How did you choose your avatar picture?
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Ok, so I started the screen name thread, and now I am wondering about your avatars!
Why do you have the avatar pic that you do? I love that I can identify a post by the picture, and some of you have such original ones, there has got to be a story!I started out with an avatar of my family picture that I forced us to get a week after my dx. I knew I was going to be bald soon, I was sure I was going to die within the year (HA! Screw you, cancer!), and I wanted a picture to capture our family as "normal."
I moved to a picture of my son posing with a giant teddy bear (it was his 2 year old picture).
Now, I have a family picture that we had done for the holidays. I am just so freakin' proud of the fact that I have hair, I want to show the world that picture! Of course, it blends right in with my dh's shirt.......Ok, who's next?
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I've had several - this one is from our family vacation last summer. The kids all looked cute and we loved that condo so up it went!
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Mine is from a toast being made, a happy occasion prior to diagnosis and one of the last I allowed to be taken because of weight gain after diagnosis.
I'm loosing some, I even allowed a couple last sept, and at christmas, but I like toasting everyone when I post. It seems cheerful to me!
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I used to have my pic as my avatar then I started to feel a little nervous about having my face out there... hence the star... Twink or Twinkle has been a nickname since I was a teenager (approximates my first name) and the smilin' star just seemed to fit.
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Mine is a pic my dad took of me last summer when I was visiting in the States. It was at the restaurant where we celebrated my mom's 80th birthday. And it's the closest to how I look today. hmm..I think my hair is a touch longer but I still wear it short and I haven't colored it since I got my hair back after chemo.
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Mine is a picture of my Bassett Hound Penelope. She has been my team's mascot at the Race for the Cure as long as I have had her. This picture was taken in 2005 at her second race. She is getting older now and turning more white on her ears. We have been participating since 2001 when my mom was dx. this past race was the first race I participated in as a survivor.
Sheila
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Mine is me in my gi after promoting to brown belt. Sounds strange, but I'm probably happiest when I'm hitting and kicking the snot out of stuff and calmest when doing kata (forms). The picture is just an attempt to channel my Warrior Woman energy...
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I've told this story before, but the picture is at my birthday party after my first chemo. At the time I was still convinced I was a dead duck. I was convinced that it was my last birthday. I didn't want a party, but my family insisted we have a little family party. My sister had a HUGE gift bag full of the most outrageous hats and wigs. They made me try them all on. I laughed SO hard. One of the wigs was a 2-foot-tall purple Marge Simpson wig, one was a clown wig...every one was funnier than the last. The last one out of the bag was the rainbow Mohawk in my photo. Right as that photo was taken, I had decided I was going to live.....can you see it on my face?
That is why I chose that photo. I don't ever want to forget the moment that laughter started my healing....
Deb C
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Mine is my youngest ..Liam ..I want to update to both my beautiful children but the 17 year old girl is a bit camera shy...
Benita
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Mine is me in Sandbridge beach Virginia! My favorite place! I was pleasantly ignorant of BC and was with my family and friends hanging enjoying life! Before the shoe dropped!!LOL!
Daniella
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my first av was a pic of me taken the morning after i discovered my lump. my av now is how i look today.
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My avatar is one of my furbabies - she insisted on jumping up on the table after we set it for dinner. I gave up trying to discipline her because she is from another planet as far as cats go. She doesn't do this anymore.
Madalyn - I am jealous of yours.
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My picture was taken during my husband's and my first vacation after my nine months of treatment (last April). We went to Cancun / Maya Riviera too soon - I thought it was going to be my last vacation.
I'm still wearing a wig (which is quite blown around by the wind that day - it was actually quite cute and my favorite).We did have a great time, but I sure wish we had waited a little longer and I had felt a little better! Doing great now, tho.
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I know what you mean about waiting for a vacation. I had surgery Oct 4, revision 2 weeks later, and the next Jan -Feb had gallbladder surgery, following a negative colonoscopy and cardiac cath., started tamox,etc, etc,. We and our adult kids went to Paris.
The kids and I have since agreed it was the worst vacation we've ever taken. I was completely exhausted and very hormonal. I was barely able to put one foot in front of the other and my dh had lots of places he wanted to show the kids. I finally had to say:ya'll go, i'm staying here -- you can have it, bring me a bottle of wind and a pizza!
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My dh has always referred to me as his Yellow Rose. A reference to the yellow rose of Texas and the fact that yellow roses are for friendship. He is my best friend. Sappy but true.
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Mine is of my favorite place in the world - the Eiffel Tower in Paris. We went there 3 days after my dx - the trip was long planned & nothing but nothing was going to keep me from it.
We'll go back for our 25th next year.
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It was a long time before I found a pic suitable for my avatar. It is a picture of me coming out of a "port-a-potty" because ......
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AAAH!!! Lini, I always wondered about your picture! You were one of the reasons for my question!!!
These are great-isn't it cool to see the symbolism, and meanings behind our pics?!Thank you all for sharing them! Keep them coming!
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Good thread Deb.
Mine is of my 4lb wonder!! My little Yorkie....Oliver! The only "man" in my house!! haha!
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What a cute doggie!!!
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dont remember what i used to have but that is my new puppy oliver i think he is sooo adorable so i put him on
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Another cute doggie!
All the pets have been soooo sweet, if I haven't mentioned one it was by accident! -
This is my cat Frank. I acquired him the week Frank Sinatra died and since he has blue eyes and does things his way (as you can see) I thought Frank would be a good name. He is the breed Ragdoll and its like he has no bones. He is a really funny boy. He has been such a comfort and joy since my DX July 2007. The caption for this photo is "I'll get right to it!"
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Goodness I like this thread. While I was getting chemo, I named myself chemosabi! I know I have an Indian spirit walking along with me during this journey. So mine is a pretty American Indian with the wise wolf at her side. Sending out good spiritual wishes to everyone.
Nicki (aka chemosabi)
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Alaska Deb: You are awesome! I always thought you looked quite festive in your pic, but now I know the rest of the story. I love it!
Mine is chosen as it is the last pic taken of me that looks like my "new normal"; and I need to update it again as my hair is much longer now...
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lini - I love it! One of my favorite sayings is: Look out for #1 and don't step in #2! LOL
kiwi - OMG - Your cat is awsome! I have never seen anything like that! He is gorgeous.
I too, love to look at all the avatars!
The only significance my avatar has is that it's my own hair and I thought this photo made me look younger than I am.
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Kiwi-I love it! Is your Frank sitting basically spread eagle? My Rosie kitty does that when I rub her tummy. It literally puts her to sleep.
I think I may be a cat whisperer, I could do that with my first cat, too! Then their heads just kind of keel over, as they have no neck muscles, and they are out cold. I love it! -
It's a picture of me and my sister hiking near Zion in southern Utah. The two years I lived in Utah were the happiest of my life.
Bren
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chemosabi I remember that name i loved it!
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Bren, I lived in the SW corner of Wyoming for a year, and would go to Utah every chance I could. It was amazing, beautiful, serene, and the greatest place ever. I totally wanted to live there.
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