'I dream of the day I can sip beer again and take a bite into a sandwich or have a coffee with my wife.' 9News
The foodie who loved eating and enjoyed documenting his meals on his Instagram hasn't shared a meal with my family in over two years and is unsure if he will ever taste his favourite foods or sip coffee again.Brittany Coles and her dad Andrew love cooking.
Despite a lump on the left-hand side of his neck, a doctor initially dismissed his symptoms as being rundown, prescribing antibiotics for tonsillitis. "I was told to have 35 sessions of radiation and chemotherapy to cure my cancer and be done with the treatment by December, and then go back to my normal life," he said."The radiation pretty much burnt the inside of my throat, my airways were just closing in to the size of a piece of rice.
Since Dad's second devastating diagnosis, he's undergone over a dozen surgeries, including four tracheostomies.His most severe surgery was a throat reconstruction in October 2021, which involved taking the skin from his left arm and turning it inside out to manually make a bigger airway. It's an extremely rare procedure and he was lucky to survive it.
"For months, I wouldn't leave home, embarrassed about the tube poking out of my neck and my stomach."
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