Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Fourteen Ways to Know You are a Cancer Caregiver

1. You view a trip to an out-of-town cancer center as a mini-vacation.

2. You have a chemo day wardrobe.

3. Your Vera Bradley jumbo bag is packed for infusion days.

4. You sleep nude because your spouse is always freezing.

5. Sleeping nude has absolutely no effect on your spouse's libido.

6. You know all of the restaurants within a three mile radius of the cancer center.

7. The first words out of your mouth in the morning are “How do you feel?”

8. You have become adept at giving injections.

9. You don’t have to make a return trip to the vet to have the IV removed from your cat’s leg.

10. Your kitchen counter looks like a Walgreens pharmacy.

11. Your mastery of medical jargon causes people to assume you are a registered nurse or physician.

12. You wish your spouse was NERD-y (NERD-no evidence of recurrent disease)

13. You use more acronyms than the federal government. (CT, PET, EGRF, K-RAS, PSA, IMRT, NED, BMT, ABMT)

14. The “L word” strikes fear in your heart and it has nothing to do with homophobia. (Lump, Lesion, and Lymph Node)

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