A little humour. I wish everyone responded like this

I have similar friends and family and that humour is what can keep you going more then anything. I very nearly lost my sense of humour deep in to treatment but those elements of laughter get you through.

When my sister told my 15 year old nephew about me he just said "he'll be alright" and went off to his playstation.

When i showed my mate a picture of me lying down ready for radiotherapy he said " mate how $%£*ing white is your body" Cracked me up

I wish you well in your treatment mate.

Cheers

Alex

I spent a couple of weeks in the cancer ward with terminal patients...their sense of humour and stoicism gave me a great lift...the lad in the next bed to me had been given 3 months...never a dull moment with him....staff were brilliant as well...I called my drip stand RoboCop...followed me everywhere...even for Nos 1&2...it was like a sketch from Benny Hill.

Hinyes humour does help sometimes the darker the better. We all use whatever gets us through I named everything and spoke to my mask every c morning the radiotherapy team thought that was hilarious. I called her Venizia  after Venice home of the masked ball and thanked her for being my first kind of defence. My treatment also started during World Cup in 2018 kept me entertained although once again we didn’t win. 
Hazel x

Jako said:

I wish everyone responded like my best mate when I told him. 

Good to hear that the sun still shines behind the gloom of a diagnosis for a lot of people.  I consoled myself with the fact that miserable people get cured just as well as happy people, they just have a harder time of it. 
You’ll do just fine with that attitude. Keep smiling. 

When I told my friend that I have a very rare type of cancer specially for or women my friend said "that's because you are special darling!". 

Jako - 100%! My lads were 15 and 12 at the time, worst thing I’ve ever had to experience - felt like I was ridding them of their childhood and the wonderfully naive world they lived where everything is hearts and flowers!!

However, if you can’t joke about this stuff what can you do. I always used to describe my chemo as ‘getting juiced’ and radiotherapy as ‘frying tonight’ based on Kenneth Williams in (movies for those of a certain age) Carry on Screaming!

Its easy to have dark days, even dark moments but retaining some semblance of humour is so important to try and keep sane.

Take it easy.