282 – Finding Purpose After Diagnosis: A Patient’s HNC Triumph – Yvonne McClaren WOMT

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Theresa Richard, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S

Education, Health & Fitness, Business, Careers, Medicine

4.8 • 899 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

What do your HNC patients *really* want you to know? My guest this week is spilling the tea from her own personal triumph over HNC...

Yvonne McClaren has faced the unthinkable - from a tonsil cancer diagnosis to a partial glossectomy (and tonsillectomy and lymphadenectomy), but has gone on to change the outlook for other HNC patients through her work as a passionate patient advocate.

She's a chef, soup savant, contributing author to university curricula, and podcast host.

Yvonne’s goal is to bridge the gap between SLPs /Dietitians and home kitchens with lived experience as a passionate foodie who promotes the social implications of meals with those that we love.

She brings her experience, passion, and enthusiasm to this episode which is a must-listen for all SLPs.

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In this episode, you'll hear a discussion about:
*What head and neck cancer patients wish SLPs knew
*How Yvonne turned her experience with HNC into an empowering program for other patients
*Yvonne's perspective on instrumental swallow studies
*Yvonne's journey with HNC, how it impacted her, & what it taught her

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0:00.0	Hello my friends welcome back to the Swallier Pride Podcast and it is almost June.
0:06.7	You're listening to this is either the last day of May or the beginning of June and as you all know
0:12.2	June is Disphia Awareness Month. So I'm really excited about the
0:17.3	the guests that I'm going to have on this month because they all have different views of
0:21.3	Disphasia and what it means to them and how it's impacted
0:23.7	their life and I'm just I'm really excited for you all to hear these
0:27.2	conversations and I would also just like to say in honor of dysphasia
0:31.2	Awareness Month my book so you're having trouble
0:33.8	swallowing. The e-book version is completely free on Amazon, June 1st through the 5th.
0:41.7	So if you are hearing this, June 1st through the 5th. So if you are hearing this June 1st or the 5th, head over to Amazon and grab the ebook for free. If you'd like the hard copy, it is only 599, which is as cheap as they will let us do it for. So my whole vision is just to get this book into as many hands as possible this month. It was such a joy for me to write and it was it's something I'm really proud of and I know that it's helped a lot of people with dysphasia.
1:07.6	So yeah, if you're interested in grabbing that for free, go right ahead.
1:12.4	And we will get into this week's episode. Today's
1:16.1	guest is Yvonne McLaren. She's an author and founder of GAG eating with
1:20.5	head and neck cancer and the no feeding tubes podcast.
1:23.4	She's a courageous individual who has faced head and neck cancer with determination and
1:27.5	strength. She has become a passionate food advocate for others battling the
1:31.6	disease, sharing her journey and offering support to those in similar situations.
1:36.0	Yvonne wrote and developed the Mind Food Body Program, which is specifically designed to assist others with dysphagia and a peg tube transition back to oral eating.
1:46.4	Yvonne has written her own transition journey in easy follow, easy swallow, and a self-help guide to
1:52.1	eating your best food life following head and a cancer treatment, both available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
1:58.0	So Yvonne was working as an executive in the non-for-profit sector and has a love for travel.
2:03.5	She's lived in Cindy, Melbourne, Bangkok,
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