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  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.

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

  Mr U 8 hours ago
• Multiple Myeloma

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• Mumofcancer

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• One Step At A Time

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• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

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• 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. `

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• Pete's cancer blog

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Latest blog posts

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

  Post 268: Emotions and aches.

  Post 268: Emotions and aches. A lazy Sunday afternoon didn’t recharge my batteries at all. The temperature was close to zero and my Darling left without a kiss because I was fast asleep when she left. At 4am she lets sleeping dogs lie. She c...

  Mr U 7 months ago
• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  Things to help

  Today I'm going to write a list of a few things that have really helped since I got home from hospital.  Apart from the toilet frame with handles, everything else we already had around the house. The toilet frame with handles is brillia...

  Margaret853 7 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 267: Byron, flu, chocolates and love.

  Post 267: Byron, flu, chocolates and love. What’s wrong with a chocolate to ease you through the day? The Hotel Chocolate gifts that my wonderful Big Sis gets me regularly are amazing, and the whole process of getting millions of new design c...

  Mr U 7 months ago
• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  Cut it all off!!

  This refers to the note I handed H when he visited me at the hospital last month.  It was the day I'd finally got out of Intensive Care and into a High Dependency Unit.  The problem was my hair.  I didn't get a chance to have i...

  Margaret853 7 months ago
• Adenocarcinoma

  Jane

  Recently diagnosed  trouble sleeping & staying asleep.  Anyone else out there who wants to share their sleep or insomnia problem?  

  Bubbles67 7 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 266: Thoughts of love and money.

  Post 266: Thoughts of love and money. The feelings I have for my Darling are like nothing else in my world. During the counselling this week was two interesting things; the first one was that I didn’t cry, incredibly. The other needs more thou...

  Mr U 7 months ago
• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  Hospital clinics yesterday

  Yesterday as we had to travel to Nottingham for various clinics at the hospital.  Up early as we are never sure when hospital transport will arrive.  H is now allowed to come with me due to my lack of speech and hearing.  We had a busy...

  Margaret853 7 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 265: Snowy Storms are forecast.

  Post 265: Snowy Storms are forecast. The diary’s not complete. The pages turn quite slowly in the diary of my life, The emptiness is all too clear but for struggles and the strife, Where is the love the whole of love that glues us all togethe...

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

  Post 264: More Forms, Fewer Fears.

  Post 264: More Forms, Fewer Fears My dancing fingers and aching shoulder are both here to stay but, on the whole, I’m feeling ok. When it comes down to it, you sometimes forget to realise things could be a whole lot worse, and the fact that I...

  Mr U 7 months ago
• Kidney Not

  Telling the Young People - Jan 2022

  After I was diagnosed with treatable metastatic kidney cancer on 24th November 2021, my husband and I discussed who to tell and when.    The first decision was easy.  Regarding telling our immediate families, we had no plan forwards.&n...

  Mmum 7 months ago