Welcome to Strangers, I'm Leah Tahoe.

And if you think life can be hard and that dating is difficult, imagine this.

Waking up after the surgery, I just knew I didn't want to look at myself.

She is 31 and last year she had cancer surgery for the second time on her face, jaw and neck.

I don't think that I looked in the mirror for the first time until maybe two or three days

after the surgery.

I got up and I said, okay, went to the mirror and I remember I felt like Frankenstein.

People are like, yes, yes, you're alive, hooray, you know, but I was felt like I shouldn't

be.

She wrote to me on the Stranger's Facebook page and said, I have a story about seeing

a stranger every time I look in the mirror.

I feel like that most mornings, it's like the time that I've been asleep has been enough

to kind of reset my memory.

So it's almost this groundhog day effect of waking up and realizing what's going on.

Jenny's cancer was in the Salivari gland and the second time around it had spread.

So they had to remove part of her jawbone and part of her skull and they had to sever

the facial nerve to the right side of her face, which means she has no muscle control

or movement in that side of the face.

You're unable to smile properly, you're unable to close your eyes properly and it's frustrating

because I had spent so much of my life nitpicking, being unhappy with the way that I looked

and then realizing, God, what was my problem?

And then you just feel like a bit of an idiot just all this time wasted when I really

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