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Cancer on $5 a Day* *(chemo not included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life | 
 enlarge | Authors: Robert Schimmel, Alan Eisenstock
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Category: Book
List Price: $22.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 6775
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Da Capo Press Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.6 x 1
ISBN: 0738211583
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.1969940092
EAN: 9780738211589
ASIN: 0738211583
Publication Date: February 25, 2008
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Product Description
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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A refreshing alternative May 3, 2008
CANCER ON $5 A DAY: HOW HUMOR GOT ME THROUGH THE TOUGHEST JOURNEY OF MY LIFE comes from a stand-up comedian who discusses her how humor got him through his battle with cancer. From his banter with nurses to his search for alternative options, CANCER ON $5 A DAY doesn't detract from cancer's seriousness - but it does offer a refreshing alternative to approaching it. Any health collection or general lending library needs this.
Made me laugh out loud and cry....a must read for anyone touched by cancer April 28, 2008
As an oncology nurse, I would like to thank Robert Schimmel for this book. Just because you have cancer doesn't mean you have to lose your sense of humor. Humor is the best coping mechanism. A lot of "humor and cancer" books are just not funny...very lame and "joke oriented". This is more situational and great for anyone with a "dry", "twisted" or "offbeat" sense of humor (you all know who you are). Robert says what a lot of my patients have been saying all of these years. And...believe it or not, I shared a similar conversation about "merkens" with one of my patients who was a 65 year old woman, and we both howled until we cried.
I enjoyed Schimmel on Stern in the past, but wasn't a huge fan. I am now a huge fan. This book is funny, extremely poignant and his lessons about cancer and life are right on target. This book is not for everyone, as some would consider it "off color". But it is very real and anyone who has gone through chemotherapy will get some good laughs out of it, as well as hope. I was extremely touched by his relationship with his MD, and loved his comments about oncology nurses and his fellow patients. I was weeping when he described his father's reaction when he felt like "giving up". A quick read, but a good one. I am buying this second copy to share with some of my patients (carefully selected patients). I loved everything about this book. I wish Mr. Schimmel many more years of good health and will definitely buy a ticket to see him when he comes to Boston.
 Not what I thought. April 14, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I heard this book recommended on the radio as a "must read" for anyone struggling to deal with cancer. I did not find the book to be invaluable and was very put off with all the profanity and crude humor. It was going to be a Mother's Day gift for my mom who's battling cancer, but I think I'll have to find something else. I am glad I decided to read it myself before giving it to her as a gift. I would have been completely embarrassed.
Great work April 12, 2008
"Cancer on $5.00 a Day" is great, especially if you have just come off five months of therapy for Chronic Lymphomocytic Leukemia (CLL). It expresses the feelings of most cancer patients upon diagnosis and during watch and wait. You always have the sword of death in your future.
I am immpresed with his cander with his oncologist. I have the same relationship to my oncologist. It is the only way to go as far as I am concerned
You will laugh till you cry at some of the passages as you go through the book. It is a quick read as I am an slow reader and finished it in a few hours.
Laughter HELPS!!! April 9, 2008
This is a wonderful book to give to anyone fighting cancer. Well written, funny, and uplifting!!!
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