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  • glaveg
    glaveg Member Posts: 31
    edited April 2007
    I am a nurse and one of the physicians had given my staff an undeserved dressing-down. I was furious with him and had a bad case of chemo brain. I grabbed him and told him I'd like to speak to him in my office. I am short and he is tall and I am talking up into his face and kind of over my shoulder because he is walking behind me.

    I threw open the door of my office, still yakking at him, and noticed a startled look on his face. I had flung open the door of the ladies' room right next to my office.

    Thank God there was no one in there! Chemo brain ROCKS!
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited April 2007
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    I threw open the door of my office, still yakking at him, and noticed a startled look on his face. I had flung open the door of the ladies' room right next to my office.





    Thanks for the belly laugh! That's just too funny. Oh, and may I say, you are so brave. I think it's funny that you told the doctor I WANT TO SEE YOU IN MY OFFICE! LOL
    Shirley
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  • glaveg
    glaveg Member Posts: 31
    edited April 2007

    It was definitely not one of my finest moments!

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  • myrenewal
    myrenewal Member Posts: 203
    edited May 2007

    Just checking in for my laugh for today! Funny stories!

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  • myrenewal
    myrenewal Member Posts: 203
    edited June 2007
    Bumping this one up!
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  • dkmaustx
    dkmaustx Member Posts: 363
    edited June 2007

    It was so much fun reading these stories this afternoon. Thanks for bumping up this so I could find it. I laughed so hard my hubby asked what was going on. If I think of a story of my own, I'll share it with you.

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  • tflowers
    tflowers Member Posts: 442
    edited June 2007
    Debbie, I'm doing the walk this Saturday. ( I see your teeshirt and ribbon.) Hate wearing the sash, but love the day.
    Not me but my very healthy friend put crazy glue in her eye instead of solution. Thankfully with the wetness in her eye she was ok.
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  • dkmaustx
    dkmaustx Member Posts: 363
    edited June 2007
    Thanks, Theresa. My Oncologist took that picture of me back in April. I finally got my copy of it last week. My cancer center had a team walking in that Relay so I was able to see lots of the staff and volunteers in a different setting. It was my first time doing anything like that. I noticed that quite a few people didn't wear the sash that day.

    I liked the pic so much that I decided to make it my avatar.
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  • booklady
    booklady Member Posts: 70
    edited June 2007
    You ladies are a hoot!! - stories are soo funny. Made me feel a lot better about 4 trips back before I can leave once, and being in a constant state of CRS.

    At least we can laugh at ourselves.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited June 2007

    Well this won't top the panties story I posted earlier, but a few weeks ago I asked my DD if she wanted "more email for breakfast." I meant oatmeal. Clearly a sign that I spend too much time here!

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  • traceylmader
    traceylmader Member Posts: 10
    edited June 2007
    I have so many chemo brain stories that I am embarrased, but not too embarrased to share!! I pulled into the drive thru atm machine at the bank one day. I had taken my wig off in the car because it was hot and itchy (I live in TX and it was August) I was waiting for my money and when it came out a gust of wind got it before I did and 100.00 dollars in 20's started blowing thru the parking lot. I threw my door open to get out and slammed it into the atm machine, I quickly closed it and slammed the car in reverse and hit the gas - without looking in the rearview mirror - and crashed into the car behind me. I was able to get out of the car and started chasing my money across the parking lot.

    When I finally caught it all I went back to the car to inspect the damage, the lady was telling me, Oh honey it is just a little scrape, don't you worry about it. I couldn't believe that she was being so nice until I got back in the car and realized that I was bald as an easter egg running across that parking lot and that poor woman probably thought I had enough problems to deal with.

    LOVE THIS THREAD - LET'S KEEP IT GOING!!
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  • CommandoBarbie
    CommandoBarbie Member Posts: 535
    edited June 2007
    Oh thank you so much to whoever bumped this up! I had forgotten all about it. I re-read everything from the begining and laughed even harder the 2nd time. To echo a common theme, I know I've got some good ones myself, but I cant remember right now...
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  • dkmaustx
    dkmaustx Member Posts: 363
    edited June 2007

    This story may not be too unusual, but I remember that after coming home from my lumpectomy and Sentinel Node Biopsy, every time I layed down and shut my eyes I felt like the bed was rolling. They rolled me so many places that day that the sensation just wouldn't stop. First they took me to nuclear medicine to have the radio active tracer shot in for the SNB, then down the hall to a "holding room" while it perked through, back to Nuclear medicine for the xrays of lymph nodes, back to the pre-op room and then to surgery and the recovery area. I was woozy on Hydrocodone at the time, too. Luckily, it didn't last more than that night.

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  • Mazy1959
    Mazy1959 Member Posts: 1,431
    edited June 2007

    This stuff is soooo funny. I too have some weird things happen. Last week, I was trying to balance my check book. I couldn't understand why none of the checks I wrote had been cashed. Then I realized there were several I had not written down. I called the bank to find out if they were mistaken about all these uncashed checks and to make sure I had not bounced anything. When I gave the bookeeper my account number...she laughed and said " Honey, we don't have account numbers like that"...I looked down and realized it was my other checking account at another bank.

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  • Toronto
    Toronto Member Posts: 118
    edited June 2007
    I probably really shouldn't try to deal with money.

    I got a call at home in Canada that the property taxes on some vacation land we own in the US were in arrears because the check I wrote had bounced. I was outraged and started with the phone calls. "There's 1000's in that account, it can't have bounced." and such like. Well it took an afternoon of phoning, but finally some bright bank clerk figured it out. I had used a check from long obsolete system. She was kind of amazed, those checks had been out of circulation for 6 years or more. I have no idea where I found that old checkbook or why I didn't notice that it hadn't been used for years.
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  • myrenewal
    myrenewal Member Posts: 203
    edited July 2007

    Bringing this back up to the top!

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  • Harborwitch
    Harborwitch Member Posts: 124
    edited July 2007

    You reminded me: DH and I are going to our first Arena Football game and have arrived earlier than expected (because we didn't get lost this time). We pulled into the parking garage right close to the front door. I climbed out of the car, pushed the lock button down and closed the door - while standing there looking at my seatbelt hanging out. I calmly looked up to Bob and told him my sleeping bag was hanging out the car door! Ooooooooops! Shoulda seen the look he gave me - and my look of indignation whe he questioned my description.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2007
    Thank you so much for bumping up this post - it is awesome, I haven't laughed this hard in awhile (Dar, I love your popcorn story and Alaskadeb - you sure have a way with words, and the nurse asking for March 22nd??!) There are so many funny stories I can't specifically name them all, so a general thanks to everyone for sharing!

    I have some funny stories but I can't blame my stupidity on chemo because this was before chemo!

    You know how people, when talking can transpose the first sounds of words in error ...so for example, instead of saying "black dog" they accidentally say "dack blog"?

    Well, years ago when I was in my twenties, I was working in a retail department store and started chatting with a sweet elderly lady who was shopping in the housewares department. We were talking about pots and pans (I know, how exciting!) but I casually asked her if she had seen the new "copper woks" ...only I transposed the first part of those two words! The look on her face was priceless but I'm sure not as bad as mine when I realized what I'd said!! Needless to say, that was the end of our conversation!

    Thisone is about my hubby - he was home alone with my 1 and 1/2 year old son who was napping in his crib one day. Hubby decides he has to get to Home Depot before they close and completely forgot about our son sleeping in the crib! I was so confused when I got home and the TV was on and my son's door was closed... hubby rushed home in a panic when he realized what he'd done. I asked him what he was more afraid of - our son waking up and hurting himself or me getting home befor him and knowing what he'd done! I just casually stood by the door and asked him "forget something?" He was pretty embarassed by that! (Our little guys was just fine - he never woke up and was alone for about 20 minutes)

    My final story is about a family member who was shopping alone at our large mall. It has water pools/fountains placed all over the mall in the middle of the corridors. Well, this lady is so intent on finding a particular store that when she does find it (this mall is huge so it really is a big deal when you find the store you wanted to shop in) she just heads straight across the mall towards the store but doesn't even notice that she's walking straight into the water fountain until she wipes out and falls on her knees in the water in front of everybody! We still laugh about that!
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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited July 2007

    GReat visual about the lady and the fountain!

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  • myrenewal
    myrenewal Member Posts: 203
    edited August 2007

    Trying to keep one of my favorite threads from getting lost - I always come here when I need a little dose of humor!

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  • Hana
    Hana Member Posts: 48
    edited August 2007
    My hair is thinnig (thanks to Femara)for last three months and it takes me very long time to do my hair so it is not limp looking like a wet rat.
    The other day I went thru my routine - washed, massaged in the conditioner (just the right amount..), put lots of mousse in, dried, sprayed very lightly with hair spray to hold the curl, curled with iron, teased, combed and finally it looked OK.
    To make sure it holds, I sprayed it heavily with hair spray - well - hold it! IT WASN'T HAIR SPRAY - It was a water I keep for spraying the plants!

    I stood in front of the mirror, watching my "puffed" hair going limp, dripping with water......

    I bought a wig for days like that one.
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  • topo
    topo Member Posts: 29
    edited August 2007

    I love reading all your stories. I have laughed myself silly. My memory sucks bigtime, but is actually better now than during and after first chemo round. That was less than a year ago. Thanks for making my day! Topo

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2007
    Oh, Hanna, I would have been sick! I go through the whole routine you are talking about when fixing my hair. Wished I could have one of those hair dos that I could blow dry and look good. My hair is fine and thin and I even get it frosted.

    There have been times that I had my hair fixed and turned on the shower...DH forgot to turn it off!

    I can just see the look on your face when you sprayed the water on your head.
    Shirley
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  • myrenewal
    myrenewal Member Posts: 203
    edited September 2007
    Just checking in hoping for some humorous stories. This thread always makes me laugh (otherwise we would cry, right??!! )
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  • Mary-Lou
    Mary-Lou Member Posts: 2,230
    edited September 2007
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    imageROFLMAO@you Linda
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  • Harborwitch
    Harborwitch Member Posts: 124
    edited September 2007
    We are the "proud" owners of 2 older BMW's. A few weeks ago DH came home as he said - on a wing and a prayer with a wheel bearing going out on the older of the 2 cars. He put it in the driveway and started driving the other car.

    We drove 120 miles round trip for the onc. appointment yesterday. This morning he got part way to work, the radiator sprung a leak. AAA towed him home, and I ordered a new radiator.

    After lunch he calls and finds the wheel bearings for the older car - comes home and realizes that he has to move a bunch of stuff in the garage so he can pull the front of the car in. After he moves the "stuff" he has to kill all the spiders that he ticked off, and then sweep the area where he's going to work on the car. At last, the car is jacked up, and he goes to take the tire off - three of the four lug nuts are LOOSE!

    By this time I've wandered out to see what's going on. He's getting ready to take the car (with tightened lug nuts) for a test ride.

    "Do you need anything at the store?"

    "Chocolate chips."

    "Do you want to go or do you just want me to get them?"

    "No, the dogs shouldn't be left alone"

    "Okay, what do you want me to get at the store?" And he didn't even have chemo, rads, or AI's!

    It was just the lug nuts. Now he's got to take the wheel bearings back!
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  • CaliforniaKate
    CaliforniaKate Member Posts: 258
    edited September 2007

    Didn't have chemo, but have been on tamoxifen for quite a few years. I got ready to go to the store. Changed clothes, put on makeup, did my hair. Went shopping, and when I got back home I noticed that I had put my tee-shirt on backwards. Wouldn't have been so bad except for the big V-neck. Kate

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  • Harborwitch
    Harborwitch Member Posts: 124
    edited September 2007
    I found some flip flops that I really loved - so bought several pairs; green, orange, tan.  Went to work one day with one orange and one green flip flop on.   Oooops - Cool
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited September 2007

    Thanks so much, I needed that tonight!!

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  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 6,162
    edited September 2007

    This is not related to chemo, but when I stoop down, I lose my balance easily due to back problems. One Saturday, my dh and I were doing some repairs on a door and I was squatted down. When I tried to stand up, I lost my balance and rolled on my back. My dear dh tried not to laugh at me looking like a turtle on my back with my legs and arms up in the air. But when I tried rolling over to get up, I let out a little toot. That did it. He started laughing at me and I started laughing but with each movement I did, I kept tooting. And he did not even try to help me get up.

    Sheila

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