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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

  • Living with Desdemona
    Desdemona 6 hours ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Mr U 8 hours ago
  • Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica
    Beesuit 23 hours ago
  • One Step At A Time
    Phild26 1 day 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.
    Dylan - Online Community Team 2 days ago
  • WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted
    W J 4 days ago
  • Multiple Myeloma
    Tess123 13 days ago
  • Mumofcancer
    Mumofcancer 19 days ago
  • Cycle 19 and not working anymore
    Emotions 21 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 22 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • TCHP journey
    Tougher than I thought it would be!
    Tougher than I thought it would be! Days 6-14 I had a week of preventing nausea with Metclopranide and really not eating. Weird mouth taste, helped by sipping blackcurrant squash in a glass with a straw, and sucking on fruit boiled travel sweets. The...
    Amelie11 over 4 years ago
  • Piles to cancer a blog to help me make sense and maybe explain
    Covid and Cancer
    So I'm still not ok with Covid. Restrictions are relaxing as most people only get mild symptoms now with Omnicron but this is not the same for cancer patients who have had their immune system knocked out from chemo. John had a well deserved break...
    Former Member over 4 years ago
  • Piles to cancer a blog to help me make sense and maybe explain
    Treatment and after
    After January spent in treatment with every week getting slightly worse. Some issues were drug related - couple of the anti sickness made me extremely agitated so I couldn't sit down. It was terrible but luckily a friend suggests I ring triage li...
    Former Member over 4 years ago
  • Don't call me brave
    Hair today….gone tomorrow?
    So, a week before my second chemo, the inevitable has happened.  My hair has started to come out.  For the first time, while in the shower this morning, I noticed small clumps come out while I was washing my hair.  I thought I was bein...
    Former Member over 4 years ago
  • Wiener Dogs Make Everything Better
    The C Words
    Cancer. Chemo. Both words cause me an internal spike of fear and negativity. They are just words, but mere words can hold a lot of power over us. I have been treating them like Voldemort and just saying ‘the word that ends in R’ or &l...
    Former Member over 4 years ago
  • My Journey with Testicular Cancer
    My Testicular Cancer Journey: Stage II Seminoma and BEP Chemotherapy
    https://testcancer.wordpress.com/2021/08/24/matts-story/
    Former Member over 4 years ago
  • Community News
    Being a partner and a carer: how cancer can affect relationships

    A loved one being diagnosed with cancer can have just as big an emotional and practical impact as a personal diagnosis. This can have a greater impact if you also become a carer. Many members here on the Community team who are supporting a partner might want to do everything they can to help. But that doesn’t mean that you don’t need support too.

    Here in the Community News blog, we often say every diagnosis and experience can be different. That’s true for relationships too. For some people...

    Eliza -Online Community Team over 4 years ago
  • It's Gone Tits Up
    Keep young and beautiful
    I’ve had the most amazing pamper afternoon on Sunday. After lush weekend at my sister’s celebrating my niece’s 3rd birthday, I seriously needed some time to myself to regroup and charge my batteries. After thinking that losing my ha...
    Former Member over 4 years ago
  • Wiener Dogs Make Everything Better
    Tick. Tock. TICK. TOCK.
    I feel like I’m in a James Bond movie and there’s a giant pendulum blade swooping back…and forth…and back…and forth as the countdown to Day One of treatment starts next week. A very helpful member on this forum su...
    Former Member over 4 years ago
  • Community News
    Stoma series: tips from others living with a stoma

    In the first part of the Stoma series, there was lots of reassurance offered in the different discussions and information of how to find further support. In this blog, we’re highlighting some of the practical tips that our members have shared to manage their stoma.

    It’s natural to have questions about stoma care and the Online Community has supportive spaces to get guidance from others who are also living with a stoma.

    “It’s very early days for you and it’s great you’ve found this group...

    Megan- Online Community Team over 4 years ago
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