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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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Addicted To Pale

My guess is that just about everyone who isn’t brain dead would sign up for a lifetime of pale skin to avoid another round of chemotherapy. And one round of chemo would be enough to cause any sentient person (Jersey Shore’s Snooki appears to fall outside this category) to permanently swear off tanning beds. But I suppose it’d be medically unethical to run a “scared pale” program in which something like a sample dose of Interferon was administered to an alleged “tanorexia” sufferer who hasn’t checked into this Hotel. Yet.

All I know is I’m sure addicted to pale, so I’ll sign off with a new version of Robert Palmer’s “Addicted To Love”…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcATvu5f9vE



Your lights are on, but you're not home
Your mind is not your own
Your skin sweats, your body shakes
Another dose will make you quake

You can't sleep, you can't eat
There's no doubt, you're in deep
Your throat is tight, you can't breathe
Another dose in store indeed

Whoa, you like to think that you're immune to the stuff, oh
yeah

It's closer to the truth to say you did this enough, you
know you're

Gonna have to face it, you're addicted to pale

Your vital signs, they’re hard to read
You're runnin' at a different speed
You heart beats in double time
Another dose and you'll be fine, a toxic find

You can be saved
Oblivion is not your crave
If you’ve life left to do
You won't mind a pale you

Whoa, you like to think that you're immune to the stuff, oh
yeah

It's closer to the truth to say you did this enough, you
know you're

Gonna have to face it, you're addicted to pale

Might as well face it, you're addicted to pale
Might as well face it, you're addicted to pale
Might as well face it, you're addicted to pale
Might as well face it, you're addicted to pale
Might as well face it, you're addicted to pale

Your lights are on, but you're not home
Your will is not your own
You're skin sweats and teeth grind
Another dose and you'll be fine

Whoa, you like to think that you're immune to the stuff, oh
yeah

It's closer to the truth to say you can't get enough, you
know you're

Gonna have to face it, you're addicted to pale

Might as well face it, you're addicted to pale
Might as well face it, you're addicted to pale
Might as well face it, you're addicted to pale
Might as well face it, you're addicted to pale
Might as well face it, you're addicted to pale


And by the way, check out the classic music video and the truly gorgeous, pale women featured therein!

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