Chemotherapy, radiation treatments, dozens of them. They slowed the growth of the cancer, but didn't stop it. Always the clown, he quickly changed the subject. My favorite was shortbread animal crackers, but now they taste terrible. Coffee, which I used to almost inhale, tastes ghastly.
Life is just funny.
He thought back to when he first learned that asbestos in brakes can kill. It just didn't make sense. No one ever told us it could kill you. While he was still debating how much attention to pay to the federal warnings, the National Automotive Education Association sent him another batch of pamphlets for his students. They were serious.