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• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception

  dolphin99 15 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 22 hours ago
• Wittering away...

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• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Lemsip 2 days ago
• Peter's Blog

  A blog about bowel cancer at a young age

  HawkeyeBrown 3 days ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 4 days ago
• Kidney Not

  Mmum 5 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 10 days ago
• Looking after Mr. B

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• One Life Live It

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

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Latest blog posts

• Radical Prostectomy

  My Experience , First 2 weeks

  Kept a wee kind of blog my op and the last two weeks , may help some others  Tuesday 27th Dreading tomorrow , hopefully get it done , get the all clear and get back some normality.   Went to Costco and got some stuff but mind already ...

  Radio67 8 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 298: Like a well oiled plan.

  Post 298: Like a well oiled plan. What could go wrong? Well, now you come to mention it, loads, but I’m taking the side of the lucky guy and all is peachy-keen. A quick chat with the hospice was all it was. Neither caller nor I were ready fo...

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

  Post 297: Self advocacy rules my life.

  Post 297: Self advocacy rules my life. The good news is that I’ve got a bright head full of complex thoughts (except for the simple but stubborn words that hide inside the cerebral jelly my brain is turning into) and apart from my frozen shoul...

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

  Post 296: My Darling’s worn out.

  Post 296: My Darling’s worn out. It doesn’t matter how much you care for someone or are being cared for by someone — even if they are your best friends forever — everything is cast in their face about how they feel. After a ...

  Mr U 8 months ago
• I have a Cancer

  I have A Cancer - 12

  The waiting has always been the difficult bit.  Not knowing what is happening in the background by other people – professionals - to prepare for my ‘big day’.  Work was superb, though.  I talked with my manager regula...

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

  Post 295: What a day!

  Post 295: What a day! For what it’s worth, I will give the boys and girls of NHS UK a round of applause. You are genuine stars and the attitude of most of you keeps the wheels of medical interventions rolling. At midday I had a massive heat b...

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

  Post 294: My elephant tears are unending.

  Post 294: My elephant tears are unending. Salty mud-bath eyes. By Mr U I wish I was an elephant, in a bath of mud ‘cos there would be no signs of tears, I cry for all my worth, Today is just like all the days, I live by hour and hour, But I a...

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

  Post 293: No coffee. No counselling. No nothing in the tanks.

  Post 293: No coffee. No counselling. No nothing in the tanks. If there was ever a day that defined my luck it was this casual Thursday that went to the dogs. I mean it. This has been a long and tiring day and to be honest, a bit of a stinker. I go...

  Mr U 8 months ago
• I have a Cancer

  I have A Cancer - 11

  The Easter weekend was long and warm.  On the Friday and Saturday, as my wife slept, I went shopping, and browsing, in Charity shops.  I walked c 20,000 steps over the two days. On the Friday evening, I had a phone conversation with my two ...

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

  Post 292: Three miles this week and lovely flowers, lovey people.

  Post 292: Three miles this week and lovely flowers, lovey people. With the holiday only two weeks away, surely nothing can stop us, but I feel a creeping sense of foreboding any time I’m told to behave and get down from the neighbour’s r...

  Mr U 8 months ago