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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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Thursday, February 23, 2012

A Gun Control Poster Child

Winter is wearin’ on me today. I just finished shoveling 5 inches of “no significant accumulation” off the driveway, and it’s still coming down. My winter hacking cough just won’t go away, and I don’t want to go see some doc who will overreact to my colorful medical history and order a chest CT that my insurance company will try not to pay for. Some friends at the Hotel aren’t having a good day today and I’m worried about them. If I owned a gun and a freezer, I’d be using the former to blast some holes in the latter. So, melanoma, just don’t f**k with me today.

From The Rolling Stones, “Gimme Shelter”…



Oh, C’s storm keeps threat'ning
Our very lives each day
If we don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, we’re gonna fade away

War, mel friends, it's just a scan away
It's just a scan away
War, mel friends, it's just a scan away
It's just a scan away

Ooh, see the snow is sweepin'
My very street today
Lays like a thick white carpet
Snow plow lost its way

War, mel friends, it's just a scan away
It's just a scan away
War, mel friends, it's just a scan away
It's just a scan away

Claims not paid!
It's just a scan away
It's just a scan away

Rays murder!
It's just a scan away
It's just a scan away

Fate burdens!
It's just a scan away
It's just a scan away

The flood is threat'ning
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I'm gonna fade away

War, mel friends, it's just a scan away
It's just a scan away
It's just a scan away
It's just a scan away
It's just a scan away
I tell you cure, sister, it's hit or miss today
It's hit or miss today
It's hit or miss today
It's hit or miss today
It's hit or miss today

3 comments:

  1. Seriously loved your last line of your post. Thinking of said friends today, too...

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  2. Hi Neighbor! Gotta love CO weather. Where else can you experience 67 degrees one day and a foot of snow the next. I am so with you on the weather. kinda tired of the snow this year. Not the way I wanted to start the day off.

    I hope this finds that you day was better then predicted and that your friend is doing well.
    And yes, the last line of this post is perfect!

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  3. Thanks you two. The sun is out and I'm feeling a lot less "postal" today.

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