Today Our @JoeBiden got to ring the bell on this phase of his cancer treatment!! 🙏🏼💙🙏🏼

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Link to tweet

[FalloutShelter]

1. 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻YAY JOE!

You look great.

[BigmanPigman]

2. I'm still super pissed off at how he was treated

by his so called friends in the Dem party.

[PatSeg]

4. Same here

I don't expect to ever get over it. He's a better person than I am, as I'm not inclined to forgive those who treated him so disgracefully. I say that as a person who tends to be very forgiving.

[calimary]

35. I'm certain not gonna forget it. Not EVER!!!

And I say that as a lifelong (but non-practicing) Catholic.

I’ve got NO complaints about Joe Biden except that I wish he were at least a little bit younger. But we DID get him for two terms as Obama’s Veep, and one term of his own. Not enough to suit my tastes but at least he earned four years in the White House, and nobody can take that away from him (OR from us!).

[PatSeg]

50. And it was a markedly successful one term

especially considering he only had the house and senate for two years of that term and with very small margins. Just imagine what he could have accomplished if he had both houses for all four years. His handling of the economy was brilliant and often original.

What was particularly sad to me is that even among Democrats, he wasn't getting the recognition he most definitely deserved. I guess we have to leave that to history.

[llmart]

38. I'm super pissed at the way this country treated him.

They didn't know how good we had it until that abomination that is squatting in our White House showed us how terrible things can be. They can all rot in hell as far as I'm concerned.

President Biden looks really good in this picture and that will get under the orange felon's skin for sure. Even on his worst day, Biden looks better than that slovenly piece of excrement ever did or ever will.

[W_HAMILTON]

72. Yep. Biden and his team ushered our nation out of the pandemic so successfully that everyone took it for granted.

[ClaudetteCC]

43. Same here

I'm young enough to have a long memory still... maybe...

[3catwoman3]

47. Me, too. I've said in other threads that the party threw him away...

...like a used Kleenex.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

56. You are not alone

I am also very mad at how President Biden was treated

[CBHagman]

60. I've hated how the media treated (and continues to treat) President Biden.

The Washington Post is just one example, but there are many more...

[LetMyPeopleVote]

65. Same here

I do not watch CNN and now will avoid that channel until they fire Tapper

[Clouds Passing]

68. Yes! Including some progressive media who threw him under the bus immediately following

the one bad debate. Claire McCaskill, Thom Hartmann…..

[Wednesdays]

3. I was unfamiliar with the "ringing the bell" celebration, so I looked it up.

Nowadays it seems nearly every cancer facility has bells that patients can ring to mark the end of treatment. But it’s thought that the tradition began at MD Anderson in 1996.

A rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, Irve Le Moyne, was undergoing radiation therapy for head and neck cancer and told his doctor, Kian Ang, M.D., Ph.D., that he planned to follow a Navy tradition of ringing a bell to signify “when the job was done.” He brought a brass bell to his last treatment, rang it several times and left it as a donation. It was mounted on a wall plaque in the Main Building’s Radiation Treatment Center with the inscription:

Ringing Out

Ring this bell
Three times well
Its toll to clearly say,
My treatment’s done
This course is run
And I am on my way!

— Irve Le Moyne

https://www.mdanderson.org/cancerwise/why-do-cancer-patients-ring-a-bell-after-treatment.h00-159306990.html

Cancer patients traditionally ring a bell in the cancer center at the conclusion of their cancer treatment. Ringing the bell is an emotional and triumphant celebration of all the patient has accomplished - conquering fear, persevering through uncertainty, enduring adversity and hardship, and hanging on to hope with strength and a strong will to live.

https://www.augusta.edu/cancer/ringing-the-bell.php

[electric_blue68]

10. Great story!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

27. That is a great story

Thank you for posting this

[ClaudetteCC]

46. yes, let us celebrate victories

[wordstroken]

30. Wow! Such a heart wrenching and heart warming story about our beloved Joe Biden.

Thank you so much for sharing, Wednesdays.
Wiping joyful tears. I love Joe!
💕

🦋 wordstroken

[brer cat]

32. This milestone is important! Keeping improving

Mr. President!

[Dave Id]

41. Yes it's true

I got to ring the bell 2 and a half years ago. Still cancer free. All the best for out wonderful NICE GUY former President. Stay well sir.

[Trueblue1968]

52. I rang MY BELL 3 weeks ago !!! Uterine cancer is gone

[LetMyPeopleVote]

57. Yeah

That is great news

[hamsterjill]

71. Awe, that's fabulous news!

Congratulations. I am sure it wasn't an easy path, but you did it!!

[sheshe2]

5. Congratulations Joe! 💙😍

He looks fantastic in that picture.

[BaronChocula]

6. K&R

[AllaN01Bear]

7. ding.

[mahina]

8. Bless him! Even now lifting our hearts

Mine for sure
Thank you for this post

[Conjuay]

9. Congratulations!

[markie]

11. good news!

[electric_blue68]

12. Congratulations, President Biden! 🎉 Continued Good Luck!

[a kennedy]

13. You da man Joe......and congrats on ringing that bell!!!!!!!

[hlthe2b]

14. Ohh, made me cry!

Be well, President Biden and stay with us as long as you can.

[Iris]

15. He looks great!!

[Deminpenn]

69. He does look good, better than you-know-who

nt

[Paladin]

16. My president is looking good! (nt)

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. Our Joe & Jill looking great! 💙

Link to tweet

[Cha]

22. TY, LMPV.. Do you know who else is in

that Photo?

[joanbarnes]

18. as he told me once "Keep the faith.!"

[LetMyPeopleVote]

24. I have a 2016 Floor Speech Sign from the National Convention where Joe autographed and inscribed

"Keep the Faith"

[elleng]

19. OH GEE!!!!

[Cha]

20. Ohh... I'm SO Happy for Pres Joe Biden,

Us and Democracy! 💙

[Grim Chieftain]

21. Love you, Pres. Joe

Best wishes and god speed.

[LoisB]

25. Yay! Go Joe.

[SheltieLover]

26. Yeah!

Go, Joe!!!

Ps - Joe still has more hair than the slob.

[SocialDemocrat61]

28. Jake Tapper said

Biden did a bad job ringing that bell.

[Buddyzbuddy]

29. Looking good, President Biden.

[herding cats]

31. This makes me so happy!

I'm thrilled he made it to this stage of his treatment. Congratulations on putting in all that hard work Mr President!

My only regret is his oncology center doesn't also toss confetti on you. There's something oddly uplifting to see that stray bit of confetti in an elevator or in the parking garage to help remind a person there's a happy ending for all that work and some lucky person just experienced it.

[SuzyandPuffpuff]

33. Go joe

Love ya buddy. You will always be our number one

[wordstroken]

34. Thank you so much for posting this beautiful story, LetMyPeopleVote!

[debsy]

36. We miss you, Joe!

He looks damn good, especially for someone who just went through all that!

[Joinfortmill]

37. I want Joe back!

[COL Mustard]

39. Good for him!!!

He looks very happy in that picture...unlike someone else we could talk about.

[BattleRow]

40. Ding,ding,ding..a REAL winner and our beloved champion!

[peacebuzzard]

42. The best of the best is this man. I am so happy for his progress.

May he live a very long happy and healthy life ! He is the apple of my eye.
Thank you, Joe.

[Swallowtail]

44. Bless you, President Biden!!

[debm55]

45. I cried reading this. My husband had the same type of cancer as Joe, That was last year. I was so proud of Rich ringing

the bell. And I am so proud of Joe. It was a long journey for both and love them both. Blessings to you Mr.President.

[ultralite001]

48. Sending 🩷💛💙, Mr President...

May you continue to live long + prosper...

[flamingdem]

49. I miss Joe Biden!

[mwmisses4289]

51. Hooray!

Healing vibes and hugs to you and you family, President Biden!

[SunSeeker]

53. Always an inspiration. Congratulations Joe!

[soldierant]

54. Whe I first read - here at DU -

about his diagnosis, and also the comments from others here who had received the same diagnosis and had rung the bell, I believed this day would come. But I didn't have any idea it would come this rapidly, or that it would tear me up as much as it did. Thanks to Joe, his medical team, and LetMyPeopleVote for sharing. Dear God, how I miss him./

[gademocrat7]

55. Congratulations, President Biden

Onward and upward! Sending you healing hugs, prayers and love.💙

[lark]

58. Go Joe!

You are 10x the man compared to the weak sniveling nazi currently infesting the WH!! So glad you are doing well!

[bluescribbler]

59. Great news!!!

Wishing long life for Uncle Joe.

[virgdem]

61. Fantastic news. I miss Joe, the last real President we had.

[CTyankee]

62. I want him to thrive and be well; I do have some mixed feelings for him, but I can understand he went through a lot...

before he had to give it up and let Kamala take her lonely fight to Election Day. I truly believed she would be our next President and election night was a trauma for me and my husband. I don't think this country can elect a woman President during my lifetime, perhaps never. I find that strange and it depresses me no end.

[LymphocyteLover]

63. Had to look up what that means

"Ringing the bell after completing cancer treatment is a significant ritual that symbolizes the end of treatment and celebrates the journey of recovery, but it can also evoke mixed emotions among patients."

Congrats to the best President of my life.

https://www.mdanderson.org/cancerwise/why-do-cancer-patients-ring-a-bell-after-treatment.h00-159306990.html

[peggysue2]

64. Excellent!

Ring that bell, Joe. Then enjoy your family and life. You deserve it!

[ffr]

66. #46. America's last presidential statesman.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

67. ...

[Totally Tunsie]

70. BRAVO, JOE! We love you!

Congratulations. Waiting to see you ring that bell at every phase.

[hamsterjill]

73. Goodness shows through.

Joe is a good man. He got us through to the other side of the COVID pandemic. He picked up the pieces and put this country back together. All at an age where he should have been able to sit on the back porch under an afghan and take it easy. He worked his ass off for all of us - even the ones who didn't vote for him.

Goodness shows.

Stark contrast to the orange jerk in the White House now who posts videos literally showing him spew crap on anyone who doesn't kiss his ass.

We lost so much. The idiots who didn't see this. The idiots who just followed all the hate. I hope karma catches up to them.

And lastly, I will always wonder if Joe would have won had he stayed in the race. I don't give a phuck what anyone said.

[Grim Chieftain]

74. I love, honor and respect that man

I miss Pres. Biden more and more each day. It's like Pope Leo XIV being replaced by Lucifer.

Bless you, Pres. Biden. May you have many more years of health and prosperity.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

75. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE Joe Biden!

He is a GENTLEMAN in the true sense of the word and possessed of a humility that can't be faked and a BIG, BIG heart!

[Lovie777]

76. K & R .....

Looking 😊

[MustLoveBeagles]

77. Congratulations 👏🎉

[róisín_dubh]

78. Phew. Way to go Joe

Personally this is also a relief as my partner is being biopsied for suspected prostate cancer. I know it’s a very curable cancer, but I’m still sick with worry over it