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

  Mr U 20 hours ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 1 day 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
• Multiple Myeloma

  Tess123 7 days ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b HD

  W J 9 days ago
• Mumofcancer

  Mumofcancer 14 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 15 days ago
• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

  Emotions 16 days ago
• Warm your teaspoon

  Mrs of husband with bowel cancer - T3 N1 - chemo to be followed by radio then anterior bowel - depending what they find. Oxaliplatin and Capecitabine being the prescribed drugs. `

  Sierraoscar 17 days ago
• Pete's cancer blog

  Peterb 22 days ago

Latest blog posts

• Welcome home

  A tough week

  I had a strong reluctance- fear almost- of sitting down to write this. The fear of remembering how we'd felt now that things ate calmer.. But I think its important to record and share that even if facts themselves can't change, that the mind ...

  Lizig over 1 year ago
• LindaA24 Cancer

  Cancer and Friendships: Who Stayed, Who Left, and Why It Matters

  By Linda A When I was diagnosed with cancer, I expected to fight for my health—not for my relationships. But one of the most unexpected and painful parts of my journey was watching certain friendships fade while others grew stronger than ever. ...

  LindaA24 over 1 year ago
• Endless Uncertainty

  I'm so fed up

  I'm so sick of waiting and waiting!!  I thought i had been "lucky" with my cancer as the first time round I didn't even know it was cancer until I'd had surgery to remove it! (We'd thought it was benign) then for 5 year...

  Halz over 1 year ago
• 

  Community News

  Bowel Cancer Awareness Month. Meet Laurel, writing for release and renewal.

  It's Bowel Cancer Awareness month in April and we are sharing Laurel's story. 

  Laurel, known as 'Writing Lola' on the Online Community has been using writing to help cope with and navigate a bowel cancer diagnosis and treatment. 

  We really appreciate you sharing your words, Laurel, so we will hand over now to your voice.

  In the city where I live, the marking of the Chinese Lunar New Year came with a riot of colours and costumes, lanterns and illuminations, dances of lions and dragons...

  Steph - Online Community Team over 1 year ago
• My Hodgkin's story

  'You are only as good as your last scan / test' and other bits

  Exactly 365 (or 366) days ago I was at the chemo ward ready to get that first dose of doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide and the other bits. It was my girlfriend birthday and that's how we spent her special day.  So, it's now been a litt...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago
• Welcome home

  Waiting on scan results..

  Last week 2 things happened- first we got a date for the MRI scan results (this Thursday) and then we got initial approval for a mortgage. Both good news I guess you'd say. We'd been hanging on for the DIP for much longer than suggested and i...

  Lizig over 1 year ago
• Final Countdown!

  Five Day Ward song

  This is penned tongue in cheek to the Rolling Stones " Dead Flowers" music for those old enough to remember! For info I'm on 7th Cancer treatment from November 2019 Bowel, Liver, Bowel, Throat, R. Lung, L. Lung and FINALLY CHEST LYMOH NODES. (Apparen...

  Ando over 1 year ago
• Chemo Diary

  29) 5th Zometa Infusion

  I had my 5th infusion yesterday and am feeling a bit rough today. As usual, it was a real struggle to cannulate me but we got there in the end.  One more to go to finally reach the finish line.

  Meanegg over 1 year ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b HD

  Shingles

  March 2025. Well my immunity being low with chemo has finally been hit by a virus. Shingles. I had to cancel my original op where I had a blocked kidney (now that’s pain). After the op I’ve been fortunate with all the germs and not had mu...

  W J over 1 year ago
• My Hodgkin's story

  ''I still don't look the same''

  This is what I told my girlfriend last week while I was scrolling through some of the pictures we took. We went on holidays to the Canary Islands, so obvs loads of sun, warm days and nice scenery. I rarely upload pictures of myself on social med...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago