Man Calling Into the Pharmacy
Me: Pharmacy??
Customer: Yes Can I talk to that girl that's got the cancer and wears the hat???
Me: The Girls that's go the cancer and wears the hat???....well that would be me
Customer: Well honey I couldn't remember you name to save my life....
Me: Well if you ask for the girl that's god the cancer and wears the hat you are going to get me every time...lol
Nurse Admistering My IV Before My Port Placement:
Me: "Sooo how's this whole you're not going to put me to sleep "all the way" thing gonna work when it comes to me not feeling anything cause I DEFINITELY DO NOT want to feel anything
Nurse: "Oh you be ok...we give you Michael Jackson drugs...except you wake up!"
That's exactly what I needed to hear before I went back into surgery. lol
Stalker At Work on My Break
So let's set up the scene: I'm reading a people magazine...on my break" w/one hand on my cheek..lost in the gossip
Stalker: Hey "Lil Mama"
Me: Hoping he's not talking to me
Staker: "Yo face hurtin"
Me: "no"
Stalker: "Oh I just saw you was holding it so I was just wondering.....you work here?"
Me: "Yea...over in pharmacy"
(its at this point I wanna smack myself...I mean did I just tell this guy WHERE in the store I worked.....GAH....What was I thinking!)
Stalker: "You show me how to use this machine"
Me: "The self check-out?.......ok......you push START.....then you scan the item"
Stalker: "Ooooo Ok I see"
Me: "Alright I gotta go".....as I take the longest way possible to avoid him and get back to the pharmacy ASAP
Man at the Cash Register At Work
Man: "Awww....Look at your Easter Bonnet"
Me: "Easter Bonnet???"
Man: "Well I don't mean Easter Bonnet.....you look beautiful"
Why you look so pretty if some man don't get you a valentine's Day card I"m gonna bring you one myself! lol
Old Man At Work
Man: "Oh darlin....I love your hat"
Me: "Thank you"
(its at this point I begin to explain to him why I have hat on)
Man: "I am so sorry to hear that....you know Cancer has killed my ENTIRE wife's family"
Me: "Oh WOW...i'm so sorry to hear that.....but I've had surgery and I just gotta do chemo and radiation and I'll be good"
Man: "You know what really kills you.....THE CHEMO!"
(its at this point I decide its in my best interest to leave before he says something else...but as you will read he was on a role lol)
Me: "Well I gotta go...see you later"
Man: "I sure hope so!"
Seriously!......I couldn't make this up lol
Door Greeter at Work
Door Greeter: "Why ye got that cap on ye head?"
I take a second and contemp plate carefully what he just said and how should respond
Me: "I have cancer"
Door Greeter" "In ye head?"
Me: "No in my breast"
Door Greeter: "Oh"
That conversation ended pretty quickly ha ha...you say "breast" and it freaks em out every time lol
My Friend Amy
Amy: "Sooo my boob hurts"
Me: "Do you feel a knot"
Amy: "No"
Me: "Okay....hmmmmmm"
Amy: "Is breast cancer contagious"
ha ha ha.....if you can't laugh you'll never get through it ;)
Man at the Register
Man: "They let u wear yo dew rag in the pharmacy?"
Me: "Um...yea"....."Actually...I'm ungoing chemo so they don't really have a choice"
Man: "Oh .....yea....yea I figured that"
Lady at the Register
Lady: "Honey when you ever gonna stop wearing that hat on your head"
Me: "Well I guess when my hair comes back"
Lady: "Oh honey that happened to me one time I died my hair one color and then another and then it started comin out in my hands"
Me: Well mine was a little different...it came out because of chemo"
Lady: "Come again?"
Me: "Chemotherapy"
Lady: "You Sick!"
Me: Yea sort of
Lady: "Awwww come here baby and let me give you a hug" lol
Man at the Cash Register
Man: So I've got this rash on my leg, what can I get for it?
Me: Well....have you been to the doctor
Man: Nah......he'll probably just tell me I have CANCER or something....
Me: Well you never know IT HAPPENS! lol
