As suggested by my melahomie Paul Hummel, here’s a new version of Bob Seger’s “Sunspot Baby”…
You swelled up my nodes and you sent me down this road
Left me here battered with hospitals owed
You made my old heart arrest
You maxed out my American Express
Sunspot Ray C
You sure made me know I’m blessed
You made me get poisoned like a weed out in my yard
Blew through a fortune on insurance charge
You dimmed my suntan and my brain
Life will never be sane
Sunspot Ray C
Your cure’s a matter of time
They scan me with magnets
They scan me with rays
I hope and I pray that insurance pays
They check all my lymph nodes and they say you are gone
I can't understand why it took you so long
But they whacked you with drugs
And you could not take the load
Hope I am stayin’ on that remission road
You stole my suntan and my brain
And life will never be sane
Sunspot Ray C
We’re gonna cure you sometime
Cure’s a matter of time
Happy Summer Solstice!
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- Rich McDonald
- My blog reflects an ongoing quest to find the good stuff and the funny stuff I've stumbled into during my stay at The Hotel Melanoma since receiving a Stage IIIc diagnosis in 2003. And to raise awareness about this relatively unknown brand of cancer. If you find it of value in your own quest, please share it with others and make a donation to your favorite melanoma nonprofit organization to fund melanoma education, prevention and treatment research. If you're wondering why my golden retriever, Jordan, is pictured here, well, he actually writes most of my posts and he's a lot better looking than me.
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