October is breast cancer awareness month and I had a bit of a scare.

I had a bit of a scare today in that I thought I felt a lump in my wifes breast. It turned out ok because I finally realized it was just her kneecap.

 

Lmfao I was expecting you to be the 1% of cases that were male

 

Cancer jokes are never funny, pretty shameful actually.

 

As a 10 year cancer surviver, I agree with your sentiments as well, stopping this here and now...no need to get banned for what i really have to say.

 

Totally agree.

 

I have cancer and thought it was funny. Cancer sucks and quite sucks having it but I still have my sense of humor although it's understandable why most folks would find cancer jokes distasteful.

 

Ive had it, my brother died from it.. I was bitter for years but realized looking at things through a prism of humor made life a lot easier. People all cope in different ways I guess. You can either fester or flourish.

 

Maybe when I went through cancer the surgeon also removed my ability to get offended too easily?

Humor, and even cancer jokes, are incorporated by the medical community into the treatment process. After radiation the nurse even called me “light bulb”.

 

Cancer runs strong in my genetic makeup. Vegas should probably place odds on whether it's pancreatic cancer or colon cancer that kills me first, with lung cancer as a long shot. Wife is just starting year 3 after breast cancer treatment. So far, so good - thankfully her Gyn. Insisted (as in, scolded her for not going and kept following up with more scorn until she finally went) she get a mammogram and caught it early. Did have to do a minor lumpectomy, and some radiation - fortunately didn't have to go through the hell of chemo.

Life is too short to take everything seriously. We all have a date with death - this is not negotiable - and many of us will arrive at that date due to cancer. If you want to be mad at something, be mad about the massive amount of funds/donations to cancer research that have resulted in - SURPRISE! - the same treatments my Grandfather was given over 30 years ago (surgery, chemo, radiation). This string of treatment has never worked for anyone in my family. Every single one has had the same basic progression of treatment, and all were dead within 12-18 months. The most recent being my older brother who died in 2020 from esophageal cancer.

In fact, my wife and I often wonder how much longer and better my Mom's life would have been without "getting lucky" and catching her lung cancer early. The surgery to remove 1/4 of her lung capacity was bad enough, but the chemo and radiation... that shit is inhumane! God Bless her, she fought hard but still lost. Her last 12 months were nothing but pain and suffering from the "cure" slowly killing her.

Apologies, that got dark pretty fast. Anyway, point being, you gotta laugh because the only other option is to cry. There's a time and place for that too, but we have to move past the anger and sadness otherwise it will consume us.

 

This here is what's wrong with todays world. Lighten up.
Oh by the way I'm a ten year survivor and found it funny.

 

I've been practicing my pirate slang Arrrggghhh, as I get a Radiation Patch on one of my eyes Monday. I'll have a pirate eye patch on for a week and am sure I'll work "shiver me timbers" into a few conversations throughout the week

I thought about getting a shirt that says "Pregnant women & small dogs, stay away!"

No Tundra with me but I am in your province for a couple weeks. Split between EDM and CGY as you have the facilities here and WPG doesn't.

 

Sorry if I offended but I think of it more as an old person joke. I try to stay on the light side of things and have a little bit of fun in everything. Is it ok to make fun of our own issues? I had childhood epilepsy and I could make my parents a really good martini... shaken not stirred. I will quit before I get banned or piss of the other 1/2 of the members here.

 

One day soon you’ll realize that it’s the medical establishment & doctors who are poisoning us thru our food supply, so they can manage/treat our disease.

literally, every single company with pink products for cancer awareness is complicit for spreading cancer.

The area of practice with the biggest medical scums…..Cardiologist.

 

https://youtu.be/0yVhiuKqtSk

 

Damn shame you've been made to feel this way over such an innocuous joke. If anything in this thread is offensive, it's that.

 

We found the Californian

 

lol

To his points, though, I'm not sure how complicit the medical industry is in it (FDA surely must take some of the blame, at least), but I've wondered for a long time what all of those ingredients I can't pronounce on the food labels might be doing to us long term. Plus the fact that sugar, salt, and fat are generally the first 3 ingredients on almost every label with trace amounts of anything actually containing nutrients.

But I do believe there is truth to the idea that the medical industry doesn't really want to cure anything, because there's less money in cures than there is for long term treatments. Prime example was my own experience with high cholesterol. The treatment was to put me on this pill forever. And that pill required I have tests every 6 months to ensure it wasn't destroying my liver. Never a question about my diet. Not a single suggestion that cutting back on fast food (I was eating out probably 4+ days per week) or reducing my (at the time) massive intake of Pepsi/Mt Dew might help. No thoughts about whether I exercised enough/at all (I didn't).

 

All the best Bruce. With an eye patch you have unlimited “I haven’t seen the half of it” puns at your disposal.

If you’re thinking about the pregnant women and dogs shirt, are you quarantined after the radiation? From experience that can be difficult.

 

One week with the patch, just can't be in close quarters to preggos and dogs for long periods of time. Once it comes off, I'm radiation free and not under any quarantine, just light duty restrictions for about 6 weeks (lifting etc). My wife and I are here and will be staying with family, so no isolation. It'll be the longest I've been without my dog though, she will be happy when I'm off work for 6 weeks with her!

You have some awesome weather here in AB right now and last time I was here a couple weeks ago.

 

Well, I laughed at the joke. And maybe that makes me an asshole, but that would be the asshole that lost his dad to cancer nearly 2 years ago, and who’s mom is waiting until next week for biopsy results. Life IS too short to be that uptight if you ask me, and nobody did.

 

I didn't even make it back to the hotel after surgery, before I used your joke on our Uber driver when he was saying what a nice sunny day it was.

 

Guess I'm one of the lucky ones as Cancer isn't a thing for my family albeit I have quite a small one. Alcoholism and drugs we got lots... no cancer though.

I definitely laughed at the OP.

 

Nice!

Try this next: "I've got my eye on you!" or end every story you tell with: "and it was all fun and games until someone lost an..."

 

Or level up @BravoDeltaRomeo - watch Wheel of Fortune tonight with your family and every spin yell at the TV to buy the letter I.