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Will you share a laughable story about your experience that you remember and result in you laughing and giggling when something reminds you of the event?
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member7250 (Survivor (1 year)) - 12 / 02 / 2011
I like to laugh and even more I like to make other people laugh. I was voted ‘funniest female’ in our graduating year of high school and I take pride in that (in fact, I think I had it on my resume for a while [I'm not even joking]). Any time I have faced something hard in life, I usually turn to humour. I have three different instances that still make me laugh when I retell the story.
1. I shaved my head 9 days after my first chemo. I wanted to have some control over losing my hair so after donating as much as I could (about 12 inches) and sporting a short style for a few weeks, I decided to shave it to avoid it coming out in clumps. I wasn’t sure how I was going to react but I loved it. I mean, yes, I wish I had hair but I’ve always wondered what it would be like to have a shaved head and now I know. Once I stood up to look in the mirror, my boyfriend couldn’t get me back in the chair to do final touches because I was too busy walking around the kitchen letting the air graze through my scalp. I wasn't emotional about losing my hair and instead we just kept laughing because the air felt so good skimming my scalp and my boyfriend could not get me back in the chair to finish up.
2. After chemo #5, I ended up in Emerg. because of a fever that wouldn’t stop climbing. I put the gown on so that it would open at the front. The nurse came in and said ”You have that on backwards”, I said “You don’t want to see my boobs?” in an almost disappointed way. She said “You’re here for a fever, we don’t need to see your breasts”. I took it off and put the opening at the back. I was so used to doctors wanting to see my breasts, I just assumed, fever or not, that this doctor would want to see them too.
3. My sister-in-law’s mother (my niece and nephew’s grandma) had been diagnosed within a year before me and had chemo and radiation, so these kids were not new to the whole breast cancer thing. At my niece’s 4th birthday dinner, we were all sitting around the table and she randomly said, “Uncle Keith’s [my bf] a boy.” and I said, “No, Uncle Keith’s a girl.” She said, “Well, he’s got a boy hair cut.” She had me there. In trying to prepare them for me losing my hair, I said “Auntie Katie is going to cut her hair like Uncle Keith really soon.” My 6 year old nephew pipes up, without missing a beat and says “No, it’s going to fall out.” All 6 of us adults just burst into laughter. To him, it wasn't a big deal, Auntie Katie is still Auntie Katie, with or without hair, he just said it so matter-a-factly.
1. I shaved my head 9 days after my first chemo. I wanted to have some control over losing my hair so after donating as much as I could (about 12 inches) and sporting a short style for a few weeks, I decided to shave it to avoid it coming out in clumps. I wasn’t sure how I was going to react but I loved it. I mean, yes, I wish I had hair but I’ve always wondered what it would be like to have a shaved head and now I know. Once I stood up to look in the mirror, my boyfriend couldn’t get me back in the chair to do final touches because I was too busy walking around the kitchen letting the air graze through my scalp. I wasn't emotional about losing my hair and instead we just kept laughing because the air felt so good skimming my scalp and my boyfriend could not get me back in the chair to finish up.
2. After chemo #5, I ended up in Emerg. because of a fever that wouldn’t stop climbing. I put the gown on so that it would open at the front. The nurse came in and said ”You have that on backwards”, I said “You don’t want to see my boobs?” in an almost disappointed way. She said “You’re here for a fever, we don’t need to see your breasts”. I took it off and put the opening at the back. I was so used to doctors wanting to see my breasts, I just assumed, fever or not, that this doctor would want to see them too.
3. My sister-in-law’s mother (my niece and nephew’s grandma) had been diagnosed within a year before me and had chemo and radiation, so these kids were not new to the whole breast cancer thing. At my niece’s 4th birthday dinner, we were all sitting around the table and she randomly said, “Uncle Keith’s [my bf] a boy.” and I said, “No, Uncle Keith’s a girl.” She said, “Well, he’s got a boy hair cut.” She had me there. In trying to prepare them for me losing my hair, I said “Auntie Katie is going to cut her hair like Uncle Keith really soon.” My 6 year old nephew pipes up, without missing a beat and says “No, it’s going to fall out.” All 6 of us adults just burst into laughter. To him, it wasn't a big deal, Auntie Katie is still Auntie Katie, with or without hair, he just said it so matter-a-factly.
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