Wednesday, February 13, 2008

The Audacity of Bob Hope

I still feel crappy. I can't seem to eat but maybe tomorrow's mri will tell me something I don't know.

However, life goes on in it's increasingly strange ways. Which is probably due to the fact that I am weaker now than I have ever been in my entire life and occasionally things are a bit blurry. Like, yesterday, for instance. I was getting my drip and a completely insane man was sitting two chairs away from me. And he would not stop talking. And here's what he talked about...

SHOW BIZ.

This guy dropped every name that was printed on every star on Hollywood Boulevard. He started by saying that he was Bob Hope's son but he wasn't sure if Bob Hope's wife, Delores, his supposed mother, was dead or alive.

Nuts enough for you?

He said he was Henry Winkler's roommate at Harvard. For some useless reason I happen to know that Henry Winkler went to Yale. This guy was best friends with Donald Trump ("A great human being.") and very close with Shirley Maclaine ("In what life?" I didn't ask.) and he accompaigned Magic Johnson to Mexico for AIDS treatments.

Aha.

And he was a Jewish Buddhist Catholic and he didn't believe in Western Medicine and that's when we got into a big argument. I usually just sit there and let people ramble on if they are the rambling type. But this guy, Mr. Hopeupyourass, asks me why I'm there and I tell him about my cancer and my sugery and he says, "You should never have done that. Had that surgery. Doctors here in the States will kill you." And everyone in the room told him to shut up but he just kept talking and...

I have to change the subject for just a moment. One of the people in the room was this very nice man that had been smiling at me for a couple of weeks. And I've been smiling back. Not really my type but there was something about him. Anyway, yesterday he sits next to me and we're talking about books and luckily I was reading Cormac McCarthy so I appeared as if I was sort of educated and we were having a grand old time and I was thinking, gee, he would be a nice person to have dinner with sometime.........WHEN I WON'T THROW UP ON HIS PLATE!........And then somewhere in mid-conversation he tells me that he's a MONK! He lives at the Self Realization Church and rings the gong in the mornings. Oh, just what I'm looking for. A gong ringer. But I'm thinking that so far the two men I've met who are the most interesting are a monk and a guy who sells hot dogs. I should never have left Chicago...................

So Mr. Hopethebiggestjerkintheworld won't stop saying that I will probably die because of my surgery and I looked right at him, after being silent for a while and said, "Henry Winkler went to Yale."

Well, that stopped him dead for about one second. His reply..."Believe what you want to believe."

One woman was so disgusted by this guy that she left her drip early. "Life is too short." she said. And so was this guy. When he stood up I could see why he was so angry. He was under five feet tall. And he wore stupid sweatpants and very large glasses. The woman with ELB (extremely large breasts) peeked into the room for a moment. The little guy's glasses fell to the floor. I imagined that his eyes popped out and knocked them off of his head.

Is this my life?!!!!! I used to work on Mad About You. With sane people.

Well, that's a lie. But we were making a living in "show biz". We weren't sitting there with IVs in our arms praying for health, sipping soup, going to doctors once or twice a week. What the hell happened? Is this it? Do I go from this to OLD in five minutes. And I was having so much fun.

Tomorrow I will know an answer. Or I won't. But it will be another day on earth in this very strange world that I find myself living in..................

7 comments:

OldLady Of The Hills said...

Oh Lord Help Us! If I had been there and I had a Ray Gun...That guy would have been ZAPPED! I did laugh out loud at your line about MAD ABOUT YOU!!! LOL! And the guys glasses falling, too....LOL!

Oh Trish, I hate that you are struggling so with this food nightmare....I hope they do figure out what is happening with you, my dear....! I almost called you today, just to see hw you are and I got way-layed by stuff....! I do think of you often and hope that this horror will befigured out and Zapped away like that Hope Guy should have been!

Anonymous said...

Hi Trish: Naomi sent me.

Been reading past posts trying to catch up to present day.

I'm so sorry for what you are going through but love your sense of humor through it all.

I, too, have food issues. I have MS and have severe swallowing problems so that almost everything I eat goes through the blender first, and then through a straw.

You are a bright light in this lady's day. I hope you feel better soon, Anne

Style Bard said...

Happy Valentine's Day!

Also, I don't think I noticed that you'd worked on MAY... definitely one of my all-time favorite tv shows, kudos for whatever you did to help make it that way!

gary said...

HOPE is the thing with feathers...Of course that also describes pillows, boas, and dusters. Which reminds me...I think I saw you in a show where you flitted about the stage as "The Dancing Duster". That was YOU wasn't it? ...First on your blog...then on the news ...Henry Winkler is everywhere. Today "The Fonz" gave the jury a testimonial to the 'Comedic Brilliance' of John Ritter in the 'wrongful-death' law suit. If that's not worth 67 million dollars added to the 14 million the family already collected from the hospital I don't know what is. Who knows...With technology maybe they can digitize Ritter into a new sit-com... "81 Million is Enough". We can only hope. And where there's life...there's hope. Hoping you are well and we get to visit at some point.

Gary

Barbara said...

Sending you love!

Scarlet said...

Not only do you have to deal with all this crap, you have to deal with guys like that! It's sickening; funny, the way you put it (I love your blog!), but sickening nevertheless.

WendyWings said...

As if being sick wasn't enough you have to deal with Louie Delusional as well, I am sorry. I do still pop in after Naomi introduced me to your blog but I feel like a bit of an interloper so don't always comment.