Art Buchwald Death Watch
What an amazing guy. He's left the hospice and is running around:
In a Tuesday column syndicated by Tribune Media Services, Buchwald wrote: "In February I was warned that if I didn't take dialysis I wouldn't survive more than two or three weeks. Since I didn't want dialysis, I decided to move into a hospice and go quietly into the night. For reasons that even the doctors can't explain, my kidneys kept working, and what started out as a three-week deathwatch has turned into nearly four months."..."I never realized dying was so much fun," Buchwald wrote in today's column. "Then a few weeks ago, my doctor said I had to change course. He advised me to go to Martha's Vineyard. Things I didn't care about because I was going to die, I now had to care about. This included shaving in the morning, buying a new cellphone that works, rewriting my living will, and scrapping all the plans for my funeral. I also had to start worrying about Bush again.
"Alas, the people who come to visit me now look at me with great suspicion. They want to know if the whole thing was a scam. They can't believe, after I said goodbye, I'm going to Martha's Vineyard instead of Paradise. I called up the TV stations and the newspapers and asked them if they would make a correction and retract the original story. They said they never correct stories about people who claimed they were dying and didn't."
Buchwald concluded: "So, dear reader, I hope you don't feel you were duped. The moral of this column is: Never trust your kidneys."
Thanks, Apple
You're welcome, sugar. Sometimes I have to ask myself, "Is it true they don't make 'em like they usta?"
Art gave us a lot of pleasure in the past. Hadn't heard about him in quite a while. Sure was happy to hear he's still going strong.
Cheers,
Apple
Apple at May 26, 2006 12:31 PM
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