Maria, made me laugh about the cursing. Wendys, lovely poignant description, thank you. I never had a speech problem, and have been very fortunate to have come out of my journey with no obvious outward changes, but I do empathise tremendously.

Recently in the waiting room of my Oncologist's, a man exited who had that unmistakable 'recently baked head' look, and I really regret not extending a hand and introducing myself, just because I looked just like that two years ago.

Oh well, next time.

47 yr old male non-smoker, social drinker, fit. Jan'10, Stg3 rt tonsil+rt neck SCC, HPV+, rad+chmo Vancouver Cda. 2yr clear Apr'12 London UK. Apr'13 mets recur to lymph btw left lung & aorta, 3x Cisplatin+5FUchemo+20 rad, was all clear but 6-mo PET-CT shows mets to pleura around left lung, participating in St 1 trial of GDC-0980. GDC lost effect and ended July'14, bad atrial fibrillation requiring hospitalisation, start more standard chemo 10 Sep 2014.
Sadly has passed away, notified Jan 2015.