Finding the unfunny funny
just wanted to vent these (what I found) funny exchanges I had recently. I had a choice about laughing or crying over them, so I just chose to laugh and run with that.
So so I went to the chemo ward the other day to have my stupid monthly Zoladex injection. The nurse who did it was in her 20s, and was training another young woman nurse. So I’m sitting there waiting for my shot and nurse 1 says to the newbie:
”Zoladex is what we give to patients who have ER + B Ca, they stay on it for about 5 years, and it can cause some menopause-like symptoms like hair thinning and hot flushes...”
she says this as if I’m not sitting RIGHT there. I finished her sentence with:
“....and insomnia, major joint pain, fatigue, depression, panic attacks....just to give you something to look forward to.”
and wow ypu could have heard a pin drop. The look of horror from newbie nurse. Poor lass. Grumpy menopausal women speaking the truth about treatment, gasp!!! Had to chuckle at her innocence and my grumpy non-oestrogenated jadedness clashing at that point.
Then another day i was paying for petrol (account overdrawn by like $100, living my financial dreams) and the attendant sees my lympho compression sleeve/glove and smiles innocently and says “Is that to protect you from the sun?” I think he was about to congratulate me for being super sun smart.
And i cheerfully said “No, it’s for a condition I have called lymphoedema. It’s an excess of lymph fluid in my arm that needs compression to manage. But it also does keep my skin safe from the sun! Have a great day.”
😂 you should have seen his poor little face fall when I said lymphoedema. You could just about hear his mind going WTF ? And the awkwardness that ensued. Had to laugh. I guess I have a pretty black sense of humour. It was the absolute clash of his knowledge versus the ugly reality of my life that cracked me up.
So so I went to the chemo ward the other day to have my stupid monthly Zoladex injection. The nurse who did it was in her 20s, and was training another young woman nurse. So I’m sitting there waiting for my shot and nurse 1 says to the newbie:
”Zoladex is what we give to patients who have ER + B Ca, they stay on it for about 5 years, and it can cause some menopause-like symptoms like hair thinning and hot flushes...”
she says this as if I’m not sitting RIGHT there. I finished her sentence with:
“....and insomnia, major joint pain, fatigue, depression, panic attacks....just to give you something to look forward to.”
and wow ypu could have heard a pin drop. The look of horror from newbie nurse. Poor lass. Grumpy menopausal women speaking the truth about treatment, gasp!!! Had to chuckle at her innocence and my grumpy non-oestrogenated jadedness clashing at that point.
Then another day i was paying for petrol (account overdrawn by like $100, living my financial dreams) and the attendant sees my lympho compression sleeve/glove and smiles innocently and says “Is that to protect you from the sun?” I think he was about to congratulate me for being super sun smart.
And i cheerfully said “No, it’s for a condition I have called lymphoedema. It’s an excess of lymph fluid in my arm that needs compression to manage. But it also does keep my skin safe from the sun! Have a great day.”
😂 you should have seen his poor little face fall when I said lymphoedema. You could just about hear his mind going WTF ? And the awkwardness that ensued. Had to laugh. I guess I have a pretty black sense of humour. It was the absolute clash of his knowledge versus the ugly reality of my life that cracked me up.
