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 27, 2012

Waiting

Not a day goes by when I don’t see a post from a mole mate who’s experiencing the agony of waiting. Waiting for scan or biopsy results. Waiting to hear whether they’ve been admitted to a clinical trial. Waiting to find out whether that trial is working for them. Or not. Waiting to find out whether their insurance company will or won’t pay for a potentially lifesaving treatment. Or, all too often, waiting for their pain or that of a loved one to finally and forever end.

I’m in sort of a holding pattern myself now and probably will be for the next several days and, to be honest, I’d forgotten how bad I am at playing the role of the patient patient-- even though I’m quite optimistic things will turn out just fine. For all of you fellow waiters, an ode to the medical profession to the tune of Foreigner’s “Waiting For A Girl Like You”…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrzzR-3PPqw

So long, they’ve been looking too hard, I've been waiting too long
Sometimes I don't know what they will find
I only know it's a matter of time
When you wait a ton...When you wait a ton...
It feels not right, but always new, I’d like to know that you feel it too
(Aaah-aaah) maybe I'm wrong
(Aaah-aaah) won't you tell me if I'm wanting something wrong?
(Aaah-aaah) this heart of mine has been hurt before
(Aaah-aaah) this time I wanna be sure
I've been waiting, for a call from you
(Ooh-ooh-ooh) what seems like all my life
I've been waiting, for a call from you
(Waiting for a call) and the news that all is right


I've been waiting (I've been waiting) for some good news
(News) To make me feel alive, ah-ah
Yeah, waiting for a call from you (waiting for a call) to tell me all is right
(Aaah-aaah...Aaah-aaah...)


You're so good, when you don gloves, look under hood
It's more than your touch or the words you say
Only in dreams could I heal this way
When you wait a ton...Yeah, really wait a ton...
(Aaah-aaah) now I know it's right
(Aaah-aaah) from the moment I wake up till deep in the night
(Aaah-aaah) there's nowhere on Earth that I'd rather be
(Aaah-aaah) than waiting here, eternally


I've been waiting, for a call from you
(Ooh-ooh-ooh) what seems like all my life (life)
I've been waiting, for a call from you
(Waiting for a call) and the news that all is right
I've been waiting (I've been waiting) for some good news
(News) To make me feel alive, ah-ah
Yeah, waiting (waiting) for a call from you
(Waiting for a call) what seems like all my life


Oooh-oooh, oooh-oooh, I've been waiting
Aaah-aaah, (waiting for you) oooh-oooh, oooh
(Aaah-aaah) oooh-oooh, I've been waiting
(Waiting) I've been waiting, yeah
I've been waiting for a call from you, I've been waiting
Won't you come into my life? (Life?) My life?
(It's been so long) I've been waiting for a call from you
I've been waiting, (I've been waiting) oh-oh

1 comment:

  1. Here's to an easy wait and positive thoughts for good results!

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