{"id":531,"date":"2009-03-22T14:12:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T20:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=531"},"modified":"2009-03-22T14:12:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T20:12:27","slug":"ringing-the-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"Ringing The Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m way behind on posting this.<\/p>\n<p>I had my last chemo treatment on March 02 (<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>HOORAY<\/strong><\/span>!) and one of the traditions at the clinic is that, after their final treatment, the patient get to ring the bell to signify the event.\u00a0 Well, here I am &#8211; wish I had audio.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_532\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 450px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-532\" title=\"bell\" src=\"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bell.jpg\" alt=\"Ringing the Bell\" width=\"440\" height=\"293\" \/><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\"><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>All of the staff and other patients cheered or applauded.\u00a0 It felt very good.<\/p>\n<p>Jan also took a few pictures of the nurses who took such good care of me through all of my treatments.\u00a0 Here I am with Lesta and Wendy who were the ones who usually hooked\u00a0 up and monitored me while the drugs were administered.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-536\" title=\"lesta-wendy\" src=\"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lesta-wendy.jpg\" alt=\"lesta-wendy\" width=\"440\" height=\"293\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Below is Carol, who managed the pharmacy and looked out for me in terms of drug interactions and possible side effects.\u00a0 She was also one of the most cheerful and funny people on the staff.\u00a0 She even dressed up in costume for special events.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-541\" title=\"carol\" src=\"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/carol.jpg\" alt=\"carol\" width=\"440\" height=\"293\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While the whole process was rather difficult and long, the staff at the clinic did everything they could to make the process as easy as possibe for me.\u00a0 <strong>Thanks to everyone there.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m way behind on posting this. I had my last chemo treatment on March 02 (HOORAY!) and one of the traditions at the clinic is that, after their final treatment, the patient get to ring the bell to signify the event.\u00a0 Well, here I am &#8211; wish I had audio. All of the staff and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}