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• Pedalling through this journey

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

  A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception

  dolphin99 10 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 13 hours ago
• Wittering away...

  Rowan8a3264 19 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.

  Matthew - Online Community Team 3 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 3 days ago
• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Lemsip 9 days ago
• Peter's Blog

  A blog about bowel cancer at a young age

  HawkeyeBrown 10 days ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 11 days ago
• Kidney Not

  Mmum 11 days ago

Latest blog posts

• Pedalling through this journey

  Let's start

  For a long time, I’ve been looking for a community I could connect with. Unfortunately, where I live, people speak a Slavic language, and after 13 years as an immigrant, I still don’t feel as comfortable expressing myself in a Slavic lang...

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

  The Second Dermatologist

  The next NHS letter I received came as quite a surprise. It hadn't come from the bots. Instead, I'd been given a Dermatology outpatients appointment, where presumably I might even encounter an actual dermatologist. Things were looking up. Was...

  dolphin99 10 hours ago
• 

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

  Post 549: Let’s talk it over a pint of mild.

  Post 549: Let’s talk it over a pint of mild. The bumps on the way to the pub made the journey very uncomfortable but the warm welcome from er, Brian and Lorraine was enough to ease any pain I had, and the table we reserved for dinner became al...

  Mr U 13 hours ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering away

  Quite a wait, but not the worst given the clock going back. My only options for pain and nausea now is codeine and the oil I get on private prescription. I tend not to take these together but today needs must. I' m not too wobbly on my feet and m...

  Rowan8a3264 19 hours ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering on

  So my phone call on Thurs will be the results of my bloods, which I do fret about, and then check list of has anything changed or been different since the last time, of which there has been quite a lot.  Mandy is blunt and she steam rolls throug...

  Rowan8a3264 1 day ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering on some more

  The leccy came back after a couple of hours or so and so far has stayed on. Not counting any chickens yet still a few more hours to go. I felt quite rough this morning, I decided that as it was already ropey and am grounded anyway I'd take a bigger h...

  Rowan8a3264 1 day ago
• 

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

  Post 548: Weeeeee’re all going down the pub…

  Post 548: Weeeeee’re all going down the pub… With the only really useful thing I did today being a phone call there was a real feeling of hiding from the storm and resting to get out and about later, I didn’t like it but it had to...

  Mr U 1 day ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering away

  Ooof, it was a wait for the meds for nausea, I felt quite sick. Baseline pain levels are reduced, this is now a sustained improvement. It's windy out there, gusts sound like small booms of thunder sometimes. The lamp post is doing a lively jig. A...

  Rowan8a3264 1 day ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  The Second Nurse (again)

  The bots must have been keen to see me because I had an appointment with the second nurse in no time at all. The small hospital in the rural market town was just as quiet as I remembered it. I checked in with Reception and took a seat to watch the wo...

  dolphin99 2 days ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  The First GP

  The new year started off well but when the euphoria of my new scalp wore off I spotted some imperfections. A couple of months post-Efudix and I wondered if it needed a repeat performance. I'd registered with a different GP practice that was close...

  dolphin99 2 days ago