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  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.

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• 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. `

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Latest blog posts

• My Journey on Paclitaxel

  Friday 22nd March day 2 from 2nd Paclitaxel

  Started waking up just after 2am again but managed to snooze until just after 4 am.  Had a good day, went for a walk just over a mile this morning. I have had the start of face flushes this afternoon so took a antihistamine, I'm not running ...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
• The tonsils have to go!

  Jigsaw falling into place

  It’s been a while since I last posted. Mainly because there’s only so much you can say about driving or being driven into hospital to be zapped. The journey became so monotonous that I could almost tell where we were on the journey with m...

  Coxey over 2 years ago
• My Journey on Paclitaxel

  Thursday 21st March day of 2nd Paclitaxel

  I slept fairly good lastnight and got up early this morning as a guy was coming to fix my main oven in the cooker. I plastered my make-up on ready to go for my Chemo. By 10am I hadn't received any calls saying it wasn't going ahead.  I had to dr...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
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  Community News

  The Online Community can be a part of your social prescription

  The Online Community can help meet your practical, social and emotional needs in many ways. Read this blog to help build your own social support plan.

  Megan- Online Community Team over 2 years ago
• My Journey on Paclitaxel

  Wednesday 20th March Day before second Paclitaxel

  I haven't written anything since 15th March after my last chemo session had been cancelled because of my bloods showing problems with my liver, as there hasn't been much to write about.  I had my bloods taken and dressing changed on Monday when ...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b

  20/3/24 sickness

  Mild stomach sickness. Day or so after taking my lomustine. A little lots of appetite, tired and a bit moody. 

  W J over 2 years ago
• Kidney Not

  Stopping Treatment - March 2024

  How things change.  When I started immunology, I thought it was forever.  As I became more educated, I learned about the diminishing incremental benefits over time.  Also, that for some cancers there was a 2 year time limit on immunoth...

  Mmum over 2 years ago
• Kicking My Cancer's Arse

  Part 5: Return to Play

  This is the fifth of my ongoing series of posts about my latest adventure - being diagnosed and treated for bowel cancer. As before, this lengthy post also includes personal details of my treatment over the past month (February), getting physical exe...

  Phil42 over 2 years ago
• My own mortality

  Oh, what now??

  I’ve been a carer for my wonderful younger brother for my adult life, and we moved in together during lockdown for company. Then in 2022, at the age of 50, I had a seizure and was diagnosed with a stage 4 astrocytoma. A few months of recovery ...

  Leeluu over 2 years ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b

  18/03/2024 Chemo

  40mg x 5 tablets of lomustine, and some anti sickness. Grumpy belly I guess now for a few days. Here we go. Already sat upright in bed feeling it gurgle below  slight headache today too. Too many grumps sound so am a little wound up, not helping...

  W J over 2 years ago