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

  Mr U 9 hours ago
• Multiple Myeloma

  Tess123 5 days ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 5 days ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b HD

  W J 7 days 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.

  Megan- Online Community Team 8 days ago
• Mumofcancer

  Mumofcancer 11 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 13 days ago
• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

  Emotions 13 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 14 days ago
• Pete's cancer blog

  Peterb 20 days ago

Latest blog posts

• Speaking to an empty room

  A Week On

  Dad feels like shit He's in a lot of pain...the consultant did warn him ,after his surgery he asked,are you in pain ? And Dad replied ...No...Don't worry you will be....I guess Dad was warned.Dad's face where they did the partial parotidectomy ,I thi...

  RedTree26 3 months ago
• One Step At A Time

  Chapter 14 - The Guilt and The Plan

  When the critical illness payout was confirmed, my first feeling wasn’t relief. It was guilt. Which is, when you think about it, completely absurd. I’d paid £18.99 a month since September 2017. Eight years of premiums, nearly &pound...

  Phild26 3 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 397: My Hip Joints Click Like They Dislocate.

  Post 397: My Hip Joints Click Like They Dislocate. After yesterday’s fooling around in the mizzle I have to thank you readers for your replies. You nailed it with the advice that I should get on to the practice manager to let he/she/it know th...

  Mr U 3 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 396: Rainy Days and Tuesdays Always Get Me Down.

  Post 396: Rainy Days and Tuesdays Always Get Me Down. The miserable clouds with their miserable mizzle set me up for a miserable day — and firstly, the miserable time at the doctors. The waiting room was busy and, as I waited with the kids co...

  Mr U 3 months ago
• In My Time of Dying

  And so, it begins.

  19 May. And so, it begins. Or at least it will do in three days’ time. Friday 22 May. 10.00am.  “…it has been concluded that there are no curable treatment options for him and his treatment will surround a palliative approach ...

  Alistair 3 months ago
• TheCuriousDonkey

  How to deal with things

  My family member has been diagnosed with cancer and I am doing my best to support them, but I am not too sure how I am coping myself.  It is so hard to think that they may not be here this time next year.  I know that they may, but how do y...

  TheCuriousDonkey 3 months ago
• One Step At A Time

  Chapter 13 — Family

  In July this year, Lucy and I will have been married for fifteen years. We were together for ten years before that. Twenty-five years, more or less, of being on the same page — about life, about what we wanted, about how we approached things an...

  Phild26 3 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 395: Posts and flushes.

  Post 395: Posts and flushes. On a day where my Darling was at work I felt I should try and think more seriously about a book based on my blog posts, I thought it was a good idea to let the computer do the hard work. Let me tell you what I found out...

  Mr U 3 months ago
• Speaking to an empty room

  Home At Last

  Dad was discharged yesterday afternoon ... We went and collected him from the hospital,he's to use a wheelchair because the walk to the main entrance from the ward was just too far and in his weekend state why walk when you can ride. He was knac...

  RedTree26 3 months ago
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  Community News

  Have you experienced cancer ghosting?

  Some Community members have been discussing the term ‘Cancer Ghosting’ in the Online Community forums. It is a social term that those living with cancer use to describe family and friends not being there to support them once they have told them about their cancer.

  “Have any of you experienced cancer Ghosting? It’s where friends and relatives suddenly disappear when you announce that you have cancer. It’s a recognised syndrome apparently- Google it. I am afraid I have experienced it. It...

  Megan- Online Community Team 3 months ago