Tomorrow is National Cancer Survivors Day, and several posts on my Facebook news feed have asked how I’m going to celebrate it. My response is “why just this day”?
One of the many unexpected blessings of melanoma is that the disease has taught me to try to be more thankful and grateful each and every day for all of the finer things in my life, including the fact that I’m still above ground, and celebrate continuously. Just about every other cancer survivor I’ve met along the way is doing the same. With thanks to all the medical folks who’ve given me the gift of cancer survival (but not the insurance companies that were drug kicking and screaming along for the ride), here are some new lyrics to Steve Winwood’s “The Finer Things”…
While there’s still time
Let’s go out and cure everything
If you cure me
I will let you into my dream
For life is a river rolling into somewhere
We must live while we can
And we’ll take our dose of chemo
The finer things keep shining through
The way your doc takes time with you
The finer things I feel in me
The golden dance my life will be
Oh, I’ve been sad
And have walked bitter streets alone
And come morning
There’s a good wind to blow me home
So life is a river rolling into somewhere
I will live while I can
I will have my ever after
The finer things keep shining through
The way your doc makes time for you
The finer things I feel in me
The golden dance my life will be
We go so fast, why don’t we make it last
Life is glowing inside you and me
Please take my hand, here where I stand
Won’t you come find a cure with me
Come see, with me, come see
And doctors try
’til they get the best of the fight
And some mornings
They are tangled up with our plight
So life be a river rolling into somewhere
They will cure when they can
And they think about the fight so sweet
My biggest claims keep getting through
But some of them get lost with you
The finer things I feel in me
The golden dance my life will be
Happy Survivors Day!
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