I am glad for your survival, and respect your battle and success. I'm likewise sorry that this month distresses you. I have a few female friends who are also breast cancer survivors, and one very close departed friend who fought as hard as any; but none of us will live forever. Humor (and yes, even bawdy humor) can be a healing and helpful force for many of us, whatever foes we face. May God bless you and grant you health and happiness all your days.
I’m very sorry about your close friend.
I wouldn’t say this month “distresses” me. I’m a tough lady. This month is just annoying.
What I can’t stand about this month are the pink ribbons on everything, the obnoxious slogans, sports teams wearing “save the ta-tas” t-shirts, and other ridiculous spectacles. And now we have this “set-the-girls-free movement.”
Humor has its place. My surgeon employed it well: She had the walls of her exam room plastered with comic strips about this very subject. Those jokes lightened the mood in that exam room.
But, in public, people do get carried away with the “awareness” this month. ;-)