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• My Mengioma Brain Tumour Story

  GaryG298207 2 hours ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception

  dolphin99 6 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 13 hours ago
• Wittering away...

  Rowan8a3264 18 hours ago
• Looking after Mr. B

  Miranda t 3 days ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Beesuit 4 days ago
• My BCG Therapy

  Aurelius 4 days ago
• Pedalling through this journey

  Former Member 6 days 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.

  Matthew - Online Community Team 9 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 9 days ago

Latest blog posts

• My Mengioma Brain Tumour Story

  My Meningioma Brain Tumour Story

     My name is Gary Grace and I live near Leeds in Yorkshire, UK. I am suffering from a very aggressive Grade 3 Anaplastic (cancerous) Meningioma Brain Tumour and this is my story (so far).      Back in 2024 I hadn&rsquo...

  GaryG298207 2 hours ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  The Fourth and Fifth Nurses

  I met the fourth and fifth nurses less than 48 hours later. They were a double act and deserve a special mention in this story. They were the theatre nurses whose wonderful compassion accompanied me through one of the worst ordeals of my entire life....

  dolphin99 6 hours ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  The Plastic Surgeon

  My son came with me to the appointment the following morning and the third nurse met us with the good news that the surgeon would be able to see me. Surgery on the skin leaves obvious scars, hence the involvement of a plastic surgeon. He seemed in a ...

  dolphin99 8 hours ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  The Third Nurse

  I visited the clinic several times and usually found it busy. The reception staff were front and centre of visible operations and the coffee in the waiting room was superb. Behind the scenes, the back office staff were always hard at work. Based in a...

  dolphin99 11 hours ago
• 

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

  Post 555: I had my feet up all day, when I wasn’t a nurse.

  Post 555: I had my feet up all day, when I wasn’t a nurse. The Bob’s go home today and another holiday is over which means, you can go on another holiday. Cool! The very opposite can be said of us because my Darling and I have our usual...

  Mr U 13 hours ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering on

  Not a long wait for meds today. It was the last high dose of steroids last night, they will still be having some protective effect but now will be quite a bump down. I am hopeful that there has been an underlying improvement in my back pain and that ...

  Rowan8a3264 18 hours ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  The Third Dermatologist

  My first contact with the private dermatology clinic was in the middle of August 2026 when I emailed some initial queries to them. There was no mention of a lab on the website and I wanted to clarify their arrangements for the analysis of biopsy samp...

  dolphin99 1 day ago
• 

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

  Post 554: A little bit more thinking about a lot of pain.

  Post 554: A little bit more thinking about a lot of pain. Oh my Lordy, when the pain comes it comes hard. When the first pill alarm went off at 7am I was already awake as usual and after the stomach liner went down I slid out of bed with a gripping...

  Mr U 1 day ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering on

  Not  a bad wait for meds this morning. The side effects are coming but the high dose steroids are holding them back and very helpful on the back pain. It has  profound effect on the brain fog as in I don't have any. It is treating this ...

  Rowan8a3264 1 day ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering on

  That was a good appointment now it is done. Got there in good time, found a parking space. Was a bit early but managed to avoid the waiting room with all our lurking strategies. Blood pressure was ok but oxygen was also borderline reading, take deep ...

  Rowan8a3264 2 days ago