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Journalist fighting cancer | Editor @HISKIND | #AttitudePrideAwards 2017 winner | Words: Guardian, Independent, TeenVogue, Vice, Dazed & more | dean @hiskind .com

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Dean Eastmond
7 years
Had a chat with @AttitudeMag about being young, gay and riddled with cancer as part of the #AttitudePrideAwards 💕
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Left my ward today to spend time at home. If I'm dying, I'm so happy it's these NHS angels making it as comfortable as possible for me ❤️
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Trump, your performance on the main stage proved that you Republican't. I'm sorry my dear, but you are up for investigation.
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This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!
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7 years
When @charliehidestv knows you're pretty much bed bound so comes to chill with you for the day and this OBVIOUSLY ends up happening 😱❤️
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7 years
Found out this week that I'm fighting for weeks of life instead of the years I wanted & can feel this cancer completely taking over me now 😔
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My cancer has spread and there's under 20% chance of me beating it, but @troyesivan may have just saved my life...
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7 years
Stop 👏🏻 Letting 👏🏻 People 👏🏻Who 👏🏻 Know 👏🏻 Nothing 👏🏻 About 👏🏻 LGBTQ+ 👏🏻 Issues👏🏻 Use 👏🏻 Them 👏🏻 As 👏🏻 Lighthearted 👏🏻Lunchtime 👏🏻 Gossip 👏🏻
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Loose Women
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POLL RESULTS: 65% of you said no way would you want to use unisex toilets!
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We lost Prince, Bowie and Michael in a year where Richard Hammond can't eat ice cream in fear of damaging his fragile & pathetic masculinity
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Dean Eastmond
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1) Rape is traumatic 2) You are not a doctor and do not to determine a diagnosis 3) Stop with this "only war vets can have PTSD" mentality
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Piers Morgan
8 years
No, soldiers returning from battlefields do. Enough of this vain-glorious nonsense.
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But tell your mum you love her tonight, forgive that petty argument with your boyfriend, make an effort to see your friends more.
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@ThtsNtFnny @Mauricio_Magus You realise LGBTQ men and women have fought silently in the military for everyone too, right?
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7 years
When those filled with hate and ignorance protest our right to love and celebrate, love harder, sassier and in a way they'd hate 🏳️‍🌈
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@KTHopkins Aww, has grandma pissed herself for attention again?
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Such a bunch of beauties 😍
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7 years
The real joke is on y'all though having to deal with Trump, Brexit and god knows what else the world has in stall next 😎
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7 years
Me when I hear drama on public transport
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7 years
Pain is making everything harder to do but still forever grateful of everything and everyone who has entered my life this year ❤️❤️❤️
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And if I manage to look back on this thread one day and see for myself that I made it, then I'll be the happiest man alive ❤️
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I may be dead in three months. I may be alive in five years. Who knows, but please, appreciate everything, everyone and spread only love ❤️
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7 years
My ten year old brother is watching drag race, wanting to be at London Pride this weekend & is asking about trans people. RAISED RIGHT.
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7 years
If this turns into me writing a bucket list, you just know me being painted by every RPDR girl will be at the very top of that list 💄
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Dean Eastmond
7 years
Yasssssss Charlie 👊🏻 thank you soooo much ❤️
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Charlie Hides TV
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@deanvictorr Cancer sucks but you SLAY!
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Because (it's such a cliche but) life is so precious, so special and so important to make sure every second counts.
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7 years
After a month of struggling to put together the words on how I feel knowing I may never beat cancer, I finally have.
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Dean Eastmond
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My parents got me the cutest kitten because I'll be spending lots of time at home during cancer treatment and omg 😭 say hello to Milo ❤️
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I just found out treatment is working. Left is the original tumour (white area). Right is a cross section scan & tumour is the size of a pea
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Dean Eastmond
7 years
Theresa May showering the DUP with £1bn is a loud and proud statement about how LGBTQ rights are clearly disposable for her political power.
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Dean Eastmond
7 years
Correct, the Daily Mail ACTUALLY managed to slut-shame and blame Ariana Grande's clothing for the death of 22 people. Misogyny at its worst.
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Dean Eastmond
8 years
I wouldn't usually ask, but we're raising funds for my cancer treatment in the US & any penny would mean the world
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7 years
One of my lungs may be riddled with cancer and half of the other has been removed but you know I'm still belting out the Moana soundtrack 😎
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Dean Eastmond
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(Also I need to see the end of Game of Thrones and catch All Stars 3 so if that's not a reason to stick around, idk what is)
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Dean Eastmond
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This week I had an emergency CT scan that revealed that my cancer has sadly spread to the entirety of my left lung, around my heart and into
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Dean Eastmond
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@pjmoma @ThtsNtFnny @Mauricio_Magus That LGBT people dont just have to fight for their own rights, but have fought for yours as soldiers, even if they dont get the same rights.
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Oh hey beaut ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Dean Eastmond
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I start my last ever cycle of chemotherapy today so obviously made the most passive aggressive cake possible for my (incredible) nurses ✨
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Dean Eastmond
7 years
Banning trans people from using gender appropriate bathrooms doesn't make America great again/create jobs/defeat ISIS. It punishes children.
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@charliehidestv Omfg, that would be AMAZING (and i live super close to Bournemouth which is convenient). Thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️
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Dean Eastmond
7 years
Carrie Fisher not only helped shape sci-fi but refused to ever sugarcoat mental illness, alcohol abuse, misogyny and addiction. RIP ma'am.
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Dean Eastmond
8 years
Today I head to America for ten weeks of cancer treatment. This feels so surreal. See you soon Britain 🇬🇧>🇺🇸
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The Sun are ACTUALLY encouraging parents to give their children drugs to prevent them voting today. Absolutely despicable. #GE2017
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@makenna_mg @realDonaldTrump I was treated for cancer in America with little kids terrified of losing their healthcare because of Trump. Your respect isnt moral or fair.
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Dean Eastmond
9 years
This is a story that has taken years to tell and a lot of courage to write, my article for @IndyVoices is now online
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Independent Voices
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I was raped by another man. Here's why I've decided to write about it publicly
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8 years
New by me in The Guardian: I wrote about how cancer treatment highlights how fragile and weak masculinity is.
@guardian
The Guardian
8 years
The cancer side effect we don’t talk about: losing masculinity | Dean Eastmond
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Dean Eastmond
8 years
Fuck cancer🖕🏻
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7 years
My tumour spread from a 2cm lump to my whole body in a month but I'm not giving up. Cancer hasn't taken me just yet.
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Dean Eastmond
7 years
Overwhelmed with so many messages of love and support. Trying my hardest to message everybody back but thank you, thank you so much ❤️
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Dean Eastmond
7 years
When your surgeon tells you you're gonna be bed-bound for two months but you're out sailing on your grandparents' yacht three weeks later
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Dean Eastmond
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So many sweet posts today 😍😭 Kathryn has been my rock since diagnosis, thank you again ❤️
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Dean Eastmond
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@troyesivan Legends supporting legends supporting legends happening right here tbh
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Dean Eastmond
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I can barely think or move but after 11 horrific months I've just finished my last cycle of chemo 😭 I didn't think I'd ever make it this far
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Dean Eastmond
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"Queer rights, human rights" being chanted outside the Russian Embassy in London calling for action against LGBT Chechen concentration camps
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Dean Eastmond
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I've somehow been chosen as one of Buzzfeed's most inspiring British LGBT people of 2016. Honoured and shocked doesn't quite cover it rn. ❤
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BuzzFeed UK
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The most inspiring British LGBT people of 2016
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I never thought it would ever get to this and all my nightmares have come true overnight, but hey, I'm not going anywhere just yet ☺️
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Dean Eastmond
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So overwhelmed to be a winner of an @AttitudeMag Pride Award. Such a huge honour to be in the ranks of so many heroes #AttitudePrideAwards
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This has been one of the most mentally & physically crushing cycles of chemotherapy I've ever had but, damn, my love for the NHS never dies.
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Dean Eastmond
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This is mentally and physically the hardest week of my life but the love, comfort and tenacity @adamadzp provides will forever astound me ❤️
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My little kitten is growing up so fast 😭🙀
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Knowing I can 100% defeat cancer despite the odds being against me after this GEM from @michellevisage ❤️❤️❤️
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Dean Eastmond
7 years
I am so gay/annoying
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Dean Eastmond
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@vicderbyshire #dearcancer though youve stripped me of my identity as I enter my last weeks of life, youve been a gift in so many ways & taught me so much.
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Dean Eastmond
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my life. There's so much I need to see, write, feel, do and change to try make other people's lives better and I'm fighting so hard for that
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@Conservatives Because nothing says strength and stability more than compulsive lying, apparently.
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I may have squealed a little bit on the ward. I almost don't have cancer anymore 😭
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@makenna_mg @realDonaldTrump One mum with four jobs would've lost the ability to visit her son in hospital with leukaemia if Obamacare was cut, Trump still your hero?
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I am 100% ready to say goodbye to cancer now and reverse these 4 pics
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Dean Eastmond
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My ten year old brother has been secretly raising money for a cancer charity ( @CLIC_Sargent ) at school and it's the most adorable thing ever
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Dean Eastmond
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The iconic pink triangle formed of pink flowers outside the Russian Embassy in London in response to Chechnya's treatment of LGBT+ people
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So brilliant to hear that France has started taking in gay refugees from Chechnya. May should start following in Macron's shoes.
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Dean Eastmond
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But know I'm so grateful and honoured to be surrounded by and followed by online some of the most incredible people ❤️
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Dean Eastmond
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My home sounds like a major war blockbuster with the amount of screams of pain I keep letting out. Sick of this constant & worsening agony.
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few days and cannot comprehend the fear, pain and anxiety that is about to follow but, despite everything, I'm still fighting this cancer.
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@pjmoma @ThtsNtFnny @Mauricio_Magus No, but homophobically disallowing the struggle and fight LGBT people have gone through to gain rights while dismissing LGBT who have fought
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Dean Eastmond
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Always cheerful, always colourful, always smiling 🙄 Photo by the talented @leoncphoto for Attitude 📷
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To any message I haven't replied to, please accept my apologies. Chemotherapy and this news has hit myself hard and I'm really struggling.
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Dean Eastmond
8 years
Last night I rang the bell at @UFProtonTherapy to celebrate finishing Proton Beam Therapy. I'm one step closer to fully beating cancer now 😭
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Dean Eastmond
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The is an abomination, an insult and complete neglect of power to LGBTQ+ people and Americans. This is beyond shameful.
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What fighting cancer taught me about learning to love myself for the first time in my life. My latest for @TeenVogue
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@pjmoma @ThtsNtFnny @Mauricio_Magus for your rights as a free citizen but getting angry at an image is disgusting and ignorant towards the struggle of queer people.
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All I've wanted this past year is to hear that all clear and knowing I probably never will has torn me to pieces. I want to do so much with
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Dean Eastmond
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Definitely got over enthusiastic at the @tmrwmag popup in Boxpark 🙄
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Shoutout to bae for making sure I get my medication on time and being a complete babe during these shitty weeks 💕💕💕 @adamadzp
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New favourite game: telling friends that the cancerous ribs they're surgically removing from me next month are being replaced with cow ribs
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Dean Eastmond
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Come on terminal cancer, let's get sick(ening) ((I definitely just made death drops a little too literal)) (((this is way too dark, sorry)))
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My mum left the house at 10pm without saying a word and came back with this half an hour later and I'm so confused/scared/curious right now.
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Dean Eastmond
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The INCREDIBLE team at G-A-Y are supporting my cancer fight in the most generous way! Cannot thank them enough ❤️
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Dean Eastmond
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It breaks my heart to say this but, yes, sadly this does mean that this disease won't ever go away & I've been warned that I may deteriorate
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Not having hair anymore means I just have more places to shove glitter ✨
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within the next two weeks, potentially looking at only a few months of survival if things continue. I have sobbed my way through these last
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New by me: I fly home from America today after two months of radiation. The NHS is a wonderful thing & it's about time we treat it as such.
@Independent
The Independent
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This year I was diagnosed with a rare cancer at 20 and sent to America by the NHS - here's what I want you to know
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Dean Eastmond
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Got my results back and its broken my heart to hear Im probably not going to get better. Time to fight this disease harder than ever before.
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Pay close attention to those who ignore the LGBT concentration camps emerging across Chechnya
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my liver, which explains a lot of pains and problems I've experienced these past few weeks. I've been stopped on my chemo because it's just
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Trans related healthcare within the US military costs less than 10% of what the military spent on erectile dysfunction medication in 2014...
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not working and been denied access to the stem cell transplant that would've/could've saved my life.
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Dean Eastmond
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When @AmyStutz and @elliottbarnicle drive all the way down to Dorset to surprise visit you to take your mind off of chemo and cancer 😭❤️
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Good morning everyone except Piers Morgan
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Dean Eastmond
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Shoutout to my mum for keeping it 100% together throughout my whole cancer treatment this Mother's Day ✌🏻
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Making the most of being a chemo-baldy before my hair starts growing back soon (Yes, I know I'm ready way too early for a night out).
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Who cares about tumours when you're surrounded by disco balls 🎉
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On a train full of football fans and all I can smell is Lynx Africa and misogyny
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