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

I just discovered this thread. These comments are really hilarious. You lovely ladies made my day. (which is saying a lot, cuz I've got the tamoxifen insomnia/b*tchiness blues.)

M2 twins 34----He was annoyed-------cluck'em--------check out who else is in the practice and switch. Been where you are and waited too many months to switch. Happier ever since.

Survivor11, too funny!

When your entire family is looking for your hair.

...when you waste time looking for your misplaced foob.

Leah

When you find yourself spacing out sometimes and call those "CANCER MOMENTS"  LOL!!!

when men still look at your chest first and then look up and know they've been caught so they hold eye contact instead of looking back down.

survivor11--those are great!  I've seen them before but they are SO worth seeing again, and again--especially the first one!

This is from page 95: YKYACPW when you think that tearing your wig off at a road raging driver might work better than flipping them off.

I had a group of guys drive by me as I was walking out of a McDonald's. I was walking slowly because of the enormous pain that I get from Taxol. The last two days I could barely walk. Today I was pulling it off - with a lot of pain. So, this car drives by me and a guy leans out the window and yells, "Hey Grandma!" When I realized that they were talking to me because I was the only person there, I drove around by the drive-thru where they were getting their order and waited until they all looked over at me. I took off my wig and gave them the finger. They looked like they were all high school aged and very shocked. The drive thru girl looked like she was going to drop her change and her jaw. They may never bully anyone out their windows again!

It wasn't as funny as I thought it would be having no one to laugh with me. I called my husband and he thought it was hilarious, partly because it is so unlike me.

Age 40. Tumor is over 8 cm. Started neoadjuvant therapy on July 1st with 4 AC dd / then 4 Taxol, then will be bilateral mastectomy, then radiation, then reconstruction.

J-Bug YOU ROCK. 

I work retail and I remember one time I had a bitchy lady at the cash and I though she was so rude complaining how slow the cashes were...Now i wish i had ripped  my wig off and told her to F%^k OFF.

...when you measure the passage of time by your next treatment, your next surgery, your next docters appt.

...when your sure your car could find it's own way to your PS, your MO, your cancer center.

...when you start to blame all your crappy, bi_chy moods on hot flashes. I'm on Tamoxifen you know.

...when hair growth on your legs is cause for celebration.

...when you realize that your cats are starting to get tired of your company, go back to work already.

...when you realize you may have become the "crazy cat lady" because your starting to think you know exactly what your cats are thinking, I said get back to work already.

Oh man SAS, that's terrible. So sorry to hear it.

I am so sorry, Shiela, is there anything I can do?  I am glad you've been here.  I don't know what I would have done without you.  Please let me know if there is any way I can help from so far away.

If you want to put your mind on something else, I have a medical question I can PM you.  I don't think the docs know.  My DH has an idea, wondering if you have an opinion on it.

YKYACPW your DD tells you, somewhat half-heartedly, your hair is filling in, but your MUSTACHE is coming back quite nicely! 

when you are talking to a new friend that you have met because of your breast cancer experience, and both of you are comparing notes about the chemo infusion experience, and you realize you are getting a warm, nostalgic feeling, and actually think you miss those days!!!! What's up with that????? (we both laughted like hell at ourselves!!!).

Elizabeth