to cheer up a sick friend going through treatment.
The guy has an incredible sense of humor, so don’t worry about appropriateness. Thanks.
I had two shirts I wore to chemo. One (from a Doper here) said “Bald is the New Black” and the other said “I’m Too Sexy for My Hair.” I also had a crazy beanie propeller cap (also on loan from a Doper) in rainbow colors.
Humor is very important. If your friend can laugh, he’ll do fine.
Doctor: “I have very bad news. I’m sorry to tell you that you have Alzhiemer’s and cancer.”
Patient: “Well, at least I don’t have Alzhiemer’s.”
Not so much a standard joke as just something funny that still cracks me up. Wish I could find a cite.
Back in the mid-1980s or so, when AIDS was getting more coverage in the media, some mook wrote to Ann Landers or Dear Abby (I forget which) to complain: “What’s so important about AIDS that they have to print it in capital letters all the time? You don’t read about people getting C-A-N-C-E-R!” :rolleyes:
Thanks for starting this - my aunt just began aggressive radiation treatment plus chemo and I’m looking for stuff to keep her spirits up. Jokes are good.
She’s pretty sure that she’s going to need to shave her head and was thinking of having a barber party. I volunteered to get cropped (as did my mom!) and I’ve been looking around for pictures of cute bald women, was going to make a powerpoint presentation.
There’s Persis Khambatta from the first Star Trek movie. And, uh, Jane Curtin as a Conehead qualifies, I think.
“Knock, knock.”
“Who’s there?”
“Not your white blood cells, that’s fer damn sure.”
Curses, beaten to Persis Khambatta …
Though as hot goes, she is definitely HOT, bald or not.
When I had it back in 95, a friend gave me 2 wigs, one of the multicolored fright wigs, and one of those lady godiva wigs that is like floor length in really artificial platinum blond. I dodnt lose any hair, so I never got to wear them.
Who knows, depending on how the oncologist consult goes on the 20th, I might get a chance to wear them this time around…
Oh, I like this one. Hee hee hee.
Got them on my list, also:
Eve Salvail (model, famous for bald/tattooed head)
Demi Moore in GI Jane
Sigourney Weaver in Aliens 3
Joan Jett
Natalie Portman in V For Vendetta
Mena Suvari
Sinead O’ Connor
Don’t really want to put Britney Spears in there since shaving her head was basically part of a crazed meltdown…Sinead O’Connor has certainly seemed nutty as a fruitcake as well but at least she was consistent with her look.
Melissa Etheridge and Kylie Minogue are both cancer survivors. Melissa was not shy about being in public bald, dunno if I’ve seen photos of Kylie that way although she did appear with very short hair.
Ran the “Alzheimer’s” joke by my parents this afternoon, they both thought it was hilarious.
When did Joan Jett shave her head? Did I miss something?
Doctor: Well, Mr. Johnson, I have some good news and some bad news.
Patient: What’s the bad news?
Doctor: You have an incurable cancer, and you probably have less than a month to live.
Patient (stunned): Well… what’s the good news?
Doctor: Did you see that hot nurse out in the reception area?
Patient: Um… yeah?
Doctor: I’m f—ing her.
Call him ChemoSabe. (I read that in an interview with some actress, whose Mom had had chemo).
Not a joke, but a technique for inserting humor into a hospital.
Buy a bunch of fortune cookies. tease the paper fortune out and write your own and insert it. You can’t get all of the fortunes out. Don’t worry about it. If they get a factory fortune, they can just pick another one.
A girl with a protruding abdomen sits down in a diner and orders two blue plate specials. The lady in the next booth says, “Looks like you have a good reason to eat hearty, dear.” The girl answers, “Yep, I’m eating for tumor!”
Fortunately, it’s been a while since my chemo days. We used to pass time in the treatment room telling jokes with the nurses. I’ll try to remember some more.
Off topic, but I’ll point out that while Spears may be crazy she had a rational reason for shaving her head. She was fighting a custody battle with her ex-husband and there were legal requests being made for her to submit to a long-term drug use test, which use hair specimens. So she shaved her head and there was now no evidence to be collected if she was ordered to submit to the test.
http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=19
This site is a neurological support site and the jokes are of a different caliper than you normally find. Sick patients have a slightly different humor than healthy people and many of these jokes deal with being sick.
They can’t test body hair (eyebrows, lashes, arm hair…)?
I don’t know. I’ve never heard of body hair being used for a test. A WAG, but I’d speculate it might not be as legally admissable as evidence of drug use because there isn’t as much of a body of previous test results to match it with and lawyers could make arguments about possible anomalous results.
Get a hold of a recording of Melissa Ethridge performing “Take a Piece of my Heart” at the 2005 Grammy Awards.