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Title: Happy New Year!
Post by: wendysig on December 31, 2008, 03:41:12 pm: Hi all!

I just thought I'd take this opportunity to wish all of you a Happy New Year! I want to thank all of you for your advice, support and help over the last 8 months -- it really made my life a whole lot easier knowing I had all of you to talk to. May 2009 be a year of better health, happiness and prosperity for us all!

Cheers!
Wendy
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: leapyrtwins on December 31, 2008, 04:06:57 pm: Wendy -

Happy New Year to you too - and to all my other fellow forumites (I just LOVE that word) ;D

1/1/09 means only 4 days until your BAHA surgery! YEA!!!

Is it on the AN Calendar so David can remind us in his weekly post?

Jan
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: Kaybo on December 31, 2008, 04:46:37 pm: Happy New Year to all!!

K
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: NL on December 31, 2008, 08:28:50 pm: Wishing everyone a healthy and happy year to come!

Happy New Year! ;D

Nancy
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: sgerrard on December 31, 2008, 08:34:40 pm: My New Year's resolution is to write 2009 on the first check I write in the new year. :)

Happy New Year to all the forumites, new and old, and best wishes for a great 2009.

Steve
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: Kaybo on December 31, 2008, 10:04:43 pm: OK - I just thought of our new motto for 2009...ready?

I'm going to walk a straight line in '09!!

K ;D
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: Sue on December 31, 2008, 11:20:18 pm: Or:

Everything is going to be fine,
Now that we are here in 2009!

Let's have a bottle of wine,
A raise a glass for 2009!

Let's all go out and dine,
To celebrate 2009!

This stupid AN of mine,
Is down the drain in 2009!

Sue in Vancouver USA
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: MAlegant on January 01, 2009, 12:12:20 am: Sue,
Thanks for the great poem--you are very talented! I'll raise my glass (again ;)) and say cheers!
Marci
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: tenai98 on January 01, 2009, 06:49:08 am: HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ONE AND ALL.

to those who are having treatment the first three months of 2009, I as wont be around, I wish you a successful treatment and a speedy recovery.
JO
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: Mickey on January 01, 2009, 09:26:31 am: Happy New Year! Thanks to all the great people in this support group. Mickey
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: leapyrtwins on January 01, 2009, 01:03:51 pm: Right back at ya, Mickey ;D

Hope you are doing well.

Jan
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: Anomar11 on January 01, 2009, 06:30:28 pm: Happy 2009 Everyone!

I, too, would like to say thanks again for this forum, and for the advice and comfort that has been provided. My thoughts and prayers continue for those facing treatment as well as those facing ongoing challenges after treatment.

Mona
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: Soundy on January 01, 2009, 07:21:31 pm: ~~~~~~~~~~Happy New Years~~~~~~~~~~
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A little giggle ... Lord knows I need one

WE went to town to watch fireworks and got to High School to watch only to find location had been
changed... so we go to square to find out where they were to be ...myself and a friend left my husband watching
a truck full and van full of kids (9 in all ) and went across street to tent where dance was being held ... we
see a policeman at entrance and I decide he is the guy to ask...

don't need to explain to you all , but between low lights outside of tent and flashing light from inside tent
along with uneven ground and wind my balance was not at it's best... I am staggering toward him and about
3 feet away cup my ear and stop...only my feet and lower half of me stopped :o... the rest of me continued
on bumping into his chest and pulling lower half of me forward stepping on his foot >:(... he kinda just leans forward
pushing me upright with his flashlight in one had and his other hand went to his gun ...

my now laughing friend caught my arm to steady me ... I went on and asked him about the location of fireworks
and he told me where we needed to go ... he watched as my laughing friend and I stagger back across the street to
my truck and her van ... I waved at him got in and drove off... I am sure if I had not been able to speak clearly I
would have been given a sobriety test... and failed it ... I need a medical card saying she ain't drunk , just dizzy or
something to that effect... got to parking place with about 3 minutes to spare ...still laughing our heads off and staggering

I have worried about doing just this sort of thing ... but to do it on New Years Eve and my victom to be a police
make it memorable and funny
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: MAlegant on January 01, 2009, 10:57:18 pm: That is an awesome story. :D
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: wendysig on January 02, 2009, 10:00:09 am: Hi Soundy and Happy New Year!

That is a very funny story. My balance is not as bad as yours, but I've often worried that a policeman would mistake my unsteady walk for me being drunkI'm a little steadiier, but every now and then it still happens.

Wendy
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: wendysig on January 02, 2009, 10:18:17 am: Hi Jan and Happy New Year!

Yep! My BAHA surgery is on the calender for Monday and I'm confirming the time sometime after 1:00 p.m. today My doi's office called on Wednesday and said 10:30 but that I should call New York Eye and Ear Infirmary today to confirm. I was hoping to be first but mid-morning beats afternoon.

Wendy
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: Debbi on January 02, 2009, 12:52:26 pm: Happy New Year! And, Wendy - you are B minus 3!!!!!!

Deb
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: wendysig on January 02, 2009, 05:52:35 pm: Hi All -
I called New York Eye and Ear Infirmary today and am all set. I have to be there at 9:30 a.m. surgery should take place about 10:30 a.m. I'm sure it willbe a piece of cake. After brain surgery, pretty much everything else pales by comparison with a few exceptions. I am excited but mostly relieved the wait is just about over. Anticipation is always the hardest part of anything. We have a busy weekend planned so it should speed by.

Wendy
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: leapyrtwins on January 02, 2009, 09:08:48 pm: Wendy -

trust me, the surgery is a piece of cake - especially compared to AN surgery ;D

You'll be fine. I'll be thinking of you.

Oh, yea, and if you feel like sharing your BAHA hat pictures - provided you get one - please do so.

I heard Phyl will be awarding prizes at the 2009 ANA Symposium ;)

Jan
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: Kaybo on January 02, 2009, 09:22:27 pm: Jan~
If there is a prize, I want to be in...does the wrap job that I had for the T3 count (& all the bruising should count double!)?? Especially since I thought they said they put panties on my head and that is the 1st thing I blurted out when my Baltimore friend walked in?? I'll post those if there is a prize involved!!

K
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: leapyrtwins on January 02, 2009, 09:23:49 pm: Hell, Kay, if the picture's that good I'll award the prize myself :D

Jan
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: wendysig on January 03, 2009, 04:30:55 am: Jan

I hear I will have a hat for the first 24 hours and will have Rop take pictures -- hopefully no panties on my heard though! K- that could only happen to you :D :D :D I'd love to see that picture! I'll even chip in with Jan for the prize!!!

Wendy
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: leapyrtwins on January 03, 2009, 10:20:15 am: K -

sounds like the ball's in your court ;D

Wendy -

looking forward to the pictures. Wonder if your "hat" will look like mine - or like the one with the box and string (I can't remember who that hat belonged to).

Jan
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: Kaybo on January 03, 2009, 10:41:07 am: I really didn't have panties on my head - I just thought that I did. The morning after surgery, Dave had gone to get us settled where we would stay for the rest of the week b/c they said they were releasing me soon. Of course, right after he left, the residents or whomever came in. They wanted to change my bandage, but the when the Dr. asked the nurse about that stretchy guaze stuff to put back over it, she said they didn't have any - the only thing they had like that was some panties that they give women after having a baby. Since I couldn't hear well (SSD & bandage) and couldn't see at all b/c I couldn't fit my glasses over the huge (both sides) bandage, I thought they said I DID have panties on my head. When Melynn walked in, the 1st thing I blurted out was, "I have PANTIES on my head!" I will try to post the picture...I think I kept Jan's PM with the instructions! I will warn you though, I look BAD!!

K
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: Kaybo on January 03, 2009, 11:02:51 am: (http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg341/kaybo_09/IMG_0426.jpg)

I tried to resize it but it didn't work so now you get to see it even SCARIER!!!

K
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: leapyrtwins on January 03, 2009, 01:56:35 pm: Okay, K, you get my vote.

Ouch!

Jan
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: wendysig on January 03, 2009, 03:26:22 pm: Yikes K -What did they do to you? you look like something the cat dragged in and forgot to drag back out again. I'm glad the T3 surgery was worth the pain you must have had. You definitely deserve a prize!

I am hoping to just have a little pain in my jaw and head.

Wendy
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: Sue on January 03, 2009, 06:35:51 pm: K, you look like you got KO'd by Rocky! Holy Cow. Well, isn't it nice to have THAT behind you. Honey, you just won the Oscar, the Emmy, the Tony and probably the Stanley Cup for sure.

Sue in Vancouver, USA
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: lori67 on January 03, 2009, 11:48:20 pm: Actually, Sue, I think Rocky was a little less bruised! :D

Yeeeoooowwwwccchhhh! - that hurts just to see the picture. Kay, you definitely deserve a prize of some sort.

Wendy - I'm so excited for you! Monday! Yay! It probably feels like it took forever to get here! I hope everything goes perfectly! Before you know it, you'll be that much closer to sporting your own BAHA!

Steve, I remembered to write 2009 on my first check of the year - but I wrote December instead of January. :-[

Anyway, Happy New Year to all!
Lori
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: klangel on January 04, 2009, 06:34:22 am: hi everybody! just wanted to say happy new year! i trust everyones holidays were good. mine were okay , some depression but i muddled through and wound up having a nice time.havent been on the discussion forum in awhile. first the impending holiday bustle, oh so exhausting! do you guys get soo tired soo easily? then oh boy, my computer caught a bad virus! my son managed to fix it the other day thankfully.and the good part is that i hardly lost a thing. just had to redo alot of stuff. i'm very computer stupid so i'm glad he was here to help me a little. i hope santa was good to everyone and thet the new year brings healing and peace to all! love, kerri
Title: Re: Happy New Year!
Post by: wendysig on January 04, 2009, 02:44:05 pm: Hi Lori,
Yep - tomorrow (that feels strange to say - er type, whatever) is the big day! I m excited and a little nervous. I colored my hair last night -- I figure it will be another 6 to 8 weeks before I can do that again and my roots seem to be getting grayer everytime I look at them, I went out to lunch today with a friend and bouught a new scarf to cover my lovely new bandage tomorrow. I guess I'm ready to go. I feel like I should ask more questions but can't think of any. I might finish off the open bottle of wine that is sitting in the fridge. It's one of my favorites and it seems a waste to just save it for cooking with.

Hi Kerri -

Happy New Year! Glad to hear the holidays went well for the most part and yes, I did find all the shopping and hustle and bustle exhausting too.

Wendy