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

YKYACP when you take a walk on a breezy Saturday morning... you feel the wind in your hair and see the wind ripple the grass and know that's just how your hair looks... the lawn needs to be mowed and you need a trim LOL!

...when you go to the ER with a dislocated shoulder (ouch!!) and the doctor comments on how calm you are (and you think ... after what I've been through, this is just a bump in the road.)

I was looking at my contacts in my telephone the other day and thinking I will need to delete some of my family and friends contacts in order to make room for all the doctors I've now had to see. Oncologist, Dermatologist,Cardiologist,Plastic Surgeon,Breast specialist,Orthopedic Surgeon,Doctor of Internal Medicine, and don't let me forget therapist.

YKYACP when you have several opened boxes of tampons you don't know what to do with.

trashing them is wasteful but, what, take them to work and put 'em in the break room?

haven't had a period for a year and a half and I think I'm done but I don't want to tempt fate.

You could donate them to a woman's shelter. Whenever we stay in a hotel I take all the shampoos and lotions and give them to a women's shelter.

Go away Flo....

Happy mothers day ladies.  I hope everyone gets spoiled like they deserve...My family gave me chocolates and I was told not to lift a finger today...woohoo

when you tell your daughters you'll keep them abreast of what's going on. 

Duckyb-ditto

YKYACP when you leave the grocery store without your groceries.

I shop where they have a drive-up system, you pull up under a canopy and a kid brings your cart and puts your groceries into your car.  That way they keep the carts out of the parking lot.

So today I leave the parking lot and drive merrily down the road for maybe a minute until I realize I never got my stuff.  Doggone it!  Wasn't too far from the store so I just went back.  Guess I did better than the time during chemo when I got all the way home before realizing my groceries were still waiting to be picked up.

YKYACPW the remnants of the IV contrast from your morning MRI help light up the lyric sheets at that nights gig:)

YKYACPW you are standing buck naked while 2 surgeons are marking you with Sharpies during which  you and your husband are discussing whether to join a Texas bourbon club or bank the extra fat......banking the fat won out.  We did buy a signed bottle of the bourbon and use it to toast milestones in this journey.

Thought of another one I did



YKYACPW. You are donating to your daughters dance school silent auction basket themed "fitness basket" and you accidentally send your bag from the dollar store consisting of a dog blanket, Shamrock flashing St paddy's day pin, cheap picture frame and a shower curtain liner!!! I just imagined the lady making the baskets saying, "how am I going to fit these into baskets.... The poor dear maybe that's all she can afford". Lol

YKYACP when you are heading out for a walk and go to put on your baseball cap, the one you last wore last year while bald from chemo, and have to loosen it a notch because now you have hair.  :-)

Oh InTwoPlaces, I totally know what you mean!

 I had the same thought today -- had a guy on the street give me a nice look and I wondered "Do he noticed that I have no eyelashes?". (!!!) 

 Sorry if this one sounds negative - I don't mean it too...

YKYACPW the Apocalype/Doomsday prediction thing makes you think "Gee, now suddenly others know how I feel for a minute or two -- pondering for a second what would happen if they didn't make it."

YKYACPW you're SO FREAKIN' HAPPY and high on life just from simply having a nice Spring walk with a friend and enjoying life! (after having been inside and tired from treatment)

 :-)