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After getting my irradiation tattoos heptad eld past — sextet chromatic dots — I thoughtful getting a more fashionable one. Many cancer patients obtain tattoos before irradiation to make sure the invisible beams strike exclusive where they requirement to, and not where they don’t, like my nuts, for example. I’d kinda not have to modify the title of this journal or my book.
I thought about conjunctive the dots to make a constellation-like figure spanning my lower backwards and ass. Even I’m not modify enough to get that.
Years later the topic came up with my friend Hamburgers, and I erst again thoughtful a newborn tattoo. A roaring lion or a unerect tiger? A flaming depiction of Rick Astley miming “Never Gonna Give You Up?” The conception is you crapper exclusive get a tattoo if it’s symbolic to you. Although Rick Astley has the greatest penalization video of every time, that doesn’t rattling count.
It’s fairly ordinary for boob cancer survivors to get a tattoo like a sound slip or a flower, a symbol of their strength and courage. I, too, could get a tattoo to exhibit I’m conception of the survivor club. Of course, no gushy laxation for me. I’d go with a flaming, bloodstained tumor and a giant Rambo knife sticking discover of it. Maybe “Survivor” in Hebrew would be more fitting.
Then I thought of how some Holocaust survivors had drawing tattooed for identification purposes. I’ve ever hated wearing medical bracelets. I countercurrent them soured as soon as possible. How could I get inked voluntarily when those ultimate survivors were branded permanently without a choice? My 20+ inches of medical scarring is grounds enough that I’m a survivor.
…Unless a vocaliser comes along who is more exciting than Rick Astley.
We staleness stop meeting like this
Yesterday was check-up day at my local oncology unit and as I was waiting to wager the doc, whose modify look should I find actuation itself under my limb but the lovely guide dog Bradley’s (see preceding post.) By trend fortuity Margaret, his owner, was in for a check-up too. It was great to grownup up with her programme and cuddle Bradley, and by the time my turn came to wager the doctor I was awninged in dog hairs. So what else is new!
As I was feeding the UK’s BBC programme website today I came crossways a wonderful story about a lady who has been battling boob cancer for nearly 20 eld and still has managed to give relationship to a bonny child daughter. Click here to feature the full story.
Another colorful boob cancer warrior is Ottawa-based Sylvie Fortin. Have a look at her blog, Breast Cancer Victory - click here.
And to ammo soured today’s post, some cute one-liners attributed to performers at the past Edinburgh Festival in Scotland - manner of Joe Hoare…
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I realised I was dyslexic when I went to a toga band dressed as a goat.
Cats have figure lives. Which makes them ideal for experimentation.
The correct to assume blazonry is slightly less ludicrous than the correct to limb bears.
My dad is Irish and my incommunicative is Iranian, which meant that we spent most of our family holidays in Customs.
You have to advert every the trivia that your girlfriend tells you, because eventually you get tested. She’ll go: “What’s my favourite flower?” And you gnarl to yourself: “Hell, I wasn’t listening. Self-raising?”
I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die. I would have thought the manifest digit was “Shout For Help”.
‘Employee of the month’ is a good example of how somebody crapper be both a winner and a loser at the aforementioned time.
I like to go into the Body Shop and yell discover rattling loud “I’ve already got one!”
I enjoy using the technique of self-deprecation - but I’m not very good at it.
If you’re existence chased by a personnel dog, try not to go through a tunnel, then on to a little seesaw, then jump through a hoop of fire. They’re trained for that.
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My check-up went OK and the mammogram was clear. But we’re still waiting for Herceptin. I’m due backwards there in Nov and fingers crossed, our exalted Health Service should have separate discover of excuses to delay treatment by then.
See you soon! Sz
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