Humor as Medicine

[Tom]

We are researching the effects of humor as a coping strategy to help
people survive cancer or other life threatening diseases. We would
like some personal stories illustrating how humor helped you battle
your disease. If you have a funny story that helped you become a
survivor, please send it directly to us at
***@cfl.rr.com. We will give you credit for the story
when it is published.

Thank You,
Tom and Audrey
Crossroads to Change, LLC

[BruceS]

Post by Tom
We are researching the effects of humor as a coping strategy to help
people survive cancer or other life threatening diseases. We would
like some personal stories illustrating how humor helped you battle
your disease. If you have a funny story that helped you become a
survivor, please send it directly to us at
when it is published.
Thank You,
Tom and Audrey
Crossroads to Change, LLC

Good luck with this, and please post here when you have results. I
don't have any stories I can think of, but that may be partly due to
chemo fog brain. My onc said that my attitude, being positive and
having a sense of humor, along with my excellent physical condition at
the start of the process, helped me enormously. I look forward to
your collection of stories, though I'd point out that it hardly
constitutes a study if it's just a set of anecdotal evidence.

[gordo]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:27:21 -0800 (PST), BruceS

Post by BruceS

Post by Tom
We are researching the effects of humor as a coping strategy to help
people survive cancer or other life threatening diseases. We would
like some personal stories illustrating how humor helped you battle
your disease. If you have a funny story that helped you become a
survivor, please send it directly to us at
when it is published.
Thank You,
Tom and Audrey
Crossroads to Change, LLC

Good luck with this, and please post here when you have results. I
don't have any stories I can think of, but that may be partly due to
chemo fog brain. My onc said that my attitude, being positive and
having a sense of humor, along with my excellent physical condition at
the start of the process, helped me enormously. I look forward to
your collection of stories, though I'd point out that it hardly
constitutes a study if it's just a set of anecdotal evidence.

If you are a care giver to a cancer patient you have to be very
careful with humor. If the patient sees humor you can join in and
laugh. Some patients can even see your happiness as not seeing the
plight that they are in. My cure was from radiation and what helped
get me through was the idea that what I was going through was another
life adventure. I hope you get some good stories and hope you will
post them. We can all learn.

[BruceS]

Post by gordo
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:27:21 -0800 (PST), BruceS

Post by Tom
We are researching the effects of humor as a coping strategy to help
people survive cancer or other life threatening diseases. We would
like some personal stories illustrating how humor helped you battle
your disease. If you have a funny story that helped you become a
survivor, please send it directly to us at
when it is published.
Thank You,
Tom and Audrey
Crossroads to Change, LLC

Good luck with this, and please post here when you have results.  I
don't have any stories I can think of, but that may be partly due to
chemo fog brain.  My onc said that my attitude, being positive and
having a sense of humor, along with my excellent physical condition at
the start of the process, helped me enormously.  I look forward to
your collection of stories, though I'd point out that it hardly
constitutes a study if it's just a set of anecdotal evidence.

   If you are a care giver to a cancer patient you have to be very
careful with humor. If the patient sees humor you can join in and
laugh. Some patients can even see your happiness as not seeing the
plight that they are in.  My cure was from radiation and what helped
get me through was the idea that what I was going through was another
life adventure. I hope you get some good stories and hope you will
post them. We can all learn.

Good point, and well said. For my part, I kept a sense of humor, and
wasn't at all offended by others' happiness, but people respond to
hardships differently. I had a friend who became "spiritual" in her
cancer experience, suddenly developing religion. While I found her
new religious outlook bizarre, I didn't argue with her about it.
Whatever gets you through the night, it's alright.