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CANCER ON $5 A DAY* *(CHEMO NOT INCLUDED)
By: Robert Schimmel
How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life
Da Capo Press
March 2008
On Sale: February 26, 2008
195 pages
ISBN: 0738211583
EAN: 9780738211589
Hardcover
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Stand-up comedian Robert Schimmel's edgy, hilarious, and poignant musings on his battle with cancer. 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 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.
 Media BuzzFresh Air - NPR - March 12, 2008
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