When laughter is the best medicine
Eastmum
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in Day to day
Today I reconnected with an old friend after she posted on Facebook about her breast cancer survival.
While we were chatting she said:
‘I’d be happy to give you a couple of pointers’
To which I replied:
’That would be awesome ‘cos they cut mine off!’
She eventually laughed hahaha
So what are the ways that some of you have used humour to lock heads with Breast Cancer and tell it where it can shove its ugly head?
Xxxxx
While we were chatting she said:
‘I’d be happy to give you a couple of pointers’
To which I replied:
’That would be awesome ‘cos they cut mine off!’
She eventually laughed hahaha
So what are the ways that some of you have used humour to lock heads with Breast Cancer and tell it where it can shove its ugly head?
Xxxxx
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@Eastmum - that’s funny. I’m enjoying the chemo induced brazilian that I no longer have to maintain and I always try and have a laugh - if I didn’t I’d probably cry all the time!! Glad u r home xo3
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@Eastmum
haha - that's a CLASSIC!! Love it!!
My friend was recently diagnosed with Metastatic BC & was seeing the Onc for the first time last week & all 3 of her kids came down to support her & her hubby ..... I got to meet one of them & as we were introduced to the son & daughter in law, I gave my buddy a hug & said "I'm her new Breastie'' - and was really relieved that she had a good laugh .......
Humour (& being kept BUSY) is so vital, I think, as a way of processing all the shit we are going thru ...... some more than others ..... keep 'em coming!!
@Kiwi Angel
Lucky you (sort of) - I've never bothered with a brazillian (a bit before my time! LOL) and I only have one rather patchy looking few hairs under my right armpit to show for my radiation ..... so I don't have to worry about shaving that one as often now .....
Take care ladies & gents ...... xx4 -
@arpie - you’re so right - humour is often appropriate and cathartic.
When I decided to let a bunch of friends know I was about to have a DMX, I really wanted to set the ‘tone’ - no doom and gloom! So I started my message by saying that I had two things I needed to get off my chest......
i did apologise in case anyone was offended and was particularly worried that my friends who had lost loved ones to cancer would be offended - they were the ones who laughed the loudest!
@Kiwi Angel - it will be my first Brazilian! My daughters will be scandalized!4 -
It was my first. I told some close girlfriends that I had a shiny giney and now that's my nickname!7
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I write poetry. I wrote this limerick about my DIEP surgery...which is next week.
There was a young blonde named Jo,
Whose tummy was tucked and then sewed.
The grabbed quite a bit,
And made a new tit,
That will constantly shrink and then grow.12 -
Love it! I write the odd limerick (there's a couple in my phone in the file I call Bad Cancer Poetry) and imho that is excellent!0
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I seem to be constantly making people laugh about cancer, mine or theirs. Pity I can't remember any of the jokes---its some sort of goldfish brain thing, I open my mouth, something comes out, then I forget about it. Hmmm.8
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Now that I've been reduced to using a wheeled granny walker, this came up. We were about to go out and I said to my Bearded One that I'd better take Sam (the walker) as I didn't want to go arse over tit on our walk. My Beloved pointed out that this was now an impossibility as I no longer had tits!! Somehow saying arse over sternum doesn't have quite the same ring to it....
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Interesting - so the fanny is co-ordinated with the eyebrows (I've seen some caterpillars, lately - and they're not all natural)?4
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I think they are all just going au natural these days - possibly like the 80’s bit with a little more grooming.2
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I faced mine with a sense of humour. When I was booking the radiation planning session I was calling it "target practise" (made the nurse laugh). I asked for a teddy bear tattoo instead of a dot. I was writing things on my chest, just under the radiated area so it wouldn't affect things, like "zap me".
An unintentional bit of humour was when they were preparing me for the lumpectomy. My op was late in the day and I'd been in since early morning, so I was tired and thirsty and they'd given me something to relax me. When the surgeon asked what I was having done today I kept saying "a limp nose", I just couldn't get the words "lymph node" out!!! Thankfully, she knew what she was doing and I still have my nose today
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