Radiation masks

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So on a lighter note, I am wondering whether people kept their radiation masks, and what they did with them? 

  • Quite a few people did. I think  has his wearing an Everton strip.  has given hers a name. I think she comes out now and then but lives largely hidden. There’s a website showing pimped masks too. 
    I didn’t. It had done its job and I wasn’t interested in taking it home as a souvenir. It didn’t save my life, the medics did. But then that’s just me. 
    I did have a permanent reminder that was with me all the time and that was my positioning tattoo. ( most people don’t get them any more) I didn’t want that either so I had another tattoo over it. 
    What have you done with yours? 
    It might be nice to have a picture. 

    Dani 

    Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019

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  • Hi Rachel yes I called mine Venizia after Venice home of the masked ball. She he came home with me I didn’t want her destroyed after she had been my first line of defence . So she hangs in the garage and attends important parties when our ruby wedding a few years ago. 

    were all different no right or wrong way just what you’re comfortable with. 
    hugs 

    Hazel 

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  • eBay ...a  Dr Lecter bought it ....seemed a bit strange.

    Seriously ....I declined the offer when treatment finished....last 2 weeks were quite trying...just glad to be finished

    Peter

  • Absolutely not!  It was offered, but I said I never wanted to see it again!

    Liz

  • I kept it, but not sure why! Probably for the same reason I keep children's teeth and umbilical cords, and the weird mouth stuff from my first op, and why my mum kept her uterus after her hysterectomy. She used to show it to my boyfriends  and say this is where I came from !  We buried it with her in March. The undertaker asked if we wanted to put anything in the coffin with her meaning suggesting walking sticks or and the like (weird). I immediately thought of a way to get rid of the thing! 

    Anyhow. I may keep the mask for a bit, and then get rid of it, or I might do some sort of cross stitch or weaving on it. Not sure yet! 

  • I have seen them on eBay! 

  • umbilical cords

    Crikey! Never heard of that one. I’ve heard of people eating placentas though…….

    Dani 

    Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019

    I wrote a blog about my cancer. just click on the link below 

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  • Haha well you can't just throw these things out! The witches might get them! My aunt has her caul, which is the abiotic sac she was born with. It is said to ensure you will never of drowning if you have one, so once upon a time Sailors would pay good money for then! 

  • yep, named Jason (Jason Voorhees, Friday the 13th), sits in the front room..

    Loz (61)

    Oropharyngeal right tongue base T2N2bM0 squamous cell carcinoma p16 positive..