Hi I'm kinda new to this so here goes. My name is Donald, I'm married and have two teenage kids. A non-smoker and very moderate drinker. I've been battling tongue and mouth cancer on and off for about 20 years and have lost count of the number of operations I've had done. Up to now most have been conservative as the team of doctors have tried to be as conservative as possible to preserve my quality of life. Up to last year that is. The cancer for no particular reason spread rapidly and I had a large part of the middle of my tongue removed but got through it without my speech or eating being too effected. I then had 35 fractions of Radiotherapy which left me with the inevitable dry mouth but I thought myself that I could live with that. Unfortunately, the cancer has now shown up in my neck area and I've just finished 2 sessions of hellish chemo. This are now putting this on hold because they have discovered they can give me Radiotherapy as it's not in the same area as before. So here we go again for 35 fractions. After that??? Maybe more chemo but most likely a pretty invasive operation which will leave me with talking, eating, saliva, swallowing, etc issues. I'm looking for people who can help me get through this and anyone who may be looking for more infomation on my story if they think it would help.
Thanks for taking the time for reading this and hope to be in touch soon.
Regards Donald
