You have to find humor, no matter the kind, where you can. A physician friend of mine said ‘Well, maybe she needed the practice?’. Then, since it was a teaching hospital, ‘Her residents needed more procedures?’ Yeah, I laughed pretty hard. What else could I do. I went to a surgeon, asking if I needed surgery, and the answer was…
Yet a biopsy risked triggering metastasis. They want to biopsy this prostate lesion, and I already told them ‘Take the damn thing out, don’t poke at it, don’t piss it off’. 