Like every aspect of cancer I’ve weathered thus far, today’s experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.

The speaker uses sharp irony to invert common expectations about cancer treatment, which is often described as demoralizing, financially draining, and humiliating. By insisting the experience was “just plain fun,” the quote highlights humor as a coping strategy and a form of agency: reframing an ordeal on one’s own terms rather than accepting the script of misery. The line also critiques the social and institutional burdens that can accompany illness (cost, indignity, loss of control), implying that even when those burdens are present, the speaker refuses to let them define her inner life. The effect is defiant, self-protective, and darkly comic.