Gallery

• Teeth extraction

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  I needed three teeth removed before the treatment could start.

  

• Wired up

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  Starting my first five day stint of chemotherapy.

  

• Mask making

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  Using plaster of Paris to make the mould for the radiotherapy mask.

  

• Mask Fitting

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  Fitting the mask.

  

• Finished mask

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  The finished mask ready for radiotherapy.

  

• CT scan

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  CT, PET, MRI – all the scans that are required before, during and after the treatment.

  

• Mid treatment break

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  Sneaked off to Elba for a break between chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

  

• Radiotherapy close-up

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  What radiotherapy looks like – the cut-away areas of the mask are the areas being lasered.

  

• Radiotherapy

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  Radiotherapy in action.

  

• Hospital fashion

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  One of the hospital outfits I was provided with for one of the scans.

  

• Mission control

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  Radiotherapy control room.

  

• Full medication

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  Shot of all the medication I took throughout the treatment.

  

• final operation

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  Last operation to remove the lymph nodes all the way down the left side of my throat.

  

• Neat handiwork

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  The surgeon’s careful handiwork.

  

• Iceland trek

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  Trekking across Iceland to raise money for The Royal Marsden Hospital.

  

• All the fundraisers

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  Last day of the trek – next the end of trek dinner in Reykjavik.