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• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

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• 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.

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• Peter's Blog

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• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Seven Years Clear

  January 25, 2026 Friday January 23rd marked my seven year anniversary, I celebrated with a beer and ……………losing a front tooth…..bugger bugger bugger!!!!!!!!!!! I have …or I did have … a crown on...

  Beesuit 3 hours ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  The end

  May 3, 2024 A postscript is text added at the end of a book or other document, in this case the blog. It’s so long that by the time you finish it, you’re too exhausted to read the postscript so I’ve put it at the beginning. Tim...

  Beesuit 3 hours ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  What's the difference?

  January 23, 2024 What’s the Difference Between this   And This… Venison Steak, Parsnip Puree Broccoli (excuse the presentation ) and a huge helping of Tiramisu Answer……….Five Years Today is five years...

  Beesuit 3 hours ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  A recovery update

  September 22, 2023  I haven’t posted for a while. Life is good and I’m just getting on with it. Yesterday Today was an especially good day Five years ago, bar one week, I stood in Mr Kittur's man’s office at The Morriston H...

  Beesuit 3 hours ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  What to do with my Radiotherapy tattoo?

  March 20, 2023 When I had my planning CT ….so long ago, it seems, I got dotted with this! Why couldn’t they at least have got it central? I’ve mithered about what I should do with it for a while. The obvious choices were to ...

  Beesuit 3 hours ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  A History of Radiotherapy to celebrate British Science Week

  March 19, 2023 Some science about Radiotherapy. A lovely presentation by Rad_Chat who produce radiographer led oncology podcasts https://linktr.ee/radchat They are really worth checking out for some interesting stuff. More links at the bottom of this...

  Beesuit 4 hours ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  SURVIVORSHIP

  January 23, 2023 Today is my fourth Anniversary of treatment end. Something to celebrate? Or something to just note down in the blog on the way to the MAGIC FIVE years?  Or maybe something to use as a vehicle to explore how to cope with life aft...

  Beesuit 4 hours ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  What to expect in the first year

  April 4, 2022 When my oncologist first talked to me about my diagnosis and we discussed a treatment plan he told me that the cancer would take a year out of my life……and he was right. “What can I expect” is a common question...

  Beesuit 4 hours ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Three years clear

  March 2, 2022 The first day of Spring I missed my three year anniversary in January mired in anxiety about more cancer. The fear can strike us any time. I spent a miserable Christmas worrying about increasing reflux that wouldn’t respond to tr...

  Beesuit 4 hours ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  International Day of Medical Physics

  November 7, 2021 Today is the International Day of Medical Physics So I thought I might start with a physics joke Then I thought I might add some pretty pictures Ending with a really cool picture of protons trav...

  Beesuit 4 hours ago