:58 pm: Who knew ANs could be so much fun???? :D

Debbi (and Ethel)
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: danijake on March 25, 2008, 10:10:17 pm: "Chunk". That's the first thing I thought of when I saw it on the films.
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: ppearl214 on March 26, 2008, 09:48:34 am: Quote from: Debbi on March 25, 2008, 03:01:58 pm
Who knew ANs could be so much fun???? :D

Debbi (and Ethel)

according to my radio-surgery team... THEY knew it could be so fun... pressin' all them dang buttons to zap my brain booger. :D
Phyl
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: Captain Deb on March 26, 2008, 02:12:27 pm: Phyllis you really need to post that photo of you gettin it zapped! You know which photo I'm talking about!!!!!
The one with the "birds!" Then you could name your tumor "Bye-bye Birdie"

Capt Deb ;)
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: ppearl214 on March 26, 2008, 02:30:29 pm: Quote from: Captain Deb on March 26, 2008, 02:12:27 pm
Phyllis you really need to post that photo of you gettin it zapped! You know which photo I'm talking about!!!!!
The one with the "birds!" Then you could name your tumor "Bye-bye Birdie"

Capt Deb ;)

Capt'n! Are you trying to get me fired from my non-paying Moderator job by posting the pics here!?!?!? :o :o :o
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: leapyrtwins on March 26, 2008, 04:58:13 pm: The Capt'n has peaked my curiosity.

Definitely don't want to get you fired Phyl, but would LOVE to see the picture :D

Jan
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: MaryBKAriz on March 29, 2008, 03:00:34 pm: Hi,

I named mine "Goldie" because Goldie Hawn was a dizzy dame in the old TV show Laugh-In. I am dizzy and SHE is causing it! Plus our familly is into humor. At our worst times we find things to laugh about. Sometimes the humor is dark, slip stick, witty or sick, but we laugh. What a great medicine. I love this topic!

I wil be gone for 4 days starting tomorrow. I will miss all of you. But I will be enjoying nature and I am sure it will be good to have a lkittle Vaycay!

Best of health to all,

Mary
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: LADavid on March 30, 2008, 03:13:07 pm: Eric Cartman (of South Park). A fat obnoxious self-centered slob.
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: lori67 on March 30, 2008, 08:23:53 pm: Good one David.

I guess now you could call it "Kenny" - as in... "they killed Kenny!!" (South Park also)

Lori
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: Soundy on April 01, 2008, 11:58:27 am: I got a call from my doctor's nurse saying there were some troubles with some sinuses on MRI
and he wanted me to see an ENT ...went to that appointment and sat innocently in the
little room looking at magazines expected some allergy meds or adenoid talk or something
and the ENT popped in looking at report and said so you got a little brain tumor ...guess we
will be doing some cutting... was mad as h**l at nurse for not telling me truth which she said
was hard for her to do so she said something about sinuses... >:(

I left Columbia and drove home in a fog ... but by the time I got home I had named the AN Bennie...
short for Benign...I know it is not shorter ...just sounded better...

Got on phone to my regular doctor and told him off for not telling me himself and started making plans..
got a new ENT as first just wanted to dig in and after some research found that may not be necessary ...yet

Now let me tell you about kidney stones ... they have names like @#$%^& and #$%@ ^%$& and
worse ::)
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: Denisex2boys on April 02, 2008, 07:44:41 pm: .... Just simply ... the BLOB
Title: Re: Name your AN! (fun thread)
Post by: Boppie on April 02, 2008, 08:45:36 pm: It was the Rude Intruder