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Show CHRYSALIS PAGE 141 mail it to my insurance company. Exam, extended: - A.N.A., Latex Fixation, Hemogram WBC, T4, T3/T4, CS25/ Hem/T4, TSH, and RIA ~ $117.55. There is also an advertisement for a $150,000.00 Cancer Plan. Plan on cancer, anyone? Coverage is guaranteed to you and your family members who have not had Cancer. With a capital C. "Cancer is so horrible and dreaded a disease," says the brochure, "that the normal reaction is to say 'it can't happen to me.'" It tells the "sad truth" about Babe Ruth, Jack Benny. Walt Disney, Gypsy Rose Lee, Sophie Tucker, Vince Lombardi, Nat "King" Cole, Senator Hubert Humphrey, and others: "For every celebrity struck by Cancer (capital C again), there are countless other Americans who are also being struck - ordinary folks like you and me." Who's ordinary? Not me! The late Senator Humphrey warns, "Only a few millionaires can afford cancer." Well, thank God. That certainly lets me out. What a relief! I throw the application in the trash, but it has upset me. Let me forget about cancer and pain and dying for a little while. Let me be loving and cheerful and serene and content and optimistic and grateful and whole. Let me not see any more cheap newspapers with headlines that announce "New Breakthrough in Cancer Cures." Let me not read any more magazine pieces on Laetrile. And let me not listen to any more of the dreadful |
