alexa232 wrote:
At my cousin's confirmation (today), I began laughing under her grand father's speech. Not quite approriate.
It was only my way of showing frustration, really.
About a year ago, my friend had to check a lump she had found in her leg. Sadly, I began laughing whenever the word bone cancer was brought up. I'm so, so sorry about that now. Caused me a lot of trouble.
The thought and reality of cancer makes me really sad. The word, however, worked more like a trigger than anything else.
People's experiences on this forum continue to amaze me.
What I mean is: I'm not the only one who's been through a phase of laughing at the word 'cancer'.
That was when I was about 15, and to be honest I didn't understand at the time what cancer was. It was just the word itself, not the disease. For purely semantical reasons I found it an amusing sounding word.