Stigma
Last week one of the most wonderful people in my head and neck cancer Facebook group had a coughing fit in an airport cafe. He has had a laryngectomy. Sometimes Continue reading
Category: Head and neck cancer
No social eating?
HNC patients suffer from unique challenges, as much of social functioning depends on the structural and functional integrity of the head and neck region. Wiley Online Library To put it Continue reading
Masking up. Part 2.
Last time I wrote about the radiotherapy experience in general as well as the dreaded mask. This time I want to describe the daily routine of the treatment to show Continue reading
Masking up, Part 1
I don’t have any feelings about the radiation mask. To many it’s a symbol of the horror of HNC treatment. It looks like a death mask, it is bolted down Continue reading
The loneliness of rare cancers
Not nice to have a head and neck cancer of any sort but those who don’t fall into the neat categories of tongue cancers, HPV-related throat cancers and larynx cancers Continue reading
An ulcer that doesn’t go away
This is a plea for World Head and Neck Cancer Day. A mouth ulcer that lasts more than two weeks should be checked. You might want to insist on seeing Continue reading
Accept the scarred and disabled
We’re getting closer to WHNCD which is held on July 27. No stalls this year but an online awareness campaign. Last week I tried to raise awareness of HPV-related HNC Continue reading
Save lives with the HPV vac
With World Head and Neck Cancer Day coming up on July 27th and no stalls this year I am going to start talking about prevention and early detection on my Continue reading
Surgery date in 2014
This is from a retrieved blog from six years ago. I didn’t write any more blog entries after that, didn’t document surgery or radiotherapy. But this gives a snapshot of Continue reading
Horrible Christmas Diagnosis Memory
This is what I wrote on 29 December 2013 after I received the results of a 11 December biopsy. It looked like carcinoma in situ so for weeks I was Continue reading