Life During And After Cancer

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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

Training started today for the Four Hospitals Bike Ride. I'm cycling to all 4 hospitals on 20th July that has been involved in my treatment to raise money for Macmillan Caner SupportBicyclist
There is life to be had during and after cancer Ok hand
I'm on it

  • 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

    I BLOGGED MY TREATMENT 

    Macmillan Support Line -  0808 808 00 00 7 days a week between 8am-8pm

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  • 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 

    https://www.instagram.com/merckhealthcare/reel/DBs8Y0niJ8N/

  • 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 JoyJoy

    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 BLOGGED MY TREATMENT 

    Macmillan Support Line -  0808 808 00 00 7 days a week between 8am-8pm

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  • 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 nothingJoy

    Good on you , quite an effort so soon after threatment, take my hat off to you!

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    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.

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  • More power to you bodysuit. Hats off to you to hit the pedal soon after your treatment. 

  • Sorry typo, I meant bodyfirst :)

  • 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 Heart️Heart️

    Dani 

    Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019

    I BLOGGED MY TREATMENT 

    Macmillan Support Line -  0808 808 00 00 7 days a week between 8am-8pm

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  • 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 Thumbsup

  • It's great to have targets and goals to do.

  • Its helping my mental health. Even though it's frustrating that my skinny little legs don't go as fast lol