{"product_id":"cancer-on-5-a-day-chemo-not-included-how-humor-got-me-through-the-toughest-journey-of-my-life-9780738211589","title":"Cancer on $5 a Day* *(chemo not included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCancer on $5 a Day* *(chemo not included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life\u003c\/strong\u003e by Robert Schimmel. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780738211589.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the spring of 2000, Robert Schimmel was riding high. Hed 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-Hodgkins 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 Schimmels survival mechanism. Alternately laugh-out-loud funny and profound, Cancer on Five Dollars a Day is an honest account of how one mans face-off with a deadly disease helped him better understand himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Da Capo Lifelong Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44977508024373,"sku":"ByrdShop_0738211583","price":28.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780738211589_b4b8d72d-021a-4e9c-addf-a93f2e4c732f.jpg?v=1778697961","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/cancer-on-5-a-day-chemo-not-included-how-humor-got-me-through-the-toughest-journey-of-my-life-9780738211589","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}