Jim Gaffigan: Grateful on Mother's Day
Mother's Day is a day for giving thanks, says Jim Gaffigan -- this year in particular:
I'm extra grateful this Mother's Day. Three weeks ago it was a discovered my wife -- and mother to my five children -- had a brain tumor.
It's gone! By the miracle and blessing of a fantastic surgeon, Dr. Joshua Bederson, it was all removed, and my wife is now home recovering.
The brain tumor is gone! -- along with my ability to ever win another argument.
It's not like I won a lot of arguments with my wife, but now I'm pretty much retired from spousal disagreements. My wife isn't the type to bring up the tumor.
Well, actually once she did: "I had a brain tumor." But I couldn't say anything. I couldn't be like, "Yeah, but that was, like, a week ago."
The surgeon told me that the tumor was the size of a pear, which was scary and confusing. I don't know why tumors are always compared to fruit. What's the logic?
"Well, if it's a tumor it should probably be something edible." A pear? Are surgeons looking at tumors while painting a still life of a bowl of fruit? It seems weird. Why fruit? Initially I thought it was because surgeons are really bad at analogies.
But then I realized surgeons are probably dumbing it down for idiots like me.
"Well, this moron won't understand centimeters let alone circumference. I don't want to ruin sports for him. He certainly doesn't eat fruit, but he's probably seen a pear, most likely in a grocery store buying carbs."
Larger tumors are often compared to grapefruit; I wonder how grapefruits feel about that?
"I was already one of the least popular fruit; now I have to be compared to the worst kind of tumor? It ain't easy to be a grapefruit!"
So this Mother's Day give your mom, or wife, extra love. But probably don't give her fruit.
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- Jim Gaffigan on being a practicing Catholic
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- Jim Gaffigan on Father's Day
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