Laugh in Cancer's Face

Having cancer is hardly anyone's idea of fun or funny. However, even while fighting this insidious disease, one has to laugh to keep themselves sane. This, to me, was one of the ways I kept a positive attitude 99% of the time I was in treatment.

In case you have not read my book, I thought I'd share a few of the funny moments that made me laugh out loud while I was going through treatment. I hope, if you are currently being treated, you find the funny as you are kicking cancer's butt!

• I was told, 1 in 8 get it, seven of my friends must be very relieved, was my immediate thought upon being diagnosed.
• On the day of my biopsy, my dad called and asked me how the autopsy went. I was standing in the hospital parking lot and (died) laughing.
• When you're first diagnosed with cancer, they put you in some big machines, take a lot of blood and you have scan after scan. One morning, they shot me up with radioactive dye and said "Beth, you can't be around kids for 24 hours. Really, I replied, there's an upside to cancer?
• When I was being wheeled into surgery to have my port put in, I asked my doctor if I was going to be okay. She replied, "knock on wood", then turned to my sister and asked, "is that a David Yurmin necklace?' Great, I thought, she is shopping for a jewelry shopping, and I was looking for an 84 Lumber.
• And, guess what? I rejected my port, and my implants, this time, my doctor said to me, "Beth, I don't think your body likes foreign objects." In which I replied, "would you like to run a Latin lover by me, and let me be the judge of that?"
• On the day of my mastectomy surgery, I took a magic marker and wrote, DD across my chest. I guess I should have written it in braille because, today, I can wear a speedo!

I hope some of my funny mishaps during my treatment brought a smile to you. And again, to any of you currently going through treatment, make lemonade out of those lemons, and keep kicking cancer's butt!

Laugh always,
Beth Kaufman
Author of Make Mine A Double, A Mastectomy That Is

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Resources I have created to help cancer patients:

1. My personal book, Make Mine a Double, A Mastectomy That Is
2. Online Course for someone newly diagnosed/caregiver and family of someone newly diagnosed with breast cancer
3. Adult Coloring Book for patients going through chemo
4. Children's Coloring book for patients going through chemo