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• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Lemsip 4 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 14 hours ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception

  dolphin99 1 day ago
• Peter's Blog

  A blog about bowel cancer at a young age

  HawkeyeBrown 1 day ago
• Wittering away...

  Rowan8a3264 1 day ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 2 days ago
• Kidney Not

  Mmum 2 days 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.

  Lizzie - Online Community Team 8 days ago
• Looking after Mr. B

  Miranda t 8 days ago
• One Life Live It

  Sadly not a LandRover road trip, but my journey through breast cancer

  Irishgirl16 8 days ago

Latest blog posts

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

  Post 533: Friday fish and chips and beer.

  Post 533: Friday fish and chips and beer. All summer there were weddings and holidays that separated my regular meets with Dave but after two quick texts a hasty response made a confident booking in the diary for a beer. The beery meets with pals h...

  Mr U 7 days ago
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  Community News

  Mental health and cancer: Tips and support for your wellbeing

  It's important to look after your mental health, especially when a cancer diagnosis is involved. Lizzie shares examples from the Online Community for World Mental Health Day 2006.

  Lizzie - Online Community Team 8 days ago
• Looking after Mr. B

  Holidays!

  Well, it took me a while to get back here with another entry! My motivation is pretty low at present, I feel like half my energy is taken up with worrying about Mr. B & the other half with mundane tasks.  We had a good summer though! We drov...

  Miranda t 8 days ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 532: It was a frustrating day, tattoo tomorrow, hurrah.

  Post 532: It was a frustrating day, tattoo tomorrow. There wasn’t much to cheer me up but the cleaner coming in and saying how good I looked, this is a boost to my ego and makes me stand a little taller but in reality I was lying when I said...

  Mr U 8 days ago
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  One Life Live It

  Tempting Fate

  So that was it?  The 5 year check up is meant to be a significant milestone but the fact that the radiographer was on holiday and I couldn’t have the mammogram as planned was a bit of a let down and once again I realise that the priva...

  Irishgirl16 8 days ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 531: Prescription confusion keeps me wondering.

  Post 531: Prescription confusion keeps me wondering. I expected to be feeling the benefit of starting steroids at 2mg and staying on them forever but I can’t. So by mid afternoon I had to email work and inform them that I’ll not be in at...

  Mr U 9 days ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering on

  Woke up really early hours, 01.15 after some unsettled sleep before that. Physically felt horrible and then  boom an emotional burst. I felt intensely sad and grief struck. I am through the burst which lasted a good hour, then tapered down ...

  Rowan8a3264 9 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Chapter 29 — The Last One (Probably)

  Tomorrow I take my last methylprednisolone tablet. I say probably, because life has a habit of proving me wrong on these things. The last time I said I was nearly off the steroids, I picked up a cold from the kids three days before the finish line a...

  Phild26 10 days ago
• Speaking to an empty room

  Going Great

  Mum and Dad are still in Cornwall and Dad is doing well.Hes enjoying life,the weather,outings and walks and meeting up with the many friends they have in a place they've holidayed in for over 50 years.We go on Saterday .It'll be nice to spend...

  RedTree26 10 days ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  The Legends

  July 24 2021 I’ve written previously of my cancer buddy Hazel. She is RadioactiveRaz and has a blog (to be added to Online Community soon) We have messaged for two and a half years and together we created and still run a WhatsApp grou...

  Beesuit 10 days ago