Les (left) at his local swimming club
I was due to take part in the Serpentine Swim in 2018, but a month before the event I noticed a lump in one of the lymph nodes in my neck. After being referred to hospital where I had scans and the lump syringed, a biopsy was taken from the back of my tongue. It wasn’t good news and I received the devastating diagnosis that I had tongue cancer.