Live from The Blue Room!

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One of the notebooks I brought to the infusion center was my SNL skit writing notebook. 

The skit I was working on took place in the infusion waiting room, (*ours was called the blue room, because it had exclusively blue chairs).

In the blue, blue room (the walls were also blue), every 2 weeks, I wrote down 100s of strangers cancer ‘blurt out’ lines I overheard. 

It had only been a couple chemo visits since I started on the ‘Waiting Room’ skit, then my chemo journey quickly and aggressively started to get really brutal, ended up losing my hair and becoming frail. It was THEN than I observed the more chemo-ey I was, the weirder others cancer blurt outs became in response. The sicker I was, the funnier the blurt out.

Some other weird things were happening too. Like a swollen purpley icy numb hand out of nowhere. Obviously couldn’t help myself, snapped a pic of my frozen grape-popsicle XL, sent it to my favorite dad jokers ‘best hashtag wins’ and…

Suffice to say, the Barney references got a little out of hand. 

Now, most the lines for the skit, energy shifts, reactions and responses were weird. They’re weird in a way that I find funny, and it’s the perfect response, because cancer is a weird thing. 

What’s the best cancer ‘blurt out’ you’ve heard?

ShadyGuy

Yes some people say the darnedest things, kids in particular. My 6-year old (at the time this happened) grandson said “Grandpa I know you might be going to heaven soon!”. I chuckled and said “And where are you going?” His reply was worth a million dollars “well I have always hoped to go to Mars!”. I asked if Mars is close to heaven. He said “ they are both in space”. Fortunately we are both still on Earth.