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arizonajack

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MRI in a Comic Strip
« on: July 30, 2013, 08:23:15 am »
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3/15/18 12mm x 6mm x5mm
9/21/16 12mm x 7mm x 5mm
3/23/15 12mm x 5.5mm x 4mm
3/13/14 12mm x 6mm x 4mm
8/1/13 14mm x 5mm x 4mm (Expected)
1/22/13 12mm x 3mm (Gamma Knife)
10/10/12 11mm x 4mm x 5mm
4/4/12 9mm x 4mm x 3mm (Diagnosis)

My story at: http://www.anausa.org/smf/index.php?topic=18287.0

phantagrae

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Re: MRI in a Comic Strip
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2013, 12:03:52 pm »
I don't know if I've mentioned it around here before, but I love the show Big Bang Theory and they once had an episode where Sheldon was complaining about hearing a high-pitched sound in one ear--"an octave above middle C"--and at one point he said, "sure sounds like a tumor pressing on the auditory nerve..."

I saw a rerun of that ep just after I was diagnosed and I didn't know whether to laugh or cry...  :P
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20mm x 19mm x 16mm intra and extra canalicular AN on Right Side.  ("Largely extracanalicular")
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Re: MRI in a Comic Strip
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2013, 09:38:07 am »
I love Big Bang ... That episode made me think too.... As for the comic, in my AN journy i ran into a couple oc doctors who were lost
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arizonajack

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Re: MRI in a Comic Strip
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2013, 11:10:01 am »
Quote from: Soundy on August 04, 2013, 09:38:07 am
I ran into a couple oc doctors who were lost

"Calling Dr Howard, Dr Fine, Dr Howard."

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3/15/18 12mm x 6mm x5mm
9/21/16 12mm x 7mm x 5mm
3/23/15 12mm x 5.5mm x 4mm
3/13/14 12mm x 6mm x 4mm
8/1/13 14mm x 5mm x 4mm (Expected)
1/22/13 12mm x 3mm (Gamma Knife)
10/10/12 11mm x 4mm x 5mm
4/4/12 9mm x 4mm x 3mm (Diagnosis)

My story at: http://www.anausa.org/smf/index.php?topic=18287.0

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Re: MRI in a Comic Strip
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2013, 11:12:36 am »
Hi;
   Sort of makes one want to mark the AN side ( so they do the correct side ) before surgery, eh? Lost ... Just think, some of these people are into our cranium!
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arizonajack

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Re: MRI in a Comic Strip
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2013, 02:10:20 pm »
Quote from: nftwoed on August 05, 2013, 11:12:36 am
Hi;
   Sort of makes one want to mark the AN side ( so they do the correct side ) before surgery, eh? Lost ... Just think, some of these people are into our cranium!

Funny you should mention that.

In the weeks before my GK I was joking with my friends about doing just that. They talked me out of it as not being a good idea to antagonize the doctors, any one of which might not have a sense of humor.

I put it out of my mind.

So, there I was on the gurney just before being wheeled in for the GK and the technician comes over, hands me a marking pen and has me mark the side of my head where the AN was.

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3/15/18 12mm x 6mm x5mm
9/21/16 12mm x 7mm x 5mm
3/23/15 12mm x 5.5mm x 4mm
3/13/14 12mm x 6mm x 4mm
8/1/13 14mm x 5mm x 4mm (Expected)
1/22/13 12mm x 3mm (Gamma Knife)
10/10/12 11mm x 4mm x 5mm
4/4/12 9mm x 4mm x 3mm (Diagnosis)

My story at: http://www.anausa.org/smf/index.php?topic=18287.0

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Re: MRI in a Comic Strip
« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2013, 03:59:20 pm »
Reminds me of when my daughter had Lasik eye correction & everyone in the waiting room had a little green star over their left or right eye...
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Re: MRI in a Comic Strip
« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2013, 05:46:27 pm »
They had me  initial the back of my right hand to designate the AN side... hard since I am right handed and had an iv in the back of my left hand

When Mom used to work in nursing home they marked patients going out for surgery after a man's good kidney was removed instead of the diseased one  :o
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