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Blogging can be a great way to journal your experiences and share with others. Why not create your own cancer journey blog, or have a read of other blogs created by our members?

Unsure how to get started? Take a look at our help pages on blogs. 

Macmillan Information Blogs
  • Random act of kindness
    Random act of kindness
    6 months ago
  • The Changing Faces of Cancer- Scalp cooling, Hair loss and Regrowth.
    The Changing Faces of Cancer- Scalp cooling, Hair loss and Regrowth.
    over 2 years ago
  • If I could go back to the day of my cancer diagnosis
    If I could go back to the day of my cancer diagnosis
    over 2 years ago

Latest blog updates

  • 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.
    Dylan - Online Community Team 7 hours ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Mr U 17 hours ago
  • WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted
    W J 1 day ago
  • Living with Desdemona
    Desdemona 4 days ago
  • Multiple Myeloma
    Tess123 10 days ago
  • Mumofcancer
    Mumofcancer 17 days ago
  • One Step At A Time
    Phild26 18 days ago
  • Cycle 19 and not working anymore
    Emotions 19 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 20 days ago
  • Pete's cancer blog
    Peterb 25 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • Kiwipedro vs Cancer
    Is that a lump?
    As part of a 6 month trip to the land of my birth NZ, I had the wonderful opportunity to stay at my eldest brother and his wonderful wife's beach house in Waikawa, about 1 hour north of Wellington.  The primary motive was to (finally!) record so...
    Former Member over 3 years ago
  • Julesmiskin
    Cancer Smells

    Hi,

    My husband last April of 2022 had a smell when I gave him a kiss a couple weeks prior to being diagnosed with early stage pancreatic cancer. It smelled like he smoked 3 or 4 cigars. I asked him as he doesn't smoke. He said he didn't so we cleaned up his diet to raw green juice and veggies. The smell went away but a couple weeks later he got diagnosed but the biopsy came back negative so he did not have the whipple surgery. We kept the healthy eating going and the lesion shrank by the end of October...

    Former Member over 3 years ago
  • Wasn't expecting this. But will fight it all the way.
    Day 7 pre op
    Still not good, had catheter put back in as bladder won't begin to work. His xrays are poor extremely breathless, chest clinc now involved but even just standing he can hardly breath. Nebuliser helps a little,  still on top of all this tryin...
    Deb62 over 3 years ago
  • Carried on Eagles' Wings
    Ten days post-surgery
    I didn’t sleep very well the night before, even though I was no longer feeling anxious about having surgery. I was confident that my surgical team would do a great job and I was encouraged by lovely messages and prayers from family and friends....
    Amy123 over 3 years ago
  • Wasn't expecting this. But will fight it all the way.
    Day 4 pre operation and its still no better
    It's hard to leave him at night ,  but again today they let his epidural run out so ended up in complete agony and now taking hours to control so he can feel comfortable. Why is this allowed to happen,  they say how important pain relie...
    Deb62 over 3 years ago
  • Wasn't expecting this. But will fight it all the way.
    Was not expecting this
    Surgery completed but not ready for afterwards Deb621 day ago Well day 3 pre op 2 days in critical care. Then now on ward but has HAP which no one told my hubby. I  was there when giving meds and asked what they was for. The nurse wouldn'...
    Deb62 over 3 years ago
  • Community News
    Peer support on the Online Community – the year so far
    Updates and peer support across the Macmillan Online Community so far this year.
    Su - Macmillan over 3 years ago
  • Kidney Not
    Covid
    Isn’t the cancer journey uncertain?  You feel you have it “sorted” only for something to happen and challenge the strategy you had come to terms with. . . . . or had you?!  I had been cheerily thinking how quickly the four...
    Mmum over 3 years ago
  • Community News
    Finding human connections and support: Rubina’s story
    Rubina talks about her experience getting a bowel cancer diagnosis and how much it helped her to find peer support and human connection while going through treatment.
    Eliza -Online Community Team over 3 years ago
  • Third time lucky?
    Poo(h) sticks save the day
    In 2015 I was invited by the NHS bowel screening programme to send them samples of my stools, which I did promptly. It was the second time I was taking part, the first time two years before the test was clear. But this time I was asked to repeat, the...
    Former Member over 3 years ago
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