Hi, my name is Jason in September of 2023 I was diagnosed with tongue cancer and on the 6th of October I had an operation to remove it and had my tongue reconstructed, nods removed from my neck and then three weeks after my operation i was told that I wouldn’t need radio or chemotherapy.

Im now four months post op and although I’m really only left with a few scars and a slight lisp I’m also left with so many questions and thoughts because at the end of last year I as hit with this whirlwind and I’m not sure I know how to process it.

I have a great group of friends and family who have been unbelievably supportive through this whole experience, but I’d really like to talk to other people who’ve gone through what I’ve gone through to hear your stories.

A friend of mine asked me how I was doing the day and I joked saying “I’m good but I did had Cancer for three weeks last year” but that’s my mechanism to joke about it, I can’t get my head round all of this. Because although I was only aware of it for a short space of time, it was there and now it’s gone! How do you deal with the fact you have / had Cancer.

Im still pretty new to all of this and I don’t really talk about how I’m feeling when it comes to the processing side of things. I used to be a singer and I now have a few issues with learning how to use my tongue again properly but it’s still early days.

If you were to see me and you knew me, I haven’t really changed as far as my appearance is concerned, but that’s the hardest part for me because, although I still look the same as I did before my operation, I feel like a completely different person and I don’t know how to process and deal with That, without sounding ungrateful or Whiny.

Anyway, that’s enough about me anybody else out there having problems trying to do deal with how they feel about everything that happened to them, please get in touch!