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Cancer on $5 a Day* *(chemo not included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.1969940092
EAN: 9780738211589
Edition: 1st Da Capo Press Ed
ISBN: 0738211583
Label: Da Capo Press
Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: February 25, 2008
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Studio: Da Capo Press
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Editorial Review:
In the spring of 2000, Robert Schimmel was riding high. He’d won the Stand-Up of the Year Award, his HBO special was a huge hit, and his sitcom had been picked up. And then it all came crashing down. Diagnosed with Stage III non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, he was told he would have to undergo chemotherapy immediately. The sitcom was dumped and the fire of his white-hot career started to go out. But Schimmel never lost his sense of humor, his knife-like edge, and most of all, his passion to entertain. Indeed, it was his basic need to laugh-even if the only people around him were suffering from cancer and the room he was playing was the Mayo Clinic infusion center-that carried him through his ordeal. From his colorful banter with nurses and other patients during chemo, to his hilarious conversation with a wig salesman, going for the laugh was Robert Schimmel’s survival mechanism. Alternately laugh-out-loud funny and profound, Cancer on Five Dollars a Day is an honest account of how one man’s face-off with a deadly disease helped him better understand himself.
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Rating: - A refreshing alternative
CANCER ON $5 A DAY: HOW HUMOR GOT ME THROUGH THE TOUGHEST JOURNEY OF MY LIFE comes from a stand-up comedian who discusses her how humor got him through his battle with cancer. From his banter with nurses to his search for alternative options, CANCER ON $5 A DAY doesn't detract from cancer's seriousness - but it does offer a refreshing alternative to approaching it. Any health collection or general lending library needs this.
Rating: - Made me laugh out loud and cry....a must read for anyone touched by cancer
As an oncology nurse, I would like to thank Robert Schimmel for this book. Just because you have cancer doesn't mean you have to lose your sense of humor. Humor is the best coping mechanism. A lot of "humor and cancer" books are just not funny...very lame and "joke oriented". This is more situational and great for anyone with a "dry", "twisted" or "offbeat" sense of humor (you all know who you are). Robert says what a lot of my patients have been saying all of these years. And...believe it ... Read More
Rating:  - Not what I thought.
I heard this book recommended on the radio as a "must read" for anyone struggling to deal with cancer. I did not find the book to be invaluable and was very put off with all the profanity and crude humor. It was going to be a Mother's Day gift for my mom who's battling cancer, but I think I'll have to find something else. I am glad I decided to read it myself before giving it to her as a gift. I would have been completely embarrassed.
Rating: - Great work
"Cancer on $5.00 a Day" is great, especially if you have just come off five months of therapy for Chronic Lymphomocytic Leukemia (CLL). It expresses the feelings of most cancer patients upon diagnosis and during watch and wait. You always have the sword of death in your future.
I am immpresed with his cander with his oncologist. I have the same relationship to my oncologist. It is the only way to go as far as I am concerned
You will laugh till you cry at some of the passages as ... Read More
Rating: - Laughter HELPS!!!
This is a wonderful book to give to anyone fighting cancer. Well written, funny, and uplifting!!!
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