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• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 8 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 10 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 14 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 16 days ago
• Pete's cancer blog

  Peterb 21 days ago

Latest blog posts

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

  Post 231: I’m so easily frustrated; but the Christmas tree is up.

  Post 231: I’m so easily frustrated; but the Christmas tree is up. Yesterday I must have expended more energy than I thought by way of the meeting and a meal out, because I have a tired frustration — also I have a gut-feeling that’s...

  Mr U 8 months ago
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  Community News

  Staying in the present at Christmas: how I coped with each 'last time'

  Wee Me shares how she handled potential 'last Christmases' in the face of her husband's incurable cancer diagnosis.

  Matthew - Online Community Team 8 months ago
• What the UTUC!

  The countdown to Christmas and Surgery!

  It's all getting closer now. Had my pre-surgery CT scans this week.Surgery assessment is on the 18th December and then surgery on 30th! Starting to feel nervous, but still relaxed!

  Toulouse4ff1cd 8 months ago
• I can't possibly be a human.. I must be a cat with 9 lives...?!

  Pelvic cancer...The story!

  Hello everyone,  I am most definitely not a human...but a cat with 9 lives! I have now had a total of 11 weeks in hospital and the last 2 were due to pelvic cancer. I had a head on car crash years ago (1987) and the seat belt broke my collar bon...

  GCCa4b145 8 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 230: I made a great decision — for me.

  Post 230: I made a great decision — for me. There’s a really quick answer to the question about how the meeting went, and that is: I’ll have three months off for good behaviour thanks, goodbye. I’ve chosen not to have any tr...

  Mr U 8 months ago
• Craft lover

  Craft Lover

  Hi I am a carer for my Husband who has got terminal kidney cancer.

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

  Post 229: The last post or the last bus; either way .

  Post 229: The last post or the last bus; either way . I went straight to sleep two hours ago, and when I woke just now I really thought it was morning — but it’s not quite midnight. I have a way to go yet, so I’ll try and write a l...

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

  Post 228: Struggling to be me.

  Post 228: Struggling to be me. I could hear fear in my Darling’s voice this afternoon, and I knew I could help her get back to herself after tiredness and worry had taken her far away. ——— This meeting on Thursday is the bi...

  Mr U 9 months ago
• I have a Cancer

  I have a Cancer - Part 1

  Cancer.  I have cancer.  I have a Cancer. Cancer is such an evocative, nee frightening word.  It generates dreadful thoughts across the board. This is my account of being diagnosed and my own ‘journey’ through treatment, an...

  Soglio 9 months ago
• (Cancer) Garden journey day by day

  Winter yellows - Bee surprised

  The winter garden is so different from the summer garden, with autumn passing by on the way. My chemo began in summer's heat and drought conditions, parched lawn and plants struggling, an uncertain time ahead, and now it's the beautiful monochrome of...

  WalkerGirl 9 months ago