A few members have mentioned to us that you’re posting a lot of humorous anecdotes to your blog. While that’s not necessarily a bad thing, and we think there’s definitely a place for humour in our community, you need to be aware that it can cause a bit of upset when this sort of thing is posted regularly, since not everybody who visits our site is in a laughing mood.
Bye then - I tried but I am not staying on here if there is no place for humor - sad that a few ruin it for those that enjoy a laugh especially in the face of adversity, sad indeed.
FormerMember
Thank you for threatening to leave, or else you would never have caught my attention. I find that humour is so important in life, and this post caused me to go back in search of all your stories. They are wonderful. Please keep posting.
We are in the middle of the fourth year of fighting my husband's cancer. He has stage 4 bowel cancer and now has over 23 small mets all over his lungs. He has had surgery, chemo, chemo and radiation, more chemo, and more surgery. The mets are very slow moving, and miraculously none of them are blocking any airways... so this past year he has been feelling "alright". During the 1st 3 years, I fell into a depression. This site and all the wonderful people here have helped pull me out. Humour was one of the key tools that helped me.
Please don't leave!!! Looking forward to hearing more from you.
I agree with Mo and Julie, we do need some humour to help us cope with all of the rubbish that cancer throws at us. I can relate to some of the stories as my father was a career soldier and had many humourous accounts of his and his soldiers antics (He reached highest NCO ranks).
Admittedly I am not the cancer patient but my husband is and he found the stories even more hilariour than I did - if that is possible.
Cancer brings so much worry, mundane waiting for ... stress, worry etc that one can easily get sucked into a maelstrom of misery. Humour of any sort does give a brief view of another world and life, humour does for a short while open the side door for alternative thoughts and distractions.
Humour is one weapon that can help the coping instincts.
Please stay and carry on posting.
The bottom line is if humour offends then the member has the choice of not opening the blog or post, therefore not allowing themselves to be contaiminated by something as mundane as laughter.
May I suggest you pre-empt your post with the word humour or such like so it alerts the potential reader to the 'flavour' of the blog.
As a cancer family we have all laughed at your posts and indeed I actively came looking for another example this morning - I loved the Christmas story one! A similar one was part of my fathers recollections and he too did some 'square bashing' as a result!
one of the biggest differences of this new site is the lack of humour.Not being able to post but able to read in the early days and reading a lot of the posts in the late evenings kept me sane.There is a place for houmour in all things and it helps if we can see the funny side of a situation. I realise that we are all different but if humour is not your thing then you don't have to join in. It would be a dull world if we were all the same. PLEASE STAY we need more life stories.
