AfterThoughts

AfterThoughts: The Teenage Years was created to make visible some of the invisible cancer stories from within the young cancer community. In this episode, Toby and Alice are joined by Jake who was diagnosed with a brain tumour when he was 19. He tells us stories about short term memory loss, his cancer gap year, scanxiety and having major brain surgery within hours of finding out you've got cancer...

AfterThoughts: The Teenage Years was created to make visible some of the invisible cancer stories from within the young cancer community. In this episode, Toby and Alice are joined by Caitlin who was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) when she was 19. We chat about a pug called Nugget, her brilliant Mum, going through the menopause well before your time and why cancer shouldn't be romant...

AfterThoughts: The Teenage Years was created to make visible some of the invisible cancer stories from within the young cancer community. We're BACK with a BANG and a Bhavan for Series Two! Taking on the stories of The Teenage Years,  our first storyteller Bhav, who was diagnosed with follicular lymphoma at the age of 13 joins us to talk music lessons, his TCT youth co-ordinator, the change in min...

AfterThoughts was created to make visible some of the invisible cancer stories from within the young cancer community. We're finishing Season One with a BONUS EPISODE. This time, Toby and Alice ask some of our brilliant season one storytellers to share their love for the superheroes keeping the NHS running, not just in the midst of a global pandemic, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.  From the doct...

AfterThoughts was created to make visible some of the invisible cancer stories from within the young cancer community. This time, Toby and Alice dip back in to season one to pull out some of their favourite stories from each of the storytellers on each of the seven themes. Our top picks cover fertility, the inconvenience of cancer, being misgendered, coming from the BAME community and having cance...

AfterThoughts was created to make visible some of the invisible cancer stories from within the young cancer community. This time, Toby and Alice are joined by LuLu Socratous, who was diagnosed with neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer, which is very rare. We chat about finding and defining your purpose beyond cancer, managing long term side effects and dealing with the mental health issues that can co...

AfterThoughts was created to make visible some of the invisible cancer stories from within the young cancer community. This time, Toby and Alice are joined by nutritional scientist and chef Toral Shah. Toral was first diagnosed with breast cancer 29. She experienced a reoccurrence  a few years later when she was 41. We talk finding yourself after a diagnosis, training for a triathalon after a mast...

AfterThoughts was created to make visible some of the invisible cancer stories from within the young cancer community. This time, Toby and Alice are joined by Ryan Collard, Trekstock Young Adult Ambassador and co-founder of Cancer Lads. Ryan and his twin brother Sean were both diagnosed with testicular cancer when they were 23. Ryan talks about fertility, reclaiming your identity and cocktails tha...

AfterThoughts was created to make visible some of the invisible cancer stories from within the young cancer community. This time, Toby and Alice are joined by Dan. Dan was diagnosed with thyroid cancer when they were 27. Or 26. Or 27. No, definitely 26. Dan chats to us about being misgendered, Colin the Caterpillar cravings and navigating the gap between them and their peers post cancer. Find Afte...

AfterThoughts was created to make visible some of the invisible cancer stories from within the young cancer community. This time, Toby and Alice are joined by Kris Hallenga. You may know Kris from her excellent work as boob chief of breast cancer awareness charity CoppaFeel! Kris was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer when she was 23. Then she decided to change the world. We talk friends who d...

AfterThoughts was created to make visible some of the invisible cancer stories from within the young cancer community. This time, Toby and Alice are joined by Sophie Trew. Sophie is a festival creator, post traumatic growth coach, breathwork specialist and all round legend, who just happened to have Hodgkins Lymphoma. Hear Sophie's stories about hitch-hiking across South America not long after tre...

AfterThoughts was created to make visible some of the invisible cancer stories from within the young cancer community. This time, Toby and Alice are joined by Brad Gudger. Brad is Youth Advocate and Social Entrepreneur, who was diagnosed with Leukaemia in 2013. Hear Brad's stories about the LGBTQ+ cancer community, the invisible impacts of forgotten smells what present you get your bone marrow don...

AfterThoughts was created to make visible some of the invisible cancer stories from within the young cancer community. Join Toby and Alice as they get to know each other a little better, introduce the themes their storytellers will be exploring in coming episodes and share what makes AfterThoughts different. Join us on social media - search AfterThoughts34 on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram AfterT...

COMING SOON - Series 1 of AfterThoughts   AfterThoughts is created by Toby Peach and Alice-May Purkiss from beyond Arts. Sounds by Kieron Lucas.