You Know You Are A Cancer Caregiver When:

You know you are a cancer caregiver when:

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 or nearly so because your spouse is always freezing.
5. Sleeping nude has absolutley no effect on your spouse's libido.
6. You know all of the restaurants within a 3 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. Your kitchen counter looks like a Walgreens pharmacy.
10.Your mastery of medical jargon causes people to assume you are a registered nurse or physician.
11. You wish your spouse was NERD-y.(NERD-no evidence of recurrent disease)
12. You use more acronyms than the federal government. (CT, PET, EGRF, K-RAS, PSA, IMRT, NED, BMT, ABMT, etc.)
13. The “L word" strike fear in your heart and it has nothing to do with homophobia. (Lump, Lesion, and Lymph Node)