Hi Ruth,
I often wonder if it is called "sick" sense of humor BECAUSE that type of humor seems to sustain some of us when we are sick, lol. My girls and I started cracking jokes a few days after diagnosis, although we had to do it away from my husband as he took the news pretty hard. It was in the hospital that he finally started to appreciate the relief humor can bring. I asked for a mirror about a hundred times before he would allow anyone to bring me one. I looked and then told him I looked just like Jay Leno with that chin and he laughed and laughed. It was a regular comedy show the day he helped me take my first shower after surgery and we both fell in. Then there was the night in the hospital that I had a bad reaction to the Ambien they gave me and I kept him up all night because I thought there was grass growing on my legs. Humor can make anything scary seem smaller.

Let me stop before I totally hijack Amy's thread. Amy, I can tell that you have a great sense of humor............use it while you are there!
Minnie