You know you're a cancer patient when....

micheleboots

Happy Valentines day everyone.

JFV

YKYACP when you are outside and start to wonder if there are bugs in your hair because your scalp feels weird.   Then you realize you finally have enough hair to blow in the breeze and you are actually feeling your hair move. 

NativeMainer

YKYACPW you get more phone calls from automated appointment reminder systems than you do live people. 

barbe1958

YKYACPW you meet someone you haven't seen for 14 years and blame your haircut on having cancer. I let my DH cut my hair last week....it's shorter than his! I got a hug and an "Oh, I'm so sorry." So now she thinks I just finished chemo or something....sigh. And she's got an interview where I work (that's where I saw her). Ah heck.....

tnbcRuth

Way to go Barbe!  You'll have some 'splainin' to do if she gets hired.

Leah_S

Well, now, let's see....

Having cancer can, to a certain degree, make us somewhat fatalistic. And then we realize that letting someone we love (like Barbe's dh) cut our hair so they feel good about doing it is a positive thing, more important than going to the hairdresser. So. Barbe, the haircut is not frm chemo but it is a result of cancer.

Just direct her to this thread so she can learn about it.

Leah

jenn3

Just wanted to pop in and say that I'm enjoying the laughs............. glad to see this thread is still going.

Marple

Ykyacpw, you come home from shopping, put everything away and then check BCO before you check your email.  LMBO.

kathleen1966

Just remembered this one...from my eight year old son....Why would you want boobs anyway Mom, boobs are GROSS....

tinkertude

This thread is hysterical! So needed the laugh today!!!

When the color PINK has over run your home closet and jewelry box!

keep going ladies!

MissBianca

...when you get your beauty tips from the anti-aging thread, stick your tongue out to exercise your jawline (hope nobody walks in on you), slather up with coconut oil, and feel like a tropical smelling reptilian.

jenn3

when you've realized that thanks to chemo induced menopause your entire body feels like a prune...........

susan_02143

.. when the skin care salesman at the mall chases you down the hall yelling "Your skin looks awful. I can help" while you are on chemo and have no hair. D'oh.

StillKicking

when you are late for work because you can't find your breast

MissBianca

LOL! My keys, check. My purse, check. My phone, check. My breast....now where did I put it? You have a great sense of humor, StillKicking!

tnbcRuth

I am sure this has been posted before, but here goes...today I went to Target for food and paper products...I only have enough energy to do one shopping trip a week, so off I go. (I've graduated from the aisle of food at Walgreens)  I get to the register, and I"m thinking, there's no food in this basket!  Apparently I forgot to go to the frozen foods, dairy aisle and refrigerated stuff.  I got my paper cups, cremora and some nuts.  Bacon and eggs for dinner AGAIN!  I am just astounded I did this!  Well...it could be the 15 imitrex I've had in the last week, groan!

hdangelbaby

YKYACPW   you get all excited to pay .66 cents for a prescription cause your deductible is met. like really. makes your day! lol!

hdangelbaby

oh yeah, i forgot to add, "met in February"

damn chemo brain! lol

dawney

when you consider going 'topless' on your cruise - and it's not what everyone thinks

mumito

LOL  even funnier when you find your breast in your handbag.

marlegal

...when you find more humor in this thread than listening to your "real life" girlfriends.  and then, all of a sudden, you realize that THESE girlfriends are the ones you hold most dear to your heart at this stage in your life.

thank you

leisaparis

DITTO.....

micheleboots

double ditto

jenn3

I know I've said this before, but YKYACPW.........you take off your bra and realize that not one, but both boobs have turned sideways.   I walked around all day with sideways boobs.

NativeMainer

YKYACPW you understand what a sidewase boob is, and can chuckle at the thought. 

leisaparis

YKYACPW......you went through chemopause, started back up after it was over. Then started on a trial drug and got thrown right back into it a few months later. Not that I'm really complaining. Definately don't mind NOT having a period, but the rest is kinda crappy, Hot flashes and all.

VickiSam

You know your a cancer patient .... when you open your closet door .. and decide which of the 20 plus   --hats will match your outfit.  Need to keep your bald head covered .. and warm during the winter months.. as your WBC counts -- have been up and down due to chemo.

Vicki Sam

Marple

Ykyacp when a certain brand of athletic footwear makes you think of spam on BCO, not footwear.

barbe1958

Just do it?

weesa

ykyacp when, one day, you are pumping gas into your car, and you get tired of standing there so you kinda lean against the side of the car and sling your arm up on top of the car, and presto! your prosthesis slides down your stomach and exits just over your waistband and plops into a very gasoline-y puddle at your feet.That sucker never smelled right again, and it was no doubt the beginning of reconstruction plans.