As we all know the waiting in between appointments can be worse than what we have to deal with.
So I wanted to make a post of light relief stories, we are not just a diagnosis.
Any humorous stories to share. However small it may feel.
I had my MRI on Wednesday evening and they asked what music I wanted, I said 80’s… so once I was laid and positioned face down the music started. First song - Freddie Mercury I want to break free.
Ps it wasn’t scary - the MRI. I just suggest go to the toilet before being settled and don’t eat or drink anything too heavy.
also earlier this year I was out with a friend, before diagnosis- but, going through a lot… at the end of the evening after sharing multiple stories of difficulties. She told me it was always good to see me for some light relief.
I posted this on Insta when I was about to go in for my surgery. A friend contacted me to say that they’d actually had this thought You’ve got to laugh eh?
8 years ago when my mum was on her last round of chemo, she was having quite a hard time, very tired, not eating properly and just really fed up bless her. She was having a nap on the sofa. My brother who still lived at home at this point, a real gentle giant, literally the least offensive person you could meet, he casually walked in, sat down and started peeling an orange.
Now I dont know if chemo hightens your sense of smell or maybe because of the lack of nose hairs but my mum said the smell of the orange was so strong and disgusting it woke her up and she sat bolt up right, looked at my brother like he was the worst person on the planet and said “what the fuck is that” then stormed out
Now this might not sound funny but the thought of my poor innocent brothers face hahaha it still makes us laugh everytime we think back. He still gets upset about it and it just makes it funnier haha
If she can look back on her bc journey and find some funny moments like that I have hope for us all.
She was put through a lot but she came out the other side and is doing wonderfully now. I will be lucky to follow her journey myself. Lumpectomy 11th Dec and then onwards to tackle whatever they need me to
When I went for my MRI the song with the lyrics “If I lay here, if I just lay here” was the first to play. The radio was on when I went for one of my radiotherapy sessions and the Eminem and Rhianna song which goes “Just gonna stand there and watch me burn” came on. Couldn’t make this stuff up! At least thinking “are you actually kidding me?!” took my mind off stuff!
My friend’s mum when my friend was a kid had a mastectomy and a prosthesis. She apparently used to chuck it at my friend’s dad and shout ‘here you go, it’s portable. Knock yourself out’. I chuckled at this as I am going to be having the same. I like the idea of cobbing it at someone randomly (though of course I won’t). However, those moments in the supermarket when you want to throttle someone, this thought in my head will make me smile.
My husband got caught speeding on our last journey home following radiotherapy. He’s never had as much as a parking ticket and this was his driving fine in 40 years. BC, the gift that keeps giving!
It really is! How special we all are to be tested like this haha I do keep thinking though how resilient I might be after all this. Smaller problems are definitely much smaller than they used to be already
Meet Stanley, my husband bought me this gorgeous soppy boy as a way to distract me from all the misery of BC. He was a little puppy as I was undergoing radiotherapy and he gave me something else to think about 18hrs a day. Without the BC he may have never joined us and given us all the love and fun we could have wished for
Can I share a story which has nothing to do with breast cancer….
I had a 14 year old corgi who was getting pretty deaf, and probably had a bit of dementia as well. I was given a 4 month old corgi puppy, and it was a bit hard having a very old one and a very young one. But it was funny watching the interactions between the two. The first time the puppy peed on the kitchen floor (not quite housetrained) the old one looked appalled and took the puppy outside and showed him where to lift his leg for a pee. The funniest thing though was the puppy worked out the old dog was deaf and had an extra loud big bark specially for the old boy. One day old dog was asleep on the carpet in the living room, the puppy went up to him, put his mouth right next to his ear and did one enormous loud bark. The old one leapt up, wondering what on earth! staggered off and went back to sleep again. I swear the puppy was laughing to himself. It still makes me chuckle a year later.
You’ve got to laugh eh?
