What do YOU find funny about Crohn's?

[My Butt Hurts]

Sometimes you just need to have a good sense of humor with this awful awful disease.
I try to be funny about it to help me get through.
What do you find funny??

My coworkers and I order takeout for Friday lunch.
Here was my order this week-
Cajun chicken sandwich - $5.95
Deep fried cauliflower - $2.50
Side of mayonaise - Free
Enough gas to flop
my husband right out
of the bed Friday night - Priceless

Funny huh?
A few hours later, I sent an email out to everyone with a picture of a person on an aircraft carrier, but it looked like jet flames coming out of their butt.
All I wrote was "Uh-oh, lunch was really good...."

Something else that I found funny was when my 2 year old saw me mess my pants. For a week she want around saying "Mommy poop unna-pants."

Someone on this forum has "toilet paper tester" written under their name.
Now THAT'S comedy!!

I like to say "goody!" in a very excited voice any time the doc or nurse tells me what they are about to do (that is not going to be fun).

Here's a good one - you can inject Humira into your stomach......... but not over stretch marks.
HA! Try to find a spot on my belly without stretch marks! HAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Oh my God - I'm rolling on the floor..........

Want humor? Look up just about any post by Kev. He's a frikin riot!
Kev - seriously, have you thought about a stand up comedy routine??
You could make millions, and donate half to your new organization, "kevcurescrohns". Love it!

Stay happy people.

 

[Jeff D.]

Oh yeah, at first I used to be ashamed of taking a long time in the bathroom but now I love it when someone who has been knocking on the door for about 15 minutes and is getting really mad enters the bathroom finally after I have been there. I have seen some people take one step in and one step out the smell was so bad.hahaha I also enjoy farting in an elevator. You see some very funny faces and of course I am about to die laughing.

 

[Kev]

Well, thanks MBY.. No, you won't see me doing standup. I'm a strictly behind the scenes sort of guy.. I'll write the stuff, but you need someone with instinctive 'comedic' timing to deliver it.. I know some comics/comidienes who read a joke and don't get it, yet can deliver it perfectly AND get outrageous laughs. and then there are trained, talented thespians who have all the skills one would ever need to succeed at drama; but fall on their proverbial 'arses' when attempting comedy. It really is far harder to be a comedic actor than a dramatic actor.. Yet few comedic actors are ever appreciated or awarded prizes..

Anyway, as for humour, I see this (and other life trials) as 'black humour' or as 'dark comedy'.. You know, something so bad, your only choices are to laugh or to cry. given only those options, I prefer to laugh. Glad if others here find what I write funny too. Laughter really is the best medicine, and it don't require any freakin doctor to get a prescription. Besides, if you can't laugh at yourself, well you are taking life way too seriously... it's not like you can send it back to the kitchen cause it isn't what you ordered. Sheesh, if only life were like that, eh?

 

[butt-eze]

When I first started working at my job people were very private about their bathroom time. Even a simple tinkle was untalked about. Now I have people doodling pictures on boxes, writing jokes, stories, and playing tic-tac-toe with their co-workers during their toilet visits. We have even started coloring contests for each holiday. Our pictures are posted in the bathroom and judged by a doctor or other non-biased party.

My co-workers have said that they will gladly set up my office space in the bathroom when the next flare strikes! It's great to work with such understand people.

 

[drew_wymore]

I joke with my nurse and doctor. I have their numbers programmed on speed dial on my blackberry so when they call I usually answer with something like .. "sup scooby doo doo" or whatever.

I'm also in the phase where I'm having to get blood drawn every 2 weeks so I've made it a habit to ask the phlebotomists to draw from between my toes .. once I explain the joke they start cracking up =)

 

[littlebaby]

I joke with my doctor all the time
I TELL HIM 'MY MOMMA alWAYS SAID I WAS A PAIN IN THE A$$ and I guess she was right
LOL
he's a cool doctor

 

[Lee1975]

Well I just find it funny that when I go and see my gastroentaroligist that I can have a lengthy discussion about my bowel movements and use his stool chart to illustrate how I've been feeling.

 

[Suzy]

You'll have to use humour to make our disease liveable, right? We can be all serious about it and feel bad but we'll have to go through it anyway. People often are amazed that i'm not very "serious" about my disease. I do think it's funny that I know all the nurses at the lab while my mum could cry about that. There's been a period that I'd have to go there to give blood every other week, I've been there about 20 times since last August. They ask me where I've been when I haven't been there for a couple of weeks

My docter and nurse are both very nice people. I went to see the nurse today and we laughed quite a lot. People usually don't believe me when I say that, but I've been through so much with them, in some ways they probably know me better than my friends do!

 

[drew_wymore]

I find it funny that my GI's nurse has repeatedly made mention of the fact that she doesn't have to look up my phone number anymore because she has it memorized.

My doc told me on thursday he was going to vegas for vacation, of course I asked if he was going to play "craps" ...

The fact that on the paperwork my doc sent to my work for disability it says I'm clinically defined as anorexic .. considering I was 230 pounds at one point before I got sick. I would probably still be getting skinny if it weren't for the stupid prenisone :ybatty:

 

[Ilysha]

I find it funny that Crohn's Disease allows me to have the dream diet of a 12 year old boy:

-Fried food, no problem
-Sugary foods, no problem
-Raw fruits and vegetables, problem.

My nephews are all jealous!

 

[butt-eze]

Ilysha! You're too funny. People don't believe me when I tell them this.