Category: News and Views
Cancer shirts use laughter as medicine
A teenage cancer patient and his mother in Madison, Wis.,
have created a line of T-shirts designed to keep his
fellow cancer sufferers smiling. Joey Maher's mother,
Karen, created a Web site to sell shirts bearing humorous
cancer-related slogans that the two thought up --
including "Chemo Junkie" and "Radiation makes me warm
and fuzzy all over" -- the Rockford (Ill.) Register Star
reported. The family said they donate 10 percent of
the proceeds from the $8.99 shirts, sold at
Familycancerconnection.com, to the Leukemia and Lymphoma
Society. Karen Maher, whose son was diagnosed with
leukemia three years ago at age 15, said the shirts
have been selling to customers all over the country.
She said out of state hospitals sometimes order 100
shirts at a time. "The shirts I'm really excited
about it because they make people feel better," she
said. Maher said Joey, who is now healthy enough to
attend high school classes, received permission from
school administrators to wear his favorite shirt,
which bears the slogan "Chemo is my drug of choice," to
school.
This reminds me of a woman I know who shaved off all her hair when her sister underwent this sort of treatment. Guess sick people can use all the support they can get.
It's nice to see that they are doing this to bring some humor to other patients and to help them with research as well.
I reckon that's really cool, smile.
hehe maybe I should buy a couple of shirts to ware when I'm working iwth the kids in the hospitals, and to my childrens cancer instatute gigs.
A sense of humor is definitely a good thing to have when you are sick.
I posted this because at the least you might visit the site and save the link. At most, you might forward it to someone who might use it, or, buy a tee shirt for yourself or for someone else
I did save the link. I just found out last week a co-worker has breast cancer. I'll wait for a bit and see how her attitude is, and perhaps buy her a shirt.
Excellent idea I'm always stunned by the stoical optimism of seriously ill children they just will not give in..the T-shirt idea would be a definate winner in britain.
Becky and Krystel those are both great ideas. Good looking out for your communities!