April 4, 2009
Procession of the Nobles
A week ago last Friday, March 20th, as I was driving to meet the Oncologist for the first time, I just didn’t like any of the fare on the radio stations, so I kept “surfing”. I finally landed on The Portland Classical Channel, which I have come to enjoy listening to more & more often.
Usually, I get in in the middle of a long song and never find out the title or composer and don’t care too much one way or the other, but this time it was different. I heard the announcer introduce “The Procession of the Nobles” by the Russian composer Rimsky-Korsakov from his only Opera/Ballet (yes, there is such a thing).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwmPSfKBvvE
I liked the title ..Procession of the Nobles so I listened. It inspired me and uplifted me and is powerful in some places, flowing in others. It is just like my Chemo drugs will be ….powerful but flowing through my veins beautifully. I decided even before my first meeting with my oncologist that this would be “My Chemo Song”. And so, even though I couldn’t remember the melody, when the first drops of Taxol dripped into my veins, I called them “My Nobles” and sent them on their procession through my diseased body.
I think of My Nobles every day and I picture them as strong, powerful elegant power rangers, pow, pow, powing those bad boys as they go on flowing through me.
