The Fudge Retort
James FudgeMusing on the esports and industry and tangentially connected sectors.
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Taking Inventory: Another Health Update
It has been nearly a month and a half since my total laryngectomy surgery, and I’m certainly on the path to recovery, though some of the healing has been stymied by previous radiation treatment. During this recovery I’ve been taking stock o...
Recovery in Pictures
The last month or so has been the most painful challenging time in my entire life. I have a lot to say about it, but I don’t have the energy to write it all out right now. Instead I figured it would be easier to share a visual update with e...
The Other Side....
On the evening of March 16, 2026, I woke up after a six -seven hour surgery where a team of doctors removed my voice box and lymph nodes. They also took a two foot skin graft off my left leg, and created a skin graft on my neck. All of this...
See You on the Other Side...
Photo by Chris Buckwald on Unsplash
Ask anyone who knows me and they will tell you that the hardest thing for me to do is let go and step away. But that is exactly what I am going to try to do on March 1. With a major surgery coming up on...
Seventeen Days
Photo by Florian Klauer on Unsplash
Sadly, a lot of these newsletters are going to be about my journey before and after my laryngectomy, because it the most pressing thing in my mind these days. In less than 17 days they will remove my voi...
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