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My current purple patch might be over but my Purple Patch Mindset is still operational. Read more in my blog: johndabell.com/2025/07/28/the…

Are you here to say no - or here to slay no? Let me point you in the right direction.

Head & neck cancer will test everything you are. But it will also reveal something extraordinary & that is your capacity to hope beyond reason. Its traits are unique: 1. Persistent – it stays when everything else gives way. 2. Stubborn – it refuses to accept despair as the final

Who you are tomorrow is already watching who you are today.

Nature resets the mental dials. It gives me perspective and on days when the weight of this cancer gig feels heavier than a rucksack full of stones, it makes me feel truly alive. Read more about why getting out is better than staying in. johndabell.com/2025/07/30/nat…

Your mindset is the crow’s nest scanning the horizon spotting positives long before anyone else sees them. Optimism ahoy!

Being cancelled has become a buzzword to describe when someone is abruptly cut off, silenced, or ostracised. Yet there’s another kind of cancellation that’s far more personal, far more life-changing: getting a cancer diagnosis. Cancer is a kind of cancellation but it’s also an

It's worth a punt! Here in Cambridge for the weekend. Garde Ta Foy!

I have an incurable weakness for English history!

Plant hope, prune the pessimists, and build the kind of ecosystem that sustains you.

For the whole time I've been in Cambridge, I can't get the theme tune to University Challenge out of my head!

Cancer weaves a brutal narrative of pain, fears, tears, and vulnerability yet within its darkest pages shine defiance, resilience, hope, and the power to bear up. Today is a mixture of both with another jaw infection taking hold. Time to pull down the portcullis.

Sick ten times this afternoon and my jaw is raw and very sore but I'm still not down. I’m going to bounce back. I vowed never to be an in-patient again and I won't.

As no one has made it this far, I’m at the stage where doctors don't know how to treat me. It's a Sherlockian 'two pipe problem' or as I like to say 'a two teapot problem'.

Osteoradionecrosis is a notoriously difficult condition to treat, & I'm going through a rough patch again. Please continue to support my page if you can, as all help is hugely appreciated. Thank you for all my messages of support. gofund.me/c1da5626

Head and neck cancer teaches you fast: your immune system is both sentinel and saboteur, protector and predator. What will it be today, I wonder?