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Re: Save the Date for Chicago ANA Convention August 14-16 2009
« Reply #90 on: April 07, 2009, 02:17:30 pm »
Yea!  I hope I can say that soon!!

K
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Re: Save the Date for Chicago ANA Convention August 14-16 2009
« Reply #91 on: April 07, 2009, 05:10:21 pm »
If someone is keeping a list of people coming to Chicago, count me in!

Now, as I see it ..... I need to bring jeans, a t-shirt, a little black dress, pearls, a bandanna, and make-up and I'll be all set.   ;D  Did I miss anything?  They say belly laughing is the best medicine and the Chicago symposium sounds like we will all have plenty of medicine!  Can hardly wait ........   :D

Clarice
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Left retrosigmoid 2.6 cm AN removal, February, 2008, Duke U
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Re: Save the Date for Chicago ANA Convention August 14-16 2009
« Reply #92 on: April 07, 2009, 05:34:18 pm »
Willie and I are also attending - and we'll both be wearing pearls ... with our jeans!!   :D :D  I have been sneered at by the doorman of the Plaza in NYC, so I am thinking that the Drake guys won't be able to intimidate me.  And, my hubby is from Queens, so there's no scaring him. 

Really can't wait to see (and meet) everyone!

Debbi
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Re: Save the Date for Chicago ANA Convention August 14-16 2009
« Reply #93 on: April 07, 2009, 09:14:24 pm »
Confirmed.... I'm going to the symposium :D
Good news, Phyl. Why are we whispering?  :D
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Re: Save the Date for Chicago ANA Convention August 14-16 2009
« Reply #94 on: April 08, 2009, 06:50:18 pm »
Great news, Phyl - but does that mean Pooter loses his seat on the Moderator's Jet  ???

Debbi -  I can't wait to see you and Willie in your pearls  :D  Will you be wearing them to tea?

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Re: Save the Date for Chicago ANA Convention August 14-16 2009
« Reply #95 on: April 09, 2009, 12:13:20 pm »
Bumping me off the flight already and it's still a few months away!  Hmph!  I'm fairly small, so can I fit in the floorboard or something?  I used to sleep in the floorboard in the car as a child.  :)

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Re: Save the Date for Chicago ANA Convention August 14-16 2009
« Reply #96 on: April 09, 2009, 12:28:27 pm »
whispering cuz last time, I was booked to go and something came up (like, um, my husband's permenant arrival to the states) and I had to cancel the symposium at the last minute and I don't want to jinx it this time... and btw, the Mod Jet is overbooked right now... so, if Pooter kisses up to the Mods, then mebbe we'll bump someone else off the jet -- unless my Pooter is ok with sitting in the luggage hold... but, the drink cart is staying onboard! :) See you all there! :)
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Re: Save the Date for Chicago ANA Convention August 14-16 2009
« Reply #97 on: April 09, 2009, 04:03:53 pm »
I didn't read through this whole thread (little spinny still) but what happens at the symposium besides the meeting of the (forum) minds?  It would be so fun to meet you guys!!!  Besides, if Steve is buying drinks...   ;D
Anissa
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Re: Save the Date for Chicago ANA Convention August 14-16 2009
« Reply #98 on: April 09, 2009, 04:09:33 pm »
Steve is the featured presenter at a breakout session on the rehabilitative benefits of knitting during the AN post-surgical recovery period. He will probably be too busy to buy drinks.
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Re: Save the Date for Chicago ANA Convention August 14-16 2009
« Reply #99 on: April 09, 2009, 05:03:25 pm »
That's all part of our master plan - we keep his hands occupied with knitting needles and yarn and then we grab his wallet and head for the bar!   ;)

Lori
Right 3cm AN diagnosed 1/2007.  Translab resection 2/20/07 by Dr. David Kaylie and Dr. Karl Hampf at Baptist Hospital in Nashville.  R side deafness, facial nerve paralysis.  Tarsorraphy and tear duct cauterization 5/2007.  BAHA implant 11/8/07. 7-12 nerve jump 9/26/08.

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Re: Save the Date for Chicago ANA Convention August 14-16 2009
« Reply #100 on: April 09, 2009, 10:14:34 pm »
Steve is the featured presenter at a breakout session on the rehabilitative benefits of knitting during the AN post-surgical recovery period.

I think I need to apply for a grant. Anyone know how to write one?   :D

...what happens at the symposium besides the meeting of the (forum) minds?

It is my understanding that what happens at the symposium stays at the symposium.  ;)

Steve
8 mm left AN June 2007,  CK at Stanford Sept 2007.
Hearing lasted a while, but left side is deaf now.
Right side is weak too. Life is quiet.

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Re: Save the Date for Chicago ANA Convention August 14-16 2009
« Reply #101 on: April 09, 2009, 10:23:54 pm »
Steve is the featured presenter at a breakout session on the rehabilitative benefits of knitting during the AN post-surgical recovery period. He will probably be too busy to buy drinks.

Very cute, Saralynn  :D

And a great idea by Lori.  Meet you in the bar  ;)

Anissa -

there was a full symposium schedule in the last two issues of Notes which all ANA members receive free with their dues.  For those who aren't members, you'll find info on the symposium on the main page of the ANA website.

Jan
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Re: Save the Date for Chicago ANA Convention August 14-16 2009
« Reply #102 on: April 10, 2009, 06:49:16 am »
I think I need to apply for a grant. Anyone know how to write one?   :D

Steve, that's a brilliant idea! Written correctly, it could subsidize your yarn expenditures.

Sara
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Re: Save the Date for Chicago ANA Convention August 14-16 2009
« Reply #103 on: April 10, 2009, 07:56:06 am »
Aye-men! :)

That's all part of our master plan - we keep his hands occupied with knitting needles and yarn and then we grab his wallet and head for the bar!   ;)

Lori


Steve, btw, Moderator Only functions are also being planned! I'm not just the Cursed Cruise Director on the PBW for nothing....  ;)
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Re: Save the Date for Chicago ANA Convention August 14-16 2009
« Reply #104 on: April 10, 2009, 09:54:37 am »
Steve, btw, Moderator Only functions are also being planned! I'm not just the Cursed Cruise Director on the PBW for nothing....  ;)

No fair! You're just planning to sequester Steve for private knitting lessons while everyone else has to pay for their own drinks.
MVD for hemifacial spasm 6/2/08
left side facial paresis
 12/100 facial function - 7/29/08
 46 - 11/25/08
 53 - 05/12/09
left side SSD approx. 4 weeks
 low-frequency hearing loss; 85% speech recognition 7/28/08
1.8 gram thin profile platinum eyelid weight 8/12/08
Fitted for scleral lens 5/9/13