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• Living with Desdemona

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• 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 4 days ago
• Multiple Myeloma

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• Mumofcancer

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• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 18 days ago
• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

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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. `

  Sierraoscar 19 days ago
• Pete's cancer blog

  Peterb 24 days ago

Latest blog posts

• But I can’t have breast cancer, there’s nothing wrong with me!

  What’s that there?

  Sometime in late June as I was drying my hair I noticed a small indentation in my left breast when I raised up my arms. poking and prodding at this for a few seconds I put it down to nothing more that the underwire of my bra digging in so I deci...

  Kfletch over 3 years ago
• Chondrosarcoma of the Rib - a journey

  Items I found useful post-op

  Things that helped during the op and afterwards: 1. Pyjama tops and day time tops which button at the front like a shirt - after the op, I couldn't lift my arms without pain, so pulling a top over my head was no good. 2. A recliner for the bed.&n...

  NetTiger over 3 years ago
• Chondrosarcoma of the Rib - a journey

  Fluid build up - Seroma

  About I'd arrived home we had noticed some fluid build up along the scar and up into the space where the sternum was.   I had my 4 week post-op video call with the surgeon and had mentioned that it seemed to be getting quite full. ...

  NetTiger over 3 years ago
• Chondrosarcoma of the Rib - a journey

  Recovery at home

  When I got home, I had the support of my partner and my Mum who could manage all the support needs between them and the help of someone else doing the cooking and sitting with me was definitely a help, although there are always going to be some frict...

  NetTiger over 3 years ago
• Chondrosarcoma of the Rib - a journey

  The Operation and hospital stay

  because of the location of my tumour (towards the bottom of my sternum, in the cartilage where the rib joins the sternum) the op took out: the front of three ribs and half the sternum itself.  The op took about 3.5-4 hours and I was given a spin...

  NetTiger over 3 years ago
• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  Cleared by radiotherapy consultant

  I am ‘blessed’, if that’s the correct word, with a pair of 36HH breasts. The right one has a nice curving scar round the outside, where they gained access to remove the breast tumour in one direction, and 4 lymph nodes in the other ...

  Coddfish over 3 years ago
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  Community News

  "People are afraid to use the word cancer in our Community." - Nahida and Saddiya tell us more

  Nahida & Saddiya speak in their Mother Tongue Sylheti, a dialect of Bengali, to talk about some of the cultural stigmas when faced with a cancer diagnosis.

  Megan- Online Community Team over 3 years ago
• My journey with Bladder Cancer

  Update: Week 11: The Chemo cycle 2 - Treatment for this cycle complete!

  As week 11 rolls along, the treatment part of cycle 2 is complete (week 3 has no treatment, to help build my strength up to do it all over again!). The Tuesday phone calls are becoming a time of apprehension now as depending on the quality of the...

  kaspont over 3 years ago
• Partner left behind.

  Scarred and life changer

  My partner of 22yrs passed away on May 5th 2022. We were a hard working family with a son who we adored.Life was good and we loved our holidays and days out always in Britain and Scotland and mostly in her parents caravan based at Berwick and after a...

  DORA23 over 3 years ago
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  Community News

  "I became a stage 4 lung cancer patient from an ordinary man overnight." - James shares his story

  James and his wife Helen, talk in their Mother Tongue Cantonese to share some of the cultural stigmas and issues they faced when James was diagnosed with lung cancer.

  Megan- Online Community Team over 3 years ago