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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Thursday, June 16, 2011

The Weather Is Here, My Golf Isn't Beautiful

There’s really no point whatsoever to this post, just an effort to make you smile on a beautiful summer day. So, here’s a new version of Jimmy Buffett’s “The Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful”...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7CI7FsHZUQ


He’s seen docs all year just wanted a few weeks of peace
But oncology's into infusing,
He can't stay away from that beast
With sighs he cringes about the hospital
He says "In there there is dying too soon"
The monitors never stop beeping
He'll try that chemo for a round maybe two

Well, he's in his third round before the
snows of the fall hit the ground
Making jokes with the residents
working on hospital rounds
He's also spending some time in the clinic
Too much clinic madness gives him the blues
He makes somes dates to go scanning and testing
Seems living is too much to lose

Pathology’s here I wish it was beautiful
My thoughts aren't too clear but can't run away
Infusing's a bore, this job is too dutiful
Hell, no round is perfect, it’s high time to pray
I feel so savaged today

Well now that was just the start of
a well-insured chemo round binge
Meanwhile deep down inside him certain
bad cells are starting to cringe
His nurses are calling in Code Blues
His poor wife doesn't know what to think
His doctors are infusing concoctions
He's just sleeping and bordering brinks

Pathology’s here I wish it was beautiful
The news is too clear life's so queasy today
This room is too cold, the IV pumps too plentiful
There's no place like home when it's this far away
I don't care what they say

He's finished his chemo so pack it up
and this hospital blow
It was something that he wished he’d done
such a long time ago
Still time to start a new life in remission
Chemo time sure was insane
And if it doesn't work out there'll never be any doubt
That the effort was worth all the pain

Pathology’s here I wish it was beautiful
The news is too clear, life’s so queasy today
This room is too cold, the IV pumps too plentiful
There's no place like home when it's this far away
I need time for to pray
Time for to pray


Today I discovered the key to shooting a lower golf score: play "best ball" with yourself and play fewer holes.

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