Posted 3/27/2014 5:22 PM (GMT 0)
...just wanted to share. I felt this incredible release during and after this shared experience.
I posted before how the other day, I lost one of my front teeth while eating, and my dentist appointment for a replacement tooth (in my full upper denture) isn't until Monday... So needless to say, I've been a tad self-conscious.
I have been chatting with another BC patient in the waiting rooms....this itty bitty woman, so tiny,...but she radiates strength and has maintained a positive attitude.
Today she approached me, and I showed her my tooth (or lack there-of) and she said, "Oh my goodness, what happened?" I told her, "I bit into some chicken, and my front tooth broke off." She said, "Was it ALIVE? Did it bite back?"
She caught me so off-guard with this jovial sense of humour that I just started laughing (it's been a while). I decided this is the story I'm going to run with.
Today was my weekly meeting with my onco nurse, (whom I love to bits!)...so when we got into the room and she asked me how I was doing, I shared the experience I just had. She asked what happened to the tooth, and I told her I swallowed it! She agreed, there are only so many limits we can go through to retrieve a lost tooth.
And then,...she cackled. A joyful one, and it caught on. I'm sure they could hear us all the way down the halls and maybe into the outer waiting room. We really had a go at it. It's perspective. Eventually, she was laughing so hard (and rest assured, we were laughing together), she got beet red and tears were just streaming down her face....
She finally calmed down a little and asked how my breast was doing, my skin, etc....a quick check, we regrouped....she brought me back to get changed into my street clothes, and as I came out of the dressing room, she's standing there staring at me, still beet red and doing her best to hold it in....
I just flashed a "holey" smile at her and said, "Really?" She thanked me for providing her with entertainment today. We shared a final look before I departed, and we both started laughing again.
It was just one silly little experience, but it goes to show just how powerful the combinations of humour, objectivity, perspective, and connections really are! I really needed this experience today, and I wanted to share with my HW family....
Aww, the power of laughter. I had almost forgotten....
M.