Comments on: Chemo Room Etiquette http://hopeforholly.com/2007/10/30/chemo-room-etiquette/ Raising Awareness of Colo-Rectal Cancers Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:11:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Heather http://hopeforholly.com/2007/10/30/chemo-room-etiquette/#comment-1859 Heather Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:07:41 +0000 http://hopeforholly.com/2007/10/30/chemo-room-etiquette/#comment-1859 Holly, thinking about you and wishing the best on your few last rounds of chemo. Keep that chin up!!! Holly, thinking about you and wishing the best on your few last rounds of chemo. Keep that chin up!!!

]]> By: Derek K. Miller http://hopeforholly.com/2007/10/30/chemo-room-etiquette/#comment-1815 Derek K. Miller Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:08:08 +0000 http://hopeforholly.com/2007/10/30/chemo-room-etiquette/#comment-1815 We're usually there in the afternoon, and there's a free coffee-and-cookies cart that comes by once or twice while I'm plugged in. But we have had to eat breakfast in the chemo room before. Luckily the Cancer Agency cafeteria has some pretty decent sausage breakfast sandwiches, as well as croissants, fruit, cereal, etc. Strangely, however, it closes at 2 p.m., so if we're there later and hungry my wife has to venture out of the building, usually for sushi. So far neither we nor anyone else has brought in McDonald's ("The Taint," as Douglas Coupland calls it in his novel jPod). I think that, or something similarly rude like stinky blue cheese, would simply be a poor choice in any number of confined environments. It's a good reminder, to be sure. We’re usually there in the afternoon, and there’s a free coffee-and-cookies cart that comes by once or twice while I’m plugged in. But we have had to eat breakfast in the chemo room before.

Luckily the Cancer Agency cafeteria has some pretty decent sausage breakfast sandwiches, as well as croissants, fruit, cereal, etc. Strangely, however, it closes at 2 p.m., so if we’re there later and hungry my wife has to venture out of the building, usually for sushi.

So far neither we nor anyone else has brought in McDonald’s (”The Taint,” as Douglas Coupland calls it in his novel jPod). I think that, or something similarly rude like stinky blue cheese, would simply be a poor choice in any number of confined environments. It’s a good reminder, to be sure.

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