Comedian Rhod Gilbert shares cancer recovery goal

Comedian Rhod Gilbert said helium is "coming back" to his erstwhile aforesaid aft undergoing attraction for caput and cervix cancer.

The 54-year-old from Carmarthen said his large betterment extremity was starring a fundraising trek to Morocco successful October.

But helium admitted helium was "a small mode disconnected that astatine the moment".

"So ideate my astonishment erstwhile I was diagnosed with cancer... due to the fact that I thought I'd person lifelong immunity," helium joked.

He said helium was successful Cuba connected a fundraising trek erstwhile helium noticed a lump successful his neck.

"I had a sore pharynx and I couldn't talk and I couldn't respire and I was postponing and cancelling circuit shows and I had unspeakable spasms successful my look and a batch of tightness successful the muscles," helium said.

"It turns retired aft a biopsy of this lump successful my cervix that I person thing called caput and cervix cancer. Cancer of the caput sounded beauteous serious.

"So earlier I knew it, I was having surgery. I was successful regular sessions of radiotherapy and chemotherapy."

He described his attraction arsenic "faultless" and said helium was "coming back" to his erstwhile aforesaid arsenic his facial hairsbreadth was regrowing, his dependable was backmost to mean and helium was regaining weight.

His betterment extremity was to pb the crab centre's fundraising trek to Mount Toubkal, successful Morocco's Atlas Mountains, the highest constituent successful North Africa, successful October, Gilbert added.

"I'm a small mode disconnected that astatine the moment, but I americium feeling optimistic and weirdly feeling truly blessed and truly positive," helium said.

In December, Gilbert has postponed a drawstring of unrecorded shows aft being told helium needed further country owed gallstones and recurring gallbladder infections that "kick similar a donkey".