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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

  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Mr U 26 minutes ago
  • Living with Desdemona
    Desdemona 15 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

  • Community News
    September Community Catch up

    Laptop with a pen and paper next to it. September Community catch up written in green.

    Let’s take a look back at what’s been happening on the Community over the last month. Not everyone is logged onto the site everyday and with so many people coming to one place to access support, it can take some time to catch up with what’s been going on over the past few weeks.

    This month we welcomed 2,041 new members to the Online Community. With more and more people joining the site, we are seeing more people share experiences. Cancer patients, loved ones and carers posted 3...

    Megan- Online Community Team over 4 years ago
  • Community News
    MDS, MPN, ET, PV and MF - support with rarer blood cancers

    A photograph of a sunny tree lined footpath with a figure in the distance

    September was 'blood cancer awareness month' and we shared a Community News blog about the support available on the Community. You can catch up here, if you haven’t yet had a read.

    We’re following up on September's blood cancer awareness blog to let you know we’ve created a new forum for rarer blood cancers. You can find the new myelodysplasia (MDS) & myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) forum within the 'other cancers group' here on the Community.

    If you’re looking...

    Steph - Online Community Team over 4 years ago
  • It's Gone Tits Up
    We came here to party
    Friday was the first day of breast cancer awareness month, so I thought what better day to have a pink party and boob funeral. I dressed up as a huge inflatable tit and invited 15 of the most amazing women to my house for food and wine and all things...
    Former Member over 4 years ago
  • A booby is a seabird with blue feet
    Horrible 'Holiday'
    Symptoms for Day 2 and Day 5 after my first chemotherapy session have been like those of a horrible holiday. Day 2 involved a (short-lived) heat rash, as if I had been out in sunshine and got slightly burnt whilst wearing a sleeveless dress with a lo...
    Former Member over 4 years ago
  • Cancer just messed with the wrong boobs!
    Chemo #1 1.10.2021
    So I had my first EC (1 of 3) on Friday. The actual experience in the cancer centre was ok. The staff were so lovely and patient. I was there for about 2 hours. I had a cannula fitted this time but I'm having a PICC line fitted for cycle two as i...
    Jacala over 4 years ago
  • 6 scary cancer myths
    6 Scary Cancer Myths, Debunked
    I found the attached really interesting. I found it on my G.P.'s patients Facebook site. I thought I'd share it further as so many people are worried about the very things shown in the article, and really they needn't be.
    Venicelagoon over 4 years ago
  • Facing the future: Together
    Further to the scan findings

    It always surprises me how time can go so fast, and yet feel so slow, both at the same time. 

    We received a call from a man at the hospital on Monday 20th advising Dal that his chemo had been rescheduled, cancelled for September 24th, rescheduled for the 1st October, no reason as to why, just that it had... but he was still to go in for his nurse assessment on the 21st.  So the Tuesday comes, and transport takes him to hospital, where after sitting around for hours the nurse tells him that he had no...

    Lowedal over 4 years ago
  • A booby is a seabird with blue feet
    Life is a Taxi Ride
    The worst part of my first chemotherapy-and-cold-cap treatment was the taxi drive home. My session start had been slightly delayed, then unexpectedly it also ran over schedule. Unfortunately, the driver had arrived to collect me well before I was &ls...
    Former Member over 4 years ago
  • Sarcoma cancer
    Sarcoma cancer
    https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=18dYESIvKwuIZG6fqRNgSHlvt9TF5dCjS
    Former Member over 4 years ago
  • A booby is a seabird with blue feet
    Number 13
    Blog post 13. My armchair at the oncology ward for my first chemotherapy session was also number 13. Lucky or unlucky? Maybe both. Because I am and I not superstitious. Just like Stevie Wonder! As I walked in, I thought of how he might have sung &ldq...
    Former Member over 4 years ago
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