Does humor help?
Funny, it does. There’s even a study to prove it, by psychologist Sharon Manne of the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. Couples who laughed at cancer coped better with the stress of treatment. Of course, there are no rules as to what jokes work and what jokes won’t work. And you’re playing a very tough room. Brenda Moyer laughed when her husband, Dave, called her “boobless in Macungie.” Carol Stevenson thought it was pretty funny when her husband told her every time he saw saw her bald head and sunken eyes during chemo, he had the urge to go bowling. But other women told me they would have felt deeply wounded by jokes about their baldness. All I can say is, stick to your style as a couple. If the two of you traded gentle jokes before cancer, keep it up. And if a joke doesn’t work, apologize and move on. And remember, if humor doesn’t help, flowers always do.
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