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  • nativemainer
    nativemainer Member Posts: 7,728
    edited May 2020

    Happy

  • alicebastable
    alicebastable Member Posts: 1,926
    edited September 2020
    Bumpety bump bump

    YKYACP when you lose some previously stubborn weight you gained back after cancer year, and instead of saying "Alright, hot damn!" you go "Shit, NOW what?"
  • nativemainer
    nativemainer Member Posts: 7,728
    edited September 2020

    ThumbsUp

  • ShetlandPony
    ShetlandPony Member Posts: 3,063
    edited September 2020

    YKYACP when you have everything needed for any hair eventuality (no hair, thin hair, short hair, longer hair) and then realize you don't know what to do with newly curly hair (side effect du jour).

    When you use the term “side effect du jour".

    When the nurse In the lab can't find a betadine swab and you produce a packet for her from your tote bag.

    When a doctor says, “What are you doing? Eating healthy? Don't you like ice cream?" (Talking about unwanted weight loss.)

  • yesiamadragon
    yesiamadragon Member Posts: 343
    edited September 2020

    YKYAACP: When the pharmacist writes a big cheerful "Happy Birthday!" on your ondansetron prescription

    When you come downstairs and loudly and proudly announce, "I pooped!" only to realize you sound like a toddler....

    When your BOSS asks to rub your hair...

  • december11
    december11 Member Posts: 352
    edited September 2020

    YeslamaDragon, thankfully only my mother wants to touch my hair

  • yesiamadragon
    yesiamadragon Member Posts: 343
    edited September 2020

    YKYACPW you are asked the COVID screening questions on entrance to every hospital and you answer "Have you felt feverish in the last 24 hours?" with "Only about 12 times an hour."

    And your answers to all the other questions are positive too :D

  • Chava
    Chava Member Posts: 6
    edited June 2021

    YKYYAPW you wake up with back pain and the first thing you do in research bone mets!


  • spookiesmom
    spookiesmom Member Posts: 8,101
    edited June 2021

    🤣🤣so true unfortunately .

  • seeq
    seeq Member Posts: 1,039
    edited June 2021

    So true. :/ I've started thinking of it as "cancerchondria"

  • nativemainer
    nativemainer Member Posts: 7,728
    edited June 2021

    SeeQ--LOVE "cancershondria"!!!


  • trishyla
    trishyla Member Posts: 698
    edited June 2021

    Cancerchondria and it's kissing cousin internetochondria. That's when you search your (usually mild) symptom on the internet and find you're suffering from some rare disease that only four people in history have ever had.😏 Unfortunately I know a number of people with this malady.

    Ykyacp when you take a medication to battle the side effects of another medication, which was itself prescribed to help with the side effects of yet another medication. Then you forget what you were taking the initial med for in the first place 🤔


  • spookiesmom
    spookiesmom Member Posts: 8,101
    edited June 2021

    currently doing that.

  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 4,351
    edited June 2021

    Trishyla - yup that was me when on AIs

  • nativemainer
    nativemainer Member Posts: 7,728
    edited June 2021

    Trishyla--too true on all accounts!!!

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  • jo-jo2018
    jo-jo2018 Member Posts: 139
    edited February 2022

    You know you are a cancer patient when you don't have the strength in your arm to blow wave your own hair becuse the tumor is pressing on your nerves and then it hits you... I won't have this problem when my treatment starts again-

  • nativemainer
    nativemainer Member Posts: 7,728
    edited February 2022

    Jo Jo--HUGS


  • barbojoy
    barbojoy Member Posts: 47
    edited February 2022

    YKYACP when your hairless nose drips so much and so often that every pocket and purse you own have wadded up tissues in them.

  • spookiesmom
    spookiesmom Member Posts: 8,101
    edited February 2022

    true!!!