Cancer on Five Dollars a Day* *(chemo not included): How Humor Got Me through the Toughest Journey of My Life by Robert Schimmel

Author:Robert Schimmel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Perseus Publishing
Published: 2010-03-17T04:00:00+00:00

And so begins a series of alternative, sometimes far-out distractions.

I try acupuncture. I go to a Chinese woman in Phoenix who asks me to lie down on a table covered with what feels like butcher paper, then sticks about a thousand little needles into my legs, arms, stomach, ears, neck, and one in the middle of my forehead, the unicorn. She turns off the lights, fires up a couple of incense-burning candles, and puts on a Yanni CD.

“See you soon,” she says and leaves the room.

Immediately my thoughts turn dark, resting in that place I try to avoid, the place where all I can see and say is, I’m gonna die if this shit doesn’t work. Never gonna see my kids, never gonna see my parents, never gonna—

And then she’s back. “How you doing?”

“Okay.” She begins pulling the needles out and I manage a peek at the clock. Over an hour has gone by. “What? Are you kidding? You were gone for an hour?”

“Yes. You were sleeping real good. Sorry I have to wake you up.”

This may not sound like much, but between the throwing up and the worrying about dying, I don’t get a lot of sleep. It turns out that acupuncture is more than a distraction.

It’s a gift.

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