Showtime premium movie network is airing a new series called “The Big C”. It stars Laura Lindley who is given one year to live because of a “stage four skin” cancer. There is no cure. She has a very disfunctional husband and son and so far in the series, she has not told them she has cancer. They don’t listen very well. Laura starts doing kinky things that only a person with a limited time perspective would do.
Laura has had to deal with a cute, dumb looking little Bassett Hound belonging to her nasty old neighbor (a widow). The dog follows her everywhere. Laura just deals with stepping over the dog all the time. In the last episode, Laura starts her car and begins backing out of her driveway. She hears a “thump”. She ran over the dog. She rushes the dog to the animal clinic and calls her neighbor to tell her the bad news. The neighbor rushes to the clinic to check out her animal. The neighbor walks into the clinic and asks Laura “what kind of cancer do you have”? Laura is shocked. The neighbor says her husband died of cancer and the minute he was diagnosed, the dog followed him everywhere. Now the dog was following Laura everywhere. Apparently some breed of dogs can sense the presence of cancer and are drawn to the person having cancer. I had heard this before. People can’t detect cancer in other people but some doggie’s do. Hmmmm!
For those animal lovers everywhere, you’ll be relieved to know that even though the dog got run over in the driveway, it suffered only a broken leg. The prognosis is very good.
The lesson Grasshoppers is, “if a Bassett Hound starts following you around, get a medical check-up”.
Love,
Dad