BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THERE ARE ADVANTAGES TO HAV-
ing had cancer. When the bloodmobile folks come to
town, for one, they re not the least bit interested in si-
phoning blood from you, even if you ve got some rare
blood type known only to God and six people on a re-
mote island off the coast of South Carolina. Two, I get
my mammograms at half price. Third, I ve discovered
one can get away with being a bit eccentric. If you de-
cide to take up skydiving or transcendental meditation,
for example, or suddenly become a vegetarian addicted
to broccoli sprouts, people may think you re a little
nuts, but they don t give you a hard time about it. They
just nod their heads, peek at each other sideways, and
whisper knowingly, cancer.
That s probably why my sister Ruth thought I d be in-
terested in those NewAge gizmos she sells in her shop
on Main Street in downtown Annapolis when they ve
never particularly interested me before. She had just
telephoned to say she d be coming over with "a little
something" to show me. I shuddered. The last time she d
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