Episode Thirteen - Cancer

Ezra reveals that he's been diagnosed with cancer, and that he will refuse treatment.

NOTE:  Ezra has been diagnosed with cancer.  The author has not.

Transcript

Episode Thirteen:  Cancer

[Sound of rain pattering on the window]

It’s rainin’ here this mornin’.  So you might be, uh, hearin’ a little patter here on the windows.

Uh…all right, I, uh, I know you’ve all been wonderin’ where the hell I’ve been lately, what’s been goin’ on, so, uh, I thought I’d better --- well, all right, here’s the deal.  Uh, a couple of months ago --- well, actually I noticed it before that but a, a couple of months ago, Janine spotted a, a growth, I guess you’d call it, looked like a frog, so, so we called it “the frog,” on my cheek.  She was all over me when she saw it and told me I had to go to the doctor.  So, uh, I finally went in. Doc took a look, said she was gonna remove “the frog” and send it to the lab.  And then she went straight to my wrist and, and said what’s this?  We better biopsy this, too. And, and then she wanted me to remove my shirt.  So there was a spot there, too, on my back, so she said we’re gonna, we’re gonna get all, all these removed, and send ‘em to the lab.  So, “the frog,” uh, came back benign, but the stuff on my wrist and back, not so friendly.

Um, and, uh, so I’ve had to tell a few people about this, of course, I mean it’s pretty obvious there’s somethin’ goin’ on, so…when I tell them what’s happening, they wanna know, well, how are you treating this?  And I want to be, I want to be honest, when I answer, so I tell ‘em I don’t treat the disease, I don’t plan to treat the disease.  Well, maybe morphine, when the time comes, but that's it, I'm not doin’, I am not doin’ surgery, I'm not doin’ chemotherapy, I'm not doin’ radiolo --- I don't care what they say, I don't care what they tell us, those so-called treatments don’t work. The, the, the so-called success rate of these treatments, that’s nothin’ but a bunch of stats that have been twisted and turned around to make somethin’ that's…homicidal, sound therapeutic. These, these, these treatments --- chemotherapy, radiology, surgery --- they're nothin’ but hoaxes designed, and perpetrated by the medical industrial complex. They are making so much fuckin’ money. And there isn't one hospital in the country that could survive without the money those so-called services are bringin’ in. And I don't want any part of that. These treatments, they don’t work. They, they fry people, they poison people, they butcher people, but they don’t work. So, it's just gonna be me, and the morphine…mm-hm…

[Sound of rain pattering on the window.  And song “There’s A Tree Been Followin’ Me.”

There’s a tree been followin’ me
There’s a tree been followin’ me
As I carry my heavy load
Along that winding river road

There’s this tree’s been followin’ me
There’s this tree’s been followin’ me
As daylight fades and turns to dark
And dogs make one another bark

This old tree it always stands tall
This old tree it always stands tall
Sometimes up there on a moonlit hill
Or when the night owl screeches so shrill

Sometimes I feel it reachin’ for me
Sometimes I feel it reachin’ for me
Come up on midnight or thereabout
Disappears when I give it a shout

Last night it sure ‘nough whispered to me
Last night it sure ‘nough whispered to me
Said when I spot him on the road ahead
That’s the day they’ll find me dead