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

  Mr U 14 hours ago
• Wittering away...

  Rowan8a3264 15 hours 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 1 day ago
• Looking after Mr. B

  Miranda t 1 day ago
• One Life Live It

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

  Irishgirl16 2 days ago
• Silly

  Bbbb 2 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 3 days ago
• Speaking to an empty room

  RedTree26 4 days ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Beesuit 4 days ago
• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Lemsip 5 days ago

Latest blog posts

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

  Post 534: A long walk, a lovely dinner and AFib for afters.

  Post 534: A long walk, a lovely dinner and AFib for afters. Sometimes everything falls into place and you get what you want but why do you have to pay for it afterwards. It was that walk to view possible fungi that I wanted all week and today with ...

  Mr U 14 hours ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering away

  Not long to wait until I can take the metacloperide. I am sitting kind of comfy, unless I cough, given COPD, Covid damage to lungs and the cancer, a cough is part of the course. I have a history of depression, it can get severe. Since I moved to Scot...

  Rowan8a3264 15 hours ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 533: Friday fish and chips and beer.

  Post 533: Friday fish and chips and beer. All summer there were weddings and holidays that separated my regular meets with Dave but after two quick texts a hasty response made a confident booking in the diary for a beer. The beery meets with pals h...

  Mr U 1 day ago
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  Community News

  Mental health and cancer: Tips and support for your wellbeing

  It's important to look after your mental health, especially when a cancer diagnosis is involved. Lizzie shares examples from the Online Community for World Mental Health Day 2006.

  Lizzie - Online Community Team 1 day ago
• Looking after Mr. B

  Holidays!

  Well, it took me a while to get back here with another entry! My motivation is pretty low at present, I feel like half my energy is taken up with worrying about Mr. B & the other half with mundane tasks.  We had a good summer though! We drov...

  Miranda t 1 day ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 532: It was a frustrating day, tattoo tomorrow, hurrah.

  Post 532: It was a frustrating day, tattoo tomorrow. There wasn’t much to cheer me up but the cleaner coming in and saying how good I looked, this is a boost to my ego and makes me stand a little taller but in reality I was lying when I said...

  Mr U 2 days ago
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  One Life Live It

  Tempting Fate

  So that was it?  The 5 year check up is meant to be a significant milestone but the fact that the radiographer was on holiday and I couldn’t have the mammogram as planned was a bit of a let down and once again I realise that the priva...

  Irishgirl16 2 days ago
• Silly

  Stupid

  Why do I have to give a name for someone to talk to. I don't know anyone here. Ridiculous. Cannot be bothered site to difficult to navigate 

  Bbbb 2 days ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 531: Prescription confusion keeps me wondering.

  Post 531: Prescription confusion keeps me wondering. I expected to be feeling the benefit of starting steroids at 2mg and staying on them forever but I can’t. So by mid afternoon I had to email work and inform them that I’ll not be in at...

  Mr U 3 days ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering on

  Woke up really early hours, 01.15 after some unsettled sleep before that. Physically felt horrible and then  boom an emotional burst. I felt intensely sad and grief struck. I am through the burst which lasted a good hour, then tapered down ...

  Rowan8a3264 3 days ago