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

Oh Verticle....I snorted!!! Too funny! ehehehhehehehehe

When you pluck out one of your few whispy strands of hair to measure it with a ruler just to make sure the growth is progessing at a normal rate. (1/2 inch a month).

Yes, I actually did this. Several times. 

When it took me two full days of really trying to find this thread but it didn't occur to me to look under "subject!"

Everyone keeps telling me my new breasts look and feel so natural then my son with Down Syndrome comes up and puts his head on my chest and immediately picks his head up saying , " oooh, now this is different?" 

When you flood your house from upstairs down because you turn on the water and promply never give it another thought. Then don't even hear the water gushing and the three large water falls downstairs! Then remember your Mom did the same thing when she had cancer - exactly the same thing and same outcome...

Seeing the look in my kids eyes when I try and explain without really saying it why I'm so tired and why I need extra help around the house.

Brilliant thread - so glad I was finally able to find it....

Adey- I just can't stop laughing about your dream and opposite day.  Maybe we should all dress up for opposite day on Halloweeen!  Oh imagine the get-ups!

... when your sense of smell is so heightened from chemo, that you know things about people just from walking past their houses, by the scents in the air.  For example: what brand of fabric softener sheet they're using in the dryer, what they're cooking for supper, or if they smoke.  I'm so sensitive to cigarette smoke now, I can actually tell if the people in the car in front of me on the highway are smokers!  (gross)  OTOH, I can smell a flower garden at 100 paces!  (lovely)

...when you go to pay for something with your credit card, and you panic because it doesn't recognize your pin, then you realize that you pulled out the wrong card, and you give the clerk the right card, but then you can't remember your pin.

When you go for a PET scan and you sign and date all three forms, 10/25/10, the thought finally dawns on you that you are wrong, scratch out, initial and write 9/25/10. Lady at the desk just looks at you and quietly states that it is August and not September. Swear to god this just happened to me today........ Chemo brain? ME??? nawwwww............

Oh this is dreadful but Badger speaking of smells - I can tell when women are using certain brands of sanitary napkins! Oh sorry this really sounds dreadful but once I could tell I told my daughter she could chose anykind but that one.....

When you're watching TV, the phone rings, and you pick up the remote, put it to your ear and say hello... and for a split second, you're surprised that there's no one there!    (I just did that!)

LMAO Again!!!!! OMG - these are so funny!!!!

The remote reminded me of something I've done quite a few times since being diagnosed.

.....when you're standing at your door hitting the "unlock" button over and over on your keychain and can't figure out why the door won't open - that is until you realize you're trying to unlock your front door with your car remote...............the front door needs a key.

Ah yes, the phone booth.  Phone calls cost ten cents......

Maybe it was anticipatory chemo brain, DesignerMom. 

 lol dlb, i've one very similar

when you try to change the channel with the handset.

I can't remember my PIN either...what's up with that?  Sometimes I do and sometimes I don't...the number doesn't change....chemo brain...at least I have an excuse when I do silly things.. It was two years yesterday when I was diagnosed with BC.  I didn't dwell on the date like I did last year. 

I love this board.  I look forward to reading it every day.  I can relate to everything!

You sisters ROCK!

love you all!

...when in the middle of conversation with a friend who has asked you if you have a padded envelope to mail a CD and you say yes and she says just to leave it on the kitchen table in case I am in the shower when she stops by and I ask what for and she says so she can pick it up and I say pick what up and she bursts into laughter - I say please, what the heck were we talking about, what am I supposed to leave on the kitchen table.  Duh, in seconds, it was just gone!  That was yesterday morning - geez.

When you have more spare parts than real ones.

When you are disappointed when your hair on your legs  and underarms starts to grow back and you can't find the shaving cream and razor because you have not had to use them in months.

When you see a neighbor and are wearing your new wig and he tells you he likes your new haircut and has forgotten that your are bald from chemo.   

When your adult daughters come home and try on all your wigs(Ihave 3) and decide who gets them when you are through with them.  The youngest looked just like Joe Dirt on the movie in one of them.  Don't think I will wear that one anymore.