Cancer on Five Dollars a Day* (*chemo Not Included) : How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life (9780738211589)

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.

Product details

• Format Hardback | 224 pages
• Dimensions 140 x 210 x 25.4mm | 408.23g
• Publication date 03 Apr 2008
• Publisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
• Imprint Da Capo Press Inc
• Publication City/Country United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 0738211583
• ISBN13 9780738211589

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