One certainty about having Stage 4 cancer is that life is way more unpredictable. The rollercoaster analogy of riding the highs and lows...

2021 has been a year of revelations. I’ve discovered in myself that I can run far and long, reaching milestones that I could never have...

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/types/immunotherapy/checkpoint-inhibitors Faced with long-term illness, one learns to...

It’s really interesting to read in my blog post from August 9th 2020 celebrating my ‘all-clear’ where I write: “The chances of staying in...

I think it’s fair to say that I’ve lived my life these past 18 months on the basis that however bad my cancer and treatment had been,...

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...

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...

Flicking through some Instagram stories last week, one stopped me dead in my tracks. I found out that the health services had failed to...

Science & technology, care & expertise have ensured that the Head and Neck Cancer that had been growing and spreading in my body has been...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I am now into Week 7 after my chemoradiation therapy for oropharyngeal cancer finished, and have written about some of the on-going side...

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...

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...

… 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...

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...

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...

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...