Something that happened last week at work made me feel good. My two bosses were speaking rapidly with their hands a flying and I started to laugh because they looked so comical. The owner of the company looked at me and asked me why I was laughing, and my spontaneous reply was "because I still have the ability to". They know what I'm going through and that statement made them smile and made me realize that the reason that people who are going through such traumatic times have to keep their sense of humor.

Here's a humorous idea. Tattoo zippers on your scars and freak the surgeons out when they examine you.

I have seven brain tumors, all little ones that I hope stay that way. I’ve named them all after the seven dwarfs, and imagine myself as Snow White, cleaning them all out of the house. I just wish all my tumors were named Sleepy and don't wake up for a long, long time.

-- L L L (Live, laugh, love)

As published in the VHL Family Forum 5:4, December 1997. For permission to reprint, please contact VHL Family Alliance, editor@vhl.org. Further information is available from the VHL Family Alliance, info@vhl.org.

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