Why did you pick your screen name?

My name is Doreen.  My best friends daughter who was 2 at the time called me Reen.  She still calls me Reen and so do many of my friends now.

I wanted to use my regular user name I use for EVERYTHING....BUT...like someone else mentioned I did NOT like the fact someone could google my name and find all my posts and sometimes personal information.  Let alone if I say something that isn't always very flattering to say the least about my oncologist or surgeon I don't want anyone at my cancer center to be able to find my posts.

 So I use to have a good friend named Shelly.  When I TRIED signing up with that user name it was taken no matter what combination of things I added to it.  So I used CHELEE spelled differently but I still end up with what I wanted.  Actually the name has grown on me and I think I will change my name to Chelee.  LOL    (Kidding)

 Chelee

I don't know the story behind my wife's O2BHEALTHY name other than she apparently borrowed it from her mother-in-law, I just thought that I would best suit my wife if I was her 02BHEALTHYHUSBUM!

So glad this thread is active again.

Mine is my initials (TK) and the one is because even though i had support from everyone when I was diagnosed, I still felt like it was a very solitary journey so TKONE it became.

I enjoyed this thread too. I was not very imaginative when I signed on (I was panicky!), so I went with my first 2 initials kj and used a variation of my last name, so I became kjbell. Some of the names here are very clever and it is fun to read the stories behind them.

Mine is my real name spelled backwards.

I love kona coffee.  And cats.

Bump.

What a great thread! 

My screen name is a nickname I've had for many years....when I was younger I had long blond hair, dragon tattoo on my arm, bright red lipstick and owned a chainsaw.  My friends owned a coffee shop downtown by my house and they had a dead tree in their courtyard.  I offered to walk over from my house with my chainsaw and cut it down for them.  I guess I was quite a sight since maybe not many girls go walking around with big chainsaws......the baristas and the customers started calling me chainsaw momma!  It spread and got shortened to chainsaw :>  That screen name is always taken so I add the Z on the end for chainsawz.   

Last year, my friends and family created a coffee book of my life and named it "The Chainsaw Chronicles - Volume 1"....very awesome!  lisa

Great thread! I've always wondered about some of the screen names.

I've had my screen name for almost ten years--started when I was on a couple of fertility support boards. I was born and raised in Carolina (not telling which) and have been trying to move back there for about...well...ten years. Stuck in NYC for a number of reasons. (Also googling Carolina59 basically gets you a lot of Carolina basketball scores, lol.) 59 is the year I was born.

I chose groundhog because of bmx on 2/2/10 - Groundhog Day.  I couldn't think of anything more creative when registering.  Now that I'm past surgery I'm thinking I should add the year and be groundhog 2010 in case someone wants to use it next year lol.

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Mine came from not wanting to use a name that was not as ordinary as mine....I'm from Illinois and I am a lady or female, girl --- whatever.  and when I first joined ( already had my name then ) I found a part of BC. org that was a thread that was directed at females from Illinois.  Love it here, love the thread....and though I've been out of tx for a long time feel that staying on the thread helps support and give comfort to those just coming on. 

Hugs, Jackie

 When I was dx with breast cancer I emailed many family and friends. I wanted to update everyone...but didn't want to do constant emails.  I also did not want to post on facebook. So I decided to set up a twitter account.  I hadn't used twitter at all so this was all new to me.  I wanted to pick a user name that was upbeat to keep me positive through this journey. So, I thought of 'goodvibesonly'.

That is my story....

Jean