Brian's last sunbed day

Hi Andy - I was sat with a chap with terminal pancreatic cancer in the waiting room one evening.. We were talking about the bell and as some of you will be aware I was unsure about ringing it for that vey reason. 

In his own words "It brightens my day when I hear that bell - it's another success".  That along with the encouragement from one or two people on here (you know who you are!) changed my mind and I gave it some welly on day 20.

Hi Andy, you raise a fair point. Elsewhere somebody has posted that they thought ringing the bell was an encouragement for other patients.  Would I want to hear a bell ring if I was there to gain a pain free respite, knowing that my cancer was incurable? Hmmm! Something to think about!

Yes, there really are two ways of looking at this one!  I know at my husbands first treatment somebody rang their after their last. I sat there wondering if ever we would get there. I think our family ‘chatter’ about ringing the bell has been something of a spur to keep us going on…… but, yes, there are two ways of looking at this one. If hospitals feel it is too negative for palliative patients, would they have permitted it? 

This is so true.  WW, the comment about

Worriedwife said:

 Would I want to hear a bell ring if I was there to gain a pain free respite, knowing that my cancer was incurable?

I would hope I would like to hear the bell.  It's a hard one, that!  It can be a 'spur on', like you said.

Worriedwife  Apologies, I thought it was this week. Only 5 more to go and then ....