Experienced cancer found humor

What's so funny about cancer?

"Do not have a damn thing, really," said Kate Matthews, breast cancer survivors and cartoonist, "but whenever I need to feel lifted from fear, horror and humor breast pain, first I turn. "

I know Kate through MyBreastCancerTeam, social network especially in the face of breast cancer in women. Through the network, her share of people who are the other side of the breast reflected through the lens of the life of the comic books, but still live in fear of recurrence.

Someone asked, "how can you kidding me?" My answer is a more serious cancer, the more you need a joke. After my diagnosis, before surgery, and I in spirit to a bad place, wigs, hair loss, chemical processing ... all the things that might happen. I have started a diary, but when I re-read what I wrote, it looks so dark, bitter, toxic.

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This time, she was a woman sitting in a chair on the wig shop attracted her first cartoon.

Faced with breast cancer, she often share her comic MyBreastCancerTeam, 2,300 women, and her humor is not lost. She envisioned a "humorous cancer movement, help to make patients laugh just laugh.

For Kate and breast cancer, the humility to decline in the fall by the wayside, so it is rare that any offended her. However, she admits, this is not the case for everyone, all the time.

"Sometimes patients, we are a bit tricky, but I've received positive and enthusiastic response of the other women, so I try, daily MyBreastCancerTeam and Facebook released a cartoon."

Her key is to express her sense of humor to be fast. Expression of ideas, to move forward, whether it is as a result of the chemotherapy fatigue or pain after surgery.

Kate also seen the headlines recently with her legendary standing behavior, announced that she had cancer, comedian TIG welding Notaro inspiration. Kate said, "I really admire her just to get those things and say things about God [Reference TIG joke about God only gives you what you can handle] is a similar feeling to me. actually opened my book and cartoon drawing a cancer patient's life to God and his angels in heaven to add some nasty things.

When she completed treatment, she realized their own folder cartoon, she eventually compiled and put into a book, pink little book (mainly) cancer cartoon. "They still look ridiculous to me, even if there are some dark, I did not eliminate the dark."

Kate in the second collection. "I began to expand my comic humor with irony and universal, rather than just focusing on the lives of women with breast cancer who, even in the treatment of many other things, so I expand the number of topics."

Her advice: "Anyone who has experienced cancer try to find the humor in any case, I also remember that there are times in a room naked with eight male doctors (interns) standing around grabbed my stomach to see if I have enough meat plastic surgery. "embarrassing, Kate said, it is equally lively. "Personally, I think that in any case, it is important to find the humor. Opening up interesting or beautiful things may help you work in a room, in a dark place, I laugh people who have such a vision. "