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Oct 31
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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Sep 14
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 p...

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Week 24: I’m running the 40th London Marathon!

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Aug 30
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
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 re...

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Week 20: What’s it like, 3 months into recovery…

Anson

Aug 3
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 bett...

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Anson

Jun 28
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
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 tre...

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Anson

Jun 16
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
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 fron...

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Anson

May 30
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 n...

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Week 9: what's this got to do with #BreakingTheSilence…

Anson

May 17
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 ther...

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Anson

May 9
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 “N...

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Anson

May 2
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 oropharyn...

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Anson

Apr 26
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 swallowi...

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Weeks 5 & 6: Eat, Sleep, Hallucinate, Repeat

Anson

Apr 23
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 weigh...

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Anson

Apr 12
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 can...

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Week 3: Mucositis - when mouth ulcers attack!

Anson

Apr 4
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 & emotionally...

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Anson

Apr 4
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 fitti...

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Anson

Mar 29
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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Anson

Mar 21
6 min

Week 1, and we're off...

Being prepped for receiving radiation therapy

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