Hypothesis confirmed: By using the word “sex” in the title of my post yesterday I received more hits within the first hour of any post to date...hence the title today (I pledge this will not happen after today...probably).
As I was running this morning I thought, “There just doesn't seem to be a lot of prostate cancer humor.” So I googled “prostate one liners” and confirmed my belief with a search producing a mere 2,700,000+ results. That seemed absurd to me, so I narrowed the search to “prostate cancer one liners” thereby reducing the results to a paltry 151,000 (look it up).
Admittedly, most of the results I visited proved to be far below even my standards of humor...Ron Paul is funnier. But at least there appears to be enough cultural awareness of the disease(s) to merit consideration in the arena of humor.
When I started this blog, it was my intention for it to play several roles. For the recently diagnosed, I hope to provide a perspective of one patient who shared their feelings of fear, anxiety, and confusion...and the reassurance that if I can deal with the feelings, anyone can.
I also hope to demonstrate there is joy and humor to be found in every experience if we are open to find it (which requires a willingness to be the butt of the humor...insert puns here).
I hope this will, given time, become a marketplace of ideas, with contributions by others (hint, hint), and conversations among readers.
That's it for this week; excuse me while I find the punchline for why single men are diagnosed far less frequently than married men (actual set up found on first page of google search).
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