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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">Olympics, Grippy Sock Edition</title><subtitle type="html" /><id>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/olympics-grippy-sock-edition/atom</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/olympics-grippy-sock-edition" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/olympics-grippy-sock-edition/atom" /><generator uri="http://telligent.com" version="12.1.2.21912">Telligent Community (Build: 12.1.2.21912)</generator><updated>2026-06-06T12:08:32Z</updated><entry><title>Olympics, Grippy Sock Edition- my first hospital experience</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/olympics-grippy-sock-edition/posts/olympics-grippy-sock-edition--my-first-hospital-experience" /><id>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/olympics-grippy-sock-edition/posts/olympics-grippy-sock-edition--my-first-hospital-experience</id><published>2026-06-06T11:08:32Z</published><updated>2026-06-06T11:08:32Z</updated><content type="html">Day 6 after surgery, I trained for the Olympics.
Okay, fine. It was a walk to the nurses&amp;rsquo; station. In grippy hospital socks.
After they took 2/3 of my stomach, just sitting up felt like a marathon. So when the nurse said &amp;ldquo;Let&amp;rsquo;s try ...(&lt;a href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/olympics-grippy-sock-edition/posts/olympics-grippy-sock-edition--my-first-hospital-experience"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/aggbug?PostID=723265&amp;AppID=42979&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Bru</name><uri>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/members/9e2f7f975c0343f49aa1eee279f1e992</uri></author><category term="Surgery for stomach cancer" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/olympics-grippy-sock-edition/archive/tags/Surgery%2bfor%2bstomach%2bcancer" /></entry></feed>