I've finished treatment just over 5 weeks ago. I had 2 chemo sessions and 30 radiotherapy sessions for T4 N2 M0 left oropharyngeal SCC (grade3, p16 positive)
This is my first cardio session in around 4 months
Well done.
There is indeed a good life to be had and it’s something that is difficult to grasp at the beginning of this road.
We all think we are going to die but the realisation that we might live is tempered by the rigours of the treatment
We are all different but we all get there. I’m nowhere near as energetic but I plod along on my small holding and life is great.
Oh and my husband grew a gigantic moustache one November which raised some money for Macmillan
I hope you raise lots
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
Hi Lee
I too did a charity bike ride 28 July 2019 on world head and neck cancer day. The difference being I was 11 month post treatment and did 66 km over an 8 hour period with a lunch and coffee stop built in.
Please be careful 5 weeks post treatment is still very early.I applaud your effort but please be careful you’ve not yet had your final scans.
Appreciate there’s an age difference but recovery is a marathon not always a sprint. Just saying.
Hazel xx
Hazel aka RadioactiveRaz
My blog is www.radioactiveraz.wordpress.com HPV 16+ tonsil cancer Now 6 years post treatment. 35 radiotherapy 2 chemo T2N2NM.Happily getting on with living always happy to help
2 videos I’ve been involved with raising awareness of HNC and HPV cancers
The difference being I was 11 month post treatment and did 66 km over an 8 hour period with a lunch and coffee stop
Yep I reckon I could do that
I did run the London marathon when I was 55. I beat Stephen Redgrave. I got a ballot place and collected money for Kendal Mountain rescue and their dogs. I vowed never to do it again but six weeks later I was raring to go. So I got a Macmillan sponsored place the following year. How creepy is that?
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
I did run the London marathon when I was 55. I beat Stephen Redgrave.
I'm impressed! Closest I got was the Readng half marathon in my twenties, I came 4,485th (I have a weird memory for numbers) in just under two hours. I wasn't sponsored at all, my motivation was that a women I was quite attracted to was doing it so I said I'd join her, came to nothing
Good on you Bodyfirst, quite an effort so soon after threatment, take my hat off to you!
Metastatic SCC diagnosed 8th October 2013. Modified radical neck dissection November, thirty-five radiotherapy fractions with 2xCisplatin chemo Jan/Feb 2014. Recurrence on larynx diagnosed July 2020 so salvage laryngectomy in September 2020.
I wasn't sponsored at all, my motivation was that a women I was quite attracted to was doing it so I said I'd join her, came to nothing
Just as well really ️
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Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
Good on yer mate! Great stuff and so encouraging to those following on behind to know that there is excellent hope during this horrible disease.
Me, I’m training for the New Forest half marathon on September 11th which will be exactly 2 years and 1 day after the biopsy and panendoscopy which finally gave me hope and reassurance that life can, and does, go on.
Keep going. Onwards and upwards
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