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um. ugh...

what do you say when a coworker is diagnosed with a brain tumor? "get well soon!" apparently.

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You probably also don't want to use your best Schwarzenegger voice impression to reply loudly:

"Iz NADA too-MAH!"

Actually, I don't think that one would be too bad.

With my own little carcinoma, the worst were the people who looked at you like you'd been sentenced to death and avoided eye contact, because everyone knows that how cancer spreads (or so it seemed). Get Well Soon always sounded fake, or worse, like a practice for the impending condolences. Something original in a good Ah-nold accent would've been a welcome relief.

It is, thankfully, benign and operable, but it is causing all sorts of behavioral/emotional/cognitive/physical issues right now for him, added to the fact he's a really stiff guy anyway, which makes joking about it impossible.

So, I stuck with "get well soon."

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