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‘It’s a great comfort food’- Dining with an Ostomate: Fish pie

Posted 4 days ago

by Rachel - Macmillan

Debbie, our wonderful 'chef to ostomates' is back today with a delicious warming Fish Pie recipe, perfect for cold winter nights. All of Debbie’s recipes are, of course, designed with Ostomates in mind and in case you’ve missed any of her recipes to date, you can find them all in our Ileostomy, colostomy and stoma support group here . So why not put...
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'Please don't' - by Cordelia

Posted 8 days ago

by Ellen B - Macmillan

Cordelia, our guest blogger from earlier this week, is back today with a poem she wrote about coping with people’s comments around her breast cancer diagnosis. Want to catch up on Cordelia’s previous blog? Click here to read her story. Please don’t… Please don’t tell me how I should feel Or what I should think about having breast cancer; How...
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‘I was astounded to find that many others were feeling as I was’ – The problem of cancer’s long term effects - by Cordelia

Posted 10 days ago

by Rachel - Macmillan

Today on the Community News Blog we are really pleased to have Cordelia as one of our first guest bloggers of 2020. Cordelia is a counselling Psychologist who has written about the long-term effects of cancer and she has put together a piece for us today about her own experiences after her bilateral breast cancer diagnosis in 2004. Why not take a moment...
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'I do find it helps to go outside and just breathe in the fresh air for a minute or two' - (Denby) Wellbeing roundup: January

Posted 15 days ago

by Rachel - Macmillan

January can be a bit of an odd month, both full of the promise of a new year and a fresh start but also a time where the mornings and evenings are dark, the weather chilly and the routines of the pre-holiday season hard to settle back into. To help us all through the next few weeks, we have put together some amazing wellbeing tips and expressive thoughts...
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'I am struck not only by the quality of the information but by the depth of care that people who post show. It’s humanity at its best.' – A word from our CEO Lynda

Posted 18 days ago

by Rachel - Macmillan

We are thrilled to announce that kicking off 2020’s guest blogs, we have our very own Chief Executive of Macmillan Cancer Support, Lynda. Lynda is a huge advocate of the Community and the amazing support you all provide every day. The beginning of a New Year can bring many thoughts and feelings, some very difficult and some more hopeful but it can be...
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