Radiation Days
The Rollicking, Lighthearted Story of a Man and His Cancer
Published on 1. July 2014
272 pages
978-1-62914-064-3 (ISBN)
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What's it worth to you to live another year?
Writer, poet, foodie, and storyteller Lynn Hoffman considers that question in Radiation Days, a memoir of his experience fighting throat cancer.
How many arrows will you put up with? How often are you willing to puke? What's a good day, no, what's a good enough day? Is there anything in your life that you care about so much that you'll let the archer shoot every day rather than take Death's hand? So far, there is something for me. There's my kid, there's poetry, and story-telling. There's the memory of teaching, eating, drinking, dancing, and being silly. There's the flight to Milan and the ferry to Staten Island. There's a love, there are friends. There's curiosity, vanity and even still, a bit of lust, a love of laughing. But I'm pretty thin and the price of time gets higher with each tick.
In a memoir filled with humor, wit, and practicality along with doses of hilarious crankiness, touching vulnerability, and poetic triumph, Hoffman creates an uplifting must-read for anyone who has ever battled something they were told was "unbeatable."
Writer, poet, foodie, and storyteller Lynn Hoffman considers that question in Radiation Days, a memoir of his experience fighting throat cancer.
How many arrows will you put up with? How often are you willing to puke? What's a good day, no, what's a good enough day? Is there anything in your life that you care about so much that you'll let the archer shoot every day rather than take Death's hand? So far, there is something for me. There's my kid, there's poetry, and story-telling. There's the memory of teaching, eating, drinking, dancing, and being silly. There's the flight to Milan and the ferry to Staten Island. There's a love, there are friends. There's curiosity, vanity and even still, a bit of lust, a love of laughing. But I'm pretty thin and the price of time gets higher with each tick.
In a memoir filled with humor, wit, and practicality along with doses of hilarious crankiness, touching vulnerability, and poetic triumph, Hoffman creates an uplifting must-read for anyone who has ever battled something they were told was "unbeatable."
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Lynn Hoffman: Lynn Hoffman taught at the Wine School of Philadelphia and is a former restaurant critic for Philadelphia Weekly. He founded the culinary arts program at Drexel University. He is the author of The Bachelor's Cat, Bang Bang and The Short Course in Beer. He lives in Philadelphia.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Author's Note
- How I Found Out
- My Favorite Gown
- Subtractions
- It's Really about Death and Time
- The Good Doctor-Part One
- Freaking Out
- Is There a Drug for That?
- The Passing of a Pronoun, or What Happened to "My"?
- The Big Picture in Two Parts
- Questions from the Mask
- Bad Day/No Comment
- The Good Doctor-Part Two
- Tumor Down, Lynn Holding Steady
- Return of the Voice
- Halfway Flinching/Unflinching
- Hospitalized Again
- Radiation Day Number Thirty-Five
- Me, Mike Douglas, and a Certain Cancer
- Chocolate Mousse for the Recently Radioactive
- The Verdict
- The Incredible Shrinking Lynn
- Mardical Medijuana-An Op-Ed Submission
- The Bucket List
- Life Summary-Preliminary Considerations
- Tomorrow at Fox Chase
- The Future
- Correspondence
- Merry Christmas!
- Fling
- Emergency Retraining
- Looking Back (or Life Summary-Part Two)
- The End of the Road
- The News
- Pain
- The Job (or Life Summary-Part Three)
- A Bright Idea
- The Worst Day Yet
- Life Summary-Part Four
- Mr. Pain
- Aspiration
- A Very Cruel Thing to Do to Sick People
- Do Root Canals Cure Cancer?
- PET Scans and Michael Douglas
- Bad News and New Tires
- On Delivering Bad News
- Conclusive Results
- More Conclusive
- Unrequited Love-Part One
- There's No Evidence
- Restoration Software
- Vitamin Sleep or . . . Rest Ye Merry
- Stay Awake and Socialize
- Two Visitors
- Restoration Interrupted/Life Summary-Part Five
- Grown-Up Food
- Finding My Voice Again
- The Gala
- And How ARE You?
- Root Canal
- Restoring the Strength and Resorting to Addiction
- BIGSS and BIHC
- It's Not Like That Anymore
- Wood Violets
- No Longer Handicapped, Symptoms Return
- Life Summary: Regrets
- Tombstoning
- Here's What Matters
- How to Beat Cancer
- The Health Benefits of Cancer
- Have a Nice Day (if You Dare)
- The Good Surgeon and the Good News
- Don't Starve!
- A Dinner Party
- The Examined Head, or Dr. Galloway and the Snot Scope
- And Don't Thirst, Either
- Tripping
- Unrequited Love-Part Two
- A Slightly Alloyed Relief
- Scheduling Surgery
- The Surgeon Takes a Snip
- Chemo Brain
- New York Again
- You Say, "Hyperplasia," I Say, " Po Tah Toe"
- Hypermetaphorosis Sets In
- Julio and the Second Thing That Matters
- A Twitch before Surgery
- Mark Lyons
- Radiation and Relief
- Mere Life
- Mere Life-The Little Stuff-Erotica, et Cetera
- Dis-connected
- Acorns
- Nothing to It
- I Wish
- Speech Therapy
- Hard to Believe
- Speaking of Lepidoptera
