Lets do a Sh*t People say to Metastatic BC Patients

Latte,

Utterly outrageous! Just when you think you've seen it all, along comes an "intimacy counsellor" with a foot fetish and boundary issues.

She's lucky you didn't kick her across the room. You could have said, "Ooops, sorry. Strong reflexes."

Tina

I don't usually congratulate people for yelling at other people but ... Latte, I congratulate you for, in your time of sickness and weakness, to have the strength to say, "Hey! Cut that sh*t out!"

:-)

Is it so hard to ask a hospital patient for permission before molesting her?

Your foot needed some "intimacy" with her backside.

All I can say is WOW!  People's idiocy is why my mom has been "in the closet" for 18 months!!!

That's an odd thing for him to say, Latte. But he probably though it made logical sense. Must be a male thing. But I certainly understand the difference between hair and eyebrows. I was upset the first time I lost mine because I wasn't expecting it. I knew about the hairloss but didn't realize I would lose brows and lashes too. Besides...eyebrows you can hang onto a bit longer...they don't seem to fall out in huge clumps like the hair does. All things your father probably just doesn't get.

Oh...didn't realize he lived with you. That must be hard even under the best of circumstances.

Don't get me wrong, I am very happy and grateful he is helping me, I couldn't manage without him at the moment. But that doesn't mean it is easy...😁

Carol, I also had a recurrence on the same side as the mastectomy--under my arm. My PCP argued with me that that wasn't possible. He looked at me like I was really slow, and said I must have had a lumpectomy, not a mastectomy. Like I wouldn't know the difference! 😳

He never actually examines me. He pretends to listen to my heart and lungs, but that's all. He gives me authorizations with no arguments, though, and contacts me right away with test results, so I'm ok with him.

Oh Latte, I am still giggling over you yelling at the foot fetish woman! Good on you! Some people know no boundaries do they! I hope she stays away from you in the future, crazy foot woman!

Dawn. Xxx

Latte, I wish you would have thought to ask your father, if he is losing any hair on top of his head, why doesn't he shave it all off knowing it will all eventually fall out anyway?

Just kidding.  Sometimes it enough to just be snarky in your head.  That just made my day though. Some of the sh*t we hear...

Teri 

During my annual eye exam just this morning, my ophthalmologist reviewed with me all the changes in my health--eye and otherwise-- over the last year. He then said, "Well, I certainly hope you're not as tired as I am!" Then he proceeded to tell me about all the vacation time he had taken over the summer and his busy workload (most likely from overbooking!). I just said, "Well, I'M still persevering" and just left it there. More than likely something funny or better will pop into my mind later!

It's like these women on the view who are supposed to be so 'informed' are still trying to shove the idea down our throats that the main thing is how a woman "LOOKS" and not about her health, how she feels, the stuggles she may have to endure.  It's just the perpetual notion that women are mostly concerned with superficiality and living up to what society says they value in her, her looks.  It angers me.

I am getting so tired of these comments from people -- I could get hit by a bus anytime so don't worry about death. But last week, my rad onc said that. I expect more from them. I have 15 brain tumors andmlung, liver and bone mets and you are telling me that we have an equal chance of dying. It took all my self restraint to keep quite while dh was smiling as he knows how I hate it when people say that. I love my rad onc so just kept quite. I know people mean well and life is unpredictable but can they all stop saying that or let me know the bus route so I can stand in front of it!

Fresh from the oven...

Tonight I was just chatting with mom, with whom I share my MO, so that she gets to have that mom talk behind my back somehow teacher genes I guess), though MO is not that talkative.

Mom: I asked your MO how your boob just shrunk flat & she replied the c-buggers ate the healthy tissue.

Me: (just about to shout at her to stop talking with our 😡MO) really??

Mom: You are so lucky not to have gone through the mx.



Me: 😳😠😡😡 yep.



It was hard but I did manage not to break stage 2 remission ( not survivor I think) mom's heart.. Hope she never finds out herself how lucky I have been during the past 1,5 years!

Hugs. Ebru

CJRT, lololol! " Who the F- stole my hair?" Would have been priceless.



Formygirls, someone over on Flat and Fabulous once gave the odds of being hit by a bus versus the thousands of women who die of cancer every year. I'm gonna have to look it up for further use, as I think friggin' oncologists (no matter how sweet they are) should know better!