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TIFU by joking about my husbands cancer

So this happened about 8 months ago when my husband was undergoing treatment for colon cancer(He’s doing great on immunotherapy now).

We were still deep in it. Strong chemo, surgery. Four months of feeling like you’re constantly falling off a cliff. Then he had a good day. A great day even. He had energy, an appetite, no pain.

He comes to my work at lunchtime and we go out to a gourmet deli/shop near me. My favourite deli. We’re shopping, joking, picking out food for lunch and to take home for a special dinner. We go to the cashier, order a sandwich and stand there alone waiting.

Posted on the register is a flyer about a rare form of cancer. It referred to it as an “orphan cancer”. One that doesn’t get a ton of research dollars. My husband softly starts joking.

“Aww honey. It’s an orphan cancer. We can give it a good home. It will be barely any additional work. Please can we adopt the cancer?”

Not looking up from my phone, I respond much too loudly,

“No! We have cancer at home!”

And then I look up to two horrified staff members. My husband is now cackling, I try to explain how we really do already have a cancer.

I have never been back.

TL;DR: I joked about having cancer at home and can never go back to my favourite deli.

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