Breast Cancer - You're Having a Laugh

Finding the funny side of breast cancer treatments

As I suspect many of you reading this will know only too well - it can be hard to see the funny side of things when you and your family are coping with breast cancer and its treatment. The disease has a habit of taking over your life when in fact you should be striving to ensure that the very opposite is happening.

Writing a regular blog- by the way - is a mixed blessing in this regard. Writing regularly about not getting obsessed with cancer has a habit of making you ... well .... obsessed with cancer .. damn it!

But it's also true that keeping things in perspective and having fun in your life is crucial.

Laughter really is the best medicine - proven time and time again in countless medical studies. Laughter also works to boost your immune system when it's at a low ebb.

So ... how do you find the funny side?

You could start by taking a look at Miriam Engelberg's site - Cancer Made Me A Shallower Person

Miriam has taken her breast cancer experience as a stimulus and in many ways an inspiration to create an off beat and irreverent look at life from the perspective of a breast cancer survivor. It's all done in the form of comic strips - some of them directly about breast cancer and others about her wryly observed looks at daily life and its absurdity.

She also writes a blog as a day to day diary of life and how breast cancer can affect it.

Well done Miriam - we love what you're doing.