[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