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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/atom.xsl" media="screen"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en-US"><title type="html">Cleop’s </title><subtitle type="html" /><id>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/cleop-s/atom</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/cleop-s" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/cleop-s/atom" /><generator uri="http://telligent.com" version="12.1.2.21912">Telligent Community (Build: 12.1.2.21912)</generator><updated>2025-07-17T07:24:48Z</updated><entry><title>The beginning</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/cleop-s/posts/the-beginning" /><id>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/cleop-s/posts/the-beginning</id><published>2025-07-17T06:24:48Z</published><updated>2025-07-17T06:24:48Z</updated><content type="html">Throughout my life, I never imagined I would face something like this. For 43 years, I was never ill and never worried about my health. Fast forward to two days ago&amp;mdash;I was told I have kidney cancer. I didn&amp;#39;t take the news well; I was devasta...(&lt;a href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/cleop-s/posts/the-beginning"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/aggbug?PostID=722288&amp;AppID=42551&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Cleop</name><uri>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/members/53079d14e2c34e8ba52968a9630b6c44</uri></author><category term="Kidney cancer" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/cleop-s/archive/tags/Kidney%2bcancer" /><category term="operation" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/cleop-s/archive/tags/operation" /></entry></feed>