I'm going a little stir crazy.  I've written a dozen letters and cards to family and friends and emailed everyone I know.  And if I watch one more Lifetime movie I think I will throw up, not from chemo nausea but from watching the same plot over and over again.  How many movies can there be on cheating husbands who come back from pretending to be dead and stalk their family and find out they have an adopted child and have a big murder court case? 

But I have found a great new show on that actually has a regular character dealing with a recurrence of cancer.   Cancer has reached mainstream tv.  It's called Side Order of Life.  Of course, my husband's protective caregiver instint went into overdrive when I told him about the show I was watching.   But he watched the first episode and approved it.  I loved it where the friend with cancer is in a restaurant and orders dessert to come first followed by a huge cheeseburger with lots of bacon, mayo and ALL THE WORKS and the waitress says she's waited years to have someone order like that.  And then the main character orders a just salad with dressing on the side, and friend with cancer goes off on a rant about NOT EVER getting anything on the side.  Put the dressing RIGHT ON the salad, because we only go through life once!  Then she turns to all the other customers in the restaurant who are staring at her like she's crazy, and she says, "WHAT?!?!  I have CANCER!"  I was hooked right then on this new show.