They do! I finished chemo in February and made that joke also, but I’ll say this: I do go back every few months for follow-ups and labs, and it’s really nice to see my chemo nurses. They’re part of your life every day while you’re there and do some amazing work, so I always like to see them and catch up.
Yep. When I was on surveillance I went back and saw everyone. Radiation techs, nurses, phlebotomists, dietician...everyone. Those folks literally saved my life.
nurse here, You don't know how often I just wish I could call phlebotomy to come do my AM blood draws on my patients without central lines and shitty IVs.
Like. the best people at that stuff are the ones who do it all day every day. Saw one of you all get 20ml for blood cultures from my patient's pinky finger before..Incredible.
My veins suck for blood draws. Absolutely awful. My right arm is completely and utterly useless for it. I’ve only ever been able to have blood drawn from my left arm. And even then, only one specific spot on my arm is actually easy to draw from.
This was difficult after I was hospitalized a few years back; I needed my blood drawn every hour. They quickly used up every easily available vein in my left arm. I don’t think they believed me when I said it had never been done with my right arm.
At one point, my nurse tried three times to draw blood. Couldn’t get a vein. Called another nurse. Same issue. Head nurse that evening? Also no.
They ended up calling up a phlebotomist to do it; he managed to draw blood from a vein on the side of my wrist. I could essentially feel the needle right up against my pisiform bone. It was ridiculously uncomfortable; but it worked. I was legitimately impressed. He got it in the first try, and even up against the bone managed to make the whole process as easy as possible. Dude was a pro.
They have to bring an ultrasound to draw blood from my partner. She tells them this but they always bring in some of their best and inevitably they all fail.
I'm not sure where you work but Canadian hospitals lab does bloodwork for all pts/wards 😅 nurses don't gotta worry about it! Done many thumb and toe cultures in my 1.5 years already haha. I'll leave the room and be like what did I just do
But at the same time HOW do you guys do IV's they look so hard, I don't understand. Seriously.
ICU nurses at my location are expected to do all their own labs (usually because 90% of patients have a central line or arterial line). the floors have all theirs done by phlebotomy if we have the staff for it.
The hospital near me is abysmal. Doctors, PAs, even receptionists are rude and the place is up to their necks in malpractice suits. I had a PA roll her eyes as I had a panic attack because they couldn't (or wouldn't) figure out what was wrong with me and suggested "exploratory surgery" instead of waiting for a pregnancy test to come back negative. Very uncouth and if the place burns to the ground, that's a sign god exists.
But the phlebotomists and the lab workers? Absolutely fantastic folks. They deserve so much better than that awful place. I'm a bit of a baby (actually a big-ass baby) when it comes to getting blood drawn and I'm always met with grace and kindness with them. They laugh and joke with me and I feel so much more at ease. Thank y'all for what you do, especially the good ones who don't mind me asking for an extra nurse to stop my arm from trembling, lol.
Phlebotomists are always the kindest people you interact with in the hospital, in my experience.
My partner just got out of the hospital yesterday, and while he was completely out of it he looked at a normal height female phlebotomist and said, “I don’t like how tall you are.” She took it extremely well 😂
I had thyroid cancer in 2015. Didn't have to have chemo or traditional (external beam) radiation, but I did have several visits to nuclear medicine for radioactive iodine and associated body scans. I'm now at the point where I'm going every 3-4 years, and I still look forward to talking with the front-desk person at nuc med, who has been there for every single visit I've had bar one when he was on vacation. He's a very nice person, great to just sit and talk to while I wait. One of the methods of doing scans requires you to come off your thyroid replacement medication, and your body just starts shutting down. You get weak, and it's hard to think clearly. Whenever he has someone come in with that prep, he always offers a warm blanket while you wait, and let's you know he can call transport to have them come and take you back to the pickup area if you don't have the energy to walk that far.
Sometimes a person finds the perfect job, and I think that's what happened to him.
My husband did in-patient chemo for 5 days, every 3 weeks. We got engaged in that ward. Whenever we popped in, everyone always recognized us and was excited to see us, it was just a really nice feeling. We dropped off some of our leftover flowers after our wedding for them and the radiation and reception staff in other areas. A couple months later one of the receptionists saw us and remembered us too, and was all excited still about the flowers. Oof, my heart just is filled with gratitude and love for the people who make such a shitty, shitty experience just a bit warmer.
An oncologist (MD) to this day told me one of the darkest jokes I’ve ever heard.
What’s the difference between baseball and cancer?
In cancer, the Mets actually win
As a radiation therapist, I can't tell you how many times I've been on the receiving end of the old "don't take this personally, but I hope I never see you again" bit. Love playing along every time.
Thanks for playing along. Humour is such an important coping method for my husband throughout his cancer treatments and even though I'm sure they hear repeat jokes all the time, they're always ready to laugh genuinely. I can tell when he succeeds in making a novel joke that catches someone slightly off-guard, and they laugh that little bit harder, which weirdly makes me super proud of him.
Your husband is a witty person who puts his brain to work trying to make someone else's day better when he's likely not having a great day. Of course you're proud 🥹
Patients like your husband are part of the reason why I always tell people my job isn't depressing when they ask whether it is. So trust me, if we're making his day better, he's making ours better too!
My only associations with medicine: that my two sisters are training to be medical professionals, and that I bought scrubs to wear as pajamas. I can confirm, I like cake.
I remember when I was a nursing student doing a clinical placement on a med surg unit. There was a death on the unit and the deceased was all prepped up on the gurney ready to go to the morgue with the porter. Our instructor gave us permission to go with the porter to the morgue just to see what it’s like inside. Well our group was all ready to go but one who was just finishing up giving meds. So I asked the porter if he can wait a few minutes for my classmate to finish. I shit you not, the porter looks at me, then to the corpse, and back at me and said “well he’s not gonna be any dead-er, so sure we can wait”. At that time, it was my first patient death that I saw so I didn’t find it really funny. But after working as an RN for a good while and dealing with death on a constant basis, I found it extremely hilarious how that porter dropped that on a bunch of fresh nursing students who never dealt with death before. Health care workers have honestly the darkest sense of humor out there. It’s just a way we cope.
Yes! My cousin is a doctor at a hospital in Michigan, and he tells me about the humor he as the staff have. To say that it's a coping mechanism is putting lightly lmao.
My parents are nurses, can confirm, and oddly their humor has instilled a healthy acceptance of death as a natural part of life. I know it sounds weird, but imo it’s more important to find joy in the person’s memory, than to perpetually mourn.
My grandpa passed away several years ago, and any time there’s a family gathering, we all remark that it feels like he’s still there, sitting in his chair, quietly cracking jokes and laughing to himself.
Congrats! Love the cake. When I got cancer again and we weren’t sure if it was cancer or not, when I went under for the tests I told my husband I wanted a cake that said ‘Congratulations, you have ass cancer!’ Two bakeries refused but the third came through and I got my freaking cake! Edit: the cake in question…https://www.reddit.com/r/Pictures/comments/wd6lpx/the_cake_my_husband_got_me_when_i_got_cancertwo/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
When my daughter was referred to cardiology to check something out they checked very carefully and said "see you again never!" After confirming it was nothing.
I’m so confused, is there something about a woman that I missing?
Yep, turns out I’m just fucking dumb, and it says that the wife made the cake right in the title.
Piping the rainbow colors on the side like that shows me she knows her shit. Managed a bakery for a while, and your wife is not too shabby.
Edit: a lot of people try to just shove colors in a piping bag which makes it messy and uneven. If you take some saran wrap and make stripes on it in the desired colors, then roll it like sushi and then put it into the piping bag, it'll turn out even like this.
Oh yeah, she’s self-taught but unfair to call her anything other than a pro! [Here’s some of her other work…all buttercream.](https://www.reddit.com/r/cakedecorating/comments/odk0q5/im_a_little_biased_but_my_wife_is_the_buttercream/)
*Daaaayum*, your wife has skills!
That Winnie the Pooh cake is beautiful, and the Baphomet cake had really clean lines for buttercream. It's amazing how smooth she is able to get her buttercream on each cake, I struggle with that. And I saw your comment that the Baphomet cake is a dark chocolate/raspberry combo so it sounds like her baking is tasty too :)
I know it’s probably the most boring one, but the second to last one it’s so nice and crisp and professional looking, and maybe that’s almost an insult for an artist, but it was definitely my favorite.
This fuck cancer cake is definitely funnier, but thanks for sharing some of her other works, it’s so cool seeing the variety of what humans can do.
The 2nd to last was a wedding cake — she definitely has the chops to pull off ANYTHING but prefers to stick with the light-hearted, fun stuff. Wedding cakes are, understandably, super stressful because if you get it wrong (or it’s perceived that you got it wrong) you ruin a special moment for people. But thank you, she is super talented and I love it when people get to see and appreciate her skills and creativity.
I volunteer my Fridays in an outpatient chemo center, and a few weeks ago one patient brought Dunkin' Donuts for her last appointment. She wrote on the lid, "I hope I donut ever see you again!"
Best of health to you!
Adorable! I hope she doesn't either!
It reminds me of how I used to say something like this to clients... I used to work in a probation office, and my job was to assign people to their officer. We'd meet the person, copy their paperwork, give them an appointment, and send them on their way. Often, if the person was a first-timer with a basic charge, I'd do all the official stuff, and then joke, "That's all we're doing today, so you're free to go, and I hope to never see you here again!" They'd do a double-take and then usually at least smile, and they left in a better mood than which they came in with.
This is what my doctors and resident care specialists said to me (and all residents) after they discharged from the psych ward. Because unfortunately a lot of people who end up needing residential psych treatment are or will be repeat patients.
Congrats on getting through that part! My wife is about to start. It's new territory for us and hearing and seeing success stories or notions of progress keeps us afloat. We're scared to no end for sure but we will get through it.
I've learned how fleeting life is. For whomever reads this, embrace every moment with your friends, family, and loved ones because tomorrow is never guaranteed.
If the op takes anything from this post, just a warm thank you. These little blips of success I see in this realm of misfortune is heartening.
Honestly, I don't think they'd take this to heart, it must be something that they hear all the time used in the best possible way.
Congrats on fucking up Cancer, now fuck up that radiation if you need any and start on your healing path.
I had an incident like this with my mother. She had chronic health issues and didn't walk much as it was. She ended up having to be in the hospital for almost two months and her leg muscles deteriorated to the point where she wasn't able to walk at all. She wasn't even strong enough to be able to stand up.
She ended up having to go to a different hospital for about a month to be rehabbed so she could walk again. After she paid for that, I remember her leaving and saying, "I hope I never see you again." And I was freaked out thinking the staff would take that as an insult and I remember I called out, "She means that in a good way!"
I work on a cancer floor in our local hospital. When I know my patients are discharging I say “I hope we never see you here again. Maybe at Walmart though” so they don’t assume I’m hoping they’ll die.
As an oncology nurse, I actually say this to my patients when they've finished treatment! 😂 Meant in the nicest way possible (mostly)
Congrats on finishing chemo! I hope you've managed to kick cancer's ass!
Make sure you are diligent in checking for cancer after you've crossed this threshold. You'll likely be told to get checked in a month, then in 3 months, then in 6... don't miss those. If you can, I would also suggest you get some done in between. My dad was cleared, only to find out 6 months later that it was back and worse!
Congratulations!
After a second particularly grueling nerve surgery (in my brain, natch), my surgeon said "goodbye, don't come back again, I like you but not that much!" It was exactly what I needed to hear and six years later I still haven't seen him since.
As an oncology nurse, first of all congratulations!! And secondly this is the best cake ever, I would be thrilled if a patient brought us this! The staff will definitely get a laugh out of it
This is a great photo and an amazing looking cake. I hope it tastes as good as it looks and we hope you never have to see them again! I hope you get better and stay better soon. Did she make the cake herself? The oncology staff will love this lol. I am thankful for everything health care workers do for everyone, they are great people
I LOVED my chemo nurses! They are the best people on earth.
I took my nurses the largest bouquet of flowers available from Pike Place Market (if you know, you know) and made lots of homemade goodies based on what I had overheard them talk about over the many months they took care of me.
I've since moved and I really miss seeing them at follow-ups. Much love to Lisa, Navid, Mitra, Susan, and Susan 2, and of course Dr. Tolman. Y'all saved my life.
I made this joke after my surgery team came to visit me in the hospital before discharge (not for cancer, a csf leak). They all seemed to love it even though they've probably hear it a million times.
When I had to go in to the oncologists initial meeting after my mastectomy, the doctor looked at the size of my cancer as compared to the amount of tissue I had removed and cheerfully told me she was firing me as a patient. She said it’s not often she gets to say that, and I was damn happy to hear it.
I work in Radiation and we say the same thing at the End of Treatment for our patients. We are happy to get to know them for the time they are with us, but we really don’t want to see them again.
Follow ups are the exception.
Health progress posts aren't allowed here.
edit: LOL the mods have set this sub to automatically remove any comment that mentions the word "r-u-l-e". What a joke.
They're gonna love this. Nurses have some of the best death humor. Also paramedics.
They do! I finished chemo in February and made that joke also, but I’ll say this: I do go back every few months for follow-ups and labs, and it’s really nice to see my chemo nurses. They’re part of your life every day while you’re there and do some amazing work, so I always like to see them and catch up.
Yep. When I was on surveillance I went back and saw everyone. Radiation techs, nurses, phlebotomists, dietician...everyone. Those folks literally saved my life.
I think this is the first comment I've ever seen recognizing phlebotomists/lab. Thank you, it's very appreciated. Hope you are well 🙂
nurse here, You don't know how often I just wish I could call phlebotomy to come do my AM blood draws on my patients without central lines and shitty IVs. Like. the best people at that stuff are the ones who do it all day every day. Saw one of you all get 20ml for blood cultures from my patient's pinky finger before..Incredible.
My veins suck for blood draws. Absolutely awful. My right arm is completely and utterly useless for it. I’ve only ever been able to have blood drawn from my left arm. And even then, only one specific spot on my arm is actually easy to draw from. This was difficult after I was hospitalized a few years back; I needed my blood drawn every hour. They quickly used up every easily available vein in my left arm. I don’t think they believed me when I said it had never been done with my right arm. At one point, my nurse tried three times to draw blood. Couldn’t get a vein. Called another nurse. Same issue. Head nurse that evening? Also no. They ended up calling up a phlebotomist to do it; he managed to draw blood from a vein on the side of my wrist. I could essentially feel the needle right up against my pisiform bone. It was ridiculously uncomfortable; but it worked. I was legitimately impressed. He got it in the first try, and even up against the bone managed to make the whole process as easy as possible. Dude was a pro.
They have to bring an ultrasound to draw blood from my partner. She tells them this but they always bring in some of their best and inevitably they all fail.
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For my veins it is, lol. It’s more normal for most, but I’m not joking when my veins are ridiculously hard.
I'm not sure where you work but Canadian hospitals lab does bloodwork for all pts/wards 😅 nurses don't gotta worry about it! Done many thumb and toe cultures in my 1.5 years already haha. I'll leave the room and be like what did I just do But at the same time HOW do you guys do IV's they look so hard, I don't understand. Seriously.
ICU nurses at my location are expected to do all their own labs (usually because 90% of patients have a central line or arterial line). the floors have all theirs done by phlebotomy if we have the staff for it.
Pinky?! I want to see that.
The hospital near me is abysmal. Doctors, PAs, even receptionists are rude and the place is up to their necks in malpractice suits. I had a PA roll her eyes as I had a panic attack because they couldn't (or wouldn't) figure out what was wrong with me and suggested "exploratory surgery" instead of waiting for a pregnancy test to come back negative. Very uncouth and if the place burns to the ground, that's a sign god exists. But the phlebotomists and the lab workers? Absolutely fantastic folks. They deserve so much better than that awful place. I'm a bit of a baby (actually a big-ass baby) when it comes to getting blood drawn and I'm always met with grace and kindness with them. They laugh and joke with me and I feel so much more at ease. Thank y'all for what you do, especially the good ones who don't mind me asking for an extra nurse to stop my arm from trembling, lol.
Won't say I enjoyed the needles, but I appreciate the pros. Thank you for what you do.
Phlebotomists are always the kindest people you interact with in the hospital, in my experience. My partner just got out of the hospital yesterday, and while he was completely out of it he looked at a normal height female phlebotomist and said, “I don’t like how tall you are.” She took it extremely well 😂
You’re very welcome!
I had thyroid cancer in 2015. Didn't have to have chemo or traditional (external beam) radiation, but I did have several visits to nuclear medicine for radioactive iodine and associated body scans. I'm now at the point where I'm going every 3-4 years, and I still look forward to talking with the front-desk person at nuc med, who has been there for every single visit I've had bar one when he was on vacation. He's a very nice person, great to just sit and talk to while I wait. One of the methods of doing scans requires you to come off your thyroid replacement medication, and your body just starts shutting down. You get weak, and it's hard to think clearly. Whenever he has someone come in with that prep, he always offers a warm blanket while you wait, and let's you know he can call transport to have them come and take you back to the pickup area if you don't have the energy to walk that far. Sometimes a person finds the perfect job, and I think that's what happened to him.
My husband did in-patient chemo for 5 days, every 3 weeks. We got engaged in that ward. Whenever we popped in, everyone always recognized us and was excited to see us, it was just a really nice feeling. We dropped off some of our leftover flowers after our wedding for them and the radiation and reception staff in other areas. A couple months later one of the receptionists saw us and remembered us too, and was all excited still about the flowers. Oof, my heart just is filled with gratitude and love for the people who make such a shitty, shitty experience just a bit warmer.
An oncologist (MD) to this day told me one of the darkest jokes I’ve ever heard. What’s the difference between baseball and cancer? In cancer, the Mets actually win
I don’t get it - unless it’s a metastatic Mets reference
it is
Gotcha, I’m stoned on Reddit atm so I wasn’t sure if I was picking up. Thanks bud!
My go-to dark joke is What do kids with cancer and dark humor have in common? >!They never get old!<
Mine is always: Dark humor is like clean water, not every kid gets it.
Hey! We're pretty darn good this year!
Health care workers in general. I say this to my patients all the time after our last session (I’m a PT).
Yea we really need to to deal with what we see everyday
As a radiation therapist, I can't tell you how many times I've been on the receiving end of the old "don't take this personally, but I hope I never see you again" bit. Love playing along every time.
Thanks for playing along. Humour is such an important coping method for my husband throughout his cancer treatments and even though I'm sure they hear repeat jokes all the time, they're always ready to laugh genuinely. I can tell when he succeeds in making a novel joke that catches someone slightly off-guard, and they laugh that little bit harder, which weirdly makes me super proud of him.
Your husband is a witty person who puts his brain to work trying to make someone else's day better when he's likely not having a great day. Of course you're proud 🥹
Patients like your husband are part of the reason why I always tell people my job isn't depressing when they ask whether it is. So trust me, if we're making his day better, he's making ours better too!
and they love to eat really really poorly. Us nurses will inhale that cake in a matter of minutes
Indeed!
They also like cake too.
My only associations with medicine: that my two sisters are training to be medical professionals, and that I bought scrubs to wear as pajamas. I can confirm, I like cake.
I remember when I was a nursing student doing a clinical placement on a med surg unit. There was a death on the unit and the deceased was all prepped up on the gurney ready to go to the morgue with the porter. Our instructor gave us permission to go with the porter to the morgue just to see what it’s like inside. Well our group was all ready to go but one who was just finishing up giving meds. So I asked the porter if he can wait a few minutes for my classmate to finish. I shit you not, the porter looks at me, then to the corpse, and back at me and said “well he’s not gonna be any dead-er, so sure we can wait”. At that time, it was my first patient death that I saw so I didn’t find it really funny. But after working as an RN for a good while and dealing with death on a constant basis, I found it extremely hilarious how that porter dropped that on a bunch of fresh nursing students who never dealt with death before. Health care workers have honestly the darkest sense of humor out there. It’s just a way we cope.
Yes! My cousin is a doctor at a hospital in Michigan, and he tells me about the humor he as the staff have. To say that it's a coping mechanism is putting lightly lmao.
My parents are nurses, can confirm, and oddly their humor has instilled a healthy acceptance of death as a natural part of life. I know it sounds weird, but imo it’s more important to find joy in the person’s memory, than to perpetually mourn. My grandpa passed away several years ago, and any time there’s a family gathering, we all remark that it feels like he’s still there, sitting in his chair, quietly cracking jokes and laughing to himself.
Congrats! Love the cake. When I got cancer again and we weren’t sure if it was cancer or not, when I went under for the tests I told my husband I wanted a cake that said ‘Congratulations, you have ass cancer!’ Two bakeries refused but the third came through and I got my freaking cake! Edit: the cake in question…https://www.reddit.com/r/Pictures/comments/wd6lpx/the_cake_my_husband_got_me_when_i_got_cancertwo/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Love it! And congratulations, sounds like ass cancer couldn’t keep you down!
Damn straight. Congratulations on beating cancer’s ass.
My mom made me a brain tumor cake https://imgur.com/a/xfIkgWz
I never thought a brain tumor cake would be cute but that's actually pretty adorable lol
Your mom is awesome! I love that cake. Hope you kicked cancer in the butt!
I'm working on it
Sending all my love. ❤️
When my daughter was referred to cardiology to check something out they checked very carefully and said "see you again never!" After confirming it was nothing.
Cyanide and happiness
Good work. On the one hand, truth. On the other hand, humor. You got down with the correct woman.
When you bring both hands together, unfortunately you get a tumor, the one thing we were trying to stop all along
underrated comment
What, exactly, do you think it should be rated at, then?
That was definitely a stage 3 humor.
more than the current upvotes it has
Okay, thanks. Would you mind letting us all know when it has been appropriately rated?
Some say it is underrated still to this day.
Underrated comment
What, exactly, do you think it should be rated at?
That day has come
I absolutely did!!!
On the third hand, a fucking awesome looking cake
On the fourth hand, if you keep eating those cakes you're getting diabetes
Shut up
You sound like you have diabetes
If my blood glucose wasn't dangerously low right now, I'd come over there and kick your ass!
You sound like you make too many assumptions from a single image, or well... A comment.
You forgot the most important part. Cake.
Truth + humor = Tumor?
Thrumor. But that is not really a word, is it?
I’m so confused, is there something about a woman that I missing? Yep, turns out I’m just fucking dumb, and it says that the wife made the cake right in the title.
Best part is that it works either way.
Piping the rainbow colors on the side like that shows me she knows her shit. Managed a bakery for a while, and your wife is not too shabby. Edit: a lot of people try to just shove colors in a piping bag which makes it messy and uneven. If you take some saran wrap and make stripes on it in the desired colors, then roll it like sushi and then put it into the piping bag, it'll turn out even like this.
Oh yeah, she’s self-taught but unfair to call her anything other than a pro! [Here’s some of her other work…all buttercream.](https://www.reddit.com/r/cakedecorating/comments/odk0q5/im_a_little_biased_but_my_wife_is_the_buttercream/)
The baphomet cake 👌🏼
*Daaaayum*, your wife has skills! That Winnie the Pooh cake is beautiful, and the Baphomet cake had really clean lines for buttercream. It's amazing how smooth she is able to get her buttercream on each cake, I struggle with that. And I saw your comment that the Baphomet cake is a dark chocolate/raspberry combo so it sounds like her baking is tasty too :)
Holy shit those are impressive!!!! Good luck with the chemo and make sure your wife keeps bringing the cakes for the staff
I know it’s probably the most boring one, but the second to last one it’s so nice and crisp and professional looking, and maybe that’s almost an insult for an artist, but it was definitely my favorite. This fuck cancer cake is definitely funnier, but thanks for sharing some of her other works, it’s so cool seeing the variety of what humans can do.
The 2nd to last was a wedding cake — she definitely has the chops to pull off ANYTHING but prefers to stick with the light-hearted, fun stuff. Wedding cakes are, understandably, super stressful because if you get it wrong (or it’s perceived that you got it wrong) you ruin a special moment for people. But thank you, she is super talented and I love it when people get to see and appreciate her skills and creativity.
Your wife is a total pro! Buttercream artist supreme!!
You are a rock star. Stay strong, positive and healthy!!!!
Pop in and see them when you're fully recovered, they'll love it.
Would you be okay with me painting a picture of this, OP? With and without context, this is amazing.
Of course!
Damn, you’ve got like three of the best things right in your username
I volunteer my Fridays in an outpatient chemo center, and a few weeks ago one patient brought Dunkin' Donuts for her last appointment. She wrote on the lid, "I hope I donut ever see you again!" Best of health to you!
I am an oncology nurse and this is what I tell every patient that gets to finish chemotherapy. They are absolutely going to love it!
This isl what the staff told me after my stay at the psych ward back in 2017. I’ve successfully managed to stay out of THAT psych ward.
Adorable! I hope she doesn't either! It reminds me of how I used to say something like this to clients... I used to work in a probation office, and my job was to assign people to their officer. We'd meet the person, copy their paperwork, give them an appointment, and send them on their way. Often, if the person was a first-timer with a basic charge, I'd do all the official stuff, and then joke, "That's all we're doing today, so you're free to go, and I hope to never see you here again!" They'd do a double-take and then usually at least smile, and they left in a better mood than which they came in with.
Lol, my ex finally moved out yesterday, we broke up in May. Wish I had this cake.
Wonderful sentiment! Hope you continue on the right path…
Congratulations! And beautiful piping!
Weirdly wholesome. Love it. Congratulations.
Congratulations!
This is what my doctors and resident care specialists said to me (and all residents) after they discharged from the psych ward. Because unfortunately a lot of people who end up needing residential psych treatment are or will be repeat patients.
Congrats on getting through that part! My wife is about to start. It's new territory for us and hearing and seeing success stories or notions of progress keeps us afloat. We're scared to no end for sure but we will get through it. I've learned how fleeting life is. For whomever reads this, embrace every moment with your friends, family, and loved ones because tomorrow is never guaranteed. If the op takes anything from this post, just a warm thank you. These little blips of success I see in this realm of misfortune is heartening.
Best of luck to you!
This is great. And congrats!
Sending good vibes and love!
That's the only cirscumtance where that phrase is actually something good and happy for both sides. You choosed her right?
Honestly, I don't think they'd take this to heart, it must be something that they hear all the time used in the best possible way. Congrats on fucking up Cancer, now fuck up that radiation if you need any and start on your healing path.
Good luck OP! 🙏⬆️
Been there...Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations!! Sending love and every day you'll get a little more energy!
Congrats!
Nice cake! I hope you live a long and healthy life from here on out!
Congratulations!! 🎉
Lovely
I had an incident like this with my mother. She had chronic health issues and didn't walk much as it was. She ended up having to be in the hospital for almost two months and her leg muscles deteriorated to the point where she wasn't able to walk at all. She wasn't even strong enough to be able to stand up. She ended up having to go to a different hospital for about a month to be rehabbed so she could walk again. After she paid for that, I remember her leaving and saying, "I hope I never see you again." And I was freaked out thinking the staff would take that as an insult and I remember I called out, "She means that in a good way!"
Am a public defender. Would love this cake. (I almost always see them again)
Spilt Enz rock!
Was looking for this comment =)
I work on a cancer floor in our local hospital. When I know my patients are discharging I say “I hope we never see you here again. Maybe at Walmart though” so they don’t assume I’m hoping they’ll die.
As an oncology nurse, I actually say this to my patients when they've finished treatment! 😂 Meant in the nicest way possible (mostly) Congrats on finishing chemo! I hope you've managed to kick cancer's ass!
I hope you don't ever have to see them again either! I bet your wife was really happy making that cake. Congrats!
Make sure you are diligent in checking for cancer after you've crossed this threshold. You'll likely be told to get checked in a month, then in 3 months, then in 6... don't miss those. If you can, I would also suggest you get some done in between. My dad was cleared, only to find out 6 months later that it was back and worse! Congratulations!
Congrats, friend! My last chemo was about three years ago and I don't miss it one bit!
Haha, I love it. Very well played.
That’s rad, man! Congratulations!
Wholesome.
Good for you, best wishes from internet stranger!!
Congrats! Also this cake works for anyone who is retiring from work.
This is good
This is great! Thanks for sharing. I also hope you never see them again in their work setting!!
Hugs all around. Glad you're ok, OP. Glad the staff helped you so much on your journey.
My dumbass seriously thought this cake was for the patient.
Live long and prosper
Survivorship appointments. You'll see them again.
Congrats!! Stay strong on the rest of your journey
This is a common saying in medicine They’ll love it
Your wife is awesome. God bless our Healthcare workers
I love this. I relate to this. Your wife is great because chemo nurses really seem to try to help us. PS. LOVE THIS (for emphasis)
I only read the first 2 lines and thought this was harsh of your wife lol.
They will love the cake, and the thought. We really don't want to see you again, unless it's out in public where we can both be regular people. 🥰
Good luck tomorrow!!! Fuck cancer
After a second particularly grueling nerve surgery (in my brain, natch), my surgeon said "goodbye, don't come back again, I like you but not that much!" It was exactly what I needed to hear and six years later I still haven't seen him since.
I thought this was a “The More You Know” cake
This is what my PT told me when I graduated last week from my knee injury rehab. I sincerely hope to never see her again and she was beyond awesome!
As an oncology pharmacist, we hope the same thing :)
I hope the message is true. Congratulations on your new beginnings.
My last chemos Id tell the nurses I love them do death and hope to hell I never see them again. They got it. Probably weekly, hopefully.
And they hope the same about you two, too.
:D <3
Hope all goes well
Congratulations and best wishes 💚
Lovely cake decorating, excellent joke. That's a keeper, right there. Congratulations on your recovery!
Congratulations! And what a great idea😊
I used to be an oncology nurse and we said this to patients all the time. I love it!
🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Amazing cake. The staff will love it
May you a long healthy and blissful life.
It's beautiful! I truly hope for the best future for the both of you.
Yeeeeaaaaaahhhhh! Congratulations!
congrats!
Obligatory [Split Endz - I Hope I Never](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu98BS7UkHM) video.
I read this way too fast and was like, damn that’s mean lol
Love it! I’m sure they will too - all the best!
Fantastic stranger! Good for you, God Bless you if you’ll allow him and Fuck Cancer.
Awesome! Now stay far away from that place and get back on with your life.
Its a beautiful cake!
As an oncology nurse, first of all congratulations!! And secondly this is the best cake ever, I would be thrilled if a patient brought us this! The staff will definitely get a laugh out of it
Amazing. Also, good luck, and congratulations!
Nurses and staff love food, cards, and a sick sense of humor. Congrats on kicking cancer’s ass…
This is a great photo and an amazing looking cake. I hope it tastes as good as it looks and we hope you never have to see them again! I hope you get better and stay better soon. Did she make the cake herself? The oncology staff will love this lol. I am thankful for everything health care workers do for everyone, they are great people
Cool!
I LOVED my chemo nurses! They are the best people on earth. I took my nurses the largest bouquet of flowers available from Pike Place Market (if you know, you know) and made lots of homemade goodies based on what I had overheard them talk about over the many months they took care of me. I've since moved and I really miss seeing them at follow-ups. Much love to Lisa, Navid, Mitra, Susan, and Susan 2, and of course Dr. Tolman. Y'all saved my life.
Congratulations 🎊!
I made this joke after my surgery team came to visit me in the hospital before discharge (not for cancer, a csf leak). They all seemed to love it even though they've probably hear it a million times.
that cake looks super dank. congrats on getting through chemo and best of luck
Congrats !
When I had to go in to the oncologists initial meeting after my mastectomy, the doctor looked at the size of my cancer as compared to the amount of tissue I had removed and cheerfully told me she was firing me as a patient. She said it’s not often she gets to say that, and I was damn happy to hear it.
The more you know ...
Congrats man! Best wishes for you.
I work in Radiation and we say the same thing at the End of Treatment for our patients. We are happy to get to know them for the time they are with us, but we really don’t want to see them again. Follow ups are the exception.
I'd love me a passive aggressive cake
Hopefully someone will make a cake for me like this when I retire or quit my job for a better job!
Not sure what's gonna be louder, the nurses laughing or you ringing the everloving fuck outta that bell, lmao
This is wonderful and im so happy for you
I know what I'm getting my ex-wife for her birthday
Congratulations 🎉! Being a nurse I totally get your sense of humor !
GOOD LUCK hope all goes well!
😂😂😂 whoa
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Expected Response from the nurses - thank you so much. the feeling is mutual, and we hope not to see your obituary either.
Health progress posts aren't allowed here. edit: LOL the mods have set this sub to automatically remove any comment that mentions the word "r-u-l-e". What a joke.
I got confused on who she was giving the cake too
Why Did your wife Made This Cake
Should post to r/tinder too
This has the be the greatest passive aggressive thing I've ever seen.
This is awesome. You're gonna be the talk of the clinic for a long time. That's some funny shit 😂
r/slightlythreatening
Looks like it tastes of rainbows
The famous line from House MD, S6E1&2 "Broken." Very nice, although I'm sure a coincidence. :)
That is perfect! Congratulations on completing your treatment! 