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• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Lemsip 2 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 12 hours ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception

  dolphin99 1 day ago
• Peter's Blog

  A blog about bowel cancer at a young age

  HawkeyeBrown 1 day ago
• Wittering away...

  Rowan8a3264 1 day ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 2 days ago
• Kidney Not

  Mmum 2 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.

  Lizzie - Online Community Team 7 days ago
• Looking after Mr. B

  Miranda t 8 days ago
• One Life Live It

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

  Irishgirl16 8 days ago

Latest blog posts

• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Going Public

  I am lucky enough to have a job with an employer that is very interested in supporting employees with all sorts of medical and life-related issues like mental health problems, menopause, cancer, and so on.There's always some campaign going on, an...

  Lemsip 2 hours ago
• 

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

  Post 540: A good use of a chatbot, if that’s what it was?

  Post 540: A good use of a chatbot, if that’s what it was? When it all comes down to I don’t know everything nor do I know much about other trades and their jargon or fine use of the English language, that’s where a chatbot could sa...

  Mr U 12 hours ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  The First Nurse

  I met the first nurse in 2022 when I was living in a city in the midlands of England. It was late summer. The air in a crystal clear sky was becoming fresher as autumn approached and then my favourite time of year would arrive. Winter. I've only ...

  dolphin99 1 day ago
• Peter's Blog

  Good News It’s A New Blog Update - October 2026

  Here it is whether you’ve been waiting for it or not, my latest update. Since my last update I successfully managed to lose all my data on my phone including my notes page about how things have been going since my last post, so I have a bit les...

  HawkeyeBrown 1 day ago
• 

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

  Post 539: Anger clouds above me are keeping me safe.

  Post 539: Anger clouds above me are keeping me safe. Thursday is cleaning day and the new routine today is in trying to use my time better. So when I heard the battle cry; I had to listen to the sound of reason. Clutching at positives is the domain...

  Mr U 1 day ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering away

  Not too long a wait until 3am today and felt much less sick. I slept well. Yesterday I managed a quick bath, that perked me up no end and I put one of my perfume samples on. Lovely. Had a video call with Dana in the afternoon, Thursday is a good day ...

  Rowan8a3264 1 day ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Post-Chemo – Watchful Waiting Commences, Desdemona's Contained and Sleeping

  It’s been a relatively busy two weeks. We had a lean-to constructed in the garden, attached to the back of the house – thanks Gerard for your hard work. Araon and Angela joined us for dinner which was great fun - I even had a very small &...

  Desdemona 2 days ago
• 

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

  Post 538: Getting to be a bit like… anniversary time!

  Post 538: Getting to be a bit like… anniversary time! I don’t sleep much, like many others for various reasons, but today seems like a day off so why am I not more relaxed. My Darling came down after a long lay-in at midday-ish and loo...

  Mr U 2 days ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering away

  That was an unpleasant wait  3 hour  until 3am. I was close to being sick again for a while when I first woke up and I just feel ill. So I am stopping now. In its own right I would stop but with everything else I feel it's all a bit ext...

  Rowan8a3264 2 days ago
• Kidney Not

  Opthalmology Part 2 - 14 Oct 2026

  I returned to the local NHS Opthalmology dept at QMH in Jan 2026 for a review of my left eye problem.  I had a lengthy discussion with an ophthalmologist who diagnosed: Inflammation deposits on the inner surface of the cornea Posteria synechiae...

  Mmum 2 days ago