I was asked about this near the end of my RT sessions and I declined the offer. I did a Google on the subject and I was surprised by the results.
How many of you kept your RT Mask and what have you done with it?
Personally, I never, ever want to see the wretched thing again.
Hi I kept mine she hangs in our garage. It was our 40th wedding anniversary a year later and she was guest of honour hung her on the greenhouse. Without the mask I wouldn’t have been around to see my Ruby wedding so thought she deserved to be there.
yep she was a she called Venizia and I spoke to her every morning before treatment. Gave the radiotherapy team a laugh if nothing else. I told them as that todays treatment was going to hurt her more than me.
Hazel x
Hazel aka RadioactiveRaz
My blog is www.radioactiveraz.wordpress.com HPV 16+ tonsil cancer Now 6 years post treatment. 35 radiotherapy 2 chemo T2N2NM.Happily getting on with living always happy to help
2 videos I’ve been involved with raising awareness of HNC and HPV cancers
No I didn’t keep mine. I went through a period of wishing I had but that didn’t last long. It’s a dreadful reminder of a rotten time in my life and it’s behind me. Good riddance. Some people dress theirs up and even repurpose them as flowers pots. The idea of having to look at that every day in the garden is absurd. It didn’t save my life. It pinned me uncomfortably onto a hard table while my oncologist and radiographers saved me. Like you Good Riddance again!
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
I was asked if I wanted to have the mask, I didn't want it. I do have two reminders, of that awful time, the first being the dot tattoo on my chest,(although I have been a life long biker, I don't have any tattoos), and what I call my bullet hole, where my RIG was.
Regards Ray.
Hi Bob
I never got mine, and left it at that. I am glad, as I did not have to think about what to do with it If I had taken it home.
Nicky
Yup, kept mine, posted the pic recently, my view is it saved my life. Wife wouldn't have it in the house but it's in the cabin in the garden.
Metastatic SCC diagnosed 8th October 2013. Modified radical neck dissection November, thirty-five radiotherapy fractions with 2xCisplatin chemo Jan/Feb 2014. Recurrence on larynx diagnosed July 2020 so salvage laryngectomy in September 2020.
Bit of a tangent Ray but I had a "road trip" today with an old mate from London, A roads only and up to and through Cheddar Gorge, where we stopped for lunch. The wheels
Metastatic SCC diagnosed 8th October 2013. Modified radical neck dissection November, thirty-five radiotherapy fractions with 2xCisplatin chemo Jan/Feb 2014. Recurrence on larynx diagnosed July 2020 so salvage laryngectomy in September 2020.
Nice wheels hope you had a good day.
Hazel x
Hazel aka RadioactiveRaz
My blog is www.radioactiveraz.wordpress.com HPV 16+ tonsil cancer Now 6 years post treatment. 35 radiotherapy 2 chemo T2N2NM.Happily getting on with living always happy to help
2 videos I’ve been involved with raising awareness of HNC and HPV cancers
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