You know youre a cancer patient when....
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pamelajo- OMG! This skit should be on Saturday Night Live! Too dang funny!
stillvertical - Being called "hon" is a wonderful thing!
And, again, I forgot what I was going to write because I'm laughing too hard and reading these posts is funnier and better than remembering what I was going to say. Thanks again ladies!
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"when you arrive with your DH at your chemo appt with the brunette wig and the nurses don't recognize you at first. One of them thinks your DH is coming in with another woman!!! My response... "Oh yeah like having one woman with breast cancer isn't enough, he decided to get a mistress with cancer too!!" She laughed so hard it hurt (she just had dental work done)!!! LOL!"
I am laughing so hard right now. My 7 year old is asking me what is so funny?
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I'm replying in order to certain posts ... anacortes, soooo good to hear from you! not sure if you saw my post wondering if you were okay, since I hadn't seen you after reading all these glorious posts that made me laugh so much! glad you're back with us for a bit, and thank you again for starting this thread. okay, now i'm off to read more and reply to more!!
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sptmm, respponding to your post ... how awesome that your children are comfortable sharing ...mine were too, and it was such a blessing or whategver you want to call it. we're both lucky women in that regrd
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and for my post of the day ... when you have different names for your wigs - hub named one of my svetlana and my cancer careworker refused to call me anything but that for my 4 months of chemo!!!
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Y.K.Y.A.C.P...........................................when your 13 yr old son brings a friend home unexpectedly after school, catching you bald and one-boob-less. When you try to explain things to him, he replies, "That's ok............no big deal."
When his father comes to pick him up and catches you out too, he turns out to be an Alopecia sufferer, hasn't had a hair on his body since he was 12 yrs old.
After the initial shock at seeing each other with our egg-heads exposed, we got the giggles and had a great laugh about it.
Sheila.
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I think Pam just invented a new word
I could not watch cancer show it just upset me. 0 -
When the receptionist at the Dr. office offers you a job because (with 3 ring binder in hand) you know more about your diagnosis and treatment than anyone else there...
When you can walk from the PICU where your child is staying to rads in the basement wearing your slippers and pajamas...
One love, Jackie
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..........when you stub your toe, pull a muscle, have a headache and think these normal aches are all cancer related. Ugh!!!!
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...When you are trying to erase September and several friends call to tell you they are running in the "Standup2Cancer 5K" at the end of the month-just for you (me) and I am freaking out bec I have blown away that they would do this but really pissed at the same time! And they expect me to be at the finish line taking pix as a memorial-errgh!! And i feel like such a rotten poster child for Pink month!! (truly i feel really blessed to have such amazing friends but crikey, noone even asked me). SV
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Still Verticle- I am totally in your corner. Family wanted me to go to a seaside fest which I normally love to do. but, I declined because half my town will be there and I said-"I don't want to do the cancer thing! with half the village."
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gutsy - I'm glad you got a good laugh!!! This thread is so funny! I have to find humor through some of this cancer stuff.
When your sister told you at the end of chemo she looked like a thumb (no hair, lashes, brows) and now you are beginning to look like a thumb, too!
When you are so crabby 2 days post chemo... I tried on my dress for my sister's wedding and just stood there and cried for no reason. Mom and DH took me out to eat!
I love the wig names! I'm going to have to name mine. I think the brunette one will have to be Kardashian! LOL!!!
When you watch the Stand Up to Cancer show and the bald people just look normal to you because you haven't seen your own hair in months!
I watched that Stand Up to Cancer show and it was so choppy, like there was too much going on. I liked the part where they talked about the clinical research, though.
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A thumb! I can think of one other thing we might look like..... duh oh!
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Yah, but we don't have hairy feet! ehehehehhehe
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kitty- I think you should let DH name your wigs. Oh Lordy, this could become his new favorite thing! Good thing is he would never dream of having an affair, he lives with so many different women!
I tried watching the Stand Up 2 Cancer show. It just overwhelmed me. I did enjoy learning about some of the cutting edge research. I pray they cure this beast someday, I believe they will.
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Thumbs up to all the brave sisters on bc.org!!0
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When you find an old picture of yourself at 3 wearing a Beatles wig & wonder did you know something back then??????? (My new avatar)
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When you put on a sexy nightie with a stretchy top and prance around the livingroom and not realize anything is wrong until you go to the bathroom and see the size label....on the front!
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when you put Tom's natural deoderant on the outside of the underarm of your shirt. I at least stopped after one side.
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OMG Kitty cat, Adey and Barb I am truly hysterical and could carry on with this theme forever-but I think i will keep the craziness in my own head!!
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When your boob itches and you're glad it's the one that's still there so scratchng it will stop the itch.
Leah the uniboober
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when you come home sore and exhausted after your first day back at work, 8 days post-op, and have to turn off the cancer telethon because you are tired of watching your DH get all choked up over celebrity survivors after acting like you had the flu... when you explain why this irritates you, he says it seems more real on TV... so you tell him to make a donation -- it IS real
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Astorm. It sounds like your DH is living in an alternate reality. How can TV be more real than you?
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Oh Astorm, I am so sorry that you appear to have gotten so little support from your DH. There is no telling how our closest are going to react or what they will say or do. Mostly, they don't know what to do. My closest are really having a tough time with all of this and other than this board, I don't feel like i have a lot of boosters in my corner. People go into shock and the word Cancer I think is just about the worst word anyone can hear. I know it doesn't help to say all of this crap, but I am sending you gentle hugs anyway xxoo, SV
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he lives in state of denial. I'm a neurotic worrier who always has her ducks in a row because if I don't something terrible will happen, and he is the don't-worry-be-happy type who doesn't use coasters or change the oil in his car. We balance each other. I get a lot of support here and from friends. This thread helps me laugh at myself!
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I think that a lot of us code named our wigs so as to have a bit of humor in the situation. I named mine "Fluffy" as it felt like a cat sitting on my head. All was well until the family dog swiped "Fluffy" from the counter where it was drying and ran out the door through the flap. Thankfully it is fenced as I was running after the beast yelling "Drop Fluffy, drop Fluffy now" as he ran around playing catch me if you can - the neighbors must of had a great laugh with me wearing an old bathrobe my son's work boots and a hastily plunked baseball cap trying to retrieve "Fluffy" from the jaws of a four legged beast that thought that it was great fun having Mom playing chase...
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Wonderful visual of Fluffy and the Beast!!! Thanks
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Fluffy...WHAAAA...LMAO
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Visualizing the fluffy story.Too funny
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