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I am a 38 year old transgender woman and was diagnosed with mouth and neck cancer in February 2014. As you can imagine this came as a total shock, however I have tried to remain positive throughout this traumatic ordeal. I successfully underwent surgery in March 2014 at St John's Hospital, Livingston to remove the tumour from my tongue and from the lymph nodes in my neck. The surgery was intensive, 13 hours in all and I would spend 2 weeks in hospital thereafter.

A couple of days after being discharged, I would go back to the hospital to find out the results of the pathology tests. My results showed that all of the cancer was removed during surgery and that I don't require further treatment at this time. As you can imagine this was fantastic news, and I hope and pray that this horrendous disease does not reappear.

I am now on the road to recovery, however I have many challenges ahead of me, not least many months of physio to sort my neck and shoulder problems as a result of surgery, and speech therapy as I have a reconstructed tongue after the removal of the tumour.

I have since decided to do the Kilomathon Scotland 6.55K run in March 2015 to provide fundraising for Macmillan Cancer Support.

I do trust that you can donate, no matter how small as every penny matters.

I would like to thank you all in advance for your kind donations and together we can fight, and beat, cancer.

Kirsty x

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