Yes best advise my oncologist gave me was kerp off the Internet. It's a lot to take in but you'll get there we all did. It's the fear of the unknown if any cancers a giid ine ti get it's ours. The treatment can be brutal the recovery king but the results are worth it. 
I'm off to Spain in 3 weeks living my life and riding my bike 

yes please keep in touch 

Hazel 

Enjoy your biking holiday Hazel! We're going to keep on hiking around our beautiful area of Wales until the treatment stops us. 

We've managed 2 Welsh trips this year.  Anglesey Ceredigion and Caernarfon. Love Wales yes walk as long as you can nothing g too strenuous though xc

Hi Bronwen

I have read your post and just wanted to pop by and say hello. My husband was diagnosed with squamous cell cancer in his rught tonsils with lymph node involvement 5 and a half years ago and is going for his final appointment with hus oncologist and ENT consultant on September 14th where he will be officially discharged and cancer free. 
Like your partner he was a fit 54 year old running 30 miles a week, non smoking , vegetarian and minimal alcohol drunking when a lump appeared on the right side of his neck. The diagnosis was a big shock to us both as he felt so well.

After an initial biopsy and tonsillectomy he had Chemoradiation- 5 cycles if Cistplatin and 30 fractions if radiotherapy over 6 weeks which I wont lie was ver tough going but definitely doable.

I just wanted to say that it's certainly very tough for the person going through it but its also tough for the other half to watch them go through such hard treatment and feel so helpless. If you ever need to chat to someone whose been tbrough what your about to embark on then please feel free to send me a friend request and we can certainly chat. Im sure Hazel, Dave and Ian plus others will offer advice and the benefit of their experience from their point if view but it can feel as equally lonely going through it as the partner.

Good luck and best wishes - there us light at the end of the tunnel

Emma 

Hi

i think the advice about the internet and Dr Google is spot on. I realised that so many sites are US and they are usually quite alarming. Probably because they are private health companies trying to get people to check themselves out. Thank goodness for the NHS. 
Just had a Covid scare. Son stayed, developed a cold then had a call a friend had tested positive. He left straight away and went for a test. Anxious 24 hr wait to find its negative. But of a wake up call. 
x Jane 

Hi Jane Everything x that's it's just a cold.Yes tge Internet isn't regulated so anyone can advertise anything. Stick to here a nd Macmillann,plus the statistics are at least 5 years out of date.plus they include the heavy smokers and  drinkers whose rumours respond differently I was told by my oncologist.

Althoygh I was treated pre covid what we did in the lead up to treatment snd during was limit my social contact especially with having chemo. People knew if they had the sniffles stsy away no hugging etc x

Hazel

Fingers crossed it's just a summer cold or allergies Jane. It's not fun this waiting for results malarkey is it! Hope you get the results back soon x

In the scheme of things it doesn't targets are set by bean counters the trusts get fined fir missing them. Well pre COVID they did. Just don't stress in things you've no control over. Spend time building hubby up double chocolate magnums are good   
hazel xx

It was negative. Anxious 24 hrs