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When laughter is the best medicine
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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- 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 :smile: - I think they are all just going au natural these days - possibly like the 80’s bit with a little more grooming.
- Interesting - so the fanny is co-ordinated with the eyebrows (I've seen some caterpillars, lately - and they're not all natural)?
- @AllyJay that’s so funny. @Eastmum @kmakm is so not trendy now though - I got told by a girl I work with in her 20’s that the bush is back. I’m so never on trend :D
@JJ70 great limerick!! - @kmakm any of that bad cancer poetry appropriate to share?
- 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....
- See - you can do it without even trying @Zoffiel
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
