When half your head is scalped from neurosurgery, you’ve been told that your stage IV cancer has spread like wildfire, and your days are numbered, sometimes the best thing to do is take comfort in favorite jokes that are especially relevant.
When people see Bette, they are shocked at how different she looks and she can see that shock in their faces. She can deal with that.
What’s harder to deal with is when people say, “You look good.”
When Bette hears this she brings up one of her deceased husband’s favorite jokes.
“You know what they say. There are three stages of life. Youth, middle age, and ‘you look good.’”
Then she and we laugh off some of the reality.
