The complexities of humor

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Humor seems so simple. If what was happening to father wasn’t so terrible, the changes in his thought process as a result of the brain cancer would be fascinating. Most recently we noticed he is not able to comprehend humorous circumstances like he used to. The impact on his brain certainly furthered the minor paranoia he has had his whole life but it isn’t just that.

Yesterday we found him walking around with our laundry bag. We started to laugh because we had been looking for it for weeks and he randomly found it. Instead of seeing the joke in a situation that involved all of us, he took offense that we were laughing at him. When I exlained the difference and just what we were laughing at, he simply could not comprehend.

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  • sritter
    My 4yr. old son Sven has leukemia it has been 11 months since diagnosis he will be on chemo for the next 3 years one of his meds...steriods makes him crave food and lots of it...we try to laugh more so he does not see our worry, We all now sleep in 1 bed, just feels safer that way, on a steriod week Sven poked me and asked me to make him hotdogs I looked at the clock and it was 5am I woke my husband and we all went to the kitchen to make hotdogs, my husband and I joked in several growling voices "I want a HOTDOG" we turned to Sven to join in the laughter and joke he had a stone face and I asked him to laugh and joke with us, with the look of a 40 yr. old he told us he was not laughing and it was not a joke! I He knew he was not himself, he knew something was wrong with him. I cried the rest of the day!
  • admin
    I simply can't imagine what you are going through. I used to work at the Lymphoma Research Foundation and have absorbed enough to know that there is great hope for your son. Please stay strong; you will all get through it. And thanks for taking the time to share on my site.
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