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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 2 hours ago
  • Living with Desdemona
    Desdemona 17 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

  • A booby is a seabird with blue feet
    CT Scan Results – I Only Like Supermarket Scanners Now
    The results from my first CT scan are back and they were not exactly good. Not unless a lot of findings are considered at least ‘interesting’ (which presumably they are, in a way, to technicians and researchers). Before I had the CT scan,...
    Former Member over 4 years ago
  • A booby is a seabird with blue feet
    MRI: Not Waving, Not Drowning
    One thing that I didn’t mention earlier about my first MRI scan was my weird anxiety over the ear protection. Since I was already lying face down with my arms above my head, it didn’t occur to me – until it was too late – to t...
    Former Member over 4 years ago
  • A booby is a seabird with blue feet
    My New Wig: Hope, in a Box
    Yesterday I had my first ever wig fitting session. To be honest, it all felt pretty unreal to me. I am still going through the motions of another person’s life. (A person I don’t even know yet.) The experience was another small but signif...
    Former Member over 4 years ago
  • Community News
    Can we talk about vulvar and vaginal cancers?

    A close up image of an orchid type flower

    Can we talk openly about vulvas and vaginas?

    It’s Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month and we’re taking the opportunity to raise awareness of the rarer gynae cancers.

    We understand that many people find sexual organs to be an embarrassing or awkward subject. Many people might not even know the correct names for these body parts. So what happens if you get diagnosed with cancer (or a pre-cancerous condition) ‘down there’?

    We’re highlighting how women, trans men and non-binary...

    Steph - Online Community Team over 4 years ago
  • my mum
    Come so far so quick what can go wrong?….

    Past 7 months mum diagnosed with breast cancer? All relevant tests bloods scans X-rays etc had mastectomy of right breast? During which they took 32 lymph nodes!! Home to recover with further issues with drain..decisions for her to have chemo x 6 with three week intervals with last two been a higher dose? Providing all goes to plan and she copes well follow on within 7 days a 10 day every day radiotherapy? today asked to see consultant he wants to see and speak to mum as her last chemo due in a few...

    Former Member over 4 years ago
  • Bondy's blog
    Faith in experts.

    I'm very new to these blog things. Not even sure if this is correct. I'm now 14 months post esophageal opp and although I've just had my 14th dialatation still having murders trying to eat. I really do not want to go to a feeding tube as I feel it'll be a step backwards on all the work that's been done by some incredible people. I'm not too bad with fluids and weight is stable.. I guess I'm trying to get advice on the best way to manage my food I intake and maybe some pointers with the best things...

    Bondy. over 4 years ago
  • A booby is a seabird with blue feet
    Elephants in the MRI
    For me, one difficult aspect of the MRI scan experience was the struggle to keep both my body and my mind ‘perfectly, perfectly still’ for the images. If I am honest, it was barely tolerable. One twitch too many and the messed up scans wo...
    Former Member over 4 years ago
  • A booby is a seabird with blue feet
    The Right Shoes for an MRI
    Yesterday I remembered that Bette Midler once said: “Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world”. I loved the sound of that advice! It was (dauntingly) ambitious yet still affordable and conveniently well-timed for my next...
    Former Member over 4 years ago
  • A booby is a seabird with blue feet
    Battle of the Bra
    Yesterday was yet another new experience: buying a non-underwired bra. This was actually a milestone (for me) because I had needed to overcome decades of resistance to the idea first. So I went off to M&S, where a suitable bra was pointed out to ...
    Former Member over 4 years ago
  • A booby is a seabird with blue feet
    The MRI Washing Machine
    The cheerful poster on the changing room wall claimed that the MRI scan would be just “like being in a washing machine”. This got my attention: I had never had an MRI scan before and I had never been in a washing machine either! The poste...
    Former Member over 4 years ago
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