Lau
ghter is the best medicine. We’ve heard the expression time and again. For decades, researchers have explored how humor helps patients relieve stress and heal. And laughter really is the best medicine! Thinking about posting these funny stories makes me feel good!
Funny Teen-age Story
On my first trip to California, I was a young girl of 18 years with long blond hair, a thin waistline and, unfortunately, a lip full of cold sores. As I was strutting down the boardwalk at Venice Beach admiring all of the buff bodies, I self-consciously covered up my mouth. As I paused, looking at the jewelry in a vendor’s case, a muscle-bound young man came up to the counter to help me. “Oh no, I thought putting my hand even more securely in front of my mouth “he’s going to see my lips!” Without looking directly at his face I could see in my peripheral vision that he was one of those huge body-builder types. To my horror, I heard him ask “Are those cold sores on your lips?” “Shoot,” I thought, “He saw!” While avoiding eye contact I heard him say, “Here, try this cream, it will really help!” and I felt him putting the cream on my mouth. As I looked up into his deep blue eyes I saw an attractively contoured face, beautiful golden hair, a silky smooth complexion… and a lip full of cold sores!
F
unny MS Story
I have a walker that I can sit on, when I’m too tired to walk. Brady, my teenage son, was pushing me on the walker like a wheel chair only I’m facing backwards, (it looks really silly and is embarrassing.) One time we were at the airport in California, we were running behind to catch our plane.
We caught a moving sidewalk to feel ‘super human’ – dananana…When we stepped onto the moving sidewalk we picked up speed …dananana…. As we know in every airport there are tons of people, which were right behind us! The walker took up the width of the entire sidewalk but that was OK because he was still pushing me, so we were going very fast. When we got to the end Brady slowed down to prevent me from tumbling backwards. But what he didn’t realize there was a bump from the transition plate to transfer from the moving sidewalk to the solid floor. The wheels came to an abrupt halt, which surprised us both.
Realizing that I’m stuck, I attempted to stand up forgetting I was on a moving sidewalk (because I couldn’t feel the motion) resulting in my feet getting pulled under the walker, backwards. In the attempt to save myself while Brady leaned over to assess the situation, completely oblivious to the people behind us, I grabbed the moving handrail…dananana… which caused me to start twisting as I was getting pulled under my walker, I attempted to call for help, which came out as a moan. Brady realizing that I was in distress looked behind him, saw the people! They had caught up with us, and started walking backwards but were still RIGHT THERE, and more were coming!
With more people approaching, Brady started to become uneasy. In the back of the crowd, he could see a man pushing an elderly man in a wheel chair approaching fast. I was still getting sucked under and twisted and calling for help. The man pushing the wheel chair then yelled MOOVE not realizing my condition, causing Brady to panic. I don’t know how he did it, Brady doesn’t remember either, somehow he swooped around and lifted me and my walker off the end just in time for the crowd and the man with the wheel chair to blow by like a bursting damn!
Now feeling human, being safe on solid ground, we couldn’t help but laugh. As we continued to laugh the crowd was reassured of our well being. Brady remembers the ‘wheelchair pusher’ scowling as he passed. It was just one of those times when it’s so intense, if everyone’s ok, it’s hilarious. And to this day, it still remains the funniest, most intense MS experience of my life! Brady and I laughed to the point of tears as we wrote this story.
You’d have to be there to get the full affect …dananana…
~ Laughter really is the best medicine!
I’d love to hear your funny stories! Tell me in the comments below so we can all enjoy them!
July 11th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
Linda, fabulous, as always. Thank you for the laughter. I can just see Brady as the somewhat confused HERO of the story. What a great kiddo you have. You are a great parent and all of your kids are proof of it.
July 11th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
Yes, thank you Kellie! I am very grateful for my children! Hey Kellie, you why don’t you get a picture attached to your comments and get the focus on you?! I’ll show you how here: http://lindagraceonline.com/get-the-focus-on-you/
July 12th, 2010 at 3:17 am
LMAO! Laughter really is the best medicine !(That may be why so many docotrs are clowns, but thats a whole different soap box!) I’m glad you were able to get some great perspective because I know the stuff has been stressful! Hang in there girl!
Kimberly Castleberry@Social Media for Beginners recently posted..Twitter – How To Get Off Inappropriate Twitter Lists of Others
July 12th, 2010 at 7:54 am
Thank you Kimberly! I love you, you’re the greatest!
~Linda
December 8th, 2010 at 11:32 pm
Linda they are two great stories. I so love the cold sore story. That is funny but also the truth of how we often think we are the only one with “x” problem. There are lessons in that one.
The MS one, well I read in horror and then also laughed. You are becoming such a story teller. I can see you writing novels.
You are right laughter is the best. I am blessed with a sense of humor and can usually laugh at myself too.
Great stories and thanks for sharing them.
Sue
Sue Price@residual income recently posted..Blog Mastery Awards -2
December 9th, 2010 at 4:53 am
Thanks Sue! I didn’t even think about the deeper lessons of the stories! I was so focused on the humor of it all! You’re right, esp. the cold-sore story – it is a perfect example of
“we’re-not-the-only-one”!
As for the novel writer… not even close! My kids had to help me write these stories!! But I am good at laughing!!!
December 9th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
Linda well maybe the novel can be a joint effort with your kids
Sue Price@residual income recently posted..Blog Mastery Awards -2
December 9th, 2010 at 5:34 am
Linda,
I loved this. I agree whole heartedly – a day without laughter is a day without sunshine!!!!
Have a great day :0)
Holli@enthronedempress recently posted..How To Enthrone Yourself So You Can Be the Person You’ve always Dreamed of Being
December 9th, 2010 at 5:36 am
Thanks for sharing these two stories. Laughter is the best medicine. Life is fast paced, hectic and chaotic at times. Taking a break is one of the best remedies you can have … go ahead just laugh.. lol
December 9th, 2010 at 5:52 am
Thanks Jorge for visiting my blog! I’m so thankful that I can laugh! There are so many funny things in the world and laughter really does heal our heart!
Linda
December 9th, 2010 at 5:43 am
Linda, great blog. If we can’t laugh at ourselves occasionally then we are taking life way too seriously. Enjoyed your stories.
December 9th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
Dan~
Thank you for visiting my blog! I’m glad you enjoyed my stories! You should have put a funny story of your own! I see you don’t have commentluv on your blog! It’s simple and free! I created a post to show you how! : http://lindagraceonline.com/getting-the-most-out-of-wordpress-commentluv-plugin/ If you don’t see this here, I’ll email it to you!
Linda
December 9th, 2010 at 9:41 am
My 13 year old daughter comes screaming into the kitchen holding her finger. I leap from my seat expecting to see blood dripping from her hand. I try to get her to stop screaming but she is out of control.
As I move closer to her, there is no apparent blood so I’m sure we will be heading to the emergency room for a broken finger x-ray.
All the while I’m try to get her to stop screaming and tell me what happened.
She finally blurts out, “I got a paper cut”. Everybody but her burst out laughing.
Debbie@1958 Corvette for Sale recently posted..Classic Corvettes for Sale Top 10 Sites Online
December 9th, 2010 at 10:43 am
I love it!! Kids can be the greatest sorce of comic-relief! My husband taught me (by example) and all my kids to learn to laugh at ourselves. When we can, it turnes embarrassment into fun! Thank you Debbie for sharing! I hope others will too, I know we all have funny stories!!!
Linda
December 9th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
Linda
You tell great stories, would have loved a video of the airport scene. Was hoping you were also going to say that the buff fellow on Venis beach was now your husband.
Belinda
belinda cunningham recently posted..13 – The sixth sense – The door to the temple of wisdom
December 9th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
You got that right my friend!! I laugh ALL the time! As often as I possibly can, and even when I don’t feel like it anymore, I make myself!
Laughter truly is a God-send!!
While reading your story I felt so anxious for you, but like you say, when you know everyone is alright, then you can’t help but laugh!! Of course now when asked to tell a funny story I can’t think of a single one, but, if I remember one soon, I’ll come back and share!
I like to make people laugh, that in itself is a funny story!
GREAT blog post!
Lorri Ratzlaff recently posted..Prosperity Game Day 5
December 9th, 2010 at 9:32 pm
Lorri~
Thanks for visiting my blog! I understand… when we’re put on the spot nothing comes to mind! I hope you will return with a funny story, everyone has them!!
Linda
ps. I look forward to getting to know you!
December 10th, 2010 at 11:35 am
Great story telling. I felt like I lived that moment with you. Very entertaining. I laughed!
Gary Young recently posted..Links for 2010-12-04 delicious
December 10th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Gary~
I’m glad you felt the humor in the moment! I’m still smiling just thinking of the experience!!
Linda
December 10th, 2010 at 7:22 pm
Hi Linda,
Thanks for sharing your funny stories.
I, like Belinda, was expecting you to say that the honey in the Venice beach ended up becoming your husband
As for your experience at the airport, I was relieved that you weren’t hurt and were able to laugh about it.
You’re absolutely right, laughter is extremely good for us, and it’s great to be able to laugh at ourselves.
Ok, the first funny story that comes to mind is about a phone call I received one day. I was in a relationship at the time, and when I heard the unusually deep gruff voice on the other end of the phone, I automatically assumed it was my partner putting on a weird voice to confuse me and get a laugh.
So I responded with a ‘put on’ deep gruff voice which was really only a series of sounds, imitating how it sounded to me.
There was a moment of silence, as I waited, for what I thought was my partner, at the other end to start laughing. Instead, the same really deep gruff voice continued on with an addition to his initial conversation.
It was then that I realised with horror that it was Trevor, my neighbor from a few properties down, ringing to tell me something. This guy is as big as a bear and happens to be a timber cutter, and so is as strong as an ox.
I was soooooooo embarrassed I was wishing the floor would open up and swallow me. I felt sure he’d have thought that I was making fun of him.
I quickly tried to regain some composure and align myself with the legitimate conversation he was trying to have.
After getting off the phone I couldn’t get it out of my mind, and the thought of it would send me into fits of laughter and can still to this day.
I ran into Trevor some time down the track, I apologised to him and explained what had happened. He was fine and saw the funny side to it.
Thanks for inspiring me to recall this funny memory Linda
In Health and Harmony
Toni
Toni King recently posted..Cell Rejuvenation To The MAX
December 14th, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Thank you Linda for these two wonderful stories…..as you say, laughter is the best medicine and being able to laugh at yourself is twice as powerful I think. I was a little horrified as I read your MS story, but could laugh when it all ended well. Keep laughing
Louise`
Louise Steiner@SocialMediaMarketing recently posted..Why Content Is No Longer “King”!
December 21st, 2010 at 11:27 pm
Hi Linda,
Indeed laughter is the best medicine… It also makes and feels us a more year younger that our real age.. It helps us live life to the fullest and embrace whatever trials that we’re facing at… Thanks a lot for sharing those wonderful post of yours…
Zutchelli Morales recently posted..The Top 5 “Must Have Plugins” for WordPress That Make Gigantic Differences in Your SEO Results
December 26th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
you helped me be happy for the day. your post is so inspiring. thanks a lot for the great post.
December 27th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
Thank you Ann! I’m glad you found the magic of humor!
Linda
January 8th, 2011 at 4:54 pm
What an incredible story Linda. The drama was so real and although it sounded like it took ages to unfold I’m sure it actually all transpired quite quickly.
You’re so right though, laughter is the best medicine and it can change what could have been quite emotional into something that can be shared with others in a humorous way.
Sire recently posted..Rotating Banner Problem Resolved By Max Banner Ads
January 9th, 2011 at 4:58 am
You’re right, it happened so fast! I’m still smiling as I’m writing this reply! I’m so grateful for the ability to laugh, there is so much to laugh about!
January 8th, 2011 at 7:07 pm
Hi Linda
That was beautiful that you could laugh at your own dilemma….after it was over
Laughter also is meant to help with healing. In the children’s hospital over here in Perth, they actually employ Clown Doctors. So they know the power of laughter too
Thanks for sharing. I leave your blog with a smile on my face.
Patricia Perth Australia
Patricia Perth Australia
Patricia@lavenderuses recently posted..Are Your Goals Attainable In 2011
January 9th, 2011 at 4:55 am
Patricia,
I love blogging! How else would I be able to share these incredibily funny stories with so many people! I’m glad your were able to hear!
Linda
January 11th, 2011 at 1:48 am
The second is funny..feeling the under pressure..hehehe..As i read the stories i think about myself, if I’m on that situation what would be my reaction.
On the other side, there’s this laughing exercise that I attend. I was feeling comfortable at first but when the exercise gets to the second phase..my god, it was so uncomfortable looking at the other’s faces..and thinking what would i look like if they see my face. Are they laughing that hard seeing my face, As i laugh at there faces…hahaha..that was really funny. Best laugher to get.
Gladot recently posted..Conspiracy reality for boy and girls hot and bothered over Chris and Rhiana
January 17th, 2011 at 12:39 pm
Laughter is so good for you. Studies show that positive happy people are healthier. A great post Linda. Now let’s get you putting a video with every post.
Beverly Monical recently posted..Introducing Waaa Baby Bev
March 4th, 2011 at 9:02 am
Thanks for the laughter. It is definitely a cure and a great medicine. I guess that’s why I enjoy comedies. It just feels good to laugh and make other people laugh as well. I heard it also keeps you looking and feeling young. I think it’s true.
March 4th, 2011 at 8:42 pm
Marlon,
I agree! I have so much fun laughing and I enjoy adding to other peoples laughter! I’m at a family gathering right now and I’m having a great time laughing!
Linda
April 20th, 2011 at 6:35 pm
i agree this content Laughter is a great thing that’s why we’ve all heard the saying, “Laughter is the best medicine.” There is strong evidence that laughter can actually improve health and help fight disease. Our brains can make us healthier and happier through laughter.
April 21st, 2011 at 6:49 am
Jobelle,
I noticed you don’t have a Gravatar! I created a post to show you how to get this simple and free account! Check this out here: http://lindagraceonline.com/get-the-focus-on-you/ When people can see your face they have a tendency to trust you more and turn into customers more quickly!
Linda
April 20th, 2011 at 9:06 pm
Humor and laughter strengthen your immune system, boost your energy, diminish pain, and protect you from the damaging effects of stress. Best of all, this priceless medicine is fun, free, and easy to use.
Laughter is the best medicine for anti aging.
But don”t laugh when nothing is funny.ROFL
carson barker recently posted..Reverse Phone Lookup – How to Reverse Lookup a Phone Number To Find the Owner
April 21st, 2011 at 6:43 am
Carson,
I noticed you don’t have a Gravatar! I created a post to show you how to get this simple and free account! Check this out here: http://lindagraceonline.com/get-the-focus-on-you/ When people can see your face they have a tendency to trust you more and turn into customers more quickly!
Linda
April 21st, 2011 at 2:53 pm
Ahaha..these are great. I do agree that laughter is life’s best medicine. And it’s even better when it’s contagious! Thank you for these stories and your blog. Looking forward to more articles like this!
April 23rd, 2011 at 8:09 am
Amanda,
Thank you for commenting on my blog! You’ve got to tell me where you found me? And for sure you have to get a Gravatar? I’ll show you how here: http://lindagraceonline.com/get-the-focus-on-you/ then leave another comment and let me see!
Linda
July 18th, 2011 at 1:02 pm
Not a funny story, but it popped to mind when i read your article. So i was walking down the street with this friend of mine that has a little anxiety disorder, and this time he was tying to hide from the sun (don’t ask) and at one point in time he felt sick. I obviously made a joke and told him to not fall in the middle of the street because he’s too heavy and i can’t carry him all the way to the hospital. My friend got upset and told me this is no time to joke. But what else could i have done in those moments?! Laughter usually gets your spirit up.
Martin@CDL Exam recently posted..How to Become a CDL Instructor
August 11th, 2011 at 10:50 am
Thank you for this article! Laughter really is the best medicine, as scientists have confirmed. It accelerates the blood flow, which contributes to the healing process
doctor recently posted..Tissue Elastance And Compliance
August 11th, 2011 at 1:09 pm
Doctor,
I love when I heard the scientific evidence to confirm something that feels so good really is so good!
Linda
September 5th, 2011 at 1:30 pm
Laughter is the best medicine when you have why to laugh. Anyway, I really enjoyed your stories and they put a smile on my face and I really needed. Thank you.
Carla recently posted..Skoda MissionL concept
September 6th, 2011 at 7:23 pm
Carla,
Don’t we always need a reason to smile! I hope things are going well in your life right now!
Linda