Spleeny............gosh Dee, I haven't heard that word used in years!! You are so right, it is the word used in Maine and I grew up listening to my Dad say it.
I know that when I was at the end of radiation my liquid vicodin ran out and I decided to just stop using it. I only had one treatment left anyways and the pain was manageable. I went through quite a withdrawal and it is still my most vivid memory of my radiation.

SCC Left Mandible. Jaw replaced with bone from leg. Neck disection, 37 radiation treatments. Recurrence 8-28-07, stage 2, tongue. One third of tongue removed 10-4-07. 5-23-08 chemo started for tumor behind swallowing passage, Our good friend and much loved OCF member Minnie has been lost to the disease (RIP 10-29-08). We will all miss her greatly.