QRE - this is funny

Hello All,


I am an Australian, so please excuse the accent...

I wanted to share this with you all, because I don't think that others would find this as funny as we would. I looked in my diary the other day & noticed that I had written "QRE" on the day I was diagnosed & my GP told me I had a Chiari. I did not know what this was, so wrote this quickly to look up later. Fortunately my GP knew a bit about it... but I did think that was funny, looking back. QRE in Australian accent sounds close to "Chiari" - my GP has a strong Iranian accent, too...

That is funny! I had never heard of Chiari before I got my dx. When my doctor first told me what they had found on my MRI the way it sounded when he said it was "TRE" so I asked him what TRE stood for and he laughed a little and showed me how it was written on the MRI. I was so embarrassed...lol

Funny!