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

I went to talk to a lady at Target as my kids are totally pestering me about getting a phone so wanted to see what all that was going to involve. Well, I did know I was due for an upgrade but I usually just go for the simple no frills actual telephone. So this lady was so good I left with a free (except those monthly charges! AcK) blackberry. I did read the pamplet and I did listen to the lady but this morning when the phone rang .... well I couldn't figure out how to answer it ! And to top it off it was locked and who remembers passwords when you are just waking up? I have three days to return the thing and if I can't get it unlocked obviously it is going away. Between that and my non-existand cable I'm paying for I so hate electronics. Can't they give non-working brain people a break on this stuff?

Leanna - LMAO........yes, please leave the bald lady alone to pick out poop meds.  There are some things we just want to do alone.

YKYACPW - you're driving to the store and the only reason you are headed in the direction you are going in is to go to that store for 1 item that you need.  You get to a stop light about 1/2 mile from where you're going and completely forget why you're going that way.  Thank goodness DH was in the car - I turned to him and said "where are we going"........

YKYACPW at 46 years old you buy condoms for the very first time in your life because you can no longer take birth control pills.  I told my DH that after surviving breast cancer I wanted to start trying new things....this was his first suggestion! 

Oh, and as soon as I got them and rounded the corner I ran in to someone I knew!!

YKYACP when the brown pinstripe blouse you've been wearing for the past 3 months is actually gray.  How could I not see the color.  I've been wearing it with brown.  This morning it was gray.

YKYACP when, several times a month, you pick up one kid from school and then happily head home, completely forgetting to drive to the other one's school.  Alternately, you're at home blissfully going about your day when you look up at the clock and think "Oh sh*t!!" because it's 10 minutes past the time you're supposed to pick up either of them!  Thank goodness they're teenagers!!  Heck, they should just start walking home anway...  :P

You guys continue to crack me up.Keep them comming. LOL

YKYACP when instead of having wardrobes for different seasons you have wardrobes for different stages... post-op (sweats and PJ's!), drains (special clothes to hide the drains!) and reconstruction for some ladies (I don't know what you guys have to go thru, but I'm sure it's not fun), during chemo (easy access to the port shirts, whatever I can drag my butt into), mid radiation (ouch!  new, no-underwire bras!), and on Tamoxifen (new jeans, since you can't fit the old ones   !!)

YKYACP when one night you're blissfully ignorant, watching a movie in bed and you accidentally find a lump, changing your life forever.  

OMG, I am hysterical over the buying of 'sensual items' at our advanced age. It is like thinking of your parents having sex.

........when you find out you look younger with really short hair because all people see is your eyes!

......when you are on the beach and all of the lesbians come over to meet you bec your hair is so short, well, you just have to be a dyke (no offense to anyone and yes I have lesbian friends!!!!!). Just never hit on like I was today!

......you're really grateful that SOMEBODY thinks you are cute!

Sweet dreams, SV

When you use the extendable faucet to fill the coffee pot.... then forget about it, and instead wander into another room to watch your teenage son playing some video game on the computer... only to come back to the kitchen... now flooded.

Ooooops!!!

And when you yell "OHhhhh!!! Emergency in the KITCHEN!" No one *rushes* to see what the problem is because hey.. the fire alarm is not going off this time! How bad can it be?

 Oh My.  What can you do but laugh???

YKYACP when you want to mark 10/10/10 with your BCO sisters

(and maybe push this thread to page 50 - AWESOME)  {{hugs}}

YNYACPW- EVERY lotion smells stinky.  Come to think of it, my sense of smell is "heightened" to say the least! I'm gagging when perfumed ladies (and men) walk by me on the street!

... when you can't be bothered to type in all that YK etc.

..when it dawns on you (after quite a while) why badger uses badger for her avatar name.

hahaha Gill - it's because Wisconsin is the Badger State

named for early lead miners who dug holes and lived underground like badgers

for me it's also because badgers have the temperament of wolverines, their larger relative 

and I needed ferocity to get thru tx (like the chihuahua, I had delusions of grandeur LOL!!)