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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 14 hours ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Mr U 16 hours ago
  • Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica
    Beesuit 1 day 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 3 days ago
  • WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted
    W J 4 days ago
  • Multiple Myeloma
    Tess123 13 days ago
  • Mumofcancer
    Mumofcancer 20 days ago
  • Cycle 19 and not working anymore
    Emotions 22 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 23 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • Cancer just messed with the wrong boobs!
    Fundraising - I walked 100 miles in October
    During September Breast Cancer Now launched a fundraising campaign to walk 100 miles during October. I was starting my first chemo on 1st October and would be completing my second towards the end - I knew it could be a challenge but I just needed a f...
    Jacala over 4 years ago
  • Cancer just messed with the wrong boobs!
    PICC line, cycle #2 and a new sofa
    So I had a PICC line fitted the day before my second EC chemo. It was a weird experience, the nurse was truly amazing. She explained everything so well and was really kind. It was inserted using ultrasound and she did skim a nerve which wasn't pl...
    Jacala over 4 years ago
  • A booby is a seabird with blue feet
    Dot-dot-dot; dash-dash-dash; dot-dot-dot
    Yesterday I tried out an experiment on my children. I suddenly tapped 9 times on the kitchen table – 3 quick taps, 3 slow taps, 3 quick taps. Then I paused, waiting for reactions. Were they even going to notice? And were they going to see a mea...
    Former Member over 4 years ago
  • One Life Live It
    Zometa - bone infusions
    Bone infusion sounds a heck of a lot more painful that it actually is, but I have to say now, that's the only good news. Zoledronic acid is given by IV drip, so here we go again with trying to find a vein in my hand. After four attempts, two burs...
    Irishgirl16 over 4 years ago
  • vital's APC blog
    The results are in ! (as Tess Daly is fond of saying)
     Back to the Urology Centre (the 28th of October for any reader following the time-line), where my Prostate CNS has all of the tests results and findings. Deep breath. When I last saw the CNS (with the consultant) my TSA result was a "high&...
    Former Member over 4 years ago
  • Community News
    Cancer and fatigue. When do you start feeling less tired?

    A photograph of an unmade bed, with light coming through blinds

    In our recent Community News Blog 'Awake and can't sleep? Some help with getting through the night' we addressed the issue of difficulty sleeping. We shared conversations from members around the Community around sleeplessness and getting support through the night. If this might be helpful to you, you can catch up with Eliza's blog here.

    You don't need to be experiencing difficulty sleeping to feel tired when you have cancer. Cancer itself and cancer treatment can both cause extreme tiredness...

    Steph - Online Community Team over 4 years ago
  • A booby is a seabird with blue feet
    Splitting Hairs about Losing Hairs
    Yesterday I noticed that I have probably started losing my eyebrows. I still don’t really want to be sure. Is it safest to know the truth and then to somehow conveniently ‘forget’ it? Yes, No, maybe. Having a few less than the ...
    Former Member over 4 years ago
  • Facing the future: Together
    Biopsy update

    Phone call received today, Dal is to go in tomorrow for the pre- assessment and have the Biopsy on Saturday ,, so all happening this week rather than next, which obviously means we should get the results quicker too. 

    Dal does seem to be bruising easier from small knocks, something to keep an eye on, but overall, he continues to do well. 

    Things are getting busy in the hospital, times and dates for chemo are changing due to not having the space for everyone, Those nurses do such a fantastic job and...

    Lowedal over 4 years ago
  • Coping with Prostate Cancer with humour
    My 33 days with Cancer

    My 33 days with Cancer.

     

    Introduction.

     

    Hello Everyone,

     

    Just thought I would write a brief introduction / background here before I started writing ‘My 33 days with Cancer’ blog. My intention is to write about my experiences ‘warts and all’ giving a day-by-day commentary of what I am going through with my Radiotherapy treatment, what actually happens and how I am feeling at any given time, both to help people better understand what it’s like living with Cancer and in the hope that other people who...

    Former Member over 4 years ago
  • A booby is a seabird with blue feet
    Still Alive
    This is another thing that I had not foreseen with cancer: needing to update people with news that I am very much still alive. Completely. Yes! There’s no cause for alarm! Even if I am not writing emails (or blog posts) every day anymore. The t...
    Former Member over 4 years ago
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