I love to laugh, and I'm always happy to make a fellow human being smile. I grab any fun within reach. It does, however, throw off some (but not all) docs to have a jokey, cheerful breast cancer patient. I'm the one with cancer -- I get to have as much fun as I can. The doc who did my biopsy was great. I was very stoned (legal pot), the doc was very witty, I felt zero pain, and we laughed our butts off.

Parts of treatment were awful, of course. But I did chemo while I still had a chance to be cured, because, if the cancer returns, I do not want to be beating myself up for ignoring medical advice at the Mayo Clinic when I still had a shot at a cure.