I received my excessive UV ray exposure-- that almost certainly contributed to my hatching melanoma at age 50-- the “natural” way. Outdoors. Biochemotherapy treatments knocked off so many of the melanin cells in my body that now I couldn’t get a tan even if I were dumb enough to try. So now I’m like the annoying reformed smoker who quit way too late, nagging folks about the risks of doing exactly what I used to love doing. And you’re just going to have to live with it.
A tanned corpse is still a corpse, so please don’t get your “forever tan” like I almost did.
The Hotel Melanoma rendition of Eric Clapton’s “Forever Man”…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt2qBm4qS4w
How many times must I tell you babe,
How many Rich’s fries got to cost?
How many times must I explain myself
Before I can ‘block you from loss,
'Fore I can ‘block you from loss?
How many times must I say I love you
Before you finally under-tan?
Won't you be my forever pale one?
My fries could be my forever tan,
Fried could be your forever tan.
How many times must I say I love you
Before you finally under-tan?
Won't you be my forever pale one?
My fries could be my forever tan,
Fried could be your forever tan.
Forever tan, forever tan, forever tan.
Forever tan, forever tan, forever tan.
Fried could be your forever tan.
Forever tan, forever tan, forever tan.
Forever tan, forever tan, forever tan.
Fried could be your forever tan.
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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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- 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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