Ahoy Yervoy

I don’t know about you, but “Yervoy” (the brand name for Ipilimumab, a promising new melanoma treatment drug) sounds to me like either a Yiddish toast or a good name for a sailboat. So covering both bases, and with best wishes for a blog reader whom I know is about to embark on a series of Yervoy treatments and everyone else doing the same, I’ve penned some new lyrics to Jimmy Buffett’s great song, “Boat Drinks”…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw4xI4xkeyo
 

Yervoy
Docs on my case ordered Yervoy
Sounds like I won the big lotto
Everything seems to be on

Lately newspapers mentioned great treatments
I gotta stay at St. Somewhere
I'm close to bodily harm

I am Stage III and the Yervoy game's on
Everyone says, I’m not too far gone, screaming

Yervoy, something to keep us all well

This morning I shot six holes in my freezer
I think I've got a high fever
Somebody sound the alarm

I'd like to go where the pace of life's slow
Would you beam me somewhere, Mr. Scott

Any old place here on Earth or in space
You pick the century, I'll pick the spot

But I know I can’t be leaving this clinic
I've got a curse and will kick it

I gotta go where all’s well

Yervoy
Doctor, I need some more Yervoy
Then I'm heading out 'fore my dream blows
I gotta go where all’s well [I gotta go where all’s]
I gotta go where all’s well [I gotta go where all’s]
I gotta go where all’s WELL!

I gotta go where there ain't any docs
who are wearin’ pink Crocs, and no cell counts on watch
I gotta go where all’s well!