September 15, 2010

“I was in the oncologist’s office with my parents and my wife, and he said, ‘There’s Hodgkin’s disease and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and you have non-Hodgkin’s.’ And I said, ‘You know, that’s just my luck. I got the one that’s not named after the guy.’ And he laughed, and he said, ‘You’re going to be OK.’ And I said, ‘How do you know?’ And he said, ‘Because of your attitude … you’re who you are and you’re finding humor.’ And he said that’s a healthy thing. … And that’s the way I choose to look at it. You know, I can be miserable. I mean, I have the ultimate trump card: I lost a child. I can fail at anything and use him for an excuse. And instead, it forces me to do the opposite.”\n— Robert Schimmel