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• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 4 hours 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 6 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 10 hours ago
• Multiple Myeloma

  Tess123 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 21 days ago

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  Bad belly

  Well went to A n E on New Year’s Eve. Stomach pains, after seeing not a lot of anyone. Useless people. They said it’s most likely gastro. I knew that. Hopeless. Just drank plenty and ate small

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

  Post 259: New Year: thinking ahead positively.

  Post 259: New Year: thinking ahead positively. Anima: Right shoulder needs a fix.  Email Oncology about an HT second opinion.  PIP needs planning.  Passport and insurance needs renewing if holidays are to be considered.  ...

  Mr U 8 months ago
• (Cancer) Garden journey day by day

  Dawn light, new morning, "happy" new year

  A new year for us all. I was greeted by ethereal light as the sun shone through the cold frosty morning mists. A pigeon perching: just another day for a bird. Stunning beauty to see off 2025 and greet 2026. For those of us on a "cancer journey&...

  WalkerGirl 8 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 258: Relatives and nightmares.

  Post 258: Relatives and nightmares. I don’t think this a good time to write my blog — but I up so here goes. I was call a Trojan today. A force to reckoned with, well I don’t think so after my nightmare tonight, more like useless ...

  Mr U 8 months ago
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  Community News

  Mike and Steve talk about the Online Community

  A video of Mike and Steve talking about the benefits of the Online Community

  Steph - Online Community Team 8 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 257: Happy New Year, we all have positive possibilities in 2026.

  Post 257: Happy New Year, we all have positive possibilities in 2026. January 1st and I’ve gone to bed early, with another three bottles of water and tired eyelids. Gone are the days of parties in the house till mid-morning, and right now, it&...

  Mr U 8 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 256: I’ve got pain all of the time that I’m awake…

  Post 256: I’ve got pain all of the time that I’m awake… ———— In my head and in my back the pain controls my everything. We wake together but never kiss, and sleep together and no one cares. The invisible b...

  Mr U 8 months ago
• I have a Cancer

  I have a Cancer - 5

  My wife kept saying, there must be a mistake.  There is nothing wrong with you. I just replied, I feel fine, but something has been found.  Let’s just wait for the results. We sat in a local supermarket drinking overpriced coffee and ...

  Soglio 8 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 255: The ESA Call Lead to the Advice Overwhelming Me.

  Post 255: The ESA Call Lead to the Advice Overwhelming Me. (The photo today might help the reading of the blog) My fingers are still dancing and it’s a very calm day — it’s like a game I’ll never win. ——— ...

  Mr U 8 months ago
• Black

  Post 5 Between Christmas and New Year

  Black is grey. Grey Cornwall. Grey emotions. Grey life right now. But grey is better than black right. Responsibility of travelling to Cornwall weighs me down. Consultant says yes go… But he doesn’t have the ‘what if? Worry’ ...

  CO24 8 months ago