Well now, my date for surgery has arrived, 13th August is the day where they will remove up to 2/3's of my tongue and do a neck dissection on both sides of my neck to remove the 2 tainted nodes on the left and then a cluster on both left and right.
I will also have my free flap reconstruction and I'll lose teeth from my left.

I'm nervous but also strangely calm and relieved that it's happening. This is down to you guys giving great information and support.

Before the surgery I'll have one more dose of pembrolizumab, which will be on 26th July.

I've also been to the pain clinic who changed my medication so that I can eat and drink again, and I've been referred to a counsellor after I broke down in the pain clinic.

So the countdown to remove the tumour, nicknamed Larry, has begun.