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| Over the years, my son developed a habit of helping me through the bad days with
doses of humor. Once I was slumped on the couch with a heating pad behind my back. As usual, the pad had slipped so that I was half sitting on it. Derek walked by, did a double take and said, “What’s going on here? Rump roast?” I didn’t realize how much his comic routine helped until he grew up and moved away. At first I sat around on bad days like a lump of gloom, wishing he would walk in the door and say something funny. Fortunately, he began sending regular doses by e-mail. |
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links: Laughter: It's good medicine Finding things to laugh about when you are ill isn't easy. Here are some tips from the trenches. Humor and hope are powerful medicine American Medical News article. Humor therapy 
Choose from a variety of articles on this site. Humor as healer
For more doses of
laughter, visit Popping the
cork, The picture
of health and Balancing act.
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It's
good to laugh, but hospitals don't encourage this. When I talk
with groups of nurses, I'll be asked about the appropriateness
of humor when people are suffering. My response is that
there's no better time. Humor is highly adaptive; it allows
emotional distance from pain.
