Introduction

The "Hotel Melanoma" moniker is a metaphor for living with my particular brand of cancer. Except for those lucky few of us deemed "cured", all we cancer survivors are guests of one of the many, many branded hotels in the "Hotel Carcinoma" chain. We can check out any time we like, but we can never leave. Meanwhile, let's be livin' it up; and please support cancer education, prevention, and treatment research.



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Friday, April 29, 2011

Cure Fever

A couple of readers have asked if I do requests. I’m happy to try, although I draw the line at rap music. In response to a request for something disco, here’s some new lyrics to the Bee Gees’ “Night Fever”…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ihs-vT9T3Q


Listen to the sound:
there is progress all around.
There is something goin' down
and we can feel it.

In the news on the air,
Hear of healin' out there.
And it's somethin' we can share,
we can feel it.

And that ‘skin cancer’ doctor,
He toils in the fight,
Controlling my cancer for years.
When it stays out for me
Yeah, and the feelin' is bright,

Then I get cure fever, cure fever.
We know how to do it.
Gimme that cure fever, cure fever.
We know how to show it.

Here I am,
Prayin' for this moment to last,
Livin' on remission so fine,
Borne from my meds,
Makin' it mine.

Cure fever, cure fever.
We know how to do it.
Gimme that cure fever, cure fever.
We know how to show it.

With the dream of Yervoy,
Don't need no push for us to take it.
Gimme just enough to take me to remission.
I got fire in my veins.
I got scannin’ in the mornin'.
I’ll be glowin' in the dark;
I give you warnin'.

And that ‘skin cancer’ doctor,
He toils in the fight,
Controlling my cancer for years.
When it stays out for me
Yeah, and the feelin' is bright,

Then I get cure fever, cure fever.
We know how to do it.
Gimme that cure fever, cure fever.
We know how to show it.

Here I am,
Prayin' for this moment to last,
Livin' on remission so fine,
Borne from my meds,
Makin' it mine.

Cure fever, cure fever.
We know how to do it.
Gimme that cure fever, cure fever.
We know how to show it.


For the record, I may have been in my 20’s during the disco years but I swear I never owned a polyester shirt.

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