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Cancer on $5 a Day* *(chemo not included)
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.
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