Music Game - Keep a word, drop a word from the song title or artist name
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For ten months, doctors told Gilda Radner nothing was seriously wrong. Her father, grandmother, aunt, and cousin had all died of the same disease she kept asking them about.
She was born in Detroit on June 28, 1946.
Her father died when she was 14. He was the one who used to say, "It's always something."
She became one of the original stars of "Saturday Night Live."
Roseanne Roseannadanna. Emily Litella. Baba Wawa.
America loved her.
In 1982, she met Gene Wilder on a movie set.
They fell in love. They married in 1984.
In late 1985, she was in London filming "Haunted Honeymoon."
She got sick.
Her symptoms kept growing. Fatigue. Bloating. Stomach cramps. Shooting pain in her legs.
She went to doctors.
The first one said Epstein-Barr virus.
Another found nothing.
Others blamed ovulation.
She feared ovarian cancer. Her father had died of cancer.
Her grandmother, her aunt, and her cousin had all died of ovarian cancer too.
She asked doctors over and over if it could be that.
They waved her off.
This went on for nearly ten months.
Then, in October 1986, doctors operated.
They found a t*mor the size of a grapefruit.
Stage IV ovarian cancer.
She underwent ch3motherapy and rad!ation.
She went into remission.
She used that time to write a memoir.
"It's Always Something."
She kept her sense of humor to the end.
"Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world," she wrote.
"But I'm a comedienne."
The cancer came back in 1988.
On May 20, 1989, Gilda Radner died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
She was 42.
Gene Wilder was beside her.
Afterward, he testified before Congress.
He said a simple blood test, given when she first reported symptoms, might have caught it earlier.
He helped found the Gilda Radner Hereditary Cancer Program.
He helped found Gilda's Club too.
A place for anyone living with cancer, and the people who love them.
She called it "an elite club I'd rather not belong to."
It still has her name.
A woman who made America laugh spent ten months being told she was fine.
She spent her last year making sure the next woman would be heard.
Rest easy, Gilda.
She was born in Detroit on June 28, 1946.
Her father died when she was 14. He was the one who used to say, "It's always something."
She became one of the original stars of "Saturday Night Live."
Roseanne Roseannadanna. Emily Litella. Baba Wawa.
America loved her.
In 1982, she met Gene Wilder on a movie set.
They fell in love. They married in 1984.
In late 1985, she was in London filming "Haunted Honeymoon."
She got sick.
Her symptoms kept growing. Fatigue. Bloating. Stomach cramps. Shooting pain in her legs.
She went to doctors.
The first one said Epstein-Barr virus.
Another found nothing.
Others blamed ovulation.
She feared ovarian cancer. Her father had died of cancer.
Her grandmother, her aunt, and her cousin had all died of ovarian cancer too.
She asked doctors over and over if it could be that.
They waved her off.
This went on for nearly ten months.
Then, in October 1986, doctors operated.
They found a t*mor the size of a grapefruit.
Stage IV ovarian cancer.
She underwent ch3motherapy and rad!ation.
She went into remission.
She used that time to write a memoir.
"It's Always Something."
She kept her sense of humor to the end.
"Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world," she wrote.
"But I'm a comedienne."
The cancer came back in 1988.
On May 20, 1989, Gilda Radner died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
She was 42.
Gene Wilder was beside her.
Afterward, he testified before Congress.
He said a simple blood test, given when she first reported symptoms, might have caught it earlier.
He helped found the Gilda Radner Hereditary Cancer Program.
He helped found Gilda's Club too.
A place for anyone living with cancer, and the people who love them.
She called it "an elite club I'd rather not belong to."
It still has her name.
A woman who made America laugh spent ten months being told she was fine.
She spent her last year making sure the next woman would be heard.
Rest easy, Gilda.
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