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If we are what we eat, then who are we if we don’t?

If we are what we eat, then who are we if we don’t?

Searching for hope and guidance after HNC treatment & domestic commensality

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Yvonne McClaren
Sep 26, 2023
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Pass the oranges Mable, please.

I discovered the word commensality when I was searching for answers whilst eating nil by mouth and being fed through a plastic feeding tube that was  dangling from my abdomen.

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