Platinum Member (300+ posts) Joined: Jun 2013 Posts: 346 Likes: 3 | [quote=gmcraft]Did you get to ring the bell? Patients in the chemo unit at our hospital could ring a bell when their last treatment ended. The patients in radiation don’t have that privilege. I have read, though, that in some hospitals, the bell is in the radiation department.[/quote]
Interesting! Where I was treated, it was the other way around ... bell for the rads, but not the chemo. Although, considering how many were dozing through chemo, I guess that makes sense... I wondered if it was just a thing at that center or something everywhere.
Surgery 5/31/13 Tongue lesion, right side SCC, HPV+, poorly differentiated T1N0 based on biopsy and scan Selective neck dissection 8/27/13, clear nodes 12/2/13 follow-up with concerns 12/3/13 biopsy, surgery, cancer returned 1/8/14 Port installed PEG installed Chemo and rads 2/14/14 halfway through carboplatin/taxotere and rads March '14, Tx done, port out w/ complications, PEG out in June 2017: probable trigeminal neuralgia Fall 2017: HBOT Jan 18: oral surgery
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