The irony of it when...

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... your last remaining eyelash comes out - and falls in your eye... Face palm

Sometimes you have to choose to laugh instead of crying, right? Has anyone any dark chemo humour to add?

  • Not quite on that level but it took me weeks to figure out why I couldn't pee straight and why my nose was running all the time!

  • How about back in consultant’s room for a “chat” after having two mammograms, ultrasound, biopsy and mag seed inserted and blood dripping through all clothing down onto trousers and having to go home in just a jacket and blood stained trousers? On very first appointment at breast clinic, one to remember.

  • Or lying in recovery and nurse has to pull down your pants cause you want to pee so badly...TWICE then nurse announces how lovely and blue your urine is!

  • Sweat smile nurses do get happy about the weirdest things!

    Yeah I've walked out of the clinic with blood running down my arm before. Taxi driver did NOT like that lol (well if you will work the taxi rank at a hospital!). Now I take my own absorbent bandages along so that I don't have to go back inside and ask for one.

  • I couldn’t pee straight!! What’s that all about ?

  • I think it's the loss of hair

  • Definitely lack of hair I'm so proud I can pee straight now Joy 

    One step at a time and ...Breathe !
    xoxox
    Margaret
  • OMG I never realised that's what it was, thought it was an age thing!!! :) 

  • My husband has been using hair clippers on my hair which is still only growing slowly but tonight I forgot to put the attachment on so I have a bald stripe going up the back right of my hair!!!!!!!!!

  • Lying face down having your mri scan with your boobs free flowing through the table holes, supported by foam blocks when the nurse says, ‘can you just move up and inch?’ Er???? Then ensues some demented shuffling upwards worm movement which started a fit of the giggles that I just couldn’t stop, even the nurses were getting ‘over it’ but the more serious they got the worse I was.

    My 12 daughter telling me that the wee I’d done overnight (and not flushed as yet so not to wake her) looked like Rose wine x