article_snippet.sent: David said: 'I had to have a stomach tube fitted first and then go through the main procedure.
article_snippet.sent: David continued to use a feeding tube and relied on liquid foods until David first proper meal on Christmas Day 2013.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Billing, who is now preparing to run the London Marathon to raise money for Cancer Research, says my speech is back to normal - though David does have to go to hospital to have David tongue shaved . '
article_snippet.sent: Now David is preparing to run the London Marathon and is hoping to raise more than £3,000 for cancer research.
article_snippet.sent: David said: 'I was not fit or well at all when I was watching the London Marathon last year