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Cancer on Five Dollars a Day How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life - chemo not included Author: Robert Schimmel In the spring of 2000, Robert Schimmel was riding high. He?d won the Stand-Up of the Year Award, his HBO special was a huge hit, and his sitcom had been picked up. And then it all came crashing down. Diagnosed with Stage III non-Hodgkin?s lymphoma, he was told he would have to undergo chemotherapy immediately. The sitcom was dumped and the fire ...  more »of his white-hot career started to go out. But Schimmel never lost his sense of humor, his knife-like edge, and most of all, his passion to entertain. Indeed, it was his basic need to laugh-even if the only people around him were suffering from cancer and the room he was playing was the Mayo Clinic infusion center-that carried him through his ordeal. From his colorful banter with nurses and other patients during chemo, to his hilarious conversation with a wig salesman, going for the laugh was Robert Schimmel?s survival mechanism. Alternately laugh-out-loud funny and profound, Cancer on Five Dollars a Day is an honest account of how one man?s face-off with a deadly disease helped him better understand himself.  « less Post This Book Login | Register ISBN-13: 9780738213187 ISBN-10: 0738213187 Publication Date: 1/12/2009 Pages: 224 Rating: Currently 4.5/5 Stars.  3 4.5 stars, based on 3 ratings Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books Book Type: Paperback Other Versions: Hardcover Members Wishing: 1 Reviews: Member | Amazon | Write a Review

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