Welcome back to the journey................
I finished WEEK 4 of radiation on Friday and while the week was mostly good (to be covered in upcoming Week #3 and #4 blog) a few days this week I had some some tearing at my emotional seams---both bad and good. But that is all part of this journey and to be expected again down the road.
But I'm always up for some humor, and I think it is good medicine right now. So for something a little different and humorous (hopefully) for you to enjoy. Just like the title says......
YOU KNOW YOU'RE in CANCER RECOVERY WHEN........
......You run out of the house without a belt and your pants fall down walking thru Wal*Mart. And frankly you don't give a shit either! Hopefully I won't end up in one of those "People of Wal*Mart" photo collaborations people are sending out over the internet. If was a brief drop if you need to know......
......You are ECSTACTIC, I mean ECSTATIC about being able to eat a Filet of Fish sandwich from McDonalds. Please be advised of this.....This is the FIRST and most likely the LAST time you will ever see the words ECSTATIC and McDonalds Filet of FIsh in the same sentence. But for me, they're like gold right now......
......When my wife describes my day coming home from new twin nephew's birthday party....."You ate good". Now if I was diapers chugging down some formula or about 90 and couldn't chew, that comment would apply. While what Grace says was perfectly true it was sooooooooo opposite of the standard line I would always get when we would leave parties and in the car during the pre-cancer days......."Could you have left anyone else some food"? "How many times did you refill your plate"? "Why do you have to eat more than everybody else when we go to these parties".? HONEY wherever and whenever you read this.........I LOVE YOU (But you know I'm right!)......
......Everyone gives me the "You look good" line. Did they really expect to see FRANKENSTEIN DAD??? Where was the same "you look really good" line during the ages of 16-24 when I was out trying to chase chicks? Don't remember much of that? The other thing it strangely reminds me of is when I was back growing up back in beautiful Clairton, PA. My late mother, God Bless Her Soul.....she would go to the Funeral Home to see a buddy from bingo, or someone in the neighborhood, etc......and this always struck me. I'd asked her when she came home, who was there, how was the family doing etc.......and she'd always say, in that so distinctive Pittsburgh twang of hers....."Ooohhhhh, she look SO good". Huh? What? For a 8 or 10 or 12yr old , etc....like me I'm like mom "she's dead", she can't look that good". I think she would prefer to look like absolute shit sitting on the her porch right now as opposed to looking good in a pine box! So when I get hit with that line about looking good, sometimes I think of this and laugh. But I also smile, because it makes me think of my mom......
......You drink an O'Douls and if I close my eyes, I would have thought I was drinking Golden Nectar from The Holy Grail. At least the distortions of my taste buds that I'm starting to get haven't impacted the beer taste, or in this case the "bogus beer taste. Now that would be a disaster......
......You have 4 bottles or REAL beer that have been sitting in your frig for over 3 months. Ladies and Gentlemen, in this house that breaks the prior record by 2 months 3 weeks and 6 days......
AND LASTLY
......You take soooooo many pills that you've got to make out a chart to remember if/when you take all of them. I've not resorted to the Senior Citizen little plastic pill box with the all the days listed. Can't go there. But when you take 17 pills a day.....oh yeah, plus 2 fluoride trays you do have trouble keeping track of it all......
I know the next 2 and final weeks of radiation are gonna be the dark days. Actually some of that has already started to rear its ugly head late last week. But I can see the goal line and I can hear the bell ringing. BTW........More on the bell to come.
I can't wait for October 11th. CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!
Best Regards and God Bless!
David D
YES! I love this post. I was laughing out loud at my desk so hard that people thought I was crying, ha! Love the comment about Grandma Doe, we were actually watching home videos a couple weeks ago and one of them was from Easter '87 or something.... she didn't want to be caught in the camera much, but you sure could hear that laugh of hers in the background. It was hilarious! Thanks for making me laugh, glad to see that you are doing some of that as well. Love ya
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing...always informative and humorous at the same time. See you on October 4th...one week from the goal line!! I'm rooting for you Dave.
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