Image having 35 million dental x-rays...
Not all surprises on your birthday turn out to be nice, and last year’s confirmation of having Head and Neck Cancer (HNC) on February...
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Anson
- Oct 31, 2020
- 2 min
Week 33: 6-months since treatment ended
As one gets *cough* older, anniversaries become more mute. Or maybe that’s just me. I genuinely forget, every year, how long David and I...
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Anson
- Sep 14, 2020
- 4 min
Week 26: Survivor's Guilt
Flicking through some Instagram stories last week, one stopped me dead in my tracks. I found out that the health services had failed to...
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Anson
- Aug 30, 2020
- 2 min
Week 24: I’m running the 40th London Marathon!
Science & technology, care & expertise have ensured that the Head and Neck Cancer that had been growing and spreading in my body has been...
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Anson
- Aug 9, 2020
- 2 min
Week 21 The “All-Clear”
I got a phone call from my oncologist on Friday to tell me the good news that the MRI scan showed that there is no evidence of disease...
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Anson
- Aug 3, 2020
- 4 min
Week 20: What’s it like, 3 months into recovery…
My radiation treatment for head and neck cancer, caused by the HPV16 virus, ended on 1st May 2020, so three months later, there’s no...
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Anson
- Jun 28, 2020
- 2 min
Week 16: Back to Life, Back to Reality
Well, what a roller-coaster 4 months it’s been. 2020 proved that not only can life swerve in a different direction for people personally...
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Anson
- Jun 21, 2020
- 1 min
Week 15: the opioid withdrawal...
As the pain from the radiation therapy has been lessening, I've also been reducing my intake of liquid Oxycodone. At the height of my...
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Anson
- Jun 16, 2020
- 4 min
Week 14 Early Side-Effects
I am now into Week 7 after my chemoradiation therapy for oropharyngeal cancer finished, and have written about some of the on-going side...
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Anson
- Jun 10, 2020
- 1 min
Week 13: "the only way is up... "🎵
After my last down-beat post, time to be positive. It happened by accident, but on Saturday I had my first day of eating all food in...
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Anson
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
Week 10/11: Two steps forward, one step back…
Or to be brutally honest at the moment it feels more like one step forward, two steps back. I should be well on the road to recovery by...
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Anson
- May 17, 2020
- 3 min
Week 9: what's this got to do with #BreakingTheSilence…
… well bear with me. It’s now been 2 weeks since radiation treatment ended, but what a roller-coaster of mood swings. On the surface...
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Anson
- May 9, 2020
- 4 min
Week 8: Recovery Phase 1
When I met with my oncologist last week, she was as normal, very upfront. I paraphrase, a lot, but it was something along the lines of...
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Anson
- May 2, 2020
- 2 min
Week 7: That's a Wrap
I don't know about you, but for me, it has been a looooong 7 weeks since I first started chemoradiation therapy for HPV-related...
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Anson
- Apr 26, 2020
- 1 min
Week 6: #TwoPointSixChallenge
I've nothing much to add after last week's post, except to say that the oncologist was right, and the throat pain, and pain from...
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Anson
- Apr 23, 2020
- 4 min
Weeks 5 & 6: Eat, Sleep, Hallucinate, Repeat
The week before Easter had been a really good week. My eating and calorie intake was good, and I had even put on 0.5kg at my weekly...
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Anson
- Apr 12, 2020
- 6 min
Week 4: #RunningWithCancer
10k run in Wanstead Park, 10th April, 2020 From the outset I always planned to write a blog post on keeping up with my running during...
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Anson
- Apr 4, 2020
- 5 min
Week 3: Mucositis - when mouth ulcers attack!
How my mouth felt this week... One of the things I'm learning about cancer is that you need to adapt and be ready (mentally &...
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Anson
- Apr 4, 2020
- 1 min
Tight-fit
After chemo on Thursdays, I still need to have my radiation therapy. Remember that really cool mask I get to wear? Here’s how tight...
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Anson
- Mar 29, 2020
- 5 min
Week 2: It's all about the viruses...
Given that we are currently in lockdown from the Covid19 pandemic, I thought that I’d focus this week’s post on the virus that has caused...
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