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- I shave my head because I love it and it's been like that for about 30 years now. After the cancer diagnosis 7 years ago, people started saying, "Oh, your hair might start growing back now." They are generally confused when I say,"Not if I shave it every few days" or "It's a damn haircut."
- Masseuse about to start giving the massage my daughter had paid for as a treat five days after my diagnosis: "Are you a worrier?"
Me: "I suppose I might be."
Masseuse: "Mm. I wonder if that might have something to do with the situation you're in."
Friend: "I read that frozen lemon juice helps fight cancer. So here's a bag of lemons." Sweet, really!
Male friend (on phone): "I won't ask any questions." Discussion for 10 mins. Then: "Actually, I will ask a question. How bad is it?"
This thread is giving me a laugh. - @Joannie it wasn't putting me on display or anything as such... more the thought that you just 'get over' cancer - like you do a cold or the flu... and i was very clearly not even close to 'getting over' my treatments
- My best friend “ well what do you expect with your lifestyle “
Oh, @Joannie That story rings a bell.
Dear Johnno, who was captain of Team Titty (my support team) used to drive me to all my Melbourne appointments in 2006/7. He was such a good man. Sadly, he was killed in a car accident in 2011. This time I have taken up offers from a variety of people when I haven't been able to drive myself.
The one that takes the cake is a woman who arrived late to collect me up, drove like a maniac down the Hume to make up time, picked me up late after my procedure then insisted we drive out to some dreadful place so she could introduce me to her friends. She settled in for a good chat for over an hour while I (the main topic of conversation) lay on a couch and tried not to spew. Then, since I wasn't hungry, she bought take away curry, ate it in the car in peal hour traffic, drove like a maniac back up the Hume while steering with her knees and fishing around I the back seat for fuck knows what every ten minutes.
I'd rather walk.
- My parents were visiting from Melbourne (we are in Brisbane) over xmas for 10 days, on xmas day morning my Daddy was quite ill, and that night had to go to hospital by ambulance - Mum is wonderful, but rambles more than usual when she's nervous... mum says (and mum has a LOUD voice) "This is our daughter, she just got over breast cancer" ... I just looked at her incredulously like WTF, are you serious?...
I called her on it a couple days later, she apologized profusely! It still sticks in my head though, It was only one week after my 25th radiation treatment and I had nasty radiation burns on my neck that were pretty obvious to all and my hair was at the baby fuzz stage and it was really quite obvious to them that i'd recently been through chemo...
