Shelley's Day 2 Chemo Top 10!

Top Ten Reasons Treatment Two for Chemo is a good thing by Shelley:

(My responses below, not nearly as witty!)

10) You get to spend three hours sitting in one place, your husband is there to wait on you and there are no video games in the hospital :)

And mom! 

9) You can consider it a beauty treatment as waxing has nothing on chemo.

I do get compliments on the new haircut...

8) You are on day two of a science experiment and you know you are not in the control group.  (Is a placebo group even possible for this and who would really commit to that?)

The "placebo group" wouldn't get a true placebo, because that would kill people (ethics and all), but they would get a non-experimental treatment that we know works for a certain proportion of people. Then you can compare the two.

7) You are going to get your port accessed and it has been three weeks since anyone accessed your port. (Middle School humor I know)

lol

6) Even Sean Spicer cannot mistake you for a person who has not used chemical weapons to achieve a goal.

Too soon ;-) He's an idiot, and lacks common human decency.What an idiot. How can this guy not recognize Hitler killed 6 million of his own people, many with chemicals. Stupid comparison and on Passover? What the actual f*&%$ ?

5) The people at the mall won't dare try to grab you and have you try their "new flat iron, hair magic" even if you do accidentally make eye contact.

So true. No one is trying to sell me hair products currently.

4) You can paint your head on Sunday and you will have the best Easter 'do no matter where you go.

I could! I'm leaning towards an Easter hat since I'm only patchy and not completely bald yet. Though this might be a good time to dye my hair something funky...

3) You now have real world context to share with your students regarding the concepts of exponential growth and decay of cells.

I think it's too close for them right now. And, because of their concern and/or discomfort, it's likely not helpful for their learning (?) I'm all for talking about tough topics, but...I think their worry or whatnot might be hard to get past to actually learn the science. I actually shelved a cancer case study for this reason. Next year most (or all) my new students will be blissfully unaware (although I'm sure one or two at least will knpw someone or be someone who has or has had cancer) and I can run the case study more easily.

2) When you are in public and someone decides to stare at your breasts, you can make a serious face and say "Enjoy them while they last, they are nothing but trouble for me anyway". This might even be more enjoyable then slapping them.

This might be my favorite. I need to memorize this line :-) 

1) You now have the answer for every who says "I wish there is a way I could make myself not want dessert". 

For the first week or so, but right now I am actually loving sweet and hating on bitter (argh!).