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• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception

  dolphin99 10 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 17 hours ago
• Wittering away...

  Rowan8a3264 19 hours ago
• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Lemsip 2 days ago
• Peter's Blog

  A blog about bowel cancer at a young age

  HawkeyeBrown 3 days ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 4 days ago
• Kidney Not

  Mmum 4 days ago
• Community News

  This is a place where you can read about everything that's happening on Macmillan's Community. From guest stories, to sharing awareness months, here is where you'll hear about all of the latest from Macmillan's Community.

  Lizzie - Online Community Team 10 days ago
• Looking after Mr. B

  Miranda t 10 days ago
• One Life Live It

  Sadly not a LandRover road trip, but my journey through breast cancer

  Irishgirl16 10 days ago

Latest blog posts

• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  The First Diagnosis

  After my appointment with the second nurse I continued with my usual everyday bits and pieces. My forthcoming outpatients appointment was always in the back of my mind, but that wasn't going to happen for a while and life needed to get back to no...

  dolphin99 10 hours ago
• 

  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 542: I need some sleep, please let me sleep.

  Post 542: I need some sleep, please let me sleep. Part of the problem with sleep deprivation is having too much on your mind and not wanting to sleep. I think that’s where I am and I’ll be able to deal with that myself, it’s a self...

  Mr U 17 hours ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering away

  I am enjoying this for now because I am aware that things can change again Getting up out of bed  for the second time this morning, ready for the pain and the intense pain didn't come, there is not a complete absence of it but it is like nig...

  Rowan8a3264 19 hours ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  The Second Nurse

  I've always found cottage hospitals fascinating. So much history and such an important part of the local community. I guess there aren't too many of them around nowadays. It's like walking into a museum. They're a world away from thei...

  dolphin99 1 day ago
• 

  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 541: A dreaded visit is the very opposite, feel the love.

  Post 541: A dreaded visit is the very opposite, feel the love. All day I sat and ate while my Darling worked, and the shower later on was preceded by a legendary weigh-in that puts me into startling new territory. 12st 5lbs of raw British Meat ha ha...

  Mr U 1 day ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering away

  Yesterday was a frosty start to the day, beautiful, lovely skies. Washing lines were full and people were catching up with the gardening. Jeff gardened and I sat on the doorstep, some quality time.  Lots of whatsapp with Dana who was curling her...

  Rowan8a3264 1 day ago
• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Going Public

  I am lucky enough to have a job with an employer that is very interested in supporting employees with all sorts of medical and life-related issues like mental health problems, menopause, cancer, and so on.There's always some campaign going on, an...

  Lemsip 2 days ago
• 

  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 540: A good use of a chatbot, if that’s what it was?

  Post 540: A good use of a chatbot, if that’s what it was? When it all comes down to I don’t know everything nor do I know much about other trades and their jargon or fine use of the English language, that’s where a chatbot could sa...

  Mr U 2 days ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  The First Nurse

  I met the first nurse in 2022 when I was living in a city in the midlands of England. It was late summer. The air in a crystal clear sky was becoming fresher as autumn approached and then my favourite time of year would arrive. Winter. I've only ...

  dolphin99 3 days ago
• Peter's Blog

  Good News It’s A New Blog Update - October 2026

  Here it is whether you’ve been waiting for it or not, my latest update. Since my last update I successfully managed to lose all my data on my phone including my notes page about how things have been going since my last post, so I have a bit les...

  HawkeyeBrown 3 days ago