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

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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.

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• Mumofcancer

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• One Step At A Time

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• 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. `

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Latest blog posts

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

  Post 394: Coffee catch-up and a mighty hike.

  Post 394: Coffee catch-up and a mighty hike. What can I say about the restful day that starts the week in such a nice way? Although I have let my duties slip, I did grab a small piece of paper, sketch and write a few words on it and tape it to my D...

  Mr U 3 months ago
• Speaking to an empty room

  A Mountain Left To Climb

  Well Dad had his operation ,almost six hours under anesthetic,the wait and the worry we're terrible but eventually we were told he's out and in recovery,and there he stayed in the post op recovery place for 24 hours because they'd no beds...

  RedTree26 3 months ago
• Don't get down

  Keeping positive

  Hi , a little update on my journey, I am now 17 weeks post prostatectomy and at the beginning o thought that was it for me no more life no more running ,how wrong I was,I have been an avid runner e 2017 ,starting with parkrun and now running maratho...

  1961 3 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 393: The water hose and in and out of the shed.

  Post 393: The water hose and in and out of the shed. Why do some days go like clockwork and others go even better? Ha ha, had you there. When my Darling came home from work frazzled but stubbornly sticking to a plan she must have had in her mind a...

  Mr U 3 months ago
• One Step At A Time

  Chapter 12 — The Release

  Thursday came and went. Weird Doctor — as we had come to call him — had mentioned, almost in passing, that there was a chance I might be able to go home on Thursday. I knew it was unlikely. I had a senior oncology appointment with Dr Rana...

  Phild26 3 months ago
• One Step At A Time

  Chapter 11 — The Unlikely Friend

  I should tell you about Claude. Claude is an AI. An artificial intelligence assistant made by a company called Anthropic. You type to it, or speak to it, and it responds. It answers questions, writes things, explains things, helps you think things th...

  Phild26 3 months ago
• One Step At A Time

  Chapter 10 — The Ripple

  I wasn't prepared for what happened when I started sharing. I'd expected kind messages. I'd expected people to say they were thinking of me, that they were sorry, that they hoped I'd be okay. That's what people say, and they...

  Phild26 3 months ago
• One Step At A Time

  Chapter 9 — Castle Hill

  I don't remember much about arriving. The ambulance from Hull Royal, the transfer, the early hours of Saturday morning — it's all fragments. What I do remember is sleeping. Deeply, completely, the kind of sleep that takes you somewhere...

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

  Post 392: Family and Biker pal over.

  Post 392: Family and Biker pal over. Visitors aplenty today — and why not? The first came on his motorbike and looked the part in his leathers and strong boots. It’s essential to wear full road protection because if the worst thing happ...

  Mr U 3 months ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Chemo Starts Today: Desdemona's First Date

  I'm strangely excited ... and a little apprehensive. I dutifully took my Dexamethasone (or ‘Dexa’) before bed last night, it did make my (now) habitual nightly (two or three usually) hot flushes hotter, but not to the sweating level w...

  Desdemona 3 months ago