... what is wrong with me

[kaberett]

... I was Sad at That One Gent about cancer survival stats (I was looking them up for vaginapagina), so he made really unsubtle dick jokes mostly consisting of "hurr hurr" until I cheered up and it worked.

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[birke]

Oh man, having read VaginaPagina after your post, now I see why you were sad. Dick jokes FTW!

[kaberett]

So the additional context is that at the end of my first term at university, my mum was diagnosed with stage II ovarian cancer.

As it turns out she is fine (got her five-year all-clear a while back) and will continue to be fine (Grossmutti didn't get diagnosed until it had spread to her womb and survived 25 years; we NOW know the hereditary link and the stats for cancers associated with that particular gene are WAY better than for most ovarian cancers), but I... still have a whole lot of "for a couple of years the best stats we had said my mum wasn't going to be alive for my graduation", and... yeah.