We are amazing creatures. We take life’s lumps and keep going.

We turn today’s tragedy into tomorrow’s comedy. We learn to laugh away our tears. We thank God it wasn’t worse.

We know it could have been.

You may have laughed with Lewis Grizzard through his faulty heart valve and 3 divorces. He turned his tribulations into things all of us could laugh about.

That is a rare talent with a rare sense of peace about what befalls us, whether we did or did not do it to ourselves.

OUR FRIEND Don Gordon is a budding Lewis Grizzard. His new book “Snowball’s Chance” is about losing his wife, his money, his dog and almost his life. And he makes you chuckle about it along with him.

Don wanted his book to give hope to others facing similar life-and-death struggles.

He worked on this book, hoping to finish and publish it before he died. The good Lord gave him extra time and his brother Jimmy donated a kidney.

Don laughs about it now. He even concedes his God-fearing brother’s kidney helped restore his faith.

TO GIVE YOU a taste of Don’s sense of humor, he opens his book with this sentence:

“There was a time when my world included no financial, health or woman problems, then I turned 5 years old.”

The cover of his book reads: “My kidneys failed, my wife left me & my dog died (I still miss that dog)” followed by this happy announcement: “New dog, new wife, new kidney (new life).”

Don writes that you must know the 10 medical rules or you don’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell.”

Rule 1. Play to win because when you are talking about living or dying there is no glory in 2nd place.

Rule 2. Half of all doctors finished in the bottom half of their graduating class in medical school (do the math).

3. In the graduating class in all medical schools one person graduates last in his class and they bestow a special title on this person. They call him Doctor (medical school joke that is true).

Rule 4. There is nothing in the Hypocritic Oath about lying to patients.

Rule 5. Medical science can save you if medical practice doesn’t kill you.

For the other 5 rules and a humorous story you will have to read his book.

It’s available on Amazon.com in Kindle and print editions.

Do you have a story from your own life? Please email it to JerryBellune@yahoo.com

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