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• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 9 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 12 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 16 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 15 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

• Thoughts and musings on living with cancer from Brighton Biker

  5 - Internal Stability - External Chaos

  "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were. An...

  BrightonBiker 9 months ago
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  Community News

  Online Community downtime: Monday 1st Dec 10:30 pm -Tues 2nd Dec at 9am.

  There is some planned maintenance taking place on Macmillan’s website overnight on Monday 1st Dec from 10:30pm. During this time the Community will experience some downtime. This means that members will not be able to log in, or join the Online Community, between Monday 1st Dec at 10:30 pm-Tues 2nd Dec at 9am. We know how important the Community is as a source of support for our members, so we will do our best to ensure the site is not unavailable for any longer than necessary. P...

  Moderator - Macmillan Community 9 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 222: A long day that never ends.

  Post 222: A long day that never ends. ——— It’s raining hard this afternoon as the sun sets on a beautiful day. It should be a hip hip hurrah, But of all the feelings I have seen, Pain is the King and tears are his Queen. ...

  Mr U 9 months ago
• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  RIG Feeding tube operation

  Went to hospital on Monday to get my RIG feeding tube put in.  I was nil by mouth from 9am that morning.  They didn't collect me from the ward for theatre till 2.30pm and there was a lot of paperwork first.  Wheeled me into theatre...

  Margaret853 9 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 221: Laxido and the Lesser-Sipped-Morphine.

  Post 221: Laxido and the Lesser-Sipped-Morphine. By midday I’d given up hovering over the phone waiting for a call from radiotherapy. I needed to get on with other things — I can’t spend the whole day imprisoned by an 8:30–5:...

  Mr U 9 months ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b HD

  Bloods

  25/11/26  had bloods today to check my platelets. Results Thursday most likely

  W J 9 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 220: Ever Increasing Weakness and a lovely snuggle.

  Post 220: Ever Increasing Weakness and a lovely snuggle. I slept well last night — 8.5hrs of bliss, no nightmare and no issues. I’ll have a few more like that please. ——— There’s a creeping understanding of my...

  Mr U 9 months ago
• Journaling my cancer jouney

  Journaling my cancer journey - my next poem: The Paranoia Battle

  Hello Everyone,   I hope this post finds everyone doing OK / getting through it?  My apologies for my tardiness in getting this next poem out to you but I’ve had another stay in hospital with my 2nd infection since I started on my ste...

  Twin Castor57b5d5 9 months ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b HD

  Cycles

  I keep reading people stop their cycles of chemo after 6 months. I’ve been on mine since I started. Is that normal. I had tremazadol and that didn’t work at all. They then started me on lomustine. I’ve been on that ever since. They ...

  W J 9 months ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b HD

  Checking in

  Nov 2025 - so I’ve been having blood test and everything has been down for the last few months; so no chemo for me. All but my platelets have returned to normal, and I’ve found the lumps on my left hip. I’ll get these checked by my ...

  W J 9 months ago