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• 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 1 hour ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 5 hours ago
• Multiple Myeloma

  Tess123 5 days ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 6 days ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b HD

  W J 8 days ago
• Mumofcancer

  Mumofcancer 12 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 14 days ago
• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

  Emotions 14 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 15 days ago
• Pete's cancer blog

  Peterb 20 days ago

Latest blog posts

• annas light bladder cancer

  Anna's Light — What the Scan Didn’t Show

  Anna's Light What the scan didn’t show About Anna Light is a space for the things we weren’t told — and the choices we made anyway. This blog exists because bladder cancer is often described in clean pathways and cli...

  annaslight 7 months ago
• Better Start Planning

  Better Start Planning

  I wake with an ache, A blade in my back  Did I twist in my sleep,  Or is something off track?  A whisper creeps in,  Dark and demanding: Is this cancer? Better start planning.  I wake with a throb, A drum in my head, The su...

  Cam88 7 months ago
• 

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

  Post 276: Thank you’s, ashes and a frozen right shoulder.

  Post 276: Thank you’s, ashes and a frozen right shoulder. First of all, allow me to take a moment to thank a few readers who are so kind and vocal to me in ways that hold me up when I feel the world slipping from my grasp. You know who you are...

  Mr U 7 months ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b HD

  Maggies

  Went to a maggies session, something to see how others are. I felt young there. Mixed personalities did get to me as one person butted in on everyone. Was annoying. But nice to see fellow patients and what they’ve been through. I enjoyed it exc...

  W J 7 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 275: Meeting expectations.

  Post 275: Meeting expectations I spend a lot of time on my handheld phone reading posts and replies on the Prostate section of the Macmillan online forum, and I try my best to help with other people’s queries. But more and more I find myself f...

  Mr U 7 months ago
• Active surveillance a journey to where…

  Results day…where are the blue flashing lights

  It felt like a race against time.  From the moment the referral letter was sent to the post MDT appointment it felt as if the medical staff knew every hour counted. As if even a one day delay could reduce my lifetime.  Friday afternoon lett...

  JohnPM 7 months ago
• (Cancer) Garden journey day by day

  Not counting, but watching: surveillance

  January brings a new phase, now post-chemo, some welcome healing as side-effects from Capecitabine slowly ease, but it's now a matter of being monitored and self-awareness of my own body.  It's a gradual detachment from the wonderful clo...

  WalkerGirl 7 months ago
• I have a Cancer

  I have a Cancer - 8

  In the meantime, I continued to lose weight, fart more regularly and have runny Poo containing some blood.  I had not had a follow up call from the hospital so rang them and left them a message. I also called my surgery.   My surgery sugges...

  Soglio 7 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 274: Oh yes we’re not!

  Post 274: Oh yes we’re not! The local players are playing up to the crowds this week and, as a nice surprise, my Darling is taking me Wednesday evening — oh no she’s not! This will be the first time out since Christmas so I’...

  Mr U 7 months ago
• Active surveillance a journey to where…

  The waiting game…PSA monitoring anxiety.

  Data first, drama second.  PSA monitoring on active surveillance is a bit like running. You know your PB, you’re desperate to beat it, can it be lower this time. The expectation creates anxiety. Having control of the data helps. I&rsq...

  JohnPM 7 months ago