I am 21 and in October was told I had beaten a Stage 4 head and neck cancer of the tongue and lymph nodes, but I constantly find myself unable to use my experience as a way of educating younger people of the importance of getting every little thing checked out, I left a lump on my tongue for 7 months and by the time the head and neck team took their biopsy it was too late to operate. I had 30 sessions of radiotherapy and 6 sessions of chemotherapy, as a 21 year old I found this difficult to cope with and pushed all of my friends away, I was 20 stone at diagnosis and due to illness and the problems I had with my Nasal gastric tube I now weigh 11 and a half stone, I know the pressures this can have on young women and men, and the difficulties I face daily now as an aftermath of the treatment however all I want to do is help others but whenever I've gontacted various charities and organisations I've been knocked back and I constantly feel like I should forget about the past year and a half. But it's had such a huge impact on my life and I feel like it would be a shame for people not to see that you CAN overcome these things, I don't know what more I can do, I just want to help others?
